RE: [DML] Porsche Transmission question

["Marc A. Levy" <malevy@xxxx>]

I assume your talking about DMC Houston when you talk about the stage 1 conversion. Last I heard, they would not offer this conversion for automaticsso you should talk to them.  

I'll let Bob answer the mounting questions, because to date he is the only person I know who has done this conversion with success. My conversations with him led me to believe that it was NOT an easy process (custom mounts, custom axles, and loads of computer control problems)... However, you will have a unique problem of getting an adaptor plate to go from the PRV to theZF4 (assuming Porsche bolt pattern). I have found a place that makes a plate to mate a "Volvo" (may or may not be the same as our PRV) engine to a Porsche 915 (5 speed manual), but they have been unwilling to make any conversion kits for automatics and seem to have something against DeLoreans in general :)

With the amount of money you would be looking at for this whole project, why not work on a complete conversion? To first spend $6000+ for a 70's technology engine that has been modified to its limits, and then consider another $6000+ to do a transmission conversion? $12,000 (EST) is a lot of moneyto spend considering what your end result will be. If you are going to need to make custom parts to mount the ZF4 to the DMC engine, why not spend the same money and mount it to a more modern high power engine?

Although, if you have your heart set on the Houston engine, I'd recommend looking at more modern Renault cars for possible donor transmissions. We can only hope that their transmissions have evolved over the years. If your lucky, the bolt pattern has not changed and you can still easily modify it to rear engine configuration. Have you discussed this with the people in Houston? They may possible be working on it already or would be willing to investigate it for you.

Hopefully my conversion will be done this year, but it looks like it wont be ready for Memphis. :(

Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Keolamphu [mailto:tigger@xxxx]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:09 AM
> To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DML] Porsche Transmission question
> 
> 
> Hello to the group!
> 
> If tis is an old question, I apologize, but I know that Bob 
> Brandys car has
> the ZF 4, and I had a few questions:
> 
> 1) Has anyone else done this conversion to an automatic D?
> 
> 2) Are the automatic transmission mounts positioned to hold the ZF4?
> (I know that the manual mounts are different, but I was wondering
> if the automatic is the same)
> 
> 3) I was considering the Stage1 conversion at DeLorean, and thought 
> that this transmission might be better for it. Are their better 
> automatic transmission options? 
> 
> Thanks in advance, and I apologize if this has already been asked.
> 
> -Stephen
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