Re: [DML] Re: Porsche Boxer H6 engine

[Jim Strickland <ihaveanaccount@xxxx>]

I was going to say he needed "a miracle"!! "Room", as Dave suggests, is
a much nicer answer. I measured the porsche flat-6's when I was looking
at an engine swap. They really are broad at the bottom, and the Delorean
frame is particularly narrow, just like Dave has said. The engine would
certainly not fit with the engine cradle still intact. This may be
irrelavent, as I think the point of the flat-6 is that the weight is very
low in the car. Putting this weight over the cradle woudn't really make
sense.

Dave suggests other v-6's, I don't think that's particularly necessary. 
Others have stuffed in rotary, V-8s, and I'm sure the inline-4 from the
Honda S2000 would fit in, and it's also 240hp n/a. Coincidence?

Jim
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:28:41 -0000 "Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxx>
writes:
> Room, for starters. Looking at the DMC frame design, a Flat 6 
> probably won't fit in between the frame members (it's a close fit on 
> 
> the original V-6). Have you measured either the car or the engine? 
> V-
> engines are probably the only way to go. 
> 
> Dave S
> 


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