Walter Coe wrote: >As I said before, Jim Strickland's 300hp 3 rotor turbo was impressive. The >seat bottom could have fallen out and it wouldn't have mattered because the >acceleration was holding me to the seat back like an amusement ride! I >would love to have that kind of power in my DeLorean IF it would otherwise >still have good economy for normal city driving. > I doubt this will be a problem considering the price of fuel in the US.... >>An A610 engine will use a race-mappable ECU which are available in >>France. The Emerald ECU would be for the 24v normally aspirated lump. >> >> > >I have been reading the Emerald web site and like everything I see so far >about them. For those of you who are interested, the link is: >http://members.aol.com/emeraldm3d/ > It will cost considerably more to use an emerald ECU than an off-the-shelf one for the job... >Well then if we use this block (and I think we should), how much horse power >should we try to get? We need to weigh cost vs reliability vs fuel economy, >etc. As you already know, my primary concern is reliability. If I can't >keep it running then it doesn't do me any good. My next concern is to get >good fuel economy. There is no sense upgrading the engine in my daily >driver if it isn't economical with fuel. > Well, at the end of the day whatever Darren builds you will be a brand new engine. He will see to it that it's reliable if that's what you want (as opposed to a race engine designed to last one season for example). If you want 300+ horsepower, the energy has to come from somewhere, so fuel economy will fall, but not massively. That engine was still in use in production cars up to 5 or so years ago at a time when it was one of the most "thirsty" engines on our roads, and what we'd class as a thirsty engine, you class as a small one. > >Well anyway, we have already discussed this stuff, so I'm just blurting them >out here because other people are interested. It was a long time ago that I >talked with Darren. It wasn't an easy conversation because I had to listen >so carefully to get past his accent. > You great nancy! He's only from Manchester. >I'm sure I wasn't too easy for him to >understand either. At the time it sounded like once I spent the money for a >custom built 3 litre 24 valve PRV that it wouldn't cost a whole lot more to >do the Alpine A610 option, but now it sounds like the smaller engine is a >better choice for a daily driver DeLorean. > It's also possible to mate to a stock 3-speed auto box. The biggie as far as I can see with the A610 turbo monster is getting the exhaust and intake pipework working and effective in the intercoolers without modifying the engine bay. This would be expensive. >In other news, I saw Kayo Ong's DeLorean with the SS exhaust from Don at the >Mid-Atlantic Spring Social. This system was just too loud for me. I don't >know if Don built it to be loud & free flowing or quiet but a little >restrictive. If you can, find out what Don built for Kayo and tell him I >want it a lot quieter than that. I would ask him myself, but getting an >e-mail out of him is as difficult as extracting broken exhaust manifold >studs. You can tell him that too :-) > I'm not sure what set he got - the "medium" or "loud". I've heard both and the Medium would be my choice. The Loud hurt my ears. > >Should we get Chris Nicholson to do the exhaust brackets? Or is that a Don >job? > Makes most sense for Don to do them. Martin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=249982.3512844.4795476.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1524963/R=0/SIG=12o72ctft/*http://hits.411web.com/cgi-bin/autore dir?camp=556&lineid=3512844?=egroupweb&pos=HM> <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=249982.3512844.4795476.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1524963/rand=501830541> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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