What have you done to your DeLorean today?

[PJ Grady Inc.]

Lining up spark plug wires for replacement.

Can someone confirm the recommended cylinder number order for plug wires in terms of length (shortest to longest) is:

4, 1, 2, 5, 6, 3

?

(This is the order the originals were in my car, from shortest to longest).

Thx.

2 should definitely be longer than 5. Otherwise it looks about right.
Rob

[88KPH]

I know what you mean, but no, these lights don't have that problem. Here's a picture with them all on, straight on.

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I try to keep my car as original as possible, but after installing LEDs, I would never go back to incandescent bulbs. There are too many advantages for the LEDs.

They do look nice. Have you got an shot from 45*?
It would be nice to see a shot when someone was halfway through conversion. One side LED and one regular bulbs.

[PJ Grady Inc.]

Lining up spark plug wires for replacement.

Can someone confirm the recommended cylinder number order for plug wires in terms of length (shortest to longest) is:

4, 1, 2, 5, 6, 3

?

(This is the order the originals were in my car, from shortest to longest).

Thx.

2 should definitely be longer than 5. Otherwise it looks about right.
Rob

[Jonathan]

2 should definitely be longer than 5. Otherwise it looks about right.
Rob

Hey, thanks Rob. That makes sense. I'll lay them out before putting them in permanently and see how they fit. Could be a better way to route them for all I know if I look at it in terms of what I know I don't want getting pulled on.

Here's another odd ball question:

With the intake off you sure do get some views of the engine and trans you wouldn't normally when all that stuff is blocking the line of sight. I was peering down beyond the front of the engine to where the trans starts, initially looking at where the other end of the throttle cable was hanging (the end that goes to the governor).

A little to the left, on what would be the driver's side/half of the engine and trans, I can see the vacuum hose that runs down to the vacuum modulator. This is an auto trans unique item. The hose is here: http://store.delorean.com/p-8936-vacuum-hose.aspx

My hose isn't a hose per se, because it's metal of some kind, firm anyway, not rubber. Don't know if that is what it was intended to be as it got replaced the first year I had the car when someone else was doing much of the work on it.

That aside, what I saw when I was looking down in there was a little plastic clip, not unlike the one that holds the lower speedo cable to the bracket. This one is meant to hold that hose in place I'd imagine. I don't see it on any of the diagrams though. You happen to know where it is? I couldn't get the hose/tube pushed back onto it as it is a little mushed, so I was hoping to see what it is supposed to look like when new and figure out if mine needs to get replaced or mushed back into the proper shape.

Thx.

[Peripatetic]

Today was all about the lights.

Switched out the original headlights and replaced them with LED ones. The old ones were very dim. I didn't like driving at night the lights aren't much brighter than a regular car lights but they are pure white and the DeLorean is so low I doubt I'll blind anybody.

I also upgraded my brake lights to LED. The comparison shot has LED on the left and Incandescent on the right. There were long dead spiders and mosquitos inside the tail lamps and grease behind the headlights. The grease confused me a little but ok. Next I dealt with the interior dome light, the front one never turned on so I switched it with LED, but it didn't turn on. I checked the original bulb and notice that it didn't look burnt out so I simply swapped the entire lamp with the one above the shelf and called it good. Now I have a light in front so I can find the ignition and I'll just deal with the not functioning one much later.

All of this was so easy. Except for the headlights. Why. Why would they design them like this?? Took forever. The taillight was so easy that it was misleading and the plug-and-play LED bulbs made me think the front would be easy too.

All in all, a good day. Now I can see at night, which I recommended.

[Gregadeth]

I also upgraded my brake lights to LED. The comparison shot has LED on the left and Incandescent on the right.

I've noticed in comparison shots, the LEDs look a little more orange-y rather than pure red, compared to the incandescents. Is it just the camera's color balance, or are they actually slightly more orange / less red?

[Peripatetic]

I've noticed in comparison shots, the LEDs look a little more orange-y rather than pure red, compared to the incandescents. Is it just the camera's color balance, or are they actually slightly more orange / less red?

I just went outside and had someone drive my car to the end of the street and back to see the new lights.

The brake lights are definitely brighter red. But, like, really red. So it's definitely the smartphone auto color balancing.

[mr_maxime]

Changed out my flasher relay then blinker lights to leds yesterday. I changed the license plate bulbs to LEDs today. I hate how the whatever they screw into isn't glued in. Complete hassle to put them back in.

[Bitsyncmaster]

I've noticed in comparison shots, the LEDs look a little more orange-y rather than pure red, compared to the incandescents. Is it just the camera's color balance, or are they actually slightly more orange / less red?

It's really hard to take photos of LEDs. Todays "auto" cameras just do not do well with bright LEDs.

Real "Ruby Red" LEDs are hard to come by when buying the LED chips themselves. But most replacement car bulbs did have the correct red color.

I'm really careful over buying things these days because of china forgeries are just crap. Buy from reputable suppliers.

[DMC5180]

Today was all about the lights.

the DeLorean is so low I doubt I'll blind anybody.
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I thought the same thing when I installed HIDs 10 years ago. But I have had people comment that the left light was blinding them. When I look at the light pattern on the wall, the left light is slightly higher than the right. So I'd have to say alignment it important.

Can you post some lighting shots Hi/Lo on a road and on a garage door so we can get an idea of the performance and light pattern?

I've recently switched to LED in my Daily driver. A significant improvement but I need to tweak the alignments. I just went on long road trip for the holidays and I've been getting flashed quite often so I know I need to address that.


Dennis