[DML] Re: DeLorean Dignity

["Dani B" <5n-@xxxxxxx>]

I really haven't been following the engine swap threads because I knew
problems were likely to rise. It is the same with any car mailing list
or forums you subscribe to; they nearly butchered a guy for making a
custom 1950 Buick on my other forum...I feel that stock is good for
some cars, but I too really am not one who cares for this engine...In
fact, I'm likely do a swap in the near future to an 8 as well. I'm not
worried about value (because I will never sell the car) and I'm not
worried about what anyone else has to say about it.  AND, it will just
set my DeLorean apart from anyone else's. It's always possible to
convert it back and is free provided you keep your old engine and etc.
How can anyone really be upset with an engine swap? Everyone was
interested in a interior package to replace their stock interior, the
only difference with an engine is you can't really see it! Everyone
should have their own opinion and be able to express it, but it
doesn't make anyone wrong in what they're doing. It's YOUR cars-do
what you feel with them! Just what I think anyway- Dani B. #5003


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "secret_jedi_guy"
<secret_jedi_guy@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> [Moderator Note: Obviously this post will insult hundreds of people
on the DML.  Please keep in mind that this anonymous person is simply
expressing an opinion.  On the DML we do allow our subscribers to
express opinions, and past experience has shown that no hot-tempered
response or witty retort will change his/her mind.  -Mike Substelny
DML moderator of the week]
> 
> Look I didn't mean to "offend the faith of the purists."  When I
got 
> the car I knew exactly what I was getting.  What I didn't expect
was 
> about $389 for a shop job to replace six heater hoses.  The problem 
> was the ENGINE and the LOCATION of the hoses, he also said that any 
> other fixes would cost the same or more because of the awkward 
> design.  In asking for info about an engine swap, I was not looking 
> for a slugfest about how I will devalue the car, and how I must not 
> have known what kind of car it was, or what I was getting.  I am
not 
> planning on selling it.  The PRV is FRENCH.  The FRENCH haven't 
> produced U.S. emmissions legal vehicles in 25 years.  That is
before 
> the DeLorean was built and I have all of the previous owner's 
> service records that show how much of a pain it was to get it to 
> pass it's smog check this year.  In dumping the PRV, I can get 
> something AMERICAN that I can do most of the work on myself.
> 
> On another note, someone said that I should just spend $2000
dollars 
> on an old Camaro to run into the ground and "spare the DeLorean its 
> dignity."  The fact is the DeLorean looks like a Lotus and has less 
> power than a VW Bug.  A car like that has NO dignity.  Now if you 
> really want to say I know nothing about the car you are mistaken.  
> It was intended to be a sports car to compete with the Corvette.  
> You can look that up.  They went with the PRV because the cost went 
> up to produce them and yes the PRV was a reliable powerplant at the 
> time.  Granted, with time, effort and money I could keep my current 
> PRV and have it be a reliable powerplant for another 100,000 miles 
> or I could swap it for a more powerful, emissions legal, American 
> engine and make the car what it WAS SUPPOSED TO BE.  You should
also 
> remember that this car would be NOTHING to ANYBODY except the very 
> first enthusiasts if Back to the Future was never made.  It would 
> just be another piece of failed automotive history, and even in
Back 
> to the Future they swapped the engine in 3 cars for a small block
V8 
> in order to get an engine growl underneath the added jet sound.
> 
> In answer to another question of whether my other mechanic friend 
> would stay with me till the end.  Yes, he was the one who was going 
> to help me perform the swap because has done it before with no 
> problems.  I thought about turbos, but the fact is I would be stuck 
> with the PRV and a twin turbo taking up space in there making it 
> that much harder to work on.
> 
> Don't tell me I'm "bastardizing" it by changing the engine.  I am 
> just taking an incomplete concept car and finishing it.
> 
> VIN: 1223








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