5 cylinder Mercedes Benz?

tom donohue donohue at nycap.rr.com
Wed Mar 3 12:22:49 PST 2010


If anyone cares, the attached message is from me, not from Ben!  Tom Donohue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tom donohue" <donohue at nycap.rr.com>
To: "Ben Swann" <benswann at verizon.net>; "'Quattro List'" 
<quattro at audifans.com>
Cc: "'Ben Swann'" <benswann at verizon.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: 5 cylinder Mercedes Benz?


>I had a new '75 300D sedan back then, but the 5-cylinder was a relatively 
>recent introduction.  Don't think they had 5 cyl. engines n '86...just 4s, 
>6s and V8s in various configurations....The 300D was a nice car for its 
>time, but it could have used a turbo!
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ben Swann" <benswann at verizon.net>
> To: "'Quattro List'" <quattro at audifans.com>
> Cc: "'Ben Swann'" <benswann at verizon.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:56 AM
> Subject: 5 cylinder Mercedes Benz?
>
>
>>
>> While perusing the local bonyard, something caught my eye.  I looked at 
>> what appeared to
>> be a five cylinder intake manifold on a Mercedez Benz Sedan.  Closer 
>> inspection revealed
>> indeed it was an inline five cylinder diesel engine and I was tempted to 
>> pull the intake
>> runners because of the effficient looking design.    The displacement as 
>> I could read
>> was around 2.4 l   and it had as I recall  the layout of a crossflow head 
>> similar to the
>> inline 5 cylinder 20V engines in our Audis.
>>
>> The model year was 1986 and I'm just looking for more information on this 
>> particular
>> engine and seeing if there is any merit to obtaining the intake and or 
>> exhaust or any
>> other parts of this unique (too me) engine.
>>
>> I'm not real familiar with M-Benz, but looked over the car and it really 
>> seemed to have
>> quite Volkwagon like electronics, switches, relays, etc.
>>
>> Ben
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