Update! Mercedes-Benz M130 2.8L Inline-6 Engine 280SL Pagoda engine

[MikeSimon]

My high horse? That's rich...........

How many engines have you rebuilt?

What does that have to do with it? Your condescending comments about a (non-existing!) "obsession" with engine numbers did contribute absolutely nothing to the issue being discussed. I wonder what would be the first question you would ask a potential customer who has an unidentified engine and wanted to know what it was? Is it air-cooled?

[AdelaidePagoda]

Gentleman, at this point let’s remember why we are all here, to help each other.

Close the computer, get some rest, and come back another day.

[twistedtree]

A couple of people have said this is a replacement engine.  How are you determining that?

[Pawel66]

Last part of number not factory stamped + Tauschaggregat plate, most likely, present.

[Pagoda250SL]

found another number

[707dieseldean]

You have found the firing order of the engine,same numbers should be on the valve cover.

[Cees Klumper]

Zundung = ignition/spark
Folge = sequence/order

See also reply 3 in this thread, with a picture of the plate that Pawel has been referring to:

https://www.sl113.org/forums/index.php?topic=26776.0

[Pawel66]

I thought the marked may be the tag, but looking at it again, I was probably wrong...

[MikeSimon]

Pawel: I think you can see the two holes for the rivets below the engine number, where the "Tauschaggregat" tag would be mounted?

[Cees Klumper]

Yes Mike, my thinking also. No plate remaining if there was one but the rivet holes suggest there used to be a plate.

[Pawel66]

Pawel: I think you can see the two holes for the rivets below the engine number, where the "Tauschaggregat" tag would be mounted?

Yes, I could see them below the engine number, but I have seen one, on one of the cars in the club, fitted elsewhere, more towards the center of the engine. Anyway I was wrong about it.

Could be, however, that indeed the plate was in the correct place but removed.