1993 Mercedes OM603 Build

[vinniehobart]

 

[vinniehobart]

Decided to pull the motor and we will be putting it in a small size pickup. This is going to be awesome!! 8mm elements and a S300g 62/65/14 turbo should be a good setup for this motor!

 

[vinniehobart]

Got the old girl tore down. bearings looked awesome for 215k miles and running out of oil Multiple times due to oil leaks and blown valve seals. Taking it tommorrow to Peoria to get head cleaned and get the block hot tanked. Getting the high pressure off infamous Riviera to put on the om603. getting most my parts off Peach parts and Diesel Pump UK.

 

[12vriviera]

Infamous is right!

 

[vinniehobart]

Your christmas present should be here Friday..................

 

[mfsuper90]

Also I will be running a certain 62mm turbo off a cummins powered Riviera on this as a single turbo. Hopefully the stock trans holds!!!

You might or might not know this, but make sure you turn up the line pressure via the modulator on the side of the trans. It's the life of them, makes them shift like a break neck MF, but they will hold decent power. Idk if they will hold what your throwing at it or not lol.
But I'm looking forward to see it so I know what to do to my 722.3!

 

[vinniehobart]

I will keep trans the way it is before i go and start tweaking stuff. Plans are for trans if I'm not happy with it is valve body and torque converter changes. May just do a 4L60 swap and be done with it.

 

[vinniehobart]

 

[vinniehobart]

 

[Exodus]

Oh I like this build! I really like the 603 and 606's

 

[vinniehobart]

picked up that S362g from a 12v Riviera car I saw at a few drag events. Should suffice for what we are trying to accomplish on this build. would like to try a SX-E 252 charger, but we will see how this one daily drives