BTTF Car, Tiptronic (WAS: THE engine)

["Marc A. Levy" <malevy@xxxx>]

Some confusion...

Bob, the owner of the "97 DeLorean" has a V8 Rover engine in it with a Tiptronic transmission in it of the 4 speed variety. His car was at Ken's 1998, and 2000 show. Bob decided to come to 2002 without the car.

2002 has a new addition to BTTF modified cars, I believe this is the one Oliver is talking about below.

I have heard discussion about putting the ZF 5 or 6 speed automatic units (Also called tiptronic by Porsche) in to DeLoreans, but have never seen it done. I suspect the frame would need modification to fit the larger gear box. I agree, this would be cool to see with some of the engine conversions.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holler [mailto:thehauntfactory@xxxx]
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 10:40 PM
> To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DML] Re: THE engine
> 
> 
> John and all,
> About our Back to the Future car. . .
> Original engine 5-speed. Close to 100,000 miles and purrs 
> like a tough kitty.
> How rumors can get started. . .? ! :-)
> Oliver Holler
> http://www.time-car.com
> 
> 
> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:47:11 EDT
> From: BondAtomic@xxxx
> Subject: Re: THE engine
> 
> Don't forget about the Porsche ZF 6-speed. I heard from 
> someone that the Back
> to the Future DeLorean at Ken's Show has one? Is that true? 
> Oh man it would
> be a nice addition to the Northstar.
> 
> Oh man.
> John
> 4275

>