{"id":99004,"date":"2023-05-03T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=99004"},"modified":"2023-05-03T00:09:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T05:09:35","slug":"awd-mercedes-van-with-a-twin-turbo-m177-v8-goes-155-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=99004","title":{"rendered":"AWD Mercedes Van with a Twin-Turbo M177 V8 Goes 155 mph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=99010\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-99010\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"99010\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=99010\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AWD-Mercedes-Van-with-a-Twin-Turbo-M177-V8-07.jpg?fit=1400%2C787&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1400,787\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"AWD Mercedes Van with a Twin-Turbo M177 V8 07\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Twin-Turbo M177 V8 swapped AWD Mercedes Van&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AWD-Mercedes-Van-with-a-Twin-Turbo-M177-V8-07.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AWD-Mercedes-Van-with-a-Twin-Turbo-M177-V8-07.jpg?resize=600%2C337&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Twin-Turbo M177 V8 swapped AWD Mercedes Van\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AWD-Mercedes-Van-with-a-Twin-Turbo-M177-V8-07.jpg?resize=600%2C337&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AWD-Mercedes-Van-with-a-Twin-Turbo-M177-V8-07.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AWD-Mercedes-Van-with-a-Twin-Turbo-M177-V8-07.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AWD-Mercedes-Van-with-a-Twin-Turbo-M177-V8-07.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gad-motors.de\/\">GAD Motors<\/a> and their AWD Mercedes &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gad-motors.de\/v-class\">V63<\/a>&#8221; returned to the TTT half-mile event in Germany. While there they increased their top speed from 234.69 km\/h (145.82 mph) <a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=91599\">set last year<\/a> to 249.48 km\/h (155.01 mph). The company built the wild van with a twin-turbo 4.0 L M177 V8 making 650 hp. The motor is paired with a 9G-Tronic nine-speed automatic transmission, and 4Matic all-wheel drive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IR5YVZzcBuU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TTTHalfMile\">Turboscheune Test &#038; Tune<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAD Motors and their AWD Mercedes &#8220;V63&#8221; returned to the TTT half-mile event in Germany. While there they increased their top speed from 234.69 km\/h (145.82 mph) set last year to 249.48 km\/h (155.01 mph). The company built the wild van with a twin-turbo 4.0 L M177 V8 making 650 hp. The motor is paired&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=99004\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AWD Mercedes Van with a Twin-Turbo M177 V8 Goes 155 mph<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":99010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-w447"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":91599,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=91599","url_meta":{"origin":99004,"position":0},"title":"AWD Mercedes Van with a Twin-Turbo M177 V8 Goes 145 mph","author":"swaptastic","date":"October 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"GAD Motors and their AWD Mercedes V63 van attended the TTT half-mile event in Germany and went 234.69 km\/h (145.82 mph). 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