[DML] Re: Delorean drag test with A Mom-mobile....

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having driven the same carb conversion on #5939 and #2508, I now think camshafts are identical between them.

I did omit "no automatic transmission" from the list.

Bill Robertson
#5939




--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Farrar Hudkins <fhudkins@...> wrote:
>
> The car behind you would have rear-ended you if it had accelerated more
> quickly.
> 
> Also, I believe that you once theorized that #5939's engine, not original
> to the car, probably has different camshafts than a DeLorean's PRV. You
> left that out of your list of modifications below. ;-)
> 
> Happy New Year,
> 
> Farrar Hudkins
> #2613
> 
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:17 AM, content22207 <brobertson@...>wrote:
> 
> > **
> >
> >
> > Only an eternal optimist would call a stock DeLorean "fast."
> >
> > There are a few things that can be done relatively easily and
> > inexpensively to make a DeLorean less slow:
> > - Freer flowing exhaust
> > - Freer flowing intake
> > - Slightly richer than stoich fuel metering
> > - Higher voltage ignition / larger plug gaps
> > - More aggressive spark advance
> >
> > Compare acceleration of this DeLorean, modified as above, to a stock
> > model: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MjA4R6t1Fs
> >
> > Bill Robertson
> > #5939
> >
> >
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>




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