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Oct 27, 2023 | 02:53 AM

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1988 190E

LS swapped 190 E?

Hello everyone I recently purchase a 1988 190E for 800. It’s in prettty rough shape but not much rust and I am planning on doing an Ls1 swap track build. I was wondering what axels suspension parts and diffs can fit and can handle the Ls motor. I have seen a few builds with Ls but they don’t get into detail about what the do to the car other than what engine and transmission they use.

Oct 27, 2023 | 01:38 PM

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1991 190E 2.3

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Originally Posted by AnarchyActivist

I don't mean to throw cold water on your plan but to be honest, you'd be better off buying a car that was already built with more horsepower and the drivetrain and brakes to support that additional horsepower in the first place. You'd need to upgrade all of that which is expensive and gets you into the financial territory of buying a car that already has more horsepower and the beefed up drivetrain, etc. The typical 190E was not built to be a race/track car. The 16vs were better but they're rarer, more expensive and still under 200 horsepower. Even the DTM EVO race cars had less than 300 horsepower. Additionally, using a non MB LS is such an ordinary and overused engine swap inmho.

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