What have you done to your DeLorean today?

[Farrar]

Using Martin G's handy video, I determined that my distributor was 180° off. Having lined the timing up, I started putting things back together, and snapped a spark plug and a connector for the kickdown switch. Every time I get closer to fixing something, something else completely idiotic happens which stops me in my tracks. I am convinced that my car hates me, and I am beginning to hate it back.

[Ryan S.]

Sent my car off to DMCCA today. 6 hours trip from Sacramento to Huntington Beach.
Transmission rebuilding project failed and need some professional help. Very sad.
Once it's done, I'll fly down to LA to pick it up and drive back home.





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[DavidProehl]

Can't tell you how sorry I am to hear this is still causing you trouble. That is heartbreaking. At least this will take care of it once and for all. Just sucks you have to go through all this.

Sent my car off to DMCCA today. 6 hours trip from Sacramento to Huntington Beach.
Transmission rebuilding project failed and need some professional help. Very sad.
Once it's done, I'll fly down to LA to pick it up and drive back home.





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[Ryan S.]

Can't tell you how sorry I am to hear this is still causing you trouble. That is heartbreaking. At least this will take care of it once and for all. Just sucks you have to go through all this.

Thanks Dave. You are like a god father to my car. Well... We gave our best shot. I came to a realization that this is no toyota and it will continue to do its thing. Price we have to pay for do it with some style. It's just a terrible timing with my lotus totalled. Good thing is that I am still alive and kicking.
Oh well. It will be fun to drive around in LA in a D. Should stop by the universal studio to pay my respect.

[DMC5180]

Thanks Dave. You are like a god father to my car. Well... We gave our best shot. I came to a realization that this is no toyota and it will continue to do its thing. Price we have to pay for do it with some style. It's just a terrible timing with my lotus totalled. Good thing is that I am still alive and kicking.
Oh well. It will be fun to drive around in LA in a D. Should stop by the universal studio to pay my respect.

Lotus totaled! I must have missed something here. Did you post something about it earlier? What model?

[Trstno1]

Almost shared this link on my original post. Thanks again to Patrick for pointing me in this direction:
http://nostalgicac.com/2-5-inch-duct...y-adapter.html <--the 2.5 inch Y adapter to re-route air to the new vents.

As i mentioned, the vents that I am using are out of an early 2000's Mitsubishi Eclipse (tons of them on eBay at the time of this writing) - kinda ironic to me, as a 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse was the first car that I ever bought new off of a dealership lot. I actually got a set of 4, that have 2 different setups (2 of each type):
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The vent on the left, will be used on either side of the steering column. these take a 2.5 inch hole and will be fixed (non-rotateable), but you can open and close the vent itself. There is just barely enough room in the knee pads on this side of the car to install the vents.

The vents on the right in the pictures have an outer frame that will require between a 2 3/4 and 3 inch hole to be drilled, but will allow the vents to rotate as well as open and close. I will do two of these on the passenger side of the car. Placement is pretty well dictated by the glove box. I am going to have to figure out the changing from 2.5 inch hose to 2.75 inch vent housing. (I think I have a solution, but will have to see if it actually works once I get parts in the mail).

I just got 1 of the above Y adapters. I plan on using this on the passenger side. the Y will go on the existing hose mounting point and I will use a short section of hose to go to the left vent. The existing hose will to towards the door and will go to the right-most vent. This should be pretty easy to accomplish with minimum modification.

The Drivers side will be more interesting. I am going to leave the tubing in place that goes above the steering column. the short hose that goes to the door will be redirected to the left most vent. the tricky part is that there is no good place to install a y adapter on this side of the car. I plan on drilling a 2.5 inch hole directly in to the existing ducting. . . .somewhere around here:
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and then either epoxy in a small bit of plastic tube that I can attach the hoses to, or just a hole that the tube can go in to. I was hoping to drill straight in, but will probably have to do that on the bottom, and hopefully at a bit of an angle to keep from having the AC hose go down towards the pedals before looping back up to the vent.

I have looked at the center vents, but have not done anything with them yet. I want to get my new radio in and see what the fit looks like. I like Patrick's idea of disabling the moving mechanism (I was afraid that messing with this would screw up the air going to the new vents as well). I will probably use my dremel to cut down the plastic parts of the center vent and then sealing the ports up to ensure that there is minimal air leakage. I will take pics as I work through all of this, and can make a how-to posting when I am all complete....

More to come!

Any updates on this project?

[Ryan S.]

About a month ago, I totaled my other toy. Lotus Elise.
Coming back from a meeting, an elderly lady who shouldn't be driving rear ended my car. While I was stopped for a red light and waiting for the light to turn green, this old lady in a huge cady coming in real fast behind me and not slowing down. I am thinking... OMG OMG please stop, please stop.... and crash. Luckily, car in front was a Smart car and I had a lot of distance in between. I banged my head and got a nasty bump. And some back pain. Other than that nothing is broken or cut. Unfortunately, my Lotus wasn't too lucky.

Crazy thing was, I felt sorry and worried for that old lady. She looked like 85 or older. But she started to blame me for not getting out of her way and claiming that I cut her off. My car wasn't even moving. Gee wiz... Fortunately, traffic camera caught the entire incident and confirmed my story. I believe her care giver lady was following her in a separate car because the care giver lady was worried about that old lady getting into an accident. That didn't help in this case.

Now I am down two cars ugggg....












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[jawn101]

About a month ago, I totaled my other toy. Lotus Elise.
Coming back from a meeting, an elderly lady who shouldn't be driving rear ended my car. While I was stopped for a red light and waiting for the light to turn green, this old lady in a huge cady coming in real fast behind me and not slowing down. I am thinking... OMG OMG please stop, please stop.... and crash. Luckily, car in front was a Smart car and I had a lot of distance in between. I banged my head and got a nasty bump. And some back pain. Other than that nothing is broken or cut. Unfortunately, my Lotus wasn't too lucky.

Crazy thing was, I felt sorry and worried for that old lady. She looked like 85 or older. But she started to blame me for not getting out of her way and claiming that I cut her off. My car wasn't even moving. Gee wiz... Fortunately, traffic camera caught the entire incident and confirmed my story.





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This is all terrible, Ryan. Sorry to hear the D is also heading down to DMCCA after all that - but hopefully it will come back perfect!

[Ryan S.]

Thanks Jon,
Over the weekend, I had a garage sale to liquidate all my Lotus parts and tools. Vulchers, no I mean, other Lotus owners, cleared my garage out. I felt really sad to let those things go but didn't want anything that would remind me of my old car.

[Citizen]

A while back my A/C fan quit working (A/C doesn’t work either, but that’s another story). Today I got around to looking into it. Checked fuses first, none bad, but while I was in the fuse box, I cleaned all the contacts.

Then I was about to go inside to log into DMCTalk to get help as to what else might be wrong with the blower motor if it wasn’t a fuse issue. Then at the last minute, I decide to check for anything amiss under the dash. Sure enough, somehow the power wire to the fan blower motor had come off. Plugged it back in, and now the fan works again.

So instead of coming on Talk and starting a new thread to ask for help about a bad A/C fan motor, I’m coming on Talk to post on “What have you done …..” that I solved my fan problem.

Thomas

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