I myself talked to Rob earlier about his altenator drain, and although his sounds somewhat different than mine, we both thought it best to pass the info he sent back to me along to the list: Scott #16738 The alternator doesn't ground by a wire connected to it. It grounds through the bracket, engine then frame. I never thought that was a really good way to ground things in a car (especially it seems, a British car. :) ) but it does cut down on the number of wires. The battery is grounded to the frame by the negative wire from the battery. The rest of the components are grounded by touching the frame. The engine doesn't touch the frame except through rubber motor mounts so you need a strap to conduct the electricity around the rubber. The alternator is then connected to the engine to get its ground. The pink wires you see coming from the alternator are the positive wires. You say you've checked the battery and found a drain? Are you resetting the computer properly? Not doing that will cause the appearance of a drain. You have to connect the leads of the test light to the positive battery terminal and the positive cable. Then touch the cable itself to the terminal for about 30 seconds. Disconnect the postive cable and see if the light stays on. If so, you have a drain. This is completely different than the ground strap problem. The most common cause for a drain in the DeLorean is the door lights. Disconnect them by pulling the wires off from behind the little switches that stick out in the door jamb. If you have a clock, there will be a SMALL amount of drain. But it's probably not even enough to light your test light. My car was very peculiar in that if you were moving already (even a litte) it tended to start fine. If you were sitting still, it wouldn't start at all. Once I figured out the problem, I realized this was because the starter (and everything else) was grounding through the wheel bearings! --Rob Hook