camarokid
12-16-2012, 08:27 PM
Hello all, I am a first time poster here and am in need of some help with my delorean i recently bought. A few months back i saved a delorean that was going to be sold and parted out. the car had a small fire which looks to have started on top of the engine the only damage was to the wiring to the engine and the engine itself,like i said it was a small fire the fiberglass body looks untouched as does the stainless steel. My current problem is finding a engine for the car and wiring it, I was hoping to do the 3.0 eagle premier conversion since it would bolt up to my delorean trans axle and i have the lower crankcase off the delorean motor that i can switch over, so i recently purchased a complete running 1991 eagle preimer, a complete car with engine harness and computer. So more to the point the motor has has 90,000 miles on it and while i had the lower crank case off i wanted to install new rod and main bearings and get the crank polished but the only problem is i cannot seem to find connecting rod bearings or main bearing. I have check autozone, advance auto parts napa, summit racing, even the Chrysler dealer with no luck, Napa did have them listed but when i ordered them they where not the correct rod bearings, they were much to small. So my questions is does anyone know where i may be able to order bearings for this engine, and any info on the conversion of the 3.0 into the delorean would help me greatly. Or i may consider transplanting a different engine all together such as a 4.3 chevy into the delorean my question there is does anyone make a bell housing to adapted the UN1 transaxle to a 4.3 chevy engine or just a adapter plate to mate them together. sorry for all the questions but i've been stewing on these questions for a month and i've been searching online for the answers but have come up short, I thank any and all of you for the advice you may be able to give me.