Never mind the 747 engine, I just want to be the first to order the "Hover Conversion"! I hope after DMC Houston gets done with Stage III they could offer it as "Stage IV". Then you wouldn't worry about TAB's anymore! David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, Jim Strickland <ihaveanaccount@xxxx> wrote: > After I replace my TA bolts, Toby is setting me up with a 747 jet engine > to install in my Delorean. I'm expecting 0 to 60 even faster than the > Turbo DMC. Does anyone want to help? I'm not sure if I can lift the > entire engine by myself... many times. > > Anyways, does anyone think that there is a relationship between > manufacture time and TA bolt failure; ie, did different batches fare > better than others? > > Jim > 153zoom7 > > > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 05:32:17 -0000 tobyp@xxxx writes: > > Les - As I suggested in my previous posting, a survey of the 'fleet' > > would be a grand idea. All we need is some guidance on how to > > accomplish it. As far as your figures are concerned, if the > > percentage of "imperfect" bolts (whatever that means) is as high as > > 50%, we have a great deal of "worrying" to do. Keep in mind my > > perspective ... on one car (mine) I had one break completely, and > > the > > other was significantly bent. And, when we looked at another small > > group of cars, over 1/3 of the bolts were bent. As I mentioned in my > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.