What have you done to your DeLorean today?

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Originally Posted by WHO1DMC

Now it's time to put new foam in to give some definition.





Dave B.

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It?s on the to do list. I have the foam kit for that too.


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Love that , massive difference

I had to crack open the wallet for a new battery.
Went out and found the old one at less than 5v.






Dave B.

Well this mod is done although somehow I ended up with two different temperature bulbs but that will be fixed another day. I don't know why they didn't put a second light in at the factory. It just makes more sensehttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...83f4708315.jpg

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Replaced the injectors, now it seems the car starts slightly better! (faster) It was a joy to test them with the jar method... they sprayed vigorously! :)

Fun fact: I did that myself, while my friend worked on the window motors' replacement. I had him put the pipe of agony on, because I was tired of trying to do that. He said "It's in, no big deal!". Tried to start the car with brand new injectors... it would die instantly. Just a rapid explosion and cycle, and the car would die. If I pressed the throttle it would stay on, but then it would die. PANIC! it was 7 PM, we were working on the damn window motors since 9 AM... the thought of not being able to go home, and thus leave the car in the shop we usually work in (that our friend gives us) was too much to bear! :sad30:

So I used my head and traced everything down... it must be something on the idling circuit, but I am sure I connected just everything I had disconnected... then the revelation. I push the metering plate down and TADAH! the pipe of agony was not inserted at all. So I punched and kicked my dear friend, and proceeded to insert it myself out of rage, and the car started beautifully! :woot:

Moral of the story: always double check things! :D

As for the window motors... we went mad at realigning the passenger side glass and carrier... it just won't stay straight! It leans towards the cabin of the car, wobbling no matter the tweakings on the guides and therefore slipping from the guides! We will figure it out! :)

Just another day working on a Delorean! :thumbup2:

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Originally Posted by DMC5180

Over the years I would look at my Interior Vinyl always wondering what it looked like when new. The Vinyl always had a brownish tinge which I assumed I was stuck with being a 44 year old vehicle. Well, after replacing the vinyl on the RH knee pad a couple weeks ago with the new cover kit from DMCH, Which looks great btw. I realized just how off the old vinyl looked against the new vinyl. On a whim I decided to see if the Door vinyl was cleanable. I happened to have a detailer recommended product (GTECHNIQ Tri-Clean) on the shelf I?d bought for cleaning the white interior of my Daily Driver.

Holy smokes! I couldn?t believe the difference.

This is a comparison on a half cleaned upper door panel.

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Wow, that's quite a difference! I experience a similar level of color change on my seats when I cleaned them with Leatherique when I first bought the car. It's amazing how much dirt and grime the interior surfaces can hold.

I drove the DeLorean for what's probably only the third or fourth time this summer just to move it out of the storage garage so I could extract my E46 touring. It's been parked behind the DeLorean for almost 2 years now.

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So now I've got two red BMW wagons sharing the same garage, neither currently road worthy. I'm fixing the auto transmission on the B30 swapped AWD car on the right, and the one on the left is the RWD manual trans car that I just pulled out of storage. That one about half way through an interior color swap from gray to brown, and I borrowed the euro tail lights to install on the other wagon.

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Well I spun the car around the first time it changed positions in 5 years..... Have a leaky brake line that's stopping that for the time being but Tuesday the exhaust system will be here and if nothing else goes wrong by Thursday this car may actually be running.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6656fb12bc.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...06a97fe73b.jpg

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I got to deal with this Less than 1 mile from , on the way to, the 26th Annual Deer Lake Orchard meet up of the Delorean Minnesota Club. (DMNC)

Always carry a spare Alternator Belt, just in case. I thought I had one, but it turned out I only had the A/C belt. Fortunately, another owner who was traveling with me had one. 30 minutes later I was on the road again to complete the last mile of the trip. What Crazy timing! I had just driven 375 miles to the point of failure. This literally could have happened Anywhere along the trip.

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Finally got ebrake adjusted properly.. can sit on a slant now in neutral
Thanks Dave and Andy for your help!