Mercedes Benz 190E Drift Car...

[niky]

I'm never in here, but hey, thought you guys might get a kick out of this...

It's a Mercedes 190E running a Nissan RB25DET... a turbocharged 2.5 liter Nissan inline-six off a Skyline. Absolute mad drifting car. Caged, stripped, and with the rear doors shaved. Might not be to everyone's tastes, but WTF... I liked it.

But it's a real pain-in-the-butt tryin to take drifting pics in the dark.

 

[Flerbizky]

Me likey very much - But I do have a soft spot for the 190 Evo II. Especially in DTM trim...

 

[Appie]

Me likey very much - But I do have a soft spot for the 190 Evo II. Especially in DTM trim...

You can say that again.

 

[Muzaffar]

That looks sick..... 👍 So you took the pictures yourselves huh? Well not bad indeed for a blurry photo. Can't be blamed about that, cause its kinda hard to catch a photo of a car drifting at high speed.... But this should totally go into the Import thread instead of making a new thread about it (unless you got more photos from this event )

 

[VTiRoj]

Awesome looking 190E!

I'd like it more if it looked like this.

 

[High-Test]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
👍👍

I love that car. Me = love 1980s Mercedes products.

Thanks for the pics.

 

[Jim Prower]

While I don't approve of an RB-series engine in a Mercedes (Certianly there's a Mercedes engine you could use instead...) It's otherwise a fantastic idea.

 

[High-Test]

While I don't approve of an RB-series engine in a Mercedes (Certianly there's a Mercedes engine you could use instead...) It's otherwise a fantastic idea.

Oh! I know! I know!

Put an RB26DETT in a 260E.

RB260E...

 

[Jim Prower]

*twitch*

How about, instead, we throw in something like, oh, I dunno, a Mercedes 6.2 AMG?

 

[High-Test]

*twitch*

How about, instead, we throw in something like, oh, I dunno, a Mercedes 6.2 AMG?

!! 620TE? "Mommy, race that Ferrari!"

 

[Motominded]

i'll approve with more pix and specs.

 

[mustangGT90210]

*twitch*

How about, instead, we throw in something like, oh, I dunno, a Mercedes 6.2 AMG?

Or an LS9.

 

[land sea air]

completely badass, I dont have any problem with the swap considering the RB is probably far cheaper and easier to install than most MB v8s.

 

[Jim Prower]

I dunno...the Drift craze is using up a lot of those RBs. Granted, a brand new AMG V8's gonna cost through the nose.

What about the stock motor in those? how many parts are available?

 

[land sea air]

the stock motor in a 190E is usually an M102 8v 4 cyl, not a lot of potential there, there were twin cam versions with plenty of potential for road or race, but I wouldn't want to see a fairly rare engine like that wasted for this. Another option would be the 2.6 liter version of the M103 6 cylinder but there aren't a lot of easy tuning options available for any m103 besides the rare turbocharging kit.

 

[High-Test]

the stock motor in a 190E is usually an M102 8v 4 cyl, not a lot of potential there, there were twin cam versions with plenty of potential for road or race, but I wouldn't want to see a fairly rare engine like that wasted for this. Another option would be the 2.6 liter version of the M103 6 cylinder but there aren't a lot of easy tuning options available for any m103 besides the rare turbocharging kit.

That's why PUMPISH and turbobanditen are there to save us all.

One could always pop in a 2JZ from an SC300.

 

[vr6gti72]

Are there and better pics of the car?

 

[HACKr]

That's why PUMPISH and turbobanditen are there to save us all.

One could always pop in a 2JZ from an SC300.

I agree, Toyota engines need more love. It seems that everything is having Nissan RB engines swapped in 'em.

 

[Flerbizky]

the stock motor in a 190E is usually an M102 8v 4 cyl, not a lot of potential there, there were twin cam versions with plenty of potential for road or race, but I wouldn't want to see a fairly rare engine like that wasted for this. Another option would be the 2.6 liter version of the M103 6 cylinder but there aren't a lot of easy tuning options available for any m103 besides the rare turbocharging kit.

I was under the impression that the Evo IIs all came with the 16V head ?..

 

[niky]

I don't know much about the car. It's probably a regular 190E with the 8v head and not a 190 16v. The work was done by the local DMF drift team in conjunction with local bodykit builder Atoy (A-Toy Bodykits) for a show... Atoy took a personal interest in drifting and he's the one piloting his own creation, as well as sponsoring the tires for the event.

It was really dark. Show started at 5pm with overcast skies... started late due to technical problems with the parking lot, as the pavers used to surface it would just fly up as the tires kicked them around. They had to wash down the course with water to keep it from disintegrating under the weight of the cars. One car, a Toyota Soarer, was not supposed to run due to these issues, but it made a few brief runs later in the night.

I was running the highest ISO I could without risking image breakup, and had the shutter at 1/40... which was generally good enough for steady shots like this:

And simple pans, like this:

But as the first picture shows, it's impossible to keep more than a fraction of the car in focus in a spinning pan:

I would've liked to stop down, but pretty soon, there wasn't enough light to do anything... and we only had one set of spotlights... just not enough. I was lucky to get a few more shots, but aside from a few shots like this:

...most of my night-time pans were pure garbage. Still shots, no problem... but next time, I'm not going to be so optimistic.

 

[land sea air]

I was under the impression that the Evo IIs all came with the 16V head ?..

they were, but I doubt that car started life as an EVO.