On 1/28/06, Rich Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is a little front-wheel drive thing, nothing special, but kinda funky > in its way. Got me thinking that doing a rat rod job on it might be > kinda fun at some point, put some power in it, rear-wheel drive, weld in > some frame to hold it all, etc. An old rat rod ricer! Then I got > thinking that rather than the standard 350, an old Benz engine/tranny > would be kinda cool. Probably not a diesel unless I did one of those > Finnish mods to give it stupid power. And it would have to have a > boomer sound system and wiper/underneath neon and skulls (or maybe > Godzilla heads). And a couple of wings, gotta have wings. > > The car has a 4 ft track and an 8ft wheelbase, more or less, a sheet of > plywood size! Not a lot of room to stick much under the hood, but those > older SLs really cram a lot in not much more space, if even. And 190s > and such are not a lot bigger. Hmmm... A 6 or an 8, maybe a 5?
Sure it's front-wheel-drive? Sounds like a 510, which was RWD (and known in its day for terrific handling... sort of a Japanese BMW 2002). (And if it IS a 510, there is lots of info out there already on mods including engine swaps...) Alex Chamberlain '87 300D Turbo
