[W126 Coupe] Horsepower in 380 and 500 sec's

[Sharan Bains]

Option 822 was only available upto Feb 1988.

Thereafter all Euro ECE 560's had 300bhp. So it's not accurate to say that 
if you don't have option 822 you don't have 300bhp.

Any 560 engine that has 10:1 compression is 300bhp unless it has cats, which 
reduces that power to 279bhp.

All 560's here in the UK are 10:1 and 300bhp, only reducing to 279bhp in the 
late 90's models which had cats.


And as far as I am aware, all euro 500 M117's are 9:1 compression.


talbir






>From: "Jonathan Hodgman" <jhodgman at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists <mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com>
>To: "Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists" <mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com>
>Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] Horsepower in 380 and 500 sec's
>Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:20:41 -0500
>
>For the 500's and 380's you only had two versions available from the
>factory, Euro and US.  Once the 560 was introduced you eventually had
>different levels of power available as per option codes, ie code 822 was 
>the
>Euro ECE 300hp version.
>
>
>Jonathan