The Colour of Money......Part 2

[Mr.Tan]

^ that all blacked out looks ill on that example...however with your car being 2-tone, i dont know..maybe if it was all 1 color it would work but i dont think with the green and white

[Dreamstate]

Wrap it in vinyl. If you don't like it in a few months you can take it all off again. No harm, no foul.

[Zman86]

^ that all blacked out looks ill on that example...however with your car being 2-tone, i dont know..maybe if it was all 1 color it would work but i dont think with the green and white

I wouldnt do it on the two-tone, I'm just considering options for after I do the body/re-paint it. A long ways off in the future...

[250celowrider]

did anyone notice the suicide door conversion????????????? the black on silver looks great, but dreamstate is right. wrap it and if you dont like it, rip it off.

[Zman86]

It looked so sad sitting in the driveway unused, and its been really mild around here, so I took it to Toronto and back Christmas day for a family get together, clicked over 5000 miles on my way home since I put it in my name in June...



Also dropped the RS's off at the powdercoaters last weekend. Car finally gets stored indoors tomorrow, so I'll have a place to work on it till spring, mostly maintenance stuff will be getting done this winter as school had a bigger impact on my car fund than anticipated. Looking forward to many more miles in 2012!

[Zman86]

All snowy and sad...

[joebags]

I just found this thread and had to say I love what you have done to the car. Really looks good.

[Zman86]

Picked up a package from the powdercoaters yesterday, came out a little more yellow than the color tag looked, but I'm still very happy...

[insert clever name]

thats gonna look awesome....get to work on them lips

[Zman86]

thats gonna look awesome....get to work on them lips

Lips are being replaced, orginals are too far gone to justify saving

[Ben from RI]

Lips are being replaced, orginals are too far gone to justify saving

Unless they are bent out of shape you should be able to bring them back.. Everything else in this thread is impressive.. I do like the look of the blacked out chrome, bit with the green and new lips I think keeping the chrome will look great.

[Zman86]

My problem is I'm a bad perfectionist with little things like that. No matter how much work I put into restoring the lips, I'd probably never get them the way I want them. Still debating whether to go aluminum or stainless with the new ones...

On another note, look for some big updates coming next week...

[Zman86]

Started tearing down the engine bay today so I can get everything to the powdercoaters. I wanted to wait until I had the engine out and I could do the complete bay all at once, but when you have the opportunity to do something, sometimes you have to take it! Even the girlfriend helped me, though we didnt get much done due to the fact it was -13*c out and I forgot both my light (so we could see with the garge closed) and my portable heater. Look for more pics of the teardown throughout the week...



Reference pictures, I can never remember how these damn linkages go back together...





Smiling, though she was not that impressed with me forgetting the heater...



Done for the day, no feeling in fingers or toes. Not much progress, but still filled a whole box with stuff. Heading back sometime during the week when its a bit warmer...

[insert clever name]

[gtipwnz]

Sub'd. I want to do one of these some day

[phil123]

Looks like alot of fun. keep it up!

[Zman86]

After an insane, Monster energy drink fueled four hours, I got almost everything I wanted out of the bay last Thursday before I left for Florida. Received all the stuff I ordered from Mercedes and currently awaiting my order to arrive from Mercedes Source...





And some pictures I found from the previous owner comparing stock ride hight. You can also see the difference Euro bumpers and the shaved marker lights make...

[VR6VR6]

i am SO jelly. i ****ing love this car.

[Will@BagRiders]

I approve of this

[DubbinMkII]

Absolutely gorgeous.

[Zman86]

Thanks!

Just found this while digging through my photo albums, the only sticker on the car, my favorite character from one of my favorite shows...

[ericshell]

must be terrible to do all that in the cold weather. Your cars got a lot of character, can't wait to see what it looks like this season

[vwhead757]

Thanks!

Just found this while digging through my photo albums, the only sticker on the car, my favorite character from one of my favorite shows...

Bubbles!

