What have you done to your DeLorean today?

[vwdmc16]

Damn that is sketchy!

[Farrar]

Marked my ninth year of ownership.

[DeLorTex]

I don't think a small leak would have caused the bad running. You probably just need to put some time on the engine to clean out the FD and injectors.

Exactly what I was thinking, longer it ran, better it ran. Need to go over everything next spring. Right now put away for the winter, just need to remove the back covers, and then put the car cover over it.

[DeLorTex]

An easy way to clean the injectors is to run multiple bottles of Techron injector cleaner (the stronger version) through at once and on a partially full tank is even better. Injector cleaning at service stations can be done by running straight injector cleaner through the injectors. Mixing cleaner with a partial tank of gas is not as strong but may do the trick. If not, not much in money or effort lost.

I used a bottle of Racers injector cleaner in about 2 gallons of gas, seemed to improve the longer I ran it. Wish we had 2 more weeks of nice weather---but.

[nkemp]

Mine is settling into a long winter nap. Bummer.

[BLWNAWY]

After taking my engine to the rebuilder yesterday I decided it was time to remove the ugly steering wheel apparently installed during the car's residence in Houston. I thought some of you might be interested in seeing how someone chose to adapt this wheel. In addition to a badly butchered adapter flange, 2 mismatched bell covers mounted back-to-back, and a 2" thick homemade rubber spacer, the wheel was attached to a crudely modified metal cover plate off a home wiring junction box! And if that wasn't enough, the adapter flange was further "modified" with a machine screw epoxied and taped in place which engaged the turn signal cancellation ring. While the nut on the end of the steering shaft had less than 2 threads engaged, all was well due to the glob of epoxy added inside it.

I guess they couldn't find anyone in Houston familiar enough with DeLoreans to do this correctly.

While changing the steering wheel I noticed some cut-off wires under the dash, apparently from a since-removed alarm system. Needing somewhere to add an alarm indicator light, the previous owner removed the e-brake warning light and inserted this in its place, held in with a nice glob of modeling clay. It looks like I am going to have to spend almost as much time un-doing his "improvements" as repairing the fire damage.

[Mark Hershey]

Installed more interior LED upgrades from Bitsyncmaster. Installed a custom made transmission quadrant shift plate made from 3/8" aluminum sheet with an added DMOCO shift quadrant plate. Cut a tinted Plexiglas insert for the DMOCO plate on a laser cutter. Performed a little cold weather (for Dallas) EFI cold-start fuel enrichment tuning. Hooked up speed sense signal from electric power steering unit to the EFI controller ECU so it now knows vehicle speed. This is in anticipation of a future electronic shift point controller for the automatic transmission so I can get rid of the transmission throttle position cable and the ancient (but still working! ) analog transmission controller.

[Patrick C]

Installed more interior LED upgrades from Bitsyncmaster. Installed a custom made transmission quadrant shift plate made from 3/8" aluminum sheet with an added DMOCO shift quadrant plate. Cut a tinted Plexiglas insert for the DMOCO plate on a laser cutter. Performed a little cold weather (for Dallas) EFI cold-start fuel enrichment tuning. Hooked up speed sense signal from electric power steering unit to the EFI controller ECU so it now knows vehicle speed. This is in anticipation of a future electronic shift point controller for the automatic transmission so I can get rid of the transmission throttle position cable and the ancient (but still working! ) analog transmission controller.

Let's see some photos!

[Mark Hershey]

Some pics of the console with shift plate. Assuming i uploaded them correctly.
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[Mark Hershey]

Repainted relay compartment chassis
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EFI controller chassis
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