Also, if you are not on the list and want to be (maybe we missed you) shoot me an email too

Yeah....I'm afraid I might be listed twice (shertex and David S.).

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14 E250 Bluetec 4Matic "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 154k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 172k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver, 142k mi, wastegate conversion

19 Honda CR-V EX 61k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

For those of you planning on participating in the group buy, how many of you would be interested in contributing toward a before and after dynanometer test? According to the dyno place I spoke to, cars without exhaust, etc. modifications are typically within 1% of each other performance wise. So the tests run on my car would be an accurate measurement of the performance increase on your car.

Total cost of two tests would be $150. Each test would involve three pulls and the results would be averaged. If I could get, say, nine folks to chip in $15 each, it would be a pretty inexpensive way to quantify the improvement of the State 2 tuning.

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14 E250 Bluetec 4Matic "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 154k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 172k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver, 142k mi, wastegate conversion

19 Honda CR-V EX 61k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

That cam is more for low speed throttle control than anything else. Large diameter throttle bodies needed on engines that have a high redline also have poor low speed throttle control.

When closed, a small change in throttle angle = large change in air flow reletive to engine RPM can make the engine jumpy and hard to modulate. Once the throttle angle gets past say 45* and engine RPM is high, reletive air flow changes are reduced so the blade can be opened faster.

What's the status of this? And which one of you is actually coordinating things with Oliver?

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14 E250 Bluetec 4Matic "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 154k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 172k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver, 142k mi, wastegate conversion

19 Honda CR-V EX 61k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

That would be me. I'm still waiting for everyone on the list to email me. I've been a tad busy lately but people are definitely still interested!

1) 97e300 me
2) bhowell_10 have email
3) Joe T. have email
4) Anjay have email
5) EDBSO hasn't emailed
6) shertex have email
7) KarTek hasn't emailed
8) Tom U have email
9)c-140A have email
10) bobr hasn't emailed

if you have not emailed me yet, email me at oshikorosu@aim(dotcom).