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Kind of makes me feel warm and fuzzy...
Nick A.
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Nice to see it be appreciated for a change!
Cool.
Shane
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I wonder why JZD went the FI route with the PRV when it was finally decided that would be the engine of the production cars? It would have been quite easy to acheive some impressive power numbers with the earlier carbed incarnations of the engine. Maybe they thought the fuel injection would make a strong selling point and it might have been a step back for a car that embraced new technology to still have a carbed setup, or maybe the setup we now have was the only option given the financial constraints? In any event, if it did happen, I think the company would have enjoyed more success and respect and the "boat anchor" nicknames would have never been hung on the car.
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^ I'd have to think that that increasingly restrictive emissions requirements of the time had something to do with it. Just a gut feeling.
-Mike
My engine twists my frame.
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I can't recall where I read it, but the Bosch K-Jetronic version was already tested and approved for use in the US. So by going with that version, it was a much faster and cheaper process to get the car street legal. Also, remember that 1981 brought a new set of emission standards as well.
I didn't consider the emissions.
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That's spot on.
Specifics follow here from "Stainless Steel Illusion" by John Lamm, perhaps the place you read about it:
Chapter 3 - "The Serious Money", sub-chapter heading "Re-Engineering For Renault"
"...There weren't many [non-Citroen] engine possibilities, but easily the best was the single overhead camshaft V-6 developed and manufactured jointly by Peugeot, Renault and Volvo in Douvrain, France. Sold in 2.6- and 2.8-liter forms the engine had been certified for U.S. emissions in the Peugeot 604 and the Volvo 260 series. That meant the DeLorean, an automobile weighing less than either the Peugeot or the Volvo, would only have to run a 5,000 mile certification check for emissions, rather than the expensive and time-consuming 50,000-mile emissions durability tests."
As implied the U.S. market versions of both the Volvo 260 and the Peugeot 604 were fitted with Bosch K-Jetronic injection.
March '81, 5-speed, black interior
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Thanks for posting about that.
Check out the current "poster car" for the at this link to that particular event at the show.
A tip of the hat to Youngtimers Magazine for putting the PRV into their podium at this year's Retromobile.
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