Two weeks and no updates, we’ve been working on the merc, just haven’t had a whole lot to show for updates.

The engine and trans sitting in the merc. It took a bit of stuffing around, but the mounts are all made. They ended up being relatively simple mounts too.

A recipe for Custom engine mounts
1 X 200mm length of 50mm square bar
2 X 270mm length of 8mm thick flat plate
1 X 200mm length of 4mm thick flat plate
Pair of HQ holden engine mounts
Turbo 350 transmission mount (commondore)
Original Mercedes transmission mount
Original Mercedes engine mounts

Posted By: AJ , On: May 4th, 2008
Posted In: Mercules, Other, Project Cars

Mercules has been moving along nicely this past week, we’ve managed to get the shell primed and have also given the underbody and wheel arches a new coat of sound deadener. The primer will be given a guide coat, wet rubbed and any highs or lows we find will be bogged up before going for round two of primer. However this will have to wait for atleast another week as we want to get our newly arrived engine mocked up in the engine bay.

It’s nice seeing the shell in one colour!

Posted By: AJ , On: April 13th, 2008
Posted In: Mercules, Other, Project Cars

As you can see from the image above, Mercules has been getting a lot of our attention over the last week. We’ve managed to prep all the paint to be ready for the first coat of primer (hopefully she’s all primed this week). Everything is ready bar two doors, they were just too rusted out on the bottom sill to even bother trying to fix. We have found some replacements which should be here by the end of the week.

We have also taken care of all the surface rust and minor holes which were cut out and new pieces of *metal* welded in.

Posted By: AJ , On: April 6th, 2008
Posted In: Mercules, Other, Project Cars

Well girls and boys, we now have a project car for MCF which we will be building up over the next 2 to 3 months and sharing each step of the build process. We went all out and blew the budget to pieces and purchased an unregistered Mercedes for the princely sum of $500!

The idea was to do something a little different which is why we ended up going for a 1975 230.6 Mercedes Benz (W114). In the engine bay is a straight 6 twin carbide 2.3L uninspiring piece of yawnsville that will be tossed as far away as possible. Right beside that you’ll find the 4spd auto that we’re most definitely not using.

Posted By: AJ , On: March 30th, 2008
Posted In: Mercules, Other, Project Cars