What have you done to your DeLorean today?

[DMC5180]

Yup, she looks ready for a Baja rally. I think so many cars have now been lowered now that when I see one that isn't it really looks odd.

[bfloyd]

Finally got the cooling system completed, filled and pressure tested. Held at 15 psi for almost 2 hours. New vacuum lines went in last night, as did the new spark plugs, ignition wires, and manifold gaskets. My new DPI fuel lines came in on Friday, so I'm hoping to be able to fire the engine for the first time this coming weekend.

[novadmc]

Finally got the cooling system completed, filled and pressure tested. Held at 15 psi for almost 2 hours. New vacuum lines went in last night, as did the new spark plugs, ignition wires, and manifold gaskets. My new DPI fuel lines came in on Friday, so I'm hoping to be able to fire the engine for the first time this coming weekend.

nice; you're ahead of me now. havent had a chance to do anything to it since thursday. hopefully everything goes smoothly for you!

[Farrar]

This morning I stole a jumper wire out of the coin tray to put in my other car as insurance...

[novadmc]

pressure tested cooling system last night. it went from 15psi to just under 14psi over the course of 15 mins (tested with Mityvac MV4560). no leaks/drips anywhere though. valley is dry, radiator is dry. no hissing sounds anywhere. unless someone thinks this will bite me in the rear, im calling it a success and moving onto (hopefully) valve adjustments and clutch bleeding this weekend.

i had forgotten to transfer over the short, 19mm plug bolt that sits on the front of the water pump, just below the thermostat housing from the old pump (the one htat has no part number on store.delorean.com's site) so that was a fun little mess when filling up the system at first....

[bfloyd]

Getting closer. Got the rest of the new silicone vacuum lines put in last night, the intake manifold re-installed, the injectors installed, air metering assembly and fuel distributor back in place, and my new DPI fuel lines put in. Got stumped on the return line because the original fittings that were on the car didn't mate up to the new return line. Shot an email off to Josh last night about 10:30 p.m. hoping he'd answer sometime today. I got a reply from him within a matter of minutes. I was impressed. Still have some miscellaneous wires, clamps,the idle speed motor, and the throttle assembly left to go in the engine bay, but the big stuff is done.

Only things left are the fuel filter, fuel feed line, accumulator, and the new DMCH fuel pump.

[powerline84]

dude those fuel lines look sexy

[Domi]

+1 on those blue fuel lines

[vps3922]

Oh, Dave (sdg3205) will love these. He wants to have blue SS braided fuel lines as well. Now he can see how it will look. Sweet!

[DMC-81]

I took a break from the engine reassembly while waiting on a part, meantime I took off the radiator assembly to replace the plastic tanked OEM unit, and I'm refurbishing the fans as they still work well, but have some rust on the cases. Driver side is done (below) and today I disassembled, sanded, and primed the passenger fan.

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