[Dreamstate]

I approve of the Trailer Park Boys

[Zman86]

Mmmm new parts...

Lets see if I can remember what I've bought so far

From Mercedes

Intake/exhaust manifold gasket
everything to re-seal the top end of the injection pump
fuel filter housing grommets
transmission tailshaft seal
exhaust manifold to downpipe gasket
throttle linkage bushings
oil filter
fuel filter
throttle cable guide
some nut that I dont remember what its for

From Mercedes Source

Trunk seal
Vacuum pump overhaul kit
engine shock mount kits
glowplugs
oil pan/drainplug/gasket
Power steering filter
brake fluid resevoir seals
Master cylinder to booster O-ring
Differential mount
driveshaft flew discs
driveshaft hanger-bearing and mount
driveshaft dust boot

From The Benz Bin

New alternator
engine mounts
waterpump
radiator cap
transmission mount
parking brake shoes

From local autopart store

inline fuel filter
rear brake pads/discs
transmission filter kit
thermostat o-ring
various gaskets

So much work to do before spring. This weeks to-do list: remove old oil pan, check height of oil pickup to see if I can shorten the pan, take new pan/pickup to welders to have them modify it (my welding sucks), replace glowplugs, set valve lash, purchase all new vacuum/fuel line....

Still can not find any decent interior parts, seems like all the good original interior stuff is attached to $5000+ cars, I've looked at 6 different parts cars and the interiors have been trashed in every one. I've found two parts cars that belong to one of the customers at work, both total wrecks, but chocked full of useable stuff, including all the parts from a car that was wrecked in the early 80's, then taken apart completely and put into storage. The thing that makes me happiest is I got a near rust free OE passenger front fender! Pics when I go back to pillage more parts...

[vr6dubnut12]

[Zman86]

Update!


Not much has been going on lately with the car. I had stripped the bay to get everything powdercoated (removed everything I had already removed back in November), and then it fell through and I just got my stuff back a couple weeks ago. I'm in the middle of a move also, so things have been crazy. Towed the car from my girlfriends to the new shop last weekend, hoping to finally get some work done once I'm moved in. Also had a issue with the injector pump (I removed something I shouldnt have) and now I may have to pull the pump out for re-calibration :mad and I've been having issues with improper parts from both aftermarket suppliers and Mercedes....

Hoping to have it mobile by the end of April...



Its new home! We have from the two shop doors forward



View from the bedroom...

[Zman86]

Found this on Air-Society this morning, looks like they did a showcase under the old owners name

[VWBugman00]

Hey, great job on the car restoring it. It still looks great. Since you've got the becker radio, have you thought of perhaps using the face as a cover for a more modern stereo? What I was thinking is have a little electric actuator, and a hinge on the top or bottom to make it fold down, and have a modern stereo behind the face. It'd require some fabrication, but I think it'd look great.

[Zman86]

Car is coming back together, slowly but surely...

In the meantime, I found this...

[Zman86]

It's alive again

[Dpaul04]

Its new home! We have from the two shop doors forward

Looks familiar, what are the next big steps? Good meeting you and your girlfriend.

[Zman86]

Nice meeting you too!

Well, the plans were to just drive it and fix stuff/install all the new parts I have stockpiled along the way. However, we too it out and put around 30km on it before the transmission started slipping terribly, so looks like it may be out of commission for a few more weeks. I may just do all the work I was planning on doing gradually throughout the year while it's down.

[Zman86]

Well, It's back on the road, put about 200 miles on it this weekend. I ended up draining the semi-synthetic fluid I put in the transmission and re filled it with the cheapest ATF I could find and replaced a blown out bushing on the shift linkage at the transmission, and it's now shifting better than it ever has.

Anyways, some pictures! First wash of the year after getting it back together


Draining the transmission


Out on the highway


Some random pictures







Mine and the girlfriends cars

[Zman86]

Never posted a picture of the stock ride height



And picked these up last weekend



Some pictures from this weekend in downtown Toronto