What have you done to your DeLorean today?

[TTait]

I put in my K&N filter and cold air intake hose and took her for a spin, results as follows:

The car has a lot more horsepower
The graining on the stainless is now perfect
The glass is clearer
I have 15% more tread on my tires now
my horns are louder...


OK, maybe not. It might have a little more power lower in the rpm range - hard to say. It does idle a bit smoother (I have DMCCA cams so it was a bit lopey before, it is smoother now). Certainly no ill effects - I'm happy. BTW - the "old filter" was DMCH NOS and about 2 months old.

Waiting now for my Stage 1 Exhaust... I kind of expect it all to spell mother at that point.

Not sure what to call it then BTW - it will have taller cams, cold air intake and K&N filter, fresh coil and O2, and stage 1 exhaust. No port and polish however. I know I won't be getting a Stage II tag in the mail for my trouble - but it's closer to that than anything else at that point. I was thinking "Level 2" or "Mark 2" or even "Gen-2" (GEN II is taken, as some of you will recall) - but in memory of Wernher von Braun I'm leaning toward calling it a V-2 Engine...

Tom

[TTait]

I think you should call it a "double flap engine."

Farrar

sounds like something you would wear with a tuxedo...

[opethmike]

Your cams are going to become MUCH more beneficial once you get those headers on there.

As for what I did to my car today - went through my Megasquirt EFI harness and made sure everything was okay, did some more planning on what to do differently for my second EFI conversion attempt.

[TTait]

did some more planning on what to do differently for my second EFI conversion attempt.

If your looking for a car to experiment on, let me know.

[jackb]

Yesterday I washed it and passed by a friends house. His neighbors came out to see the car and I showed them and their son around it. The dad was pretty interested in it, asked if some had GM engines (he knew he didn't know, so it wasn't like he was telling me that).

This morning I was driving it to work and the alternator/water pump belt broke. Again. That's the third one in <1,000 miles. Clearly something is tweaked, even though it looks good to the naked eye. I'm moving to CA in 2 weeks, shipping the D, so I'm going to call DMC Garden Grove and see about having it sent there and having some other work done on it at the same time.

(To add insult to injury, I got a ride home to borrow a friends trailer to bring the Delorean home on. It broke the wood on the trailer, and then when I got home my truck sprung a leak on the power steering line and was pouring everywhere.)

[opethmike]

If your looking for a car to experiment on, let me know.

Heh, I don't know about experimenting on someone else's car for an EFI conversion, but once I get mine running successfully, I would certainly love to help someone else get theirs going.

[jawn101]

Yesterday I washed it and passed by a friends house. His neighbors came out to see the car and I showed them and their son around it. The dad was pretty interested in it, asked if some had GM engines (he knew he didn't know, so it wasn't like he was telling me that).

This morning I was driving it to work and the alternator/water pump belt broke. Again. That's the third one in <1,000 miles. Clearly something is tweaked, even though it looks good to the naked eye. I'm moving to CA in 2 weeks, shipping the D, so I'm going to call DMC Garden Grove and see about having it sent there and having some other work done on it at the same time.

(To add insult to injury, I got a ride home to borrow a friends trailer to bring the Delorean home on. It broke the wood on the trailer, and then when I got home my truck sprung a leak on the power steering line and was pouring everywhere.)

Where are you moving in CA? Northern or southern?

[Michael]

Got finished early, wife is out of town for a show, beautiful day so I took 5609 out for a drive this afternoon. I thought I would go and find a road I had never been on before, and I did, and promptly got lost. I lost my signal to my phone almost immediately. That country road I got on had no other roads to turn on, just one curve after another which would have been fine but I was heading west with no way to navigate back in the other direction. I passed absolutely nothing but homes, no sign of a gas station, or anything at all really. Now this is really what I wanted, to get lost and find my way back, but this road just went on and on....and on. I acutally did find one road, but 5 or 6 miles into the new direction it turned to gravel, so I tucked tail and went back. At the 1/4 tank mark I got a signal again and realized I was about to intersect with Rogersville, so I kept going to the 11W highway intersection, almost 50 miles away from home. I put some gas in the tank, passed a take out sushi resturant on the way home so I here am safe and sound getting ready to shower and eat dinner.

All I was thinking about for most of the trip was if I break down, I have no idea where I am, and I have had no phone signal for over 15 miles.

I have lived in east Tennessee for most of my life, and still it was so easy to get lost.

[jackb]

Where are you moving in CA? Northern or southern?

Vandenberg AFB / Santa Maria. More southern than northern.

[jawn101]

Got finished early, wife is out of town for a show, beautiful day so I took 5609 out for a drive this afternoon. I thought I would go and find a road I had never been on before, and I did, and promptly got lost. I lost my signal to my phone almost immediately. That country road I got on had no other roads to turn on, just one curve after another which would have been fine but I was heading west with no way to navigate back in the other direction. I passed absolutely nothing but homes, no sign of a gas station, or anything at all really. Now this is really what I wanted, to get lost and find my way back, but this road just went on and on....and on. I acutally did find one road, but 5 or 6 miles into the new direction it turned to gravel, so I tucked tail and went back. At the 1/4 tank mark I got a signal again and realized I was about to intersect with Rogersville, so I kept going to the 11W highway intersection, almost 50 miles away from home. I put some gas in the tank, passed a take out sushi resturant on the way home so I here am safe and sound getting ready to shower and eat dinner.

All I was thinking about for most of the trip was if I break down, I have no idea where I am, and I have had no phone signal for over 15 miles.

I have lived in east Tennessee for most of my life, and still it was so easy to get lost.

This is so funny. That's almost exactly what I did yesterday too. I just took off down a road I had never driven before. Ended up going way through the back country, caught in a quick rainstorm and on a long straight road with no real turnaround possible due to deep ditches on either side. Eventually connected to a cross street and I recognized it, wound my way back on some more interesting (but previously-explored) roads. Didn't get sushi though, so your story totally wins.