So me and my buddy are cruisin on over to the local taco bell, when I look in the mirror and see a DeLorean. A light in front of me turns red and the guy pulls into the right lane next to me. We were giving the guy the thumbs up and checking out his ride and he starts to rev it. I couldnt beleive he wanted to race! The light turns green and the guy took off. I hit it and passed him with very little effort, but we still gave him the thumbs up as we slowed down. Those cars are so awesome. Does anyone know what they run? I know they have a French 2.8 V6, but I dont know how much power. It seemed pretty slow but I'd trade the T/A for one in a heartbeat. The guy followed me through traffic for a while, I just wanted to hit 88mph . 1.21 gigawatts Marty!!

it's like a cuisinart tranformed into a sportscar! no waxing or buffing,just a little galley shine* now and then!

They are pretty slow... or so I hear

They run mid-high 15's. There is one at the car museum by me that has a list of stats. It has something like 220 hp.

From what I hear those things were total pieces of ****

I heard they were crap too. I also heard that if you parked with one wheel up ona curb, there is so much chassis flex that the doors won't open. wow

Horsepower: 130 @ 5,500 RPM
Torque: 153 lb/ft @ 2,750 RPM

17.9 in the 1/4...



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They must weigh close to 2 tons I'd imagine, they put so much steal into that car I can't believe they only put a six in there...

The Delorean was supposed to be the Firebird.

GM didn't want a competitor to the Corvette, so Pontiac borrowed the F-body design from Chevrolet, and the Firebird was born.

I think Delorean was pretty pissed off about that, but I'm glad it workd out the way it did.

Yea thier neat to look at but dont have any power, just a chick magnet. I would trade either of my fbodys for one though just for the look at me factor.
SSC

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85 Camaro, 355/400 "drag car" current DD 13.1@ 101mph on its last season run.
Plans: Possibly add N20 for next season.
82 Firbird, rebuilt 355 for it and slaped a 700r4 in. The 700r4 crapped out so back to the tb350

From what I hear they run 0-60 in the range of 8-9 seconds and hit the quarter in mid 15s. These are what I heard but never I've never seen one.

I'm really glad they didn't use that thing for the F-body design...I think they're fugly! So according to the #'s, how far did Marty have to drive to reach 88 mph?

They are as cool as fu(k, but are slower than hell. The other problem with them is that they get covered in fingerprints from all the admirors-unpainted stainless steel.

I've raced a few of them and they are slow. However, watch out for the ones fitted with the flux capacitor. Once they hit 88mph they suddenly dissapear then reapear accross the finish line with the doors open and the owner standing like he's been waiting there for you for hours. Those ones are the devil in disguise.

Rob

Just a note of interest to the non believers... it is technically possible to travel from one point to another instantly (at any speed you desire)... the time travel thing is still impossible for the most part.

Bear with me for a simple explanation...

With enough power, a rift (where basically nothing exists) can be punched through the time space continuum in front of the vehicle and then closed behind it... the rift can "travel" at a rate much greater than the speed of light while the vehicle is actually travelling well below that inside the rift. It is comparable with travelling on a VERY fast moving walkway... It's all theory, but things are in the making where this teleportation may occur in laboratories on a small scale within the next few years.

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Haha! You watch too much Star Trek. Did you think the "warp-drive" that Gene Roddenberry wrote about would actually work?
Gotta love back yard relativity.



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No guts, no glory.

I'd be scared to race one, not because I'd loose but what if you break something? BTW its a Renault V6 in there, thats all i know about it. Theres one in my town, but the guy PAINTED IT! WTF? You just don't do that! Make it yours i guess... but thats just wrong.

BTW PhatCat isn't making that up... and theres a lot more besides just that going on deep in those government labs!

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88 Camaro (The mighty LO3 SC!)
305TBI/700R4/2.73/125,XXX miles
10" Open Element and Flowmaster 80 seires
Bosch Platinum plugs
Double silicone Accel wires


Next up: headers and gears

I got one word!!!


ENGAGE!!!!

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1989 Trans Am GTA, Gutted air box, K&N, Koni Sports

Yeah, it's a 2.8 PRV V6... Puegot Renault Volvo
A mutt basically!

