Posted On: June 17, 2008 Posted by: admin

Mercules has been moving along nicely, we had to throw our camry rack in the bin and go for a larger VN rack as the engineer wouldn’t let us use a rack from a smaller car (camry weighs in at ~1200kgs and the mercedes is ~1400kgs). This actually turned out to be a good thing in the end as the mounts were relatively simple to make. The tags used to mount the VN rack almost lined up perfectly with the bolts on the lower control arms (see pic above). For the engineer this is a plus as this is an point of *strength* or some such garble. He said that he would be happier if we always tried to mount brackets on existing / factory strong points - ie original engine mounts in the crossmember, original trans xmember etc…

Category: Custom Mounts, Mercules Build, Paint & Panel

Posted On: May 24, 2008 Posted by: admin

We haven’t had much to update the last few weeks, work has still been progressing, however it hasn’t been very visual. We’ve rubbed back the merc once again and applied another coat of primer. The spray gun and compressor we used initially weren’t upto the job so we managed to find a much bigger compressor and gun to suit. That said, the latest coat of primer went on nice and thick and should definitely rub back very nicely.

Category: Mercules Build, Paint & Panel

Posted On: April 13, 2008 Posted by: admin

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!

Category: Mercules Build, Paint & Panel

Posted On: April 6, 2008 Posted by: admin

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.

Category: Mercules Build, Paint & Panel

Posted On: April 3, 2008 Posted by: admin

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.

Category: Mercules Build, Paint & Panel