Bob, After all the conversions to make it go faster, how much more will be half to be spent to beef up the transmission to handle it, then install a heavier duty brake system to stop it. Plus after all is done you could have bought a new Vette and still had your Delorean kept origonal. If you do the Frankenstein chop and rebuild you will just be reducing the value of your car, and then it will be a one off creation that is difficult to maintain. Many GM garages don't want to touch a custom monstrosity for not wanting to mess with it. Call me a purist from years with classic mustangs, but with the mustangs I always cursed and swore at the idiot precious owners who chopped and hacked them up in an effort to make something more out of it. Then it was just a waste of efforts & money to repair their ingenious work. I maintain a strict stock approach to the Delorean from my experiences with classic cars, as hacking them up makes them just a piece of junk later down the road. Keep it origonal, and go rice out a Honda or something else. Pick something that they made several hundred thousand of to chop apart. Hack job Deloreans are just a sad waste of what was once a great car, totally worthless of what it was, and not worth buying because of the expense to transform them back. Only reason this should be done is if the car was badly damaged or needed to be completely rebuilt. Not trying to rant, just hate to see a good example of a car destroyed because someone wanted to get creative. Just buy another car to play around with chops & swaps, and enjoy the Delorean for what it is, a great touring car that is comfortable and fun to drive. Joe O'Brien 2524 & 16634 To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/