You've heard the arguments for years from the pro-life vs pro-choicers, but it's always been a question I've thought about at length when it comes to the DeLorean (well, any car for that matter, but lets stick with DeLoreans here).
Is a DeLorean only a Delorean to you if it remains today as it left the factory OR is Will.i.Am's atrocity still a DeLorean? At what point TO YOU does a DeLorean CEASE to be a DeLorean? How many parts and pieces have to disappear?
Personally - though I think they're rad - a DeLorean is certainly much less of a DeLorean to me once the PRV is swapped out. I see the engine as the heart or soul of the car, for better or for worse, with it's inherent flaws and shortcomings AND it's positivities. If someone walked up to me and said "I'll pay you $5,000 and install a v8 in your DeLorean," I'd turn it down. It wouldn't be a DeLorean to me anymore.
On the other hand, I could see some people argue that a v8, power steering, electric power train or modern dash/interior is simply a better realization of JZD's dream and therefore - naturally - a DeLorean.
I'm curious where people fall along the continuum.
When is a DeLorean, no longer a DeLorean?