Andrea - VIN 1748 (italy)

[mike_84]

c'est l'ancien echappement stage 1 de chez DMCH ca non ?

[cineman]

c'est l'ancien echappement stage 1 de chez DMCH ca non ?

yes it is. It is iron jet coated with a Flowmaster muffler. For the noise im going to cover all the interior with sound absorbing material

[wakashimazu83]

whaouuuuuu magnifiques photos. tres bon travail et rapidité. Bravo

[michel]

Nice headliners !!!!

[Sebastian_6577]

Nice Andrea!
Lets see your enginge compartment next open day
greets seb

[cineman]

Some infos on the works i've done

General cleaning and painting of parts...
I changed bearings in the engine and all the gaskets in it, liner seals, o-rings, valves bushing, head gaskets and cleaned and checked everything. See picasa...
Replaced rear bushing with polyurethane. I already had done the front.


Replaced the clutch with John Harvey's Kevlar one. new main bearing, fork bearing clutch plate and Slave cylinder. Double leap seal on the engne. Resurfaced flywheel.



renewed the alternator. Changed bearings and so and cleaned and painted.


I changed the Ignition Distributor with a Volvo one. It has double counterbalancing in it and so a more agressive timing advance


I replaced the air plate of the throttle body with Volvo's one, that dont have the springs in the way little more air flow. For having the K-Jet work fine with them you have to open a little the idle screw or the engine will die in a sudden deceleration.
original

both together

new one in


I bought a used Houston exhaust it is just iron jet coated but i like it ^^ i like the american sound and how the headers are very long compared to all the other system. It is very rumorous inside the car, so i will cover the interior with sound absorb material.





after all of this...Im playing this days with the timing but i can tell for sure that THERE IS a great difference. I can make the wheel spin now with no much effort and the engine is alive also after 6000rpm. I can take down a gear and the engine at 6000rpm still has to give. Sure the headers and timing put the torque more on the highs rpm. I like it but this days i will try now to play with the timing for find a good compromise for road use and see what differencis i can find.
I will make videos
I did a little test with my accellerometer and i got 8.20sec from 0-100 wich is nice considered i still have little problem with the clutch (it dosnt desengage completely and the gear ar little hard..maybe master cylinder is gone ^^ )

If anyone has question...

[iudexmaximus]

It is very rumorous inside the car, so i will cover the interior with sound absorb material.

Yeah: this decision is higly recommended!
Passengers head & ears will thank you alot!

[cineman]

Giacomo and me can't stay without do nothing

When i was working on my engine i had the idea to make it biturbo or something more funny. In the end I did not do it, to much trouble with the original engine, so i keeped it quite original, with just some changes like you can see

But now see what me and giacomo found in a scrapyard

Giacomo's car he LOVES Renault lol


...I will take the engine, and Giacomo will take the gearbox, muffler and the turbo.
I have no hurry to use it cause my engine now is running very well...so i will keep it on the stand and work on it. I have plan to rebuild the engine and make it maybe biturbo. Also supercharger is an idea...but i like more the idea of biturbo...more appropriate to the car, and i not dislike how Giacomo's turbo goes now, so...

[arcadion]

crazy guys

[Florent]

No, no, just italian guys!

[cineman]

My studies with the brake are still in progress

I'm now using the same front brake disc that Martin from UK used. They are from Peugeot 405 - Peugeot 306.

The dimensions are:
diam: 266mm
height: 27mm
central bore: 66mm
disc width: 20.5mm - 18.5mm
4 holes

The problem with the front delorean brakes is that if you want to put vented in, you have to find a disc with no much height. The original is 23mm height so you cant put much more. This one is 27mm and is one of the smaller height easly aviable.
I enlarged the central bore to 69.9mm, from 66 and drilled the 4 mounting holes in it ( on 88mm diameter ). No problem for this, just turn some degrees from the original holes.


The disc mount ok on the car, but you cant' use the original calipers since you have more diameter with this, and also the brake surface is narrower.
With a diameter of 266mm the disc is the bigger one we can put in our 14" rims considered the caliper then.


If we keep the same bearing spacer the disc is a little bit more again the mounting strut, so it is possible that when mouting the caliper we have to put a washer for spacing it a bit more in. The original dust cover go away, too small diameter.
We are thinking to use this calipers from hispek, wich seems ok for dimensions we got, considered the disc:



For the rear there are also aviable calipers and mechanical handbrake to add easly. Sure we want 4 pot everywhere if we put more in front. We dont have studied the rear still, because it could be possible to put bigger discs there too like Martin and Hispec did but we dont know what could be the best disc to put on. I just remember he used 280mm discs..

[arcadion]

Drilling disks... bad idea, really !

A good solution would be to realise a small production of vented disks.

Regards, Chris.

[cineman]

:shock:

Drilling disks... bad idea, really !

A good solution would be to realise a small production of vented disks.

Regards, Chris.

Drilling discs is a bad thing if you do it on the surface for make them "drilled" and cooler with possible cracking problem, but on the central hub there is not such problem, there's plenty of material and it does not goes so hot. The original holes are bigger than mine also... every discs is drilled in the hub...

But you are right that a small production of bolton discs would be the best. I asked around here but it was too expansive for me, but not impossibile for the maker.
I also would like to have a bolt on vented disc same diameter of the original, so you can use both the original calipers with spacers or another one if you want. I think that maybe the cheapest way would be to ask to the UK discs manufacturers cause they already make discs and vented discs for these calipers, on the Ford capri etc. They just have to make the correct holes for us... cheapest than making a complete new disc like they had to do here...

[Chris_DeLorean]

There is no real issue to drill a disc that way but I agree with the "other" Chris, it's better to have directly the correct bolt pattern.

For front brakes, you can put "any" caliper you want as long as you've got an bracket from M16 caliper to another mount and of course that is compatible with the rim inner diameter. It's almost the same for the rear...

AP Racing and Wilwood (Midilite 4 Pot Caliper) sell bolt on calipers on M16 mounts.
Have a look there and there.

No need to reinvent the disc, just put a hat...

[cineman]

yes I know for the M16. Hispec sells some M16 calipers with no need to use mounting adapter, they are nice and nice price.

For the Hat... well, just tell me where i can find a nice and not so expensive vented rotor of 254mm (10") to put the hat on and i will be ok ^^
Wilwood doesnt have them, only from 10.5"