Isn't General Motors behind Vauxhall? Maybe when my Schwinn is out of service... Can't really compare luxury car with economy or sports cars. 7 hour trips to DC are like sitting in living room. My only job is to steer and play with the radio. Speaking of 7 hour trips, have travelled your fine country from Exeter to Inverness. All this talk about 80 mph sounds good on paper, but when I plan a trip budget driving time at 35 mph average. No joke. Can tear it up on a straightaway, but have to slow down to crawl at next curve. Never know when there may be a house in your lane! (almost hit one of those in the Lake District. No kidding -- my lane dead ended at corner of big rock house sticking right out into pavement then continued on other side). Have also discovered term "A Road" is highly relative. You guys will pave a cow path and call it an A road if there's nothing better close by just to make the residents feel like they've got something. Had a hard time navigating Ford Escort once. Trust me -- Lincolns arel staying safely tucked away on this side of pond. Will just rent one of yours (remind me to tell you some time about side swiping a fat Porshe 944. That's when I found out what "Collision Damage Waiver" really means). Back to DeLo's: thought about this last night (while laying in a puddle of transmission fluid. Why are automatics so messy? Take a bath every time you merely touch them. Guess the guys who design them never had a chance to play in mud puddles when young so now I have to pay for their messy instincts never worked out as children). I may be running a bit lean. What I interpret as vacuum wander could be actually be engine stuggle at idle. Doesn't shudder the way a real engine would, but we've already figured out little PRV is cut from different bolt of cloth. And remember how my injectors shoot just a dab of unvaporized gas before they stop spraying? That could be what's saving engine and rev'ing back up. We're only talking 50-75 rpms, which is a tad small for vacuum leak. Will try 1/8 turn on mixture screw and see what it does. Oh, Re: performance of DeLo with Chevy engine -- isn't that self explanatory? Bill Robertson #5939 >--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx> wrote: > The love affair you guys have with rumbling V8's is almost universally > absent from Europe. "Yank Tank" is a not very affectionate term applied > to anything american because a) it's unneccessarily large and b) has a > huge dawdling engine. > > The result of years of high fuel taxation over here and in Japan has > resulted in massive investment by car companies into actually > engineering their engines to get the best out of them, unlike the > american companies who merely stick a couple more cylinders on or add > bigger pistons to make the cars go faster. > > My DeLorean idles beautfully because I'm running Volvo metering with no > lambda, have balanced the banks on the brass screws and set the mixture > at 1.5% CO > > My friend's Nissan is a pretty big car, but if you're going down that > road, one car that you'd forget your mobile cathedral for is the > Vauxhall Lotus Carlton. Produced 10 years ago, till last year was the > world's fastest production saloon with is 2.6 litre twin turbo producing > 377bhp. It really is quite phenominally fast. That weighs around the 2 > tonne mark yet still shifts it ass to 60 in 4.5 seconds. > > I was a passenger in the car with the small-block Chevy in it in Memphis > (thanks to the owner, still can't remember hs name, sorry!). My thought > was that it sounded like a big diesel, and acted pretty much the same - > lots of torque but bugger all high up. Give me the well engineered whine > of a turbo spooling up and launching a car forward so fast you feel the > skin on your face peeling back. That's what my friend's Nissan does. It > also helps over here that most people regularly drive at 80mph+ and > going out for a quick blat at over a tonne is unlikely to get you pulled > over. > > The idle speed system was used for a reason on the DeLorean and set up > correctly, it'll be more refined than the system you've got. > > As for higher powered DeLoreans - I see no reason t reinvent the wheel > when there are so many better PRVs out there to choose from. My own car > is up to 170bhp and boy is it fun. > > Martin > > content22207 wrote: > > >Don't think Ford big blocks migrated to your side of pond. Too bad -- > >are truly wonderful pieces of hardware. Wee wee all over myself > >everytime I drive one (why don't you ever see THAT in a Ford > >advertisement). Problem is: their idle (500-600 RPM) has spoiled me. > >Smooth as silk. Dulcet tones from the dual exhausts breathe fear into > >young men and cause hearts of young women to swoon. Am having minimal > >success emulating with the D. > > > >The Lincolns weigh in at 5,000 lbs. Question is: if I accidently ran > >over your friend's Nissan, would I even feel it? > > > >Seriously: have found PRV much more difficult to work on. Fasteners > >are smaller, and if you drop one it WILL end up under upper air > >assembly (found about $200 of hardware under there first time I > >removed mine). Has many more gaskets and seals, and when they're loose > >(on my PRV at least) don't just drool all over the driveway but also > >interfere with driveability. Thank goodness R30 doesn't have all the > >CIS crap of stock DeLo -- you know success I had with idle speed system. > > > >But car was designed for it, so in final analysis is best to leave > >back there. Have been through one re-engineering project already, and > >that's enough for any lifetime. Don't repeat this, but if something > >terrible happened to my current plant, would probably rustle up a > >running Volvo and drop in its PRV. > > > >Since you've ridden in re-powered DeLo's could answer this one: does > >car simply feel out of place with someone else's engine back there? > >PRV yields a distinctive sound universally applied in all production > >vehicles. Sometimes when driving the Lincolns try to imagine what it > >would be like to have their deep rumbles in my DeLo. Believe it or not > >don't think I'd like it. 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