Wreck of 17158 - 4 cylinder turbo swap

[Gfrank]

Haven't shared to much of my restorations on here, anyone who has me on Facebook will have seen many photos. Felt like sharing today. Progress has been a bit slow as I've had a few other delorean's on the go, but with them out of the way I can really get going on one I'm building for me.

17158 at this point from what we see its one of the last few (of 8 Canadian spec cars. From the digging I've done it was wrecked sometime around 1985, it spent some time in a junkyard down the street from me, was then sold and has had mythical sighting from the local club floating around in back yards sense. One day last summer I just happened to be at the right place at the right time.

I've wanted to do a motor swap for some time, with my other cars being pretty original and running, I couldn't bring myself to it. This car was missing a proper delorean engine - leaving me the door wide open. (Disclaimer at this point nothing has been done to the car that can't be unbolted. Only frame mods are a bolt in rear cross bar and 2 holes drilled in each rear tow hook. Any frame work I did I tried to keep vaugly original looking, yet stronger and thicker)

I was very much into small gm cars (most the jbody) in my younger days and still have a lot of parts kicking around, not to mention cheap and easy to get parts, the ecotec was high on my list (conveniently engineered by lotus I must ad) I wanted a cheap, simple swap, to at least double the hp, good on gas and turn key reliability. Also am not aware of any other 4 baggers so partially wanted to blaze that trail. I'll be running a S20g turbo, capable of around 500hp, have no intentions of pushing that, again want reliable) looking to put down around 300 at the wheels.

Lots more detailed photos on my fb if interested, I'll give the quick coles notes of photos on here.

Big thanks to josh s. Really went above and beyond helping (or I should say pretty much doing it all other then putting the bolts in) when it comes to mating the engine and trans 'hugs' lol


When I got it...
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