318is & 190e cosworth

[forty]

Second time owning this one, I could not let it go! I managed to pursuede the owner to sell it back to me for £50 more than what he paid for it with a full respray...happy with that. I have just lowered it this weekend, but the front right makes a sort of inaudiable knocking noise-you can feel it through the steering wheel, thought I may not have a spring seated correctly enough of the babbling!





still unsure of the wheels though, im half temped to get alpinas on it [/img]

& heres my old car which my mate wrote off as we were heading up to a photoshoot for PPC mag at rockingham
My pride and joy 190e Cosworth, main rival to the e30 m3

[drifty325i]

Looking nice! its prob a wheel bearing.

[Dannyboyb]

Thats nice! Like it alot

What exhaust have you got on there?

[forty]

powerflow 3in outwardly rolled

[d6dph]

The IS looks lovely mate, Congrats on getting it back.

I remember seeing the bit in PPC about the 190e, such a shame.

[maxfield]

[Dubaholic]

e30s nice mate i like those wheels but it wud look wicked with a set of alpinas, it will be looking just like mine lol


gotta love the cosworth 190's

heres a pic of my mates one it started off as a 190 but now he has fitted a cosworth lump.
just his show car

[klobuznik]

I'ts quite curious, the difference of the engine Bay between any e30 (For.ex: w/ M20 or even S14 engine) and any Merc engine.

Compare space left, distribution of parts ,aso...

It's much better so watch an BMW engine as an Merc engine. (Although I love Merc's)

[snoops]

looks mint m8, go for the alpinas!

[pictonroad]

omg!!!

Merc Cossie, one of my perfect stable...

you still mates with him then?

[forty]

just, he gave me his rs turbo in exchange...hardly a comparison but still I was looking sell it anyway so I sold the RS instead

[FBF]

your cossie is nice. i will have one oneday. the red one is a bit... lexus lights...

[forty]

your cossie is nice. i will have one oneday. the red one is a bit... lexus lights...

Hmm think I know what your saying...its a black thing is'nt it!
Im unsure about the wheels too

[marty1979]

I had a 2.0 190E not so long ago, it had done 240000 miles and was totally original. It was the best handling car I've driven that hadn't had a suspension upgrade or wider wheels e.t.c. Very well built machines.

[Speedtouch]

I owned a rather handsome 190E 2.0 (rare manual), with Zender kit and AMG style alloys, lowered in black. Got it cheap from an auction in SE London. I managed to spin it in the wet also, though fortunately only bent a rear suspension arm which was replaceable (albeit a complex multi-link arrangement on those).

The main snag with it was the alloy sump kept getting cracked on speed humps because of the lowering - when I came to sell it, even the buyer managed to ground it during his test drive (heart in mouth time!)

[Z3I]

Whathappened to the Cossie, do you still have the remains?

[E3OSAM]

lovin the 318is, wot happened to the merc how ur mate do that

[forty]

He lost the back end at speed and hit the nearest tree.

It was scrapped after all the good bits were robbed from it.
I miss it alot, I had the oportunity to buy another one but turned it down in favour of the IS as its cheaped on parts
The down pipe for it was £350+VAT then theres the cam sprockets...there about £150 each!!! If you had to renew the cam chain & do it properly the bill from the parts alone is around £1300

[E30Mark]

I had a 2.0 190E not so long ago, it had done 240000 miles and was totally original. It was the best handling car I've driven that hadn't had a suspension upgrade or wider wheels e.t.c. Very well built machines.

Really?

Many moons ago i had my MD's 190E 2.0 Auto for a month, it was the worst handling car i've come across, so damn slow too! May be it was just a bad one, but it put me off 190's for life. Although the cossie is tempting!

[Geeman]

I had a 190E too Mark... put me off Mercs for life as well, until I got a '95 C280 Sport, and was even MORE dissapointed!

[E30Mark]

My mates E55 AMG was nice though...

[Geeman]

There are exceptions... lol

[Z3I]

My daily driver is a nice mint 1994 1.8 auto 190e. its a nice car, every extra and all, but jesus is it slow. Anybody know a 190ezone type site?

[Geeman]

Yeah, I do actually...

http://www.benzworld.org/

Helped me loads when I was having running problems with my C-Sport.

[cliffybabe]

I love merc's aswell, That cozy 190 looked wicked

[riklusby]

Nice cars !

First ever merc i got into was a 190 taxi in Germany, kinda stuck on me as the germans use them as taxis all the time ! in the area that i lived they nicknamed the 190 as the plastic mercedes probably due to the amount of people who bought them to say they had a merc (status symbol) but couldnt afford a bigger one !

However i will admit to once nearly buying a 190 evo until the missus caught wind of it and sulked for days saying the neighbors will think were dealing in drugs or something, so i bought my first touring, lowered with BBS deep dish and in a beautiful daytona violet, which she sold for pennies two years later as she divorced me ......

[Z3I]

Thanks Geeman. Missus won't thank you though, i already spend half my time on here, I'll be full time now.

[FBF]

this is my old merc i loved it dearly. wish id never sold it. back then a tv screen and dvd player in your car was really something special.







also note my 55,000 mile pristine, never seen water dont even wash it with water, mk3 decour cortina.. i should have kept that car too

[Z3I]

Can't say I usually admire the Mk3 Cortina, but a nice mint low milage car over 10 years old is always special. My Merc on my earlier post has yet to clock 50,000, and the BM to the left is still under 40,000. Would like to swap the 190e for a nice 320ce one day when I spot that low milage minter by the side of the road!

[forty]

True, but the beemers dont have a coolant header tank, or self levelling suspension header tank...they have to go somewhere

The rest on the right is all MFI w@nk, could have done a better job on the inlet side of things in all honesty...so much spent in development of the chassis, the engine development was outsourced to cosworth with 185bhp at the fly, and to say that it done over 200k miles it WAS still looking mint.
The handling of the 190's is supurb due to multi link suspension on the rear (8 links I think if I can remember)

I'ts quite curious, the difference of the engine Bay between any e30 (For.ex: w/ M20 or even S14 engine) and any Merc engine.

Compare space left, distribution of parts ,aso...

It's much better so watch an BMW engine as an Merc engine. (Although I love Merc's)

[csl]

forty ,that cosy looked really good!

[SamE30]

Saw the article in PPC about the Merc........ Feel for you mate ... looked like a really nice one!

[forty]

cheers guys getting my is back from the paint shop today so will post some new ones up tomorrow