The discussion of the faster Mercedes, including the Finnish mods reminds me of something I was thinking of last night. I'd taken a buddy out for a bachelor night since I'll miss his bachelor party and finally had a chance to really open up my 190D 2.2l 5spd. I was following a guy in an Audi A6 at 85-90mph (I still don't know what the top is on that car) and I was reminded of a time in my 240D I was following at guy in IIRC an old Carolla at about 80mph passing EVERYBODY, including, much to my surprise, a Ferrari of some sort. I'm sure that guy was worried about driving a cop magnet while I didn't particularly care... Most every day on my way home from work now I pass a (I think) 500SE. Its driven by an asian family of slow drivers. I usually pass them where RT2 and 495 meet, its a long hill and I'm in the passing lane in 4th with the pedal to the floor for a good italian tuneup. The speed limit is 55mph, traffic is going 70mph and heres this w126 over in the right lane chugging along. One time I was curious and I got in behind them, 50mph... I know that car could SMOKE mine any day of the week but I suspect they are trying to maximize gas mileage and decrease wear. I'm maximizing getting home and cleaning out the engine! Anyway its not always the car as much as the driver... -Curt
__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jun 10 15:05:47 2006 Received: from mxa.windwireless.net ([199.164.167.40]) by server8.arterytc8.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fp520-0000Fs-LF for Mercedes@okiebenz.com; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:05:45 +0000 Received: from dogear.com (jimc.progress.wi-fi.windwireless.net [206.63.94.197] (may be forged)) by mxa.windwireless.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k5AF6Ojj008051 for <Mercedes@okiebenz.com>; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:06:24 -0700 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:05:37 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) From: Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mercedes Discussion List <Mercedes@okiebenz.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-Virus-Scan: smtp-vilter X-SMTP-Vilter-Version: 1.1.0rc2 X-SMTP-Vilter-Backend: Clam AntiVirus Daemon (clamd) X-SMTP-Vilter-Status: clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0rc4 (mxa.windwireless.net [199.164.167.40]); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:06:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] '92 300E AC compressor in '87 300TD? X-BeenThere: Mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 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: <http://okiebenz.com/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: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:05:48 -0000 > The Nippondensu compressors on Toyotas that I've seen DIDN'T have speed > sensors (although perhaps some do). It's the Camry's that have the speed sensor. (Or some of them.) I've never seen a regular Toy that had it. -- Jim
