Re: [DML] DeLorean Dignity

[Chris Shepherd <chrisau79@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey....go for it. My only caution is that if you live in CA do your emissions law research first. I got my twin turbo because the owner found that even though the car met all the emissions standards CA wouldn't license it because he had "altered the approved exhaust system". No, I don't live in CA.
 
Chris

secret_jedi_guy <secret_jedi_guy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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Look I didn't mean to "offend the faith of the purists." When I got 
the car I knew exactly what I was getting. What I didn't expect was 
about $389 for a shop job to replace six heater hoses. The problem 
was the ENGINE and the LOCATION of the hoses, he also said that any 
other fixes would cost the same or more because of the awkward 
design. In asking for info about an engine swap, I was not looking 
for a slugfest about how I will devalue the car, and how I must not 
have known what kind of car it was, or what I was getting. I am not 
planning on selling it. The PRV is FRENCH. The FRENCH haven't 
produced U.S. emmissions legal vehicles in 25 years. That is before 
the DeLorean was built and I have all of the previous owner's 
service records that show how much of a pain it was to get it to 
pass it's smog check this year. In dumping the PRV, I can get 
something AMERICAN that I can do most of the work on myself.

On another note, someone said that I should just spend $2000 dollars 
on an old Camaro to run into the ground and "spare the DeLorean its 
dignity." The fact is the DeLorean looks like a Lotus and has less 
power than a VW Bug. A car like that has NO dignity. Now if you 
really want to say I know nothing about the car you are mistaken. 
It was intended to be a sports car to compete with the Corvette. 
You can look that up. They went with the PRV because the cost went 
up to produce them and yes the PRV was a reliable powerplant at the 
time. Granted, with time, effort and money I could keep my current 
PRV and have it be a reliable powerplant for another 100,000 miles 
or I could swap it for a more powerful, emissions legal, American 
engine and make the car what it WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. You should also 
remember that this car would be NOTHING to ANYBODY except the very 
first enthusiasts if Back to the Future was never made. It would 
just be another piece of failed automotive history, and even in Back 
to the Future they swapped the engine in 3 cars for a small block V8 
in order to get an engine growl underneath the added jet sound.

In answer to another question of whether my other mechanic friend 
would stay with me till the end. Yes, he was the one who was going 
to help me perform the swap because has done it before with no 
problems. I thought about turbos, but the fact is I would be stuck 
with the PRV and a twin turbo taking up space in there making it 
that much harder to work on.

Don't tell me I'm "bastardizing" it by changing the engine. I am 
just taking an incomplete concept car and finishing it.

VIN: 1223 





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