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I heard that a very expensive one was made with gold trim, anyone know about that?

Yeah, it's 24k gold plated....






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wow....think of all the mods you could do to a 350 you could do with half the money it took to gold plate that sucker...and its still slow...four houses down a older fellow has one of those cars (not gold plated he takes it to all the local car shows. they are pretty sweet cars. but ill keep my formula
Snuffit

i just thought i would add that i saw one of these in the parking garage when i was leaving school tonite, man are those things fugly!

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87 IROC-z 305 TPI
Borg Warner T-5 fresh rebuild
10-bolt 3.73 Richmond gears rebuilt GM posi,
formerly BW 9-bolt w/3.45 gears(broke it)
Ported Plenum and Runners Homemade AFPR
ACCEL 8.8 wires, High output coil,and cap & rotor
Bosch platinum + 4 plugs
Ram Air w/ K&N filters,
MAF sensor screens removed, TB coolant bypass
Polyurethane tranny and torque arm mounts
No Cat, Dynomax Headers & catback w/custom tips
K&N oil filter,Mobil 1 synth,Factory Oil Cooler, Futura GLS Super Sport tires 265/50/15 rear and 235/60/15 front mounted on 86 monte carlo SS rims.

406 siamesed TPI in progress

who knows if gm would've used it for the Firebird in 89 it would've had the 3.8 turbo and not only would it have been a looker but it would've been a runner too!

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Ok leave the poor delorians alone. The fact of the mater is they didnt have the financing to get the car what they actual planned. THe plan was to put a supercharged engine into the thing and be able to rival a porshe. I like the gull wings, and if i could find a mister fussion i would be able to save on batteries. BTW someone watched way to much trek and until we can slingshot around the sun we arent traveling back. Also remember marty, you still need gas to make it run.

PUTT...PUTT...PUTT

where can i get one of those flux capacitors for my firebird? i also need a Mr. Fusion model 229-A, and some time circuits, and whatever will make my car fly like that one did. lol

"Renault":American English Dictionary Translation= "we can't get the parts!"



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1990 Iroc convertible,305 tpi,Black with black leather interior,lowered,Taylor 8mm wires,K&N's,gutted airbox

The flux capacitor is old news now. Sure it was a fine invention bak in the 80s, but if you want to hang with the big boys nowadays you'll need to be running Fetzger Valves. That's where the action is at now

Rob

I've seen an Delorean with a ZZ4 crate in it but I can't find the pictures we took. But it hauled *** , yea the stock v6 in those things don't do it much justice tho

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87 IROC-Z, 3.23 posi, new 305 TPI, and soon to get new trans and world torquer 305 heads

Car and Driver tested a new DeLorean back in 1981 and came up with a 17.0 second 1/4 mile, and 10.0 second 0-60. The car weighed 2700lbs and had 130hp with a 5-speed and a 3.42:1 final drive ratio. The original intent was a 156hp version with 3.70:1 final drive ratio that would run mid 15's. U.S emissions and fuel economy laws didn't allow that, and that's why they're so slow. A twin turbo prototype was made and ran the 1/4 in 14.6 seconds and was supposed to be an option for the 1984 model year, which never was. Right now, DMC of Houston has every replacement part you could need for the car, and offers a 200hp street legal conversion if you want more power. Just some FYI.

I love the Deloreans, and I heard they made a few in red!!

A Spacefold Drive, or a more advanced version, a Spatial Compressor. It could also be refered to as a Hyperdrive since "hyperspace" is the "rift" your talking about.

Of course the fastest thing we could possibly make, if the whole world joined hands and made a herculean financial effort, would be a true form of an "Anti-mater" powered spacecraft., not this ICAN rocket hybrid that nasa is coming up with. Basically a cheapshot of a true fullblown antimatter rocket.

I am not a fan of the looks of a delorean at all. Good kill 85transamtpi.

My girlfriend was telling me about an article she read in some magazine like Town and Country or whatever it is. She is a car chick and saw an article by a guy talking about how girls dont know anything about cars and in the article the guy talked about when he was driving his 99 Lamborghini Diablo and a chick hit on him because she thought it was a DeLorean.

It's already been done! In all seriousness... There was an article on a major news website... (can't remember which) Sometime in November or December. It was quickly retracted, prolly due to some cover up, but in a lab a laser was shot into a field that was created on one side of the building and appeared through a corresponding field on the opposite side of the building. Now that is some freaky **** huh!?!

I heard about that.

I did you head about the scientists who made a beam of laser light actually STAND STILL? Yeah, like, frozen in position, and then they released it.

Freaky stuff man. I can't belive this thread is still alive though.

You guys know the Delorean Motor Company was British don't you? I think they were made in Ireland and Mr.Delorean was South African or something. I doubt it was ever intended as a Firebird though.

I'd like to drop a BBC in one of those!

Wow,
How do these threads come back to the top? This was a while ago!

Later guys,
Doug

My wife's uncle has one. He took me for a spin in it. Cool but not very fast. Also if you buy one don't plan on going to any fast food service windows. Because the windows don't roll down far enough to get your order in the car.

haha :lala:

Actually its pretty scary that alot of the things they "made up" in star trek are true theroms. IE matter/Anti-matter engine. NASA is looking into it, with the discovery of anti-matter a few years ago. They found that it COULD produce extreme amounts of energy.

actually John Delorean was the person who designed and built the PONTIAC GTO which he is more famous for...the DMC went outta business...(it was a mess making a car outta a stainless steel...i guess.maybe too expensive)..

It was actually suppose to be a twin turbo not superchareged. I believe there were a few test mules that may have been red and even a few other colors that may also have had the twin turbos. They had a problem with painting the stainless steele because it was too expensive a process that they never came out with other colors, that and DMC failed of course....and also there were a few black fiberglass models that were used to teach the builders how to assemble the DeLorean, but they were never put out in the market.

i'm a big back to the future fan obviously, so i've done my reading on them.

i've seen pics of the ones in red & black, and there are actually only 2 gold deloreans, i read deloreans book, and even though he had drug probs, it's cool to know he's a pontiac original, created the trans am idea as well i believe.

as far as speed, the guy who posted 130hp is right. although i have seen several for sale with the turbo setup. that would rock.

I remember this thread!!

Yeah I read about that stationary laser beam and the laser beams being transported... not exactly a teleportation of matter, but it's pretty damn awesome... And to clear something up, I did watch a lot of the original Trek and I've seen all but two of the movies, but I am just catching up on Next generation... All of what I have said here and anywhere I've read from accredited scientists and scientific journals... Quantum Physics is awesome although I don't have patience for some of the math... perhaps Calc 3 will help me next year.

I guess this topic is back at the top,, but no one mentions Deloreans scandals wasnt he jailed for doing so bad things and that helped DMC go down?

Those taillights remind me of the ones on my Iroc.

I read somewhere that they have actually transported matter. It was only 3 or 4 atoms through a lead plate, in a noble gas field or something.

What gauge SS was the Delorean made from?

Don't even mention the difficulty of finding an OEM Flux Capacitor, should yours stop working, and the availability of fuel for the Mr. Fusion.

(Sorry, had to go there LOL)

Oh, and you're right, they have transported matter. If you want a real good read on it, without all the math, read Timeline by Michael Crighton.

Yeah, I think it was because the company was running out of money. (in Northern Ireland, which is not surprising, given the lack of political/social stability there)
The Story is that John Z was busted making a big drug buy to get some cash to keep the company afloat.

I heard about some of the last DeLo's were painted, because it turned out to be such a PITA to keep all of that stainlesss steel shiny. No paint or clear coat, so you can't wax it. You have to polish it like you would polish your rims.

The car that was almost the Firebird was the '64 Banshee show/concept car. It was a 2 seat coupe/roadster with a fiberglass front clip, steel body, and Poncho V8's. The styling was very similar to the C3 Corvette (68-82), but with the tail that ended up on the second Gen Firebird. The original engine is believed to be a 326, but we all know that swaping Pontiac motors is like playing Legos, so a 389, 455, or 421SD could have been installed. This was way too much of a threat to the Corvette, so it got killed in a hurry. (This was also a DeLorean design)

This thread refuses to die, it just keeps popping to the top every couple of months.