[W126 Coupe] Sauber modifications

[Gerry Van Zandt]

I'm not aware that Sauber would have done anything on an individual  
basis, as they were a pretty focused shop with limited resources --  
focused heavily on racing chassis and engines. Good chance that it is  
just a decal that someone applied to the car. Sort of the like the  
small Ferrari prancing horse sticker that I have next to the speedo  
of my Honda motorcycle. Not really indicative of anything, just  
something that I like to look at from time to time.

Sauber's twin-turbo M117s put out around 650 HP in real-world trim,  
with theoretical maximums of 750-850 HP possible.

Sauber also later worked on Mercedes M119 engines (the four-valve/ 
DOHC, more powerful, more advanced version of the M117 and the engine  
used in the 500E/E500, early 500SLs, 500SE/SELs, etc.) starting from  
1989, boosting them to over 750 HP in real-world trim with up to  
1,000 HP theoretically possible.

Cheers,
Gerry





On Sep 12, 2007, at 9:15 AM, mbcoupes-request at mbcoupes.com wrote:


> Yeah...very little history on Sauber engines.except they developed  

> racing

> engines putting out over 600 hp from the stock M117 bottom ends.