Re: [DML] Performance mods
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Re: [DML] Performance mods



Pete Berveiler wrote:

I believe the 350-400 HP range is attainable with
turbocharging or supercharging, but not with the DMCH
mods. It will require serious high-dollar performance
mods (custom intake manifolds, exhaust capable of
moving that much air, new concave pistons, larger air
inlet system, full distributorless EMS and new more
powerful ignition system, High-flow EFI system, and
different catalytic converters to be street legal)
that you can drop nitrous on as well to go above
400HP.


It's really funny how people keep on writing things like this - not to have a dig at what Peter's written - he's on the money. What it comes down to is the odd-fire crank in the DeLorean engine is simply not suitable for turbocharging, and that is only at the top of a very long list of problems with turbocharging this engine.

Why else would the Renault 25 Turbo have such a massively re-engineered engine? The Renault Alpine A610 produces in excess of 400hp reliably from a 2.5l PRV-6 that mates to the exact same gearbox as the DeLorean. The engine is an enhanced and intercooled version of that in the R25 Turbo, which can be found in scrapyards all over europe.

Why do people keep trying to reinvent the wheel with an enhanced original DMC PRV when so many are available just begging to be dropped in, have an exhaust made to fit, and bingo-splingo, a 400hp capable PRV in the back of your D?

The DMCH engine is about as good as you'll get without spending serious money on rebuilding and reengineering a stock engine.

Oh, and the 3.0l PRV used in cars like the Renault Espace and Citroen Xantia up until only a few short years ago can be tuned (at some expense) to 300-350hp. It will bolt right in.

Martin
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