According to Mike Loasby, one of the senior engineers at the factory, they did trials on a galvanised chassis frame, they liked everything except that some of the threaded holes needed to be re-tapped out again, because of zinc build up. This slowed down the production process too much..see his technical video produced following the 1997 Eurofest. Chris P DOC UK ----- Original Message ----- From: <CBL302@xxxx> To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 5:28 AM Subject: [DML] Delorean galvanized frames > Does anybody know why JZD in his infinite wisdom never thought of > using a galvanized frame such as the Lotus uses(since it is a basic > copy of a lotus backbone chassis,and if lotus could galvanize their