delorean is a complex machine

[kKoncelik@xxxx]

In a message dated 5/22/2003 4:50:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
louie@xxxx writes:

> The DeLorean is NOTHING at all like a good old simple American muscle car 
> for the '60s or '70s. They're overly complex and EXTREMELY fickle little 
> machines.

I would beg to differ with this a bit

Although it is different it is far less complex than a lot of other cars. I 
am restoring a Jaguar and that is far more time consuming, expensive and 
complicated than the DeLorean. In addition I recently disassembled and 
reassembled 2 DeLoreans and in one case in Chicago fired up a car that had 
been sitting for 5 years and it started on the first turn of the key and ran 
smoothe. My Jag never cooperated that nicely and after 4 years of on again 
off again restoration is still not running (mainly due to time)

In restoring cars the DeLorean because of the plastic an Stainless take out 
one of the most time consuming parts of the restoration (body work) 
As long as the frame is solid the work to restore the rest is mainly a good 
cleanup and polish.

As far a sthe engine goes I have seen many messed up DeLoreans mainly by 
shops that don't know what they are doing. Recently I took a car considered 
to be a basket case to Dave Bauerle and in a matter of a few hours he put 
back all the vacuum hoses and took off all the bypasses and turned the key 
and it ran perfectly.

Your best bet it to put it back the way it belongs if it doesn't work find 
out what was missed because it does work if everything is right and if you 
prepare properly.

I find it interesting and can usually troubleshoot or can explain the problem 
well enough to one of the service centers to fix it.

I had a wire harness problem (my own fault for it in the first place) and Don 
Steger figured it out over the phone in minutes. 

Our car may not be a 60's muscke car with an engine attached to a start 
switch but it is nowhere near as complicated as some of the other cars out 
there.

Ken
vin16684
restored concours entry 3720
restored 1880



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