i would like to think im testing the feasibility of running one of these diesel motors (om 603) in an offroad platform... but really i just saw a video sometime around 2012 of some finnish guy in one of these junkers doing burnouts and drifting around a track like it was no big deal. its been a sort of rabbit hole ever since cause really its just a bad idea.
on a side note someone should start a thread about cars that actually preform offload well. i would throw this one in the mix minus the whole oil pan deal but thats fixable lol.
long story short i sorta got lemoned when i bought the car and its original om617 was pretty trashed. so $1100+ebay and a "certified used" motor arrives from somewhere back east at my house. never idiled correctly, had tons of blow by... but worked.. for nearly 80k with no major issues what soever. what did it in was a combination of hitting the oil pan offroading the night before (mid knee high whoops at 60mph in the dark), then doing 100mph donuts/lake bed runs the morning after. which just like the pill, the motor pretty much aborted it self on the attempted drive home after diagnosing the low oil pressure problem. which probably would have not been that big of a deal minus the whole 100mph thing :/ .the smart(ish) thing to do then would have been to do the ebay gamble all over.. but im not smart. sooo a friend of a friend later, and im presented with an om 603/717 trans for $1200( waaay better motor and a 5speed manual trans combo in laymans terms) from a wrecked rear ended w201.
on a side note someone should start a thread about cars that actually preform offload well. i would throw this one in the mix minus the whole oil pan deal but thats fixable lol.
long story short i sorta got lemoned when i bought the car and its original om617 was pretty trashed. so $1100+ebay and a "certified used" motor arrives from somewhere back east at my house. never idiled correctly, had tons of blow by... but worked.. for nearly 80k with no major issues what soever. what did it in was a combination of hitting the oil pan offroading the night before (mid knee high whoops at 60mph in the dark), then doing 100mph donuts/lake bed runs the morning after. which just like the pill, the motor pretty much aborted it self on the attempted drive home after diagnosing the low oil pressure problem. which probably would have not been that big of a deal minus the whole 100mph thing :/ .the smart(ish) thing to do then would have been to do the ebay gamble all over.. but im not smart. sooo a friend of a friend later, and im presented with an om 603/717 trans for $1200( waaay better motor and a 5speed manual trans combo in laymans terms) from a wrecked rear ended w201.
