What have you done to your DeLorean today?

[Gregadeth]

This past Sunday, Volker (vps3922) and I went on our first (and probably last!) cruise of the year. Yup. Between my daughter arriving this august, his new Job and two other local owners moving it was a very quiet year for DeLoreans in BC.

In other news - it's never too early to start the obsession:

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Congratulations, Dave!

[DMC-81]

I was able to drive it!!!

No fluid leaks and everything mechanical worked.

It was a good day.

[DMC5180]

I was able to drive it!!!

No fluid leaks and everything mechanical worked.

It was a good day.

Congrats👍🏻

[Gregadeth]

Took it to Pep Boys to get new tires installed - the tires on there were 13 years old!

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The brand new tires I went with BF Goodrich all around.
G-force Super Sport - 196/60/14 (fronts)
Radial T/A - 235/60/15 (rears)

This was the basically the only option for me that I could find, that met my 4 main criteria:
- Stock sizes
- Matching brand
- Made in USA
- Reasonably priced

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[sdg3205]

Took it to Pep Boys to get new tires installed - the tires on there were 13 years old!

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The brand new tires I went with BF Goodrich all around.
G-force Super Sport - 196/60/14 (fronts)
Radial T/A - 235/60/15 (rears)

This was the basically the only option for me that I could find, that met my 4 main criteria:
- Stock sizes
- Matching brand
- Made in USA
- Reasonably priced

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I really wish BFG would bring back the radial TA in a 195. Love those tires. BFG are the best.

[Gregadeth]

I really wish BFG would bring back the radial TA in a 195. Love those tires. BFG are the best.

Yup, I think that would have been the perfect setup. I love the design of the tread, makes the rears look especially beefy (kinda like the original NCTs). And the fact that you can install em both ways, one way for black sidewall, and the other way for raised white lettering. But using the Super Sports for the front is the best alternative. Same brand, and the tread design isn't too different from the Radial T/As.

[novadmc]

Installed bitsyncmaster's solid state RPM relay and tested it out today. simply put, I love it and wish i bought it sooner. my stock RPM replay never would auto-prime the fuel pump when the key was turned to ACC.
with the stock RPM relay, cold starts would take ~2 sec to start. hot stars almost always took 2 cranks to fire up the car.

With the new relay and the pump priming before turning over, both cold and hot starts fire up almost immediately. 1sec of crank at most and thats with the currently having the relay's "hot start fix" OFF).

[Jonathan]

Changed oil and filter.
Replaced oil sender and seal (the warning light one).
Went to British Car Day in Oakville with a dozen other DeLoreans and about a thousand other UK cars.

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[Jonathan]

Fixed wipers.

Realized on the weekend that my wipers weren't working. No speeds and no wiper fluid. Figured it got unplugged and that's indeed what happened. I had gone under the binnacle to replace a bulb the other day and the connector must have backed itself out of the receptacle on the bracket up in the pedal assembly when I was working in there.

I don't mention it because it was some sort of clever discovery, instead only to help any potential owners with the same problem. The assistance being that the signal/wiper stalk has two connectors and they separate the stuff on the wiper side from the stuff on the signals side. Just an easy way to narrow down what happened if you notice only one side of your stalks is working or not working.

Here's an older picture when I had an old (bent) and new assembly together to show the connectors.

Cheers.

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[Bitsyncmaster]

Was just at the hardware store and bought an indoor/outdoor thermometer (electronic unit) so I could use it for measuring temps on the DeLorean. It only cost $8.99 and can record the min and max temps. I wanted it to measure the temps in the relay compartment. I also can use it measure the AC vent temps which I now use a dial thermometer but it is hard to read when driving the car.

This unit is made by Taylor and outside temp range of -40 to 158 deg. F

I drove the car for 3 hours running the AC all the way home. Outside temp was about 85 deg. F and max relay box temp hit 94.8 deg. F. This was cooler than I expected but I do have all solid state relays. I'm guessing the worst relay box temp would be after your car has been sitting in the sun closed up. I drilled a small hole in the plywood relay box cover about in the center to RTV my temp sensor there.