Re: [DML] Re: Engine Swap-Out (Rice Burners)

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxx>]

Run into rice burners every time I'm at parts house:

Oil and transmission pans can leak because they're bent from bottoming
out on lowered suspensions. Plus how many rice jockeys have ever
re-tightened the mounting bolts? They do work loose...

Problem with forcing down rear end (assuming those wings are actually
aerodynamic) is cars are front wheel drive.

Check engine lights come on because they love to try de-emissioning
etc. My Lincolns can be de-emissioned because, other than ignition,
engine has no electronics. My truck (1985) was de-emissioned but I
lost electrical spark advance normally controlled by primitive onboard
computer. Can not run around willy nilly disconnecting sensors and
devices on contemporary vehicles without consequences. Rice jockeys
are lucky if check engine is least of them (here's a thought -- why
not open dash and remove the bulb...)

Too high octance won't cause pre-ignition, but it can cause a fouled
miss. If engine isn't high compression, or high temp, factory ignition
may not yield enough burn time. Isn't time on these new cars computer
controlled (non-adjustable)?

Most of the rice burners I encounter are running stock exhaust
manifolds. Backpressure doesn't drop until rediculously loud muffler.

Isn't stock DeLo already 9 seconds or so 0-60?

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jim Strickland <ihaveanaccount@xxxx>
wrote:
> Let's leave the rice alone, eh? They're fanatical about their cars. I
> woudn't say anything different about people on this list.
> 
> About the check engine lights, a cold air intake and free flow exhaust
> isn't going to turn on the check engine light on "almost every one of
> them". Plus, why would the engine and transmission leak if there
were no
> modifcations to them? This makes no sense.
> 
> Body kits and spoilers can and do create downforce, regardless of where
> the engine is. 
> 
> About using 100 octane gas, I hope you are not implying "knock knock
> knock" that the engine is more likely to knock with higher octane. The
> octane rating is the fuel's ability to resist knock. And yes, as
long as
> you aren't using a cat, your engine won't care much about the leaded
> fuel.
> 
> I don't see how the rover v8 is the most logical engine replacement. 
> Considering that the Delorean has English electrics and suspension,
> german fuel injection, italian design, french/swedish engine, built in
> Ireland with an American Founder, I think the most logical engine is
> Japanese. 
> 
> About your quarter mile and changing gears, I would first aim for a 9
> second 0-60, not quarter mile. 
> 
> Jim 
> 1537
> 
> 
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 05:51:10 -0000 "therealdmcvegas" <DMCVegas@xxxx>
> writes:
> > --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Soma576@xxxx wrote:
> > > In a message dated 9/27/03 8:15:51 AM Central Daylight Time, 
> > > brobertson@xxxx writes:
> > <SNIP>
> > > in fact, where i work i see cars like this all the time and 
> > usually
> > they put 
> > > most of their money on purple and yellow wiring looms/conduit,
> > billet oil 
> > > caps, and stainless braided radiator hoses.