Love this. I’ve been obsessed with this car since last Christmas. Bought it for $300. I’ve put about $5000 into it in parts, that was pretty easy to work on thanks to RUclips. Bought it for reliability, and better gas mileage than my FJ cruiser.
FJ cruisers are great, but they’re gas hogs. If I wanted an off-road SUV, I’d get either one of those military-spec Toyota Off-roaders (can’t remember what they’re called, but they’re the successor to the ORIGINAL FJ cruiser from the 60’s, almost looks like a Humvee) or an Isuzu Trooper/Amigo/Rodeo.
In my home country, Albania, half the cars on the road are classic Mercedes Diesels (70’s-early 90’s). In order to get more power out of our 240D’s, we install small turbochargers from Isuzu Gemini Turbo-Diesels (they’re just the right amount of boost and very durable) and we also install a different final drive and a special overdrive 4th gear, so we can accelerate quicker, but still get good speed and mileage on the highway.
@stoneylonesome4062 It's nice to hear that many of those W123s are still on the road today. It must be nice to drive it with a turbo, it's hard to keep up in today's traffic with the 200 or 240d.
@@youngtimerdriver Yes, we have ones that are run on waste vegetable oil with a million miles, it’s a very common thing. I have a 1983 C123 300CD Turbo with 5-speed manual gearbox swap and half a million on the original engine, around have of which is waste vegetable oil (I’ll usually run a 1:1 ratio of WVO to Petroleum diesel fuel). It can be started and ran without a battery, glow plugs, alternator, or starter motor - just let the clutch out going downhill.
Love this. I’ve been obsessed with this car since last Christmas. Bought it for $300. I’ve put about $5000 into it in parts, that was pretty easy to work on thanks to RUclips. Bought it for reliability, and better gas mileage than my FJ cruiser.
Couldn't agree more!
FJ cruisers are great, but they’re gas hogs. If I wanted an off-road SUV, I’d get either one of those military-spec Toyota Off-roaders (can’t remember what they’re called, but they’re the successor to the ORIGINAL FJ cruiser from the 60’s, almost looks like a Humvee) or an Isuzu Trooper/Amigo/Rodeo.
I played that video to my kids at night now and they immediately fall asleep with the orchestra/wind/engine noise. Thanks for uploading !
Glad your kids liked it. I lost 30% of hearing that day. If it can entertain kids it makes my day.
No way how smooth that car is...
In my home country, Albania, half the cars on the road are classic Mercedes Diesels (70’s-early 90’s). In order to get more power out of our 240D’s, we install small turbochargers from Isuzu Gemini Turbo-Diesels (they’re just the right amount of boost and very durable) and we also install a different final drive and a special overdrive 4th gear, so we can accelerate quicker, but still get good speed and mileage on the highway.
@stoneylonesome4062 It's nice to hear that many of those W123s are still on the road today. It must be nice to drive it with a turbo, it's hard to keep up in today's traffic with the 200 or 240d.
@@youngtimerdriver Yes, we have ones that are run on waste vegetable oil with a million miles, it’s a very common thing. I have a 1983 C123 300CD Turbo with 5-speed manual gearbox swap and half a million on the original engine, around have of which is waste vegetable oil (I’ll usually run a 1:1 ratio of WVO to Petroleum diesel fuel). It can be started and ran without a battery, glow plugs, alternator, or starter motor - just let the clutch out going downhill.
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Ideal speed for your car 110-120 km/h.
Correct, but ideal speed for me is 140 😂
Difficult to see the tachometer, but it looks like you're cruising at 5700rpm at around 150kph. Unbelievably high revs for a diesel engine!
How low does the speed drop going uphill?
Not as bad as I was expecting. Keep in mind the car was heavily loaded and had a roof gallery
i just wonder what is the aprox fuel consumption at this speed?Have u measure it ever?
Yes, about 10L/100
@@ArnaudShanghai thx mate.