What have you done to your DeLorean today?

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Originally Posted by 81dmc

My car started for the first time in 5 years. I only ran it few seconds as it has no coolant (waiting on a pipe). Nevertheless, I have a grin stuck to my face.

It?s been slow as I finished building the 3.0 last year, and finally got the engine wiring done just now. Running EDIS and MS3 Pro Evo, which allows full sequential and turbo options if I ever want to upgrade.

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Now I need to figure out the intake and throttle/trans/cruise cable solutions.

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Could I bother you in the future? I'm planning to do an N/A 3.0 upgrade as well albeit it'll be attached to a manual transmission.

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Originally Posted by PlutonimicX

Could I bother you in the future? I'm planning to do an N/A 3.0 upgrade as well albeit it'll be attached to a manual transmission.

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Sure.

Just a quick tip. If you are doing coil on plug with EDIS. Do not use Joe's wiring diagram. It's wrong.

And today I got the leaking heater elbow fixed. I removed the press in fitting, tapped the waterpump with a 1/2npt tap, and used a 5/8 barb to 1/2npt to fit in there. Then just used a 90* 5/8 hose to finish it off.

Also got alternator and belt installed. Once I get my waterpipe, I can start it up and break in the rockers and rings.

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ECU bay cleaned up. Used Tesa fuzzy tape to wrap harness.
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Also, put rear of car back on, recharged AC, put back interior trim.

Almost ready for first drive in 5 years. 8)

Just need to hook up cruise control and go tune!

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Originally Posted by 81dmc

ECU bay cleaned up. Used Tesa fuzzy tape to wrap harness.
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Also, put rear of car back on, recharged AC, put back interior trim.

Almost ready for first drive in 5 years. 8)

Just need to hook up cruise control and go tune!

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If you need a laptop operator assistant I'm game :thumbup2:

Got my cold air air intake setup installed. It has CCV and I even have the carbon canister hooked up too.

Now I just need to connect cruise cable and fix header leak.

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Originally Posted by 81dmc

Got my cold air air intake setup installed. It has CCV and I even have the carbon canister hooked up too.

Now I just need to connect cruise cable and fix header leak.

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Very clean looking setup! Do you plan to dyno it? Do you know what kind of hp numbers do they typically get?

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Originally Posted by Helirich

Very clean looking setup! Do you plan to dyno it? Do you know what kind of hp numbers do they typically get?

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Seat of the pants it?s slightly faster, though I haven?t pushed it as I?m breaking it in. While book value is 150hp, I'm running a tweaked timing and VE table from Josh S, so no idea what he got. Maybe add or subtract a few from that.

In hind sight, I should've bought those forged pistons and rods that are on ebay.


My plan if this ever blows is a swap from auto to G96 manual and going with my original plan of a VR6. I still have all the parts minus block, crank, and turbo to make a VR6 12v.

Was getting weird fluctuations in mixture when hot. It would go way rich.

Found it it went away when unplugging carbon canister, and figured it out. I had the carbon canister directly teed into the vacuum port for CCV. Thing is, the restricting orifice is on the CCV cap, not on the engine side like the 2.8. As a result, it was sucking too much gas fumes, which drastically richened the mixture when hot and low on fuel.

The fix was instead teeing the carbon canister line on the air filter side of the CCV. This sets it up the same as the eagle premier.

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Installed this Hall effect speed sensor kit from Josh S yesterday.
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Need to wire it in to the ECU, then my cluster will receive speedo over CAN BUS.