Diesel Drifting with a Mercedes wagon..

[Blazerteam]

http://www.driftworks.com/2010/08/diesel-drifting/

Check out the vids..awesome stuff.

[Barry Donovan]

Re: Diesel Drifting with a Mercedes wagon..

Simply awesome stuff?

+1

crazier than a ten geared subaru. :o
I would love to take one in as a project.
I think I know what to offer up as a trade :

[BangShift McT]

Re: Diesel Drifting with a Mercedes wagon..

I caught footage from somewhere else last night. Reportedly, it has a turbo system off of a Scania (think SAAB big rig for the Americans) hooked to the diesel..no wonder it's boosting like that.

[Ferrari812]

Re: Diesel Drifting with a Mercedes wagon..

Thank you, Arild. That was SICK! Nothing beats Mercedes diesel. The motor looks to be newer (like 90s). That inline-6 came out of a E300 diesel.

[Cyclone03]

Re: Diesel Drifting with a Mercedes wagon..

THIS is why my parents need the internet!My Dad will take his '84 300td to the grave! He would laugh his butt off watching that vid! That,BTW,would be a very good thing he had a stroke 10 years ago that really has just about shut him down emotionally.

[dieselgeek]

Re: Diesel Drifting with a Mercedes wagon..

Thank you, Arild. That was SICK! Nothing beats Mercedes diesel. The motor looks to be newer (like 90s). That inline-6 came out of a E300 diesel.

The high revving makes it sound more like the OM series out of the w123 chassis to me. The later diesels with the aluminum heads were junk, I doubt they could be built to take that kind of abuse (on that guy's budget anyways). The 123 diesels - inline 5 - are what came in that chassis originally, and they revved to 5500rpm stock (!!).


I'm betting that the turbo setup is SMALL, not a large truck-sized one, because of how quickly it spools when he gets on the throttle. Or maybe he's using a hit of nitrous - there's not much black smoke for the amount of power he's obviously making.

[milner351]

Re: Diesel Drifting with a Mercedes wagon..

somewhere deep in the bowels of this site there's a thread about the disaster that was my '95 E300 Diesel with the 606.910 inline 6 24 valve aluminum head mechanical injection engine.

the most painful and expensive learning lesson of my life on car that was supposed to be a daily driver that SAVED me money on fuel :
- I should never have let my wife convince me the w123 were too old.

no more ferin cars for me! ;D



these guys are having barrel of monkeys fun with a car that I would guess is a throw away over there.

Doing something similar with an inline six turbo'd falcon wagon - or similar - would be a riot!