Hello everyone!
I am a young guy from Bielefeld, Germany. I love cars that give me that special feeling.
I want to show you my ´89 300E 3.2 AMG. It´s an original car (certified by AMG) from Japan with all the goodies. Full Bodykit, Engine, Suspension, Interior, Exhaust.
I bought it in September of 2022 and did a lot of work to it. As most of it is already done, I want to share it´s story.
Here is the car in the beautiful Ostwestfalen dawn.
Here in action.
And here in my garden (u can see my dads SEC just slightly in the corner)
This is the car that I bought:
When I bought it the AMG wasn´t in bad condition, but it had it´s issues. Mainly one that surfaced later: the previouse owner had engine work done and cheaped out a lot, which resulted in a small piece of the piston in cylinder 5 that broke off, so it burned Oil like crazy. We´re talking litres per 100km. I decided to have the engine professionally overhauled by a shop that specialised on 80s Mercedes (that I also bought the car from, yeah I know...) .
I sourced new pistons from an M104.992 (E320). They had to be oversized, so it wasn´t easy, but I found a brand new set from Nüral.
The shop also replaced every Part that could wear out, bored and honed the cylinders and resurfaced the block and cylinderhead.
Although the engine does look quite good from the inside.
Also some more "while you´re in there".
Also no doubt the engine is original AMG, there were no stamps, but you can see, that work has been done to it. Also the Enginenumber on the block matches the VIN.
While waiting for the car (wich was a long time) I looked for a decent sport exhaust. The AMG exhaust are known for their extreme rust issues. So naturally, my exhaust rusted through completely. Good thing was: I still had it.
Sport exhausts for the 124 are rather rare and expensive, so I looked around for someone to replicate my AMG Exhaust. I found a company in Bayern and shipped my Exhaust to them (which wasn´t easy at all). They did a very well Job in replicating the original ESD and MSD in stainless steel. The sound is not loud at all, but very deep and rich. Also no drone and it adheres to the decibel limit the car has perfectly (paper says 94db max and I measured 95db).
After I got the car back and I broke the engine in I began to change some more things.
I sourced NOS C-pillar covers (no photos of that), because the old ones were completely broken.
I still had a set of 17" Aero Is, so I had them powdercoated and put on new rubber.
Before
After
Then I did some cosmetic work. I had the Valvecover and AMG emblem powdercoated in black for the original AMG look.
Also I painted the exhaust headers in white with ceramic paint.
And I replaced the airfilter housing and filter, because the old housing had a few broken parts and a selfmade 3rd air intake. It doesn´t look perfect, but these housings are quite rare.
Before
After
Right about at that time I had a strange knocking sound from the engine bay. After investigation I found out that the NEW and ORIGINAL vibration damper broke. The rubber had desintegrated.
It had completely seperated.
Of course some other things got damaged as well. I ended up replacing the fan pulley aswell.
"while in there" I decided to do some more things. I had a lot of the hardware I removed zink plated to restore its original look.
They look even nicer in person!
Here the old and the new damper.
Also I replaced the ignition cover and distributor.
The old one has cracks and is corroded inside.
Also a new radiator.
Old one was in quite bad condition.
You can still see some of the metal shards from the vibration damper that sheared some of the fan pulley off.
After that "little" wrenching session I didn´t do some repairwork for some time.
But I did replace the wood trim in the interior, which was overdue since 2018.
This just looks absolutely bad.
The difference is just night and day.
I could bathe in this all day every day.
For quite some time the brake light on the dash was on and the car needed new TÜV, so I replaced all of the brakes front and back. Those pads needed replacing BAD.
New one compared to the old one.
I just love new brakes (and ceramic paste).
That was everything mechanical I had on my to-do list.
Some time after that I woke up to a little desaster. The car dumped all of its coolant onto the driveway. I think a seal in the Waterpump had gave in after I had a rather "dynamic" drive on the Autobahn. So that was next and it had to happen fast, because I needed the car.
Just love to see it.
At first I thought the seal between the pump and the block blew, so I took out the pump and resealed it. Turns out, the pump itself leaked. It wasn´t original anyways.
So new Waterpump it was. Got one from SKF, at least a good quality manufacturer.
Not the ideal circumstances, but what will you do.
Now that is it up until now. Of course, it´s not perfect, wiper is a bit slow and the cruise control isn´t working. Also having problems with the tachometer cable.
But those were the most important bits. There is still a lot that I haven´t shown (like the headlight wipers I had painted and replaced).
I also have a question:
Is there any information on the production numbers of the 3.2 AMG? I know the documentation is not very good and I have asked AMG directly, they won´t give out any information.
Please feel free to ask anything!!
I am a young guy from Bielefeld, Germany. I love cars that give me that special feeling.
I want to show you my ´89 300E 3.2 AMG. It´s an original car (certified by AMG) from Japan with all the goodies. Full Bodykit, Engine, Suspension, Interior, Exhaust.
I bought it in September of 2022 and did a lot of work to it. As most of it is already done, I want to share it´s story.
Here is the car in the beautiful Ostwestfalen dawn.
Here in action.
And here in my garden (u can see my dads SEC just slightly in the corner)
This is the car that I bought:
When I bought it the AMG wasn´t in bad condition, but it had it´s issues. Mainly one that surfaced later: the previouse owner had engine work done and cheaped out a lot, which resulted in a small piece of the piston in cylinder 5 that broke off, so it burned Oil like crazy. We´re talking litres per 100km. I decided to have the engine professionally overhauled by a shop that specialised on 80s Mercedes (that I also bought the car from, yeah I know...) .
I sourced new pistons from an M104.992 (E320). They had to be oversized, so it wasn´t easy, but I found a brand new set from Nüral.
The shop also replaced every Part that could wear out, bored and honed the cylinders and resurfaced the block and cylinderhead.
Although the engine does look quite good from the inside.
Also some more "while you´re in there".
Also no doubt the engine is original AMG, there were no stamps, but you can see, that work has been done to it. Also the Enginenumber on the block matches the VIN.
While waiting for the car (wich was a long time) I looked for a decent sport exhaust. The AMG exhaust are known for their extreme rust issues. So naturally, my exhaust rusted through completely. Good thing was: I still had it.
Sport exhausts for the 124 are rather rare and expensive, so I looked around for someone to replicate my AMG Exhaust. I found a company in Bayern and shipped my Exhaust to them (which wasn´t easy at all). They did a very well Job in replicating the original ESD and MSD in stainless steel. The sound is not loud at all, but very deep and rich. Also no drone and it adheres to the decibel limit the car has perfectly (paper says 94db max and I measured 95db).
After I got the car back and I broke the engine in I began to change some more things.
I sourced NOS C-pillar covers (no photos of that), because the old ones were completely broken.
I still had a set of 17" Aero Is, so I had them powdercoated and put on new rubber.
Before
After
Then I did some cosmetic work. I had the Valvecover and AMG emblem powdercoated in black for the original AMG look.
Also I painted the exhaust headers in white with ceramic paint.
And I replaced the airfilter housing and filter, because the old housing had a few broken parts and a selfmade 3rd air intake. It doesn´t look perfect, but these housings are quite rare.
Before
After
Right about at that time I had a strange knocking sound from the engine bay. After investigation I found out that the NEW and ORIGINAL vibration damper broke. The rubber had desintegrated.
It had completely seperated.
Of course some other things got damaged as well. I ended up replacing the fan pulley aswell.
"while in there" I decided to do some more things. I had a lot of the hardware I removed zink plated to restore its original look.
They look even nicer in person!
Here the old and the new damper.
Also I replaced the ignition cover and distributor.
The old one has cracks and is corroded inside.
Also a new radiator.
Old one was in quite bad condition.
You can still see some of the metal shards from the vibration damper that sheared some of the fan pulley off.
After that "little" wrenching session I didn´t do some repairwork for some time.
But I did replace the wood trim in the interior, which was overdue since 2018.
This just looks absolutely bad.
The difference is just night and day.
I could bathe in this all day every day.
For quite some time the brake light on the dash was on and the car needed new TÜV, so I replaced all of the brakes front and back. Those pads needed replacing BAD.
New one compared to the old one.
I just love new brakes (and ceramic paste).
That was everything mechanical I had on my to-do list.
Some time after that I woke up to a little desaster. The car dumped all of its coolant onto the driveway. I think a seal in the Waterpump had gave in after I had a rather "dynamic" drive on the Autobahn. So that was next and it had to happen fast, because I needed the car.
Just love to see it.
At first I thought the seal between the pump and the block blew, so I took out the pump and resealed it. Turns out, the pump itself leaked. It wasn´t original anyways.
So new Waterpump it was. Got one from SKF, at least a good quality manufacturer.
Not the ideal circumstances, but what will you do.
Now that is it up until now. Of course, it´s not perfect, wiper is a bit slow and the cruise control isn´t working. Also having problems with the tachometer cable.
But those were the most important bits. There is still a lot that I haven´t shown (like the headlight wipers I had painted and replaced).
I also have a question:
Is there any information on the production numbers of the 3.2 AMG? I know the documentation is not very good and I have asked AMG directly, they won´t give out any information.
Please feel free to ask anything!!
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to the 500Eboard.
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) some information here:
. I really hope it is getting into good hands!
the original flat 17” Monoblocks!
