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Guess who is back
I’m back and bought something fun to fix up
‘83 380SL w/ 140k on it. It’s not too bad especially for the price I paid. Interior is like 7/10 and exterior I’ll give a 7/10 only because of two rust spots on the rockers I need to address. Everything else is solid no rot and paint is in great shape. But the fun part Dude remove all of the fuel injection stuff to try and fix a poor running issue. As well as did the double row timing chain conversion which I need to go over with a fine tooth comb. Hopefully I can have it up and running in no time and get everything in order. |
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It looks very nice Joe! I imagine you can get help here to get it running.
Cheers!
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I hope so. Otherwise I’ll just LS swap it
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Man I love that body style. Normally not a fan of white but the SL can pull it off. Looks elegant.
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In person it doesnt appear to be pure white, its almost like an ivory or light beige. I can tell you the paint is buttery smooth and has an almost perfect reflection of my shop lights in it. Not bad except for a few chips that were touched up. It's totally a nice cruising car, not a show winner, but good enough for me to enjoy. I just need to get it running again.
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Nice pick-up...congrats! It’ll be fun to watch you get her in shape.
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Very nice. One of my dream cars and I happen to think white does them proud. It's not a pure white though. I belive that's the same color as my 240D was. "Classic White" I think is the name. It's an off white which becomes obvious when it's parked next to a pure white car. At any rate. Nice pick up. I'll look forward to seeing your progress as you go thru it.
- Peter.
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I was never one for the SL series especially after having my E320 cabriolet but I got it for a really good price and it’s probably the cleanest car I have bought at that price. The wheels themselves are immaculate.
I need to make a thread in the SL section and post up pics of what I have. It came with a complete second intake that seems to be from a W126 engine since the air metering assembly doesn’t fit on it. |
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Very nice! Looks exceptionally clean. Always loved the r107 and somehow in the past few years they have really grown on me more. Maybe the rad effect.
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You would need to rebadge it 380LS. Nice find.
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I'm sure it would be a harder swap but my fantasy engine to drop into such a project is the M5 motor from the early 90s vintage, the E34. Over 300hp of NA inline 6 power. Would have more of a Euro flavor. Surely that's worth an extra $10K.
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The New Toy
looks very nice .
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A v12 r107 is up there too, one of our members actually swapped it (I cant remember off the top of my head, begins with R and the car is named Sampson IIRC). I remember seeing it at a gtg years back. These 107s just ooze class.
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The BMW S38B36, the version that found its way to our shores in the early 90s M5 is an unusual combo of refined engineering and naked hot roddery. Has a really bad look to it also which is, of course, very important. I've read of it referred to as the last genuine racing engine that BMW sold to the general public.
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1986 300SDL, 362K 1984 300D, 138K Last edited by cmac2012; 06-04-2021 at 02:44 PM. |
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Engine swap from a 560 SL?
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