As a fellow owner, I always wondered if someone might try this. I think CaptainNeo here once had interest in purchasing mine. You might wanna reach out to him and see if he'd be interested.

Is it currently with DMCMW? They are great people and I all my parts/toys from there.

Any particular reason you're ready to let it go? Simply my curiosity as it would take like, the end of the universe, for me to let go of mine.

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DeLoreans never came with a Ford engine. You're thinking the Bricklin SV1 that had a 351 Windsor.

They all came with a "French Vovlo" engine known as Renault, but it was a collaborative effort, hence the PRV as mentioned earlier.

Then you have the engine swap guys (I am one of them) who aim for something with a lil' more pick up and go....

I'll vouch for that. Going on 17 years with mine, and the reactions can be over the top/almost dangerous. In terms of attention, you will own nearly ANY cruise in you go to. Ford GT? Lambo this or that? Ferrar...what? The DeLorean simply kills it at any show. It is by far and wide the "public Joe"'s most favorite car.

It is. Engine-swapped a VR6 into it (single head with cylinders 15 deg off center left to right of the single head so like a "hyrbid" inline 6). Swapped the automatic for a 5-speed manual as well.

Very fun to drive. Has the speed the looks suggest now ; ).

DM me if you want to chat about it more so to not take away from the OP ; ).

And when it doesn't work, it is a pain in the fucking ass. That's how my engine swap originally started. It was going to be an EFI swap alone, but then we started getting really into it and well......yep ; ).

That is 40+ year old technology, severely outdated, and parts are expen$ive. $500 for the fuel distributor, $75 PER injector (*6), $275 for a warmup regulator....yeesh.

As stated above, a lot of different cars had them, most notably the 80s Ferraris. Yep, the Magnum PI style Ferrari as well as the venerable Testarossa both had this mechanical K-Jetronic fuel injection system (or variations of it).

Cold start valve on both cars:

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And the air mixture unit on both cars. This normally mