DMCH Making new vehicles

[Dangermouse]

Oops, well I guess it did.

It was a busy Christmas time, what can I say.

[cpistocco]

Just so I have this straight- You guys are saying that they are not actually going to build 300 of these cars. Just as many as they sell? With the SELL part coming first

[Nicholas R]

That was Nick Roedl's car. He designed the shaft, 3D printed it, cast it, then had it made.

To be clear, the 3D printed parts I made were only to validate that I had the right normal and transverse module, pressure angle, helix angle, and pitch diameter, etc. of the gears themselves. 3D printing was not used in the manufacturing of the shaft itself. The shafts are not a casting. They are machined from forged 4340 barstock that is heat treated after machining.

I would hope that they dont use the Renault tansaxle at all. Feeding 300+ ftlbs to it would make it a ticking timebomb.

I would be interested to know if they would do some legitimate fatigue testing on this.

True. But who is to say they haven't already been made months, or even years ago?

My bad on that transaxle number too. Pasted the wrong one. But there ARE many, many other options out there such as this as an example:

http://quaife.co.uk/quaife-zf-tranxa...opular-demand/

I dont think there are quite as many transaxles available as you think; at least not ones that are realistic. I have done a lot of research on the different transaxle options, and because of our spacial limitations, we're pretty limited. Even the Porsche 915 and G50 are difficult to fit due to their size. Yes there are Hewlands, Mendoleas, Quaife, etc. that are special built for racing teams (most of which would require modifying the frame to accomodate the size), but as Josh said one transaxle can cost you $15,000+.

Personally, I do not see that as a viable option; especially considering that DMCH's goal with this is to use up the parts they have that they cant sell. I'd bet transmissions is one of them. Maybe they'll do what Lotus did with the V8 and just detune the engine to a level that the transmission can handle.

[opethmike]

Personally, I do not see that as a viable option; especially considering that DMCH's goal with this is to use up the parts they have that they cant sell. I'd bet transmissions is one of them. Maybe they'll do what Lotus did with the V8 and just detune the engine to a level that the transmission can handle.

I've been around A LOT of Lotus V8s. The engine was not detuned enough, trust me. They go kaboom quite often.

[Nicholas R]

I've been around A LOT of Lotus V8s. The engine was not detuned enough, trust me. They go kaboom quite often.

Thats good to know; I'll keep that in mind. I haven't been around enough of them to know for sure.

[opethmike]

Thats good to know; I'll keep that in mind. I haven't been around enough of them to know for sure.

I think a good portion of it has to do with people abusing the box with 1st gear launches, and not down shifting from 5th when going to pass, but still...

[rdarlington]

I'm thinking this could be a good thing. I highly doubt that the building of the new cars would completely drain the parts pool for our cars. If they actually run out of something they now have the incentive to re-engineer the part thus keeping the parts flow going. Also, at 100k each it's bound to raise the value of the originals. It's a win win!

Yeah, I made the mistake of saying something to this effect on FB and James Espey chimed in (last night/today). Is he always an asshole? He basically told me to f$@! off, the parts are his, etc. WTF? Maybe he doesn't realize the object in that sentence is *supply* and not *parts*. He just lost my business over this and my car is officially for sale. Let somebody else deal with him.

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[opethmike]

Yeah, I made the mistake of saying something to this effect on FB and James Espey chimed in (last night/today). Is he always an asshole? He basically told me to f$@! off, the parts are his, etc. WTF? Maybe he doesn't realize the object in that sentence is *supply* and not *parts*. He just lost my business over this and my car is officially for sale. Let somebody else deal with him.

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Wow. Just wow. That's some serious assholery there.

[81dmc]

Yeah, I made the mistake of saying something to this effect on FB and James Espey chimed in (last night/today). Is he always an asshole? He basically told me to f$@! off, the parts are his, etc. WTF? Maybe he doesn't realize the object in that sentence is *supply* and not *parts*. He just lost my business over this and my car is officially for sale. Let somebody else deal with him.

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So, Espey basically told ALL Delorean owners to F off? Well, if it wasn't for us owners, DMCH would be just a dusty, locked storage facility.

[Patrick C]

I am one who is optimistic about this new venture, but we've seen a similar announcement 3 times in the past 10 years with no results.

We had this in 2005:


This in 2009:


This in 2011:


And now this in 2016:


I want to be optimistic about this venture, but we have been let down before.