Anyone building drag engines for serious competition is more than capable of rebuilding a continental or Lycoming or what have you. My cousin is a truck dealer and rebuilds airplanes and races cars also. There is no magic to rebuilding any of those motors.
There are specifications of course. If the machinist chooses not to follow them, then of course there could be problems. I called Mike yesterday at metric about this issue. He said there are a few tricks that you learn over time that might make a Mercedes-specific build a bit better, but that if a shop reads the specs and follows them, and they are used to working on diesels, they would be able to do as good a good job on a mercedes as on any other engine. He also said that if the engine has 10,000 miles on it after the rebuild, there is nothing seriously wrong with it. FWIW, Karl On Aug 10, 2016 11:21 AM, "fmiser via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Karl wrote: > > All the technical measurement stuff you are talking about is > standard practice. A 12L or 14L big truck engine is really not very similar to the OM617. Just because someone is really good at overhauling and rebuilding a Cummins, Detroit, or Caterpillar engine does not mean they will do well with the Mercedes. They might - but it's a bit like asking a drag racing mechanic to rebuild the Continental airplane engine. They are both gasoline engines, can't be _that_ different - right? _______________________________________ http://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 _______________________________________ http://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
