Interesting concept.

Down under in australia my self and a few of my mechanic friends have madde interesting friends, who like not only to go all out on their cars but also, people who import all sorts of funny stuff from places all around the world.

Namely i have seen very cheap half cuts of certain cars coming out of Japan. the most interesting I saw was a 600SEL half cut (Gearbox, engine, wiring harnesses, control units) AUD3500 which in the green stuff is a little over half, say at most USD1900 interesting eh.

Now I have been doing all sorts of research on the topic of 5.0L in 300CEs and all signs point to no.

Now I think i understand that the 4.0L is essentially the same dimension wise as the 5.0L is this true?

Is so then hows about the 3.8L out of the 380SEC/SEL or is that the same sort of block as the previously mentioned blocks.

Could everyone please throw in all Info they have on these conversions. I search back in the achrives and no one seems to have any conclusive evidence, as to wether or not these ideas came into being.

I know there would be a lot of interest people who would look at this page if we could work out which other engines fitted into the 300ce. I suspected that in may not be to different to the 300e but i may be wrong.

Also another major sway point in the whole conversation is will the V8's fit in the bays with the RHD setup that we have downunder??

cheers - Mike.

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300CE yr1988,
SL55Kompressor yr2002,
CLK320 yr2002.