[DMCForum] Re: John Lane's PRV

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Dave - John Lane is local to us up here in the flood plain that used 
to be called the Pacific Northwest.  His hopped-up Volvo is a full-
on rally car, complete with roll cage and all the race trappings.  A 
couple of people from here have ridden with him in that car, and say 
that it has "power to spare".  I have not been fortunate enough to 
take a ride in it.  Although I have no relevant information on the 
money that he has in that motor, he did a couple of "conversions" on 
local cars that we can use as a gauge of sorts.  One car had an 
Eagle Premier conversion with Electromotive FI and distributorless 
ignition, and I belive that it cost around $10K in the final 
analysis.  This was the car that twisted off its input coupler, and 
caused me to make that stronger version.  It makes just over 200HP I 
believe.  The other car was a partial conversion, where he used an 
Eagle Premier block and lower end, and used DeLorean upper end with 
stock FI and ignition.  The car is moderately more powerful, but not 
*really* significant.  The cost for the engine work was over that 
$5K mark, although I don't know the exact figures because it was in 
the midst of a bunch of other work.  These both were "shop bills" as 
the cars were in the shop that John works for.

Toby Peterson
www.delorean-parts.com 


--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Stragand" 
<dave.stragand@xxxx> wrote:
> Hmmm... and DROOL...
>  
> >From John:
>  
> "I neglected to supply you with numbers that my car made... At the 
wheels we had 504lb/ft of torque at 4000rpm's.   We did not do 
a 'max HP'  run on the dyno but were rather just dialing in the 
injection and ignition curves. This was with 11lbs of boost.   I 
regularly run it to 15lbs of boost.  That makes it a different 
manner of savage beast altogether.   I'm sure that you can 
imagine.   Broken drivetrain bits aplenty.   I am figuring for 500+ 
lb/ft at the wheels at 6000 (with 15lbs of boost) which works out 
per the math to something like 500hp at the wheels.   Call it better 
then a rough guess.   Anyone who has ridden in the car will not 
dispute the number."

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