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. They are two different worlds. > >Bill Robertson >#5939 > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=259538.3793308.5048975.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1712983/R=0/SIG=11u38u3s2/*http://hits.411web.com/cgi-bin/hit?pa ge=1374-105951838331032> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=259538.3793308.5048975.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1712983/rand=589428138> 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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