Hello All, yesterday i got my car back from Valley Imports here in Fargo, ND. they were able to fix it!!!! the mechanic there found that the pipe that goes from the intake to the idle speed motor was not seated correctly - that was my vaccum leak! also an o-ring was missing somewhere and he thinks my control pressure regulator might be a little crappy. but anyway, he got all tuned up correctly and it starts after about 1/2 a second of cranking and it holds an idle very steadily. the car seems to be tuned PERFECTLY again! not a single sound of weird engine noise or erratic behavior. this is GREAT!! to recap: about 3 months ago my DeLorean VIN11596 suddenly wouldn't start one morning. i discovered a massive fuel leak by my fuel accumulator and my fuel pump support boot was completely full of murky water. i had the car towed to an amoco where they fixed the fuel leak but was unable to get the car to run again. now in hindsight i think these guys did more harm than good with their fooling around back there. i had the car towed home where i began work on the car myself, where i discovered my fuel pressures were sitting around 8 bar!!!!. i wound up draining and cleaning my tank out, buying a new fuel pump, cover boot, upper and lower hoses, connectors, new injectors, all new hollow bolts, removing my fuel distributer for cleaning and lubrication, swapping parts with another owner, removing my air meter housing for cleaning and testing, and basically tearing apart and rebuilding the whole K-Jetronic fuel injection! last week i put everything back together and found that my fuel pressure was back to within specs. however after three days i could not adjust my CO screw to make the car turn over and idle, even for 2 seconds. so i had the car towed out to a local BMW/audi/porsche dealer and just yesterday they finally fixed it. the total cost to me on this whole ordeal turns out to be around $1500 for new parts and a few hours of professional labor time. but you know what? i don't care!!! i have a DeLorean in my driveway again and it runs like it was always meant to!!!!!!!!!!! many many MANY thanks go out to David Teitelbaum, Marty Maeir, Steve Rubano, Dan, Dave Swingle, Mike Griese, DMCJoe and PJ Grady, John Hervey, Bruce Benson, and everyone else who i may have forgotten or took the time to drop me a line with suggestions - and just for the record, every email was read from you guys and i actually TRIED everything you guys suggested! it really does make a difference! i'm just happy we have the DML so i was able to do the majority of the work and troubleshooting myself. or else $1500 could have easily expanded to $4000!! many thanks to everyone, and i'm back in business!! as Jim Reeve says, DRIVE STAINLESS! Andy Lien Soma576@xxxx 1982 DeLorean DMC-12 VIN#11596 Fargo, ND 58102 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]