When you eventually come down this way I should have an extra Porsche 5-speed transaxle for you to play with. Andrei ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxxxxx> To: <DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:14 AM Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Martin's lovely new hand-built engine > > YEAH!!!!??!! WILL WE SEE IT?!!! > > Yeah Avi, but will we see you? Are you going to Pigeon Forge? > > If all goes well, you will see my "lovely new hand-built engine" from Darren > Bowker & Martin. We aren't even sure what it is going to be yet. We are > talking about starting with a block from an Alpine A610 which is a turbo PRV > starting at 250BHP. By doing standard souped-up stuff, etc. it will be > around 350BHP when done. But I'm not entirely sure I want to do something > this big or expensive. The next alternative down is a normally aspirated 3 > litre, 24 valve PRV. > > First he has to find the A610 block which they say is as rare as rocking > horse shit. Both engines would have distributorless ignition, electronic > fuel injection, Emerald engine management that can interface with a Windoze > laptop. Just how much fun can this be? > > The advantage of importing a PRV from across the pond is that it should bolt > right in place of the DeLorean's original PRV. But with this much > horsepower I'll be finding a different transmission anyway. Do y'all think > it would be worth having turbos with 350 BHP when I could still get 250 BHP > from a normally aspirated engine? > > Walt > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=251812.3170658.4537139.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1652964/R=0/SIG=11t2ts2ch/*http://www.netflix.com/Default?mqso=6 0178276&partid=3170658> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=251812.3170658.4537139.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1652964/rand=889079702> 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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