hi,
im new to this forum.
im forom New Zealand.

i have owned a
89 E230 w124 - sold
94 E280 W124 - written off
94 C280 sportline w202 - written off

ok so now you know my back ground,
in NZ it is almost impossible to find a manual merc all of mine have been auto and its starting to piss me off. i need a manual.
i have found a rather cheap 95 w202 c180 manual. now this engen is rather small i know and i guess it will be the slowest thing since every honda civic on the road? is this true does any one have a manual 180? how does it run? speed? economy? i was thinking about either turboing it or buying back the wheck of my c280 ( enegen perfect) and dropping that in, would the 180 manual box be able to handal the power of either a turbo or a 280 engen? any help would be fantastic!

oh and so you can feel my pain of my loss hers a pic of my 280. thank god i was in a benz cuz i think i would have been killed by a that jeep chroke if i was in a rice racer. ps in NZ we drive on the right hand side so yeah that massiv imapct went into me!!

thanks for any help
hagan

ok i have no idea how to put up a pic but lets just say the B pillar on the drivers side was 200mm into the car, in inches like 8ish i think!