OM617 Performance
OM617 Performance
All I have ever had for a Merc Diesel was an old 240D engine & STUFFED into a Samurai with a ford probe turbo adapted to a hacked & welded 617 manifold. Behind the Sammy transfer case, I had an old Datsun transfer case mounted backwards to run 2 rear axles (first 8" Toy open always drives, 2nd, LC 40 rear offset diff welded) & a LC40 front axle in the front. Ran it on veggie on a hacked up system with a pair of Racor FRG 900 filters. Made my own TIT fuel lines to preheat the veggie & an ace hardware valving setup to switch over from the diesel in an outboard tank to a beer keg for the veggie. If I remember right, it was 4.56 gears running military hummer tires & rims with homemade adapters. Wobbled like a 450pound hooker running from the cops, but I drove it for 3 years while (Of course) working at a junkyard. Built it there, too. Fixed it every monday & tuesday night after work. Ran it in the swamp endlessly each weekend, won alot of bets ( lots of Natty Ice) & pulled out alot of trucks much larger, went alot of places that $30,000 - $50,000 trucks wouldn't dare. It's still running as the parts pulling truck at the yard & the only "fabrication tools" I had were a drill, sawzall, torch, cheap harbor freight 110 fluxcored wire feed welder & parts from every make & model of car & truck we had. Even hydraulic steering from some weird military forklift. To round it all out, the side & rearvier mirrors were from a '72 dodge aspen, cable operated. Oh, the winch was from a Duce, hydraulically driven with a pump I found in the trunk of a car.
There's your baseline...
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible" Frank Zappa
I guess what I'm trying to get at is that we all do what we want, we try different things, no 2 cars will EVER be the same on this site, but you can get alot of inspiration to do alot of persperation from this site. Read all of the back posts & see the evolutions of some of the projects. There will never be kits for these cars ( except the old 240 turbo kits from 3 or more decades ago). I havent touched a merc in 3 years, I think. I check this site every day & input what I do to possibly help others. Peace & MOD IT !!!!!
yankneck696
07-27-2010, 10:05 PM #13OK, here's my opinion & we all know what an opinion is worth... How the hell can you standardize performance on cars that have had up to 7 previous owners, unknown maintenance records, hundreds of thousands of miles and are at least 25 YAERS OLD ??? If you have about $7-8,000, buy a rebuild (maybe up to 10,000) & buy a dyno, full datalogging system with flowscan, too. you now have about a $50-75,000 investment on a 25+ year old vehicle. What I LOVE about this site is all of the variations, ingenuity, trying different things, engineering phenomenal parts & even TOOLS.
All I have ever had for a Merc Diesel was an old 240D engine & STUFFED into a Samurai with a ford probe turbo adapted to a hacked & welded 617 manifold. Behind the Sammy transfer case, I had an old Datsun transfer case mounted backwards to run 2 rear axles (first 8" Toy open always drives, 2nd, LC 40 rear offset diff welded) & a LC40 front axle in the front. Ran it on veggie on a hacked up system with a pair of Racor FRG 900 filters. Made my own TIT fuel lines to preheat the veggie & an ace hardware valving setup to switch over from the diesel in an outboard tank to a beer keg for the veggie. If I remember right, it was 4.56 gears running military hummer tires & rims with homemade adapters. Wobbled like a 450pound hooker running from the cops, but I drove it for 3 years while (Of course) working at a junkyard. Built it there, too. Fixed it every monday & tuesday night after work. Ran it in the swamp endlessly each weekend, won alot of bets ( lots of Natty Ice) & pulled out alot of trucks much larger, went alot of places that $30,000 - $50,000 trucks wouldn't dare. It's still running as the parts pulling truck at the yard & the only "fabrication tools" I had were a drill, sawzall, torch, cheap harbor freight 110 fluxcored wire feed welder & parts from every make & model of car & truck we had. Even hydraulic steering from some weird military forklift. To round it all out, the side & rearvier mirrors were from a '72 dodge aspen, cable operated. Oh, the winch was from a Duce, hydraulically driven with a pump I found in the trunk of a car.
There's your baseline...
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible" Frank Zappa
I guess what I'm trying to get at is that we all do what we want, we try different things, no 2 cars will EVER be the same on this site, but you can get alot of inspiration to do alot of persperation from this site. Read all of the back posts & see the evolutions of some of the projects. There will never be kits for these cars ( except the old 240 turbo kits from 3 or more decades ago). I havent touched a merc in 3 years, I think. I check this site every day & input what I do to possibly help others. Peace & MOD IT !!!!!
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