DMCH and DGo sell quick release bolts for the air cleaner.Quote:
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DMCH and DGo sell quick release bolts for the air cleaner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helirich
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Tested out the KBS Rust Stop on the closing plate. Not crazy how it looks so I may try and redo it with a spray gun.
A few years ago I had mine sand blasted and powder coated for less than a hundred bucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by DMC81
Dave B.
Installed DGo's switch plate. I had their old one but it was quite flimsy and I was always accidentally turning on my "mood" lights. This one seems pretty nice although I opted to just drill and screw it into place rather than use the zip ties.
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Also attached a intake air scoop. With the sealed pontoon intake I put on last year, this is now a true "Ram Air" setup. I can only imagine my top gear 60-100 and 100-140 roll ons will be around 3 seconds now.
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Of course I had to include the matching driver's side for optimum charcoal evap performance. These were kind of an impulse buy and I wasn't sure how I would like them but they do give a hint of bad assness to the car (even if there is more "ass" than "bad").
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Destroyed the A/C.
"Imagine" being the key word. Lol. Reminds me of a Thunderbird my dad had. We rigged up a ram air and it ran worse. Had to take it off. Of course it was carb. (Carbs don't really like pressured air) In your case, it's possible it could do something. Not sure if I like em or not. Do you have to "hurt" anything to attach them. (Like drill holes)Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael
You know I knew those words were yours before I even saw your user name.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helirich
Yes I had to drill 16 holes (8 in each panel). The scoops had threaded M8 studs on them and included the appropriate nuts and lock washers. This level of security is necessary because the scoops would be subjected to a lot of stress and wind resistance once the car breaks the 160mph threshold.
Definitely!Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael
Seriously, what's the deal with the antenna? I don't have one. Am I suppose to? I didn't notice any hole there. (I need to look close tomarrow) My radio doesn't work, but I think it's worse than no antenna.
Antennas had 3 different locations. Early cars had them embedded in the windscreen. Later ones had them in the rear pontoon and then the fender mount(I may have that backwards). If you can't find it, it's probably in the windscreen and I believe that is pretty desirable among the purists.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helirich
Mine is an early car, but I don't think there's one in the windshield. I wonder if it had one and they replaced the windshield with a non-antenna. I have to say, all the glass in my car looks brand new. I have an old VW beetle and that 40+ year old glass doesn't look so great.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Michael
Edit, I'm mistaken. I looked close and there's a hole for the antenna. Not only that, there maybe one down there. I can see a button. I guess that should power up when I switch on the radio. When I turn mine on, the speakers crack a little, but no sound and no display. Also no antenna goes up. Once I get the car running good, I will attack this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helirich
Yesterday my wife and I took a nice long Sunday drive, put about 120 miles on her.
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Today I got bored and tackled a "scary" job. I got the three main hoses early last year during my winter refresh project. I chickened out becauseI thought the bleeding process sounded too daunting to try but today I had a "what the hell attitude".
Turned out to be a piece of cake, mainly because I kept most of the coolant in place and refilled the new hoses before connecting so I had very little air to bleed out of the housing. I believe I will refrain from using too much dressing on them. I think a lot of rubber dressing makes the hoses soft over time.
I had my car towed from MD to WV. Now, I can work on it in my new garage. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...dc592330c9.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ca44d71419.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a98f87b84b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...faeb640768.jpg
Just tinkered today. Made some more professional looking retaining brackets for my air cleaner and decided to dust off my homemade headlight covers. This time though, I removed the velcro from my brackets and covers and epoxied some of my neodymium magnets left over from my transmission filters to the tinted covers. The brackets attach to the bumper using double sided tape so they are non intrusive and metal so the magnets work with them alone. The covers can pop on and off for times when I am motoring about after dark.
I'm considering applying a matt finish on the covers to make them match the grill better.
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Matte stripes. 👍Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael
DeLorean Go stainless louvre struts. LOVE these, wish I would have ordered the entire set. The opening sounds and motion is just incredible. They even come with stainless hardware.
Can't really see them. Are they tinted glass/acrylic? Are the lights too dim if you leave them on?Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael
Hah - the lights are too dim if you leave them off!Quote:
Originally Posted by Helirich
I got halogen H7 conversions :hihi:Quote:
Originally Posted by DMCMW Dave
Installed DMC Houston cooling fan motors and spark plug wires to replace my delorean go wires I had that I found arcing to the mixture unit.
I suppose if the covers are acrylic, they could melt/warp. Have you ever driven with them on for extended time? I'm not sure if I like them or not, but I would guess they are easy to clean bugs off. Of course, they add a couple hp in aero dynamics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael
I've had them for 6 years. If they haven't warped by now they aren't going to. Besides the whole reason I made them this way was so I could quickly and easily remove them for night driving.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helirich
Filled the tank and drove to a neighboring city. Ran a few errands there and came home. It was 150 miles total. When I was down there I went to a exotic car restaurant for lunch. They have a Lamborghini parked out front and some car stuff inside. I parked and went inside. Multiple people came after me and I watched them walk right by the Lamborghini to look at the D. Ha-ha. Right before I left, two guys parked right next to me in a beautiful 58-59 Corvette.
The car did pretty good. I had a couple issues. First, my AC evaporator would freeze up after ten minutes or so. It would actually block the flow of air out the vents. I had to switch it off for five minutes to melt the ice and turn it back on. Not a big deal, but I need to look into it.
My other issue was the engine losing power after cruising in high gears at slow speeds. I found that I could down shift and rev the motor to about 4500 for a few seconds and then it would run normal again. I assume that's a sign of too rich of mixture. It seemed to run better at high rpms. (i.e., 3000)
All and all, it was a good day. I filled the tank when I got back and found my mpg to be about 15. Is that normal?
Glad to hear you are getting some fun out of it now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helirich
Either there is not enough air flowing through the evaporator to begin with or your refrigerant is low.
Forget about mileage until you get the new pressure gauge set. :deviltail:
Today I used your "how to" and set the mixture with a dwell meter. Just took it out for a test drive. WooHoo! Got in to 5th gear and let it dwindle down to 1500 rpm. Gave it gas and off it went! I couldn't believe it. Drove down the back road about 75. I have to tell you all, I only adjusted the mixture about a 1/4 turn. The differnce is amazing.Quote:
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On top of that, I gave her a blast of R22 and the AC is working without freezing.
You guys know I have a new corvette sitting out front? That sucker can rot. Ha-ha
I gatta go and see what else I'm going to order for the car. I think lower control arm braces and vented discs are looking promising. Yee-Ha!
1/4 turn is a LOT! I'm surprised it would even start being that far out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helirich
This day keeps getting better.
After my last post, I decided to pull out the power antenna. After removing the canister, I saw a problem right away. Two of the wires were ripped out. I hooked 12 volts to one and up went the antenna. So I went looking for the wires up front where they go in the back wall. They looked fine there. After a bit of studying, I found how to remove the back panel. Pulled it off and there were the ripped wires.
But that's not all! The speaker cover was wedged out a bit. I looked closer and it was held out by my hood release handle! I was wondering why mine didn't have one. I still don't have the catch on the hood. (I guess they removed it because they didn't want locked out with no handle. Lol. (I'll be ordering that tomarrow)
I strung new wires and oiled the antenna up real good. Ran it up and down four or five times and now it works great. Pulled the car out of the shop and tuned in the presets. Now my radio has 1.2 gigawatts of power.
Na, you have all of your presets on classic stations....Quote:
Originally Posted by Helirich
I went to my first car show today. I got there kind late and there was no place to park. So I parked in a bank lot that was next to the main show. I was in the third row of cars in that lot and I was basically parking someone in. There was a guy sitting in a lawn chair behind the car next to the one I park in. I asked if he knew the owner and he said the guy walked away. I told him if the guy comes back, tell him I'm just going to make a quick tour of the show and I'll be back.
I toured about two thirds of the show (it was a big show) and stoped back to see if I needed to move the car. The lawn chair guy said the other guy has not been back. So I went and got a hot dog and sat in the bank entrance to eat. I watched something funny repeat itself many times. My car was so far back and so low compared to the cars in front that nobody could see it while waking along. There was a car in front of mine that was a 50's "cop car". It had a life size cardboard cutout of Barnie Fithe next to it. People would walk along and see Barnie and walk back to look at him or take a pic with him. When they got back there, they would see my car and say "hey, there's a Delorean back here". It was comical how many times this happened.
Anyways, I finished my lunch and went to see the rest of the show. When I came back this time, there was a crowd of people around my car. When I walked up, the lawn chair guy says "there's the owner". Immediately a few of the people came up to me and said they were officials of the show and asked why I parked back there where hardly anybody could see the car. I told them "nobody guided me and I didn't see any better place to park". They told me that they would like me to move the car to the center of the show. Lol. I thanked them, but said I was leaving now.
So I guess it made a good impression. The car drove flawless there and back. With only some slight freezing of the AC evaporator.
I drove my car for the second time this year. Moved it about 25 feet forward out of my garage so I could get my riding mower out, and then reversed back into place.
So if I've got my math right, I've got around 100 ft so far this driving season.
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Why aren't you driving your car??Quote:
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I hope you use non ethanol with "stable".Quote:
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Edit, you really should at least warm it up to operating temp every few months.
It's a combination of things really. My daily commute to work is around 130 miles round trip, so I've got my daily driver car(s) for that. It doesn't make sense to put a bunch of highway miles on the DeLorean and let it bake out in a parking lot all day.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheStoot
It's parked in that detached garage in my back yard so getting it out is inconvenient for random trips to the store or wherever. I've got to open up the gate in my fence, make sure the dog doesn't escape, etc.
I've got two young kids and my free time has been booked with projects and other stuff lately, so I don't have much down time to go for a pleasure drive.
My wife also works the night shift on the weekend. So while she sleeps during the day, I'm hanging out with the kids and driving Mom's car w/ the car seats if we go anywhere.
The main time I would be free to drive it is on weekdays after the kids are in bed but at that point it's dark outside.
Or I could drive it on the rare weekends when my wife doesn't work, but then we're typically all hanging out as a family. I'd be gong for a solo drive to take it to run an errand or something, or just a point A back to point A trip.
In years past my wife and I would take it out on date night when the grandparents were watching the kids, but then COVID happened.
I'm cool with the situation though and I do take the kids for a drive every once in a while. They're getting older and starting to take interest. Last year I did drive it to work a few times and put a couple hundred miles on.
Yeah I'm running premium non-ethanol gas with sta-bil. Yesterday I let it run for probably 20 minutes between pulling it out and backing it in. It has to come out every time I get out the riding mower, so typically I'll take it for a drive as a reward for finishing the lawn. I'll drive through town and do a hot lap up and down the freeway to get it up to temp, turn on the the A/C, and get all the other fluids moving. I just didn't have time yesterday.Quote:
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It gets used frequently enough during the summer to keep it reasonably maintained and then during the winter months it's in hibernation mode.
In short Helirich, Mark has priorities and there are a lot of things more important to him than a stupid little plastic car.
LOL yeah, i guess that's a simpler way of putting it.
It sounds like you use it enough to not be an issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark D
That all sounds good. I didn't mean to sound like a dick when asking why you don't drive it. I'm just trying to figure out why people have certain things, especially cars that require maintenance and upkeep and storage sometimes and don't drive them. Your story makes complete sense. I also have 2 small kids, but my oldest one is now 6 so we literally take the Delorean anywhere and everywhere we go together as I give him the choice of the car he wants to go in. It's always the DeLorean. I hope you get to spend more time with it this summer and I hope covid dies down so we can all get out more and enjoy!Quote:
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So yesterday I got home and went back to trying to diagnose my faulty lambda system/non functioning frequency valve issues. I got a spare Lambda ecu from a new Delorean friend of mine in the town next door and swapped it out. Bam, I now got a working lambda system and frequency valve! I did also have to swap out the O2 sensor as mine had been toasted from running the car so rich. Hooked up the dwell meter and dialed in the dwell just between 15-20 on the 8cyl scale and took it for a drive around town and down the highway a few miles. My car hasn't performed this well since i've owned it. I've never had a problem with it running or starting or anything, but the lambda system just never worked at all so i figured i'd see what happened when and if I got it going. I can say it literally feels like I got 15-20 more horsepower now. Highway driving is night and day. Lower rpms, say 2k, would feel like a struggle to go anywhere in 5th gear. Now it just pulls and shows even power throughout the rpm range. I am quite pleased by this little car now that everything is running the way it should have been. I had driven the car almost 3000 miles like this before I fixed it and just figured it was what it was. Now that it's back in shape I love it. My idle did Jump up a bit after I come to a stop so I gotta figure out why that is happening. It almost seems like that idle motor isn't closing down all the way or slow to respond. I got dave mckeens idle ecu so i'll have to diagnose it a bit but holy hell, I can now say this is a pretty quick little car buzzing around town, especially with a 5 speed.
This afternoon she goes in for an alignment seeing how I changed out the tie rods over the winter. Hopefully my little shake around 70mph will get sorted a bit with a proper alignment!:)
No worries, glad to hear you're getting out with your kids too for some fun drives. My oldest daughter is also 6. Just curious what you do in terms of car seats... We usually only go for short drives through the park behind my house or around the neighborhood so I'm not really concerned about her just riding in the seat without a booster. Do you do anything in particular with your son for a car seat?Quote:
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Funny story about that actually, one time I was taking her for a ride and when we got back she narked me out to my wife for speeding. She told my wife I was going 15mph and the sign in the park said Speed Limit 10.