My 190E 2.3-16

[Mayday]

Hello Everyone,

First of all i´d like to say hi to everyone, i´ve been around for a while as a silent member, congratulations to a great forum and a great source of info about the 16v..

below are some pics of my 190E 2.3-16, it´s from 1987 with only 2 previous owners, fully documented with only 109.000 km...




Edit by Henger: habe die Bilder zum direkten Anschauen gemacht Thumbnail for forums (1)

[Henger]

Hello Mayday,

welcome to the 16V -Forum
It s nice to see that the forum have more and more international user

Feel free to post here

Dein 16V macht einen sehr schönen Eindruck auf den Bildern

Es freut mich das wir wieder einen 2.3er mehr haben, denn wir haben viele 2.5er und Evos......aber wenige 2.3er Fahrer

Gruß Fränk

[carbon]

looks like a real pretty one almost like new.
wish u have a great time here with us

[Christian]

Hey...your are very welcome!

Nice car..so far.

And what kind of W201 is it in your garage on the third picture??

[Claas]

Hi,

very very nice and original car! I hope you'll leave it as it is!

Congratulation
Claas

[LUDE]

Hi Mayday!

I think your car is very nice!
It seems to me, that your car is in a good condition.

[Mayday]

Thanks for the welcome and the kind words about the car.

The car will remain in it´s original condition except from some very small modifications that cannot be seen, it has brake calipers from 300e-24v and discs from 400e, a performance exhaust with race cat and of course the 17 inch wheels (DB model Sador) an engine upgrade is also planned, but only to install other pistons so that i will get the 185hp since mine is the 170hp version...nothing else will be changed....

The other car in the garage is a 190E 1.8, my every day car...

By the way, feel free to write in german, i can understand it nicely but unfortunately i cannot write it, i spend a lot of time in Köln, since i work as a pilot for UPS

[sison123115]

Hi Mayday,

What a nice car. Greetings from far away Manila. Yes the 16V is alive in our country too. There must be at least ten in Manila. Can you tell me if there is anything to watch out when upgrading the brakes? Does one just buy these calipers and it will fit just like that?

Cheers, Ray

[Mayday]

Hello again,


after some long time i decided to transform my boring everyday 190E 1.8 from -93 with 275000 km´s on the clock to something more fun, here are some pics from the transformation into a 16V

This is what it used to look like:




Car emptied of everything and all parts painted inside and out



The new (rebuilt) engine



Slightly modified flywheel, weight 5,72 kg´s



Here you can se the difference between original and modified..



Brand new gearbox ...



All ready for the engine ...




The engine and gearbox mounted



Rearend rebuilt and painted




LSD from a -85 16v, rebuilt and slightly modified



Front calipers and discs from a E500 -94



Rear calipers and ventilated discs from a 500e




New exhaust, custom made ...



Battery moved to the rear



Interior cleaned and wood trim painted in the same colour as the car, driver seat is a Sparco EVO (not mounted on the picture)



Almost done, note the old type of windshield wiper



All done ...

[Nagilum]

Wow, new engine, new gearbox and everything so clean... that car kicks-ass, nearly a shame to drive.

Regards
- Nagi

[Henger]

Hi Mayday,

it looks like another top projekt from Sweden

The 2.3-16V engine is a new one - rebuild or a used one?

Great pics i wish you have a lot of fun with this new stuff

Regards

Fränk

[Mayday]

Hi Mayday,

it looks like another top projekt from Sweden

The 2.3-16V engine is a new one - rebuild or a used one?

Great pics i wish you have a lot of fun with this new stuff

Regards

Fränk

Thanks for the kind words , the engine is a old rebuilt one & slighty modified

[Rouven036]

nice and clean build, looks perfect! congrats man!

[Mayday]

Wow, new engine, new gearbox and everything so clean... that car kicks-ass, nearly a shame to drive.

Regards
- Nagi

engine is an old one but rebuilt by a friend of mine, gearbox is brand new, bought on ebay, but car is built to be used

[Mayday]

nice and clean build, looks perfect! congrats man!

Thanks

[sison123115]

Very interesting project and great pictures! What a clean engine and clean job all over. Did you have to put 16 inch wheels to accommodate your new brakes from 500E? All the best!

Ray

[Mayday]

Very interesting project and great pictures! What a clean engine and clean job all over. Did you have to put 16 inch wheels to accommodate your new brakes from 500E? All the best!

Ray

Thanks, yupp i think i might have overdone it a bit Yes the brakes are to big for 15 inch wheels ...

[agrabau]

Looking great! This is exactly the type of project I want to do soon. Perfect for track days. Where did you get all the performance bushings from?

Alex

[sison123115]

You didnt do it over at all. Nice job and that engine looks so new.


The 185HP 190E had a unique piston and shorter connecting rod to produce a higher compression 185hp by means of a 98 octane requirement of fuel.

Can you share with us what the part numbers are?

For the con rod I got this 1020300120 and for the piston 1020306319 . But am just inferring from the footnotes at the parts catalog. Is this right? Any other modifications one must do?

[Mayday]

Looking great! This is exactly the type of project I want to do soon. Perfect for track days. Where did you get all the performance bushings from?

Alex

Thanks a friend of mine made them, not recommended if you don´t like noise