I don't think you'll see all that much more MPG from a 240D over a 300D. I could consistantly get 28mpg out of my '83 240D 4spd manual. I'd think a 300D should be able to do 26mpg pretty handily. My '85 190D 2.2l 5spd regularly stays around 38mpg with a high of 43mpg. My new 110 mile a day commute (up from 90 miles) seems to have raised the mpg slightly but it'll be a few weeks before I know for sure. -Curt Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:52:48 -0700 From: Rory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Whats a 81 240D worth? To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Wow that low! Should I hold out for a 190D then? Looking to get the best MPG and I know I can get 300's all day long but but not the MPG's so thats why I was looking at the 240D I was lokking at this one but now some loon just jumped the price up forget it http://tinyurl.com/ed7pc Rory --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 11 16:33:13 2006 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.237]) by server8.arterytc8.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GMoif-0000B9-Og for Mercedes@okiebenz.com; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:33:13 +0000 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id t11so1866855wxc for <Mercedes@okiebenz.com>; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:33:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.125.11 with SMTP id x11mr6505549wxc; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:33:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.15.8 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:33:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:33:07 -0400 From: "Levi Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <Mercedes@okiebenz.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.7.cp2 Subject: [MBZ] 83' 300D exhaust X-BeenThere: mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7.cp2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_okiebenz.com.okiebenz.com> List-Unsubscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: </pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com> List-Post: <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:33:14 -0000 Ok so let me get this straight... That entire 100lb 20ft long exhaust system is held up by one point at the rear end and the turbo at the other? Ok, I may be exaggerating (a LITTLE). But I didn't think the exhaust was that bad on my 83' 300D. But it got pretty loud one night and then I thought I heard some scraping and sure enough the flange on the front end of the "middle" piece of exhaust (I count 3 separate exhaust pieces) was no longer attached to the middle piece. So I took it and the rear section it was attached to off and it did have several holes in it and was considerably thinner on the bottom than the top. I was hoping I could just leave it off, but it was a tad more noisy than I really wanted. So then I thought well, I'll just try the middle section attached. but there's no hangers at all on the middle section and I don't see any obvious good locations for trying to tie up the rear end of the middle section. So the guy I bought the car from included an entire (well ok just the middle and rear sections) exhaust. I thought it was Mercedes cause it looks almost identical, but it says Tesi made in Italy. So anyway, I got the new middle and rear sections bolted together and hooked up with it's 4 hangars on the far back muffler. Did that maybe a couple weeks ago. Well, I took it on it's longest trip so far up near Canada around 260 miles each way. Well, around 70 or so miles I thought I could hear a little more of the turbo. Which I really like, but was a bit worried about why I was hearing it. So, about 180 miles in and it was quite apparent that there was a lot more exhaust noise. But I didn't hear the exhaust dragging, so decided to wait until around 220 miles or so when I needed to refill the veggie tank. Sure enough it seems there is a flexible section that comes out of the turbo, and it was no longer connected to the flexible section (there is only supposed to be one section of flex, not two) attached to the rest of the exhaust. Luckily though apparently that is long enough to lay on the tranny mount and so it was not dragging and the exhaust seems to be aimed down enough to not be causing much trouble where it is. I am however wondering a bit as to whether the cops will think this level of noise excessive. It's not TOO bad at "normal" revs, but when accelerating it can get quite loud. So... I thought for kicks I'd go look at a couple places, and it seeat best it's some $120 for this little piece of flex exhaust pipe. Hmm.. I'm contemplating finding a piece of stovepipe or something that would "kind of" connect the two pieces. Not completely seal, but at least knock the noise down some... Actually, I'm thinking as much about how I don't want to deal with the back of the turbo and rusted bolts or what not as much as I am about not wanting to spend the money for that stupid piece of pipe... Anyone found any alterior solutions? Levi (:
