Jim, I agree, I think I mid-mounted engine may be the right answer for this project. It alleviates the issues with the steering problems that you would run into if you put in more HP with a rear mount. It also alleviates the issues with having something unsightly hanging out of your front hood, something that I would find unacceptable for this project, and possibly create other front end issues. As you say it would provide better balance for a car that was orignally designed to have a rear mounted engine and would also require much less modification to the frame of the car to facilitate such a set up. On the D-REX subject, yeah lets just agree that its HUGE. Its on of my favorite D's out there just because it is unique. I haven't seen the D-REX in person yet, but did see it in the 2003 St. Pattys Day parade. My own car is of course my favorite! Mike VIN 4761 ----- Original Message ----- From: "James A Strickland" <ihaveanaccount@xxxx> To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [DML] Modified Deloreans > I think you have no idea the bad of worms that you are opening by trying > to do a engine swap like this. You may be "solving" a high-hp oversteer > with understeer. I think a longblock in the front of delorean would be > ridiculous. You would have to do some serious modification to fit in a > square frame- there's no real room for it..? > > About other (really) high HP conversions, I can only think of the 3.8 > liter Buick swap (Don Steiger I believe). D-REX has a front engine, > though it is not very deloreanesque, as it is like 7 feet tall (don't > correct me, it could be 12 feet. It's just big, ok?). > > I think a sweeeeeet swap would be a mid-engine setup like the Lotus > Esprit v8. This would make the car much better balanced. > > Jim