Re: Question about engine selection

["Dave Swingle" <dswingle@xxxx>]

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, "DMC Joe" <dmcjoe@xxxx> wrote:
> The PRV-6 which met the physical requirements and was well proven 
>for reliability was already US certified due to its Volvo and Peugeot 
>applications. The EPA only required a 5k mile certification run for 
>approval in the DeLorean which meant that they could get the car into 
>production in a timely manner.

I would also suspect that the "reversible" nature of the off-the-
shelf transmission being used (i.e. front or rear drive selectable by 
flipping over the ring gear assembly) had something to do with it, I 
do not believe that the transmission/engine mate-up design was unique 
to the DeLorean application. In other words, to use this 
transmission the choice of engines was very limited. There are not 
very many rear-drive transaxle designs around, seems to me a Porsche 
design would have been about the only alternative at the time and 
would have dictated a different kind of engine or some sort of 
adapter. And probably cost more.