My Car (LS1 DeLorean) Used For An Episode of Car Fix on Velocity! Airs Sept. 12, 2014

[rileydawgg]

Watched it. They were very complimentary of your car. It looked great. Ironically it was very uninformative for me as a new D owner though... Haha. Congrats, that had to be pretty cool seeing your car on TV.

[Squall67584]

Cool! I'll have to check out the rerun this morning. What sort of accessory drive are you using on the LS? I asked on one of your YouTube videos but figured you would check here more often.

[Nicholas R]

Watched it. They were very complimentary of your car. It looked great. Ironically it was very uninformative for me as a new D owner though... Haha. Congrats, that had to be pretty cool seeing your car on TV.

Yea that was kind of the case. I dont think the show was ever really meant to be about DeLoreans. The purpose was for them to have an interesting car to do a head and cam swap. The format of the show is typically "today we're going to show/teach you how to do 'this' thing on a car, and explain the different parts along the way." Sometimes it's exhaust, sometimes, it's brakes, turbos, tires, suspension, carburetors, EFI, etc. Plus they always like to have cool cars in the shop. This episode was about heads and cams.

Cool! I'll have to check out the rerun this morning. What sort of accessory drive are you using on the LS? I asked on one of your YouTube videos but figured you would check here more often.

My accessory drive is the Camaro style (which I believe they actually mention on the show). I had to do this because of the placement of the alternator. The Corvette accessory drive style has the alternator high and wide, which wouldn't fit in the engine bay. The Camaro has it nice and tucked up underneath. For the most part the engine is Corvette on top (Heads, cam, intake), Camaro in the middle (accessories, alternator, waterpump), and GTO on the bottom (Oil pan, oil pump, oil pickup). The short block is the same for all of them.

By the way, did anyone count the subtle Back to the Future references? They said early on that they wanted the show to be about the car and not constantly promoting BTTF as most shows about DeLoreans do. As such they said they wanted to make subtle hints and jokes toward BTTF during their conversation and banter, but never actually mention or bring up BTTF, so that if you didn't know what you were listening for, you wouldn't even notice.

[Squall67584]

I caught the hint of the radiation suit, them saying the head was heavy, and mentioned Marty.

[DL4567]

Watched the episode last night, and really enjoyed it. Never seen the show before. I got the impression that they were very careful with your car, and took their time with the work. That's refreshing to see vs. so many of these types of shows (and real life) where mechanics rush through a job as fast and roughly as possible. It was also nice how they really took the time to explain the new heads and why they are better -- again, vs. just giving a 2-second explanation and slapping it in like most garage shows do.

The BTTF references were indeed subtle, which was also refreshing. I like to think that if a DeLorean owner was making that show, that's how they would do it. Not ignore BTTF completely, but not ram it down your throat as is too often the case.

[refugeefromcalif]

Looking forward to getting it on iTunes!

+1. That's the only way I'll be able to see it.

George

[Nicholas R]

I caught the hint of the radiation suit, them saying the head was heavy, and mentioned Marty.

There were a couple others too

[Spittybug]

I just watched it too. That thing's a beast! Too much in-show advertising for me, but I do like a show that doesn't have all of today's interpersonal conflicts or racing against the clock crap.

[DMCMW Dave]

I just watched it too. That thing's a beast! Too much in-show advertising for me, but I do like a show that doesn't have all of today's interpersonal conflicts or racing against the clock crap.

Actually I thought it was pretty amazing what they could show in a half hour, which is really more like 20 minutes of air time.

Funny thing as we (Julee and I) were watching it, the only thing she noticed was "he needs headliners".

[Iceguy]

Congrads Nick, car is looking awesome.