RE: [DML] "The Sacrilege of the PRV " or "To Swap or Not to Swap (the Engine)"

["Tom Tait" <TTait@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Think about JZD - his big move at GM was specifically putting a kick ass
engine into a car that didn't have one before.  After that it was about
style, lifestyle and fun.

 

Many cars do have their engine for a heart, but I wouldn't call the
Delorean one of them.  At the time the PRV was the right fit from a
pricing, marketing, and engineering point of view.  John knew the car
deserved more power, and talked with Legend about fixing that.  Why
turbocharge that engine instead of putting in a better one?   Because
there ware a lot of constraints on the fledgling car and company and
that was the best solution for the time, but not necessarily the
ultimate solution.

 

For a concurs car, its obviously a deal killer.  For a novice who would
lose a lot of technical support from the community if he did a swap -
equally a bad idea.  But to ask if the soul of a Delorean suffers if you
replace the PRV strikes me as an ironic question, if you think about who
DeLorean was.  

 

Just my opinion and I totally respect those who would disagree.  

 

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From: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Rob Greenhaw
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 11:14 AM
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DML] "The Sacrilege of the PRV " or "To Swap or Not to Swap
(the Engine)"

 

A buddy who owns a D was mentioned having no love for the PRV. I can
totally understand where he is coming from but the statement got me to
wonder about swapping engines and keeping the car's "essence" intact.
This is an issue I've debated for a long time, but now is the time to
bring it to the DML and ask opinions. 

The thing I've always wondered is this: if you swap the engine out, is
it still a DeLorean?

We've known about the various engine swaps folks have done to their cars
to juice out more power and make the DeLorean what it was meant to be. 

Sure, the name is there and the body is the same, but I've always seen
the engine as a car's "heart", so to speak. If you take that out and put
say, a Chevy 350, is the car not a Chevy with a DeLorean body?

That's the sort of reckoning I've always had. Sure, the PRV is weak as
hell and was not meant for performance, but there are race versions out
there that produce 650hp! 

I would rather extensively modify a DeLorean engine than replace it with
something else unless it was something related to the DeLorean like the
Alpine set up or maybe even the Esprit. But even with the Esprit engine
it would be an American Lotus. The Apine I could handle, since it is the
same engine block.

Anyway, you get my drift. Feel free to comment on it and maybe help me
overcome that sort of "sacrilege" of replacing the DeLorean's powerplant
since this is the only car I feel that way about.

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