> You've got a few facts mixed up Walt Hey, that's life :-) > The 3 litre A610 engine can be tuned to well over 400-450hp RELIABLY. In > an A610. As I said before, Jim Strickland's 300hp 3 rotor turbo was impressive. The seat bottom could have fallen out and it wouldn't have mattered because the acceleration was holding me to the seat back like an amusement ride! I would love to have that kind of power in my DeLorean IF it would otherwise still have good economy for normal city driving. I have avoided more accidents using the throttle & steering than I have using the horn & brakes. Even in a DeLorean with a perfectly running stock engine, I feel like a sitting duck. I want to be able to get the hell out of someone's way when I need to. And of course I'm going to do it with style. :-) > An A610 engine will use a race-mappable ECU which are available in > France. The Emerald ECU would be for the 24v normally aspirated lump. I have been reading the Emerald web site and like everything I see so far about them. For those of you who are interested, the link is: http://members.aol.com/emeraldm3d/ > The 3l 24 valve engine is tunable to over 300hp. 350 is possible. Well then if we use this block (and I think we should), how much horse power should we try to get? We need to weigh cost vs reliability vs fuel economy, etc. As you already know, my primary concern is reliability. If I can't keep it running then it doesn't do me any good. My next concern is to get good fuel economy. There is no sense upgrading the engine in my daily driver if it isn't economical with fuel. Well anyway, we have already discussed this stuff, so I'm just blurting them out here because other people are interested. It was a long time ago that I talked with Darren. It wasn't an easy conversation because I had to listen so carefully to get past his accent. I'm sure I wasn't too easy for him to understand either. At the time it sounded like once I spent the money for a custom built 3 litre 24 valve PRV that it wouldn't cost a whole lot more to do the Alpine A610 option, but now it sounds like the smaller engine is a better choice for a daily driver DeLorean. I just put the deposit in the mail to you today. This should fund you through a good portion of the project. The next things to talk about are what options we have with building this engine, what additional costs they will have verses what they do to fuel economy, reliability & horsepower. In other news, I saw Kayo Ong's DeLorean with the SS exhaust from Don at the Mid-Atlantic Spring Social. This system was just too loud for me. I don't know if Don built it to be loud & free flowing or quiet but a little restrictive. If you can, find out what Don built for Kayo and tell him I want it a lot quieter than that. I would ask him myself, but getting an e-mail out of him is as difficult as extracting broken exhaust manifold studs. You can tell him that too :-) Should we get Chris Nicholson to do the exhaust brackets? Or is that a Don job? Walt To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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