Well, this is my 190e, his name is Clifford. The engine has been the biggest project. It started out life with as a 2.0l - 8v with a whopping 89kw. I couldn't handle the lack of power and ended up dropping in a 2.4l - 8v and supercharging it. It now has a slightly healthier output of around 170kw (230hp), and 128kw at the wheels as shown on the dyno graph.  I am currently running 10psi @ 6000rpm but am loosing a fair bit of power through heat generated by the supercharger, which will eventually be fixed by an intercooler. Anyway here are most of the mods I've done.

NEW - Clifford Wallpaper - Click Here to Download

 
  Exterior Modifications Engine/Suspension Modifications
  • Blueprinted 2.4l - 8v
  • Ported and Polished Head
  • Lowered Compression Ratio
  • Powerdyne Supercharger
  • Autronic ECU
  • Porsche Injectors
  • Water Injection
  • Polished Valve Cover (when I can be bothered cleaning it)
  • Custom Polished Intake Piping
  • Heat shield on exhaust
  • 2.5" Magnaflow exhaust system
  • 16" Electric Fan
  • Eibach Sport Springs
  • Bilstein Sport Shock Absorbers
  • Rebuilt gearbox
  • Light weight flywheel
  • New balanced tail shafts with custom fitted strengthened universal joints
  • Rebuilt LSD differential 
  • Rebuilt steering box using parts from a 16v
  • 300e front disks and calipers (not pictured)

Electronics/Stereo

  • JVC KDLX-50 Chameleon Head Unit
  • Audison LR604 4x50w rms bridged into fronts
  • Coustic 2x70w Amp for the rears (not on most of the time)
  • Phoenix Gold QX2350 2x125 bridged into my sub
  • 30 Band Phoenix Gold Equalizer and Line driver
  • Focal 136KX 5 1/4" Splits in the front
  • JBL 6x9" GTO in the rear
  • Focal 33VX 13" Subwoofer
  • Clifford Alarm System (Naturally)
 

   

Interior
  Recent Events(7/7/2001)

Ok, I've just added some pics of the canary on my car. If you don't know what it is, it's a reasonably serious defect notice that basically says your car is unroadworthy for some reason or another. I had one put on my car by the EPA because I don't have the standard injection system fitted even though the electronic injection I now have is much more efficient fuel and emission wise than the stock mechanical injection system. They expect me to pay $3000 to have an ADR (Australian Design Rules) test done to prove that my emissions still comply even though they have no way of showing that they don't. I am currently fighting this and will hopefully get it sorted out before the 16/7/01 (the date that the canary has on it to cancel my registration).

Update on the Canary (31/9/2001)

Well, the whole canary experience is all over and done with now. I ended up having the ADR test done just to get the damn thing off my car. I had the car dyno'd to check that everything was ok for the test and then passed it onto an engineer who then organized the test at Ford. In the end it cost $2250 for the test (not happy) and it passed :-) .

 
  If you want to know anything else about my car, feel free to email me at blairc@vicnet.net.au
   

Note: You may have noticed that the layout of this site has been changed, this is due to the work of a generous Mercedesshop member (whiteMeadow) who redesigned the page and emailed it to me without me even asking him (how cool is that!!). I would like to thank him for the new look and hope he doesn't mind me putting his member name on here. I've also put a link to the old page so you can see how ugly it was :-) . Thanks WhiteMeadow!!

Link to old page