market for overdrive manual trans conversions for MBs,
With our 190D 2.5 manual conversion we have effectively an overdrive situation, and it's useless. No point, really, to fifth gear. Stay in four, why not? The diff gearing is too tall. The whole car drives 'wrong', and now that we've got a few miles on it (and now that the suspension is sufficiently rebuilt) I can blame most of it on the gearing. The old 200D is _so_ nice to drive around, whereas this is so.... not. MB's really quite good at engineering cars, seems to me. The rest of the 190D experience would be just peachy, were the torque characteristics even half so good as the 200D's. (OK, it's a bit small inside.) We just got back from a road trip to Rajneesh-ville in Oregon (long since under new management!), the car behaved fairly well, except for the gearing complaints and some oddness from the heater. We had a heck of a headwind most of the way over and the car took it well, but only turned in about 34MPG Spokane to Biggs. (No figures yet for the return leg, but I know it was better since it was 150 miles longer [Biggs/Antelope both ways] and we still had 1/4 tank indicated as we got home.) -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
