Try www.sanden.com. There's a phone number on the site, and a parts reference. There's nothing unusual about this compressor. Did you check the DMC places? If I recall the compressor is not terribly expensive because they have a ton of them. Dave --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "deloreanchuck" <chuckkay@xxxx> wrote: > I can not believe that the only car that used the ac compressor in > the DeLorean was the DeLorean. There most have been some other car > to use it, Saab, Volvo, Lotus, etc. My compressor clutch starts to > smoke after several seconds which leads me to think the compressor is > dying. There are many compressors for sale on e-bay. One most fit a > DeLorean. I know the xref is a Sanden (sankyo) SD-510 model 8494 but > that does me no good in finding one at auction. > > Chuck vin 10610