Woo Hoo! I bought an '85 500SEC AMG (no motor mods, apparantly) yesterday, AT THE INSISTANCE OF MY COOL WIFE!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...id=p2759.l1259

I paid for it today, and am looking into shippers. DAS looks to be the cheapest, and I've had good luck with United Road, but are there any other reccomendations?

Also, I've caught wind of swapping cams on this car as a good performance upgrade - anyone with experience in this? An 'AMG' car with a stock engine doesn't seem right to me...

And to think that my wife's recently purchased '95 E320 Wagon is what got me into Mercs.

WOO HOO!

 

There were a number of AMG modifications that could be done to these cars.
Most were body and suspension mods. Occasionally there would be an interior mod done as well. The rarity in finding a true AMG is in having the paperwork from AMG for the car.

In the days of your 85 a customer would buy the SEC and send it off to a tuner such as AMG. Hw would specify from a menu what he wanted. Eventually AMG was bought by MB hence so many modern day AMG's.


If you have a worked engine, it should be evident by the size of the heads on it. Also a true AMG I think regardless of the mods done, received the AMG instrument cluster.


Bruce

 

Does the IC have white dials, or little AMG logos or something?

Thanks!

 

Would cams from a 560 be an upgrade? With more displacement, maybe they have more lift. What other cars use this motor?