I recently purchased a European version of the 450 SLC 5.0 and I'm currently looking for factory manuals and sources for parts. The 450 SLC side -- body, trim, electrical, etc -- is no problem. However, it hasthe 117.9605.0 liter and I have yet to find a listing for manuals for this engine. At this point, I'm only in need of tune-up and fuel injection specs and troubleshooting. I have yet to find parts listings for the 960 engine and I just don't know the differences between the '79 5-liter and the later5-liters, besides a slight displacement difference, to know which parts that will fit from the earlier 4.5 and later 5.0 liter engines. Besides, even if I had the manual for the later 5-liters, they would likely be for the American version.</P>


I'm affraid that I'm going to have to dust off my high school German and buy the German manuals. Any suggestions or web sites would be much appreciated! </P>

 

<DIV>Hi, Your car did not have a US version I thinkit was the first Mercedes to be fitted with the new V8 engine designas a limited production sort of trialthat went on to power the 500SEL SLand on.For the books you might try mercedesshop.com Phil might be able to help</DIV>