Just another W124 thread..

[speeder]

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa

Thank you Gentlemen. Understated, "sleeper" mods fit the wagons beautifully. I can't wait to get a new front bumper (need to find one) and paint all the lower body cladding same as the main body color. Then it'll start to really look sharp I think. Definitely fun cars. I can see why the fellow above went nuts with his. If you are married to the shape and quality, dropping $10K into a $3K car might give you something close to the equivalent of a modern E350. It would last longer too.

New:
C36 motor
Complete leather interior
Paint
Suspension

Of course you'd have to do some of the work yourself to achieve that price/goal.

Those are things you plan on doing to yours? Because the one I pictured has a stock engine. And he's in it a hell of a lot more than $10k. The wheels and tires cost nearly that much.

I should try to sell him my junker C36 for the driveline conversion, but I really don't think he cares about going faster in that car. That's a conversion I'll have to do myself.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Denis, is a C36 driveline swap as easy as it seems like it should be?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by speeder

Those are things you plan on doing to yours? Because the one I pictured has a stock engine. And he's in it a hell of a lot more than $10k. The wheels and tires cost nearly that much.

I should try to sell him my junker C36 for the driveline conversion, but I really don't think he cares about going faster in that car. That's a conversion I'll have to do myself.

If you pay somebody for all the work done, I agree. Me, I can paint the entire car for $1K in materials over 3 weekends. 1 for prep, 1 for paint, 1 for finish. Suspension I did for $1K, love Yves at BMA. My wheels were only $250. A C36 motor is $1.5K and I could do the swap for another few hundred in materials with a specialist in CT. So that leaves the interior. For an interior as nice as that grey wagon, that's got to be $3K min to $5K realistically. But I'd be happy with late, excellent AMG seats for well under $2K on eBay and do some clean up.

So it can certainly add up fast, but also very manageable if you can do much of the work yourself. Whichever path you take, you are still getting a ton of car for the money.