far from, I am still slowly replacing things, just ordered all of the rear suspension bushings and will be fabricating rear camber adjusters, also looking for a rear sway bar, then I need to figure out which wheels I want (the clk's are getting expensive)

Well I must congratulate you it looks like you're a lot further on than me!

A set of four undamaged but need painting CLK wheels here start at about 100 euros for the four wheels with out tyres - shipping gonna kill the deal though

i can get them here for around $220 ea for remans, and usually 5-600 for rashed up used ones, I would like a set of the 16in monoblocks as well but I'm not sure if they'll clear my calipers

I've got 16x8 Lorinser RS-90's on my 190E and they clear those E420 calipers perfectly fine. What you have to watch out for is rubbing at the fender/bumper area. Although it might not be a problem if your car is not overly lowered..

I already had to roll my front fenders and trim the inside front corner, even with 1.5* of negative camber, i think the best bet would be to use the camber adjustable shock mounts so that I could dial the camber out of the lower control arm and use the shock mount to adjust the camber, It wound bring the wheel in 3/8 of an inch, you may also be able to run a 205/50 tire on the 16x8's and give a little more clearance

On the fronts you can always give the AMG spacer trick a shot. I'd give you a link but I'm on my way out of the office.

On the rear's you can install/make an adjustable camber arm to resolve camber issues. Its only like $70-100 total for both sides.

I think ill give the spacers a try, I was not aware of them, I have a piece of 1" round stock delrin I can make my own spacers out of on a lathe

I might eventually follow that same path as well. Right now my front passenger wheel will rub if I have two people in the car and take certain roads. By myself the it does not rub. However that's a new MB fender on there and I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Let us know how the spacers go! One of the concerns I saw was the "gap" created by the spacer might allow foreign material up in the cavities around there. I can't remember what it all looks like but it might be prudent to fashion some kind of flap/cover or something. Or maybe it might not be.

I was thinking maybe get a plastic welding kit and add some material to the fender liner

So after 10 years of driving a 5spd as a daily, One month of driving an auto has made me hate them once again, on that note I should hopefully be picking up everything I need for a manual conversion tomorrow. I also picked up a fuel rail, injectors and a harness for my future megasquirt conversion

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What do you hate about the auto? On my 201, adjusting up the control cable to give later shift points was a must.

I have done it, I just don't like automatics, even for daily drivers, I feel like they make my lazy and that this engine has so much more potential than an auto will allow it to show. I also do a lot of interstate driving and to be turning near 4000rpm at an 80mph cruise just isn't cutting it.

Glad to see you've come around.

lol I was going to post a reply to your previous post, I thought I would be okay with it, but in the grand scheme of things if I am going to do the megasquirt conversion it only makes sense to go manual. I will be putting the car on a dyno this weekend for a before measurement then take it back again after the swap, then a third time for tuning. I should have some good data to share with everyone when all said and done

The dyno data will be very interesting.

Regardless of how powerful the megasquirt makes your 2.3, even the W201 with the little 2.2L diesel needs an overdrive gear. They were obviously designed for the 55 mph speed limits of their day. I'm not a huge fan of a manual clutch in traffic myself but haven't found an overdrive auto that will basically bolt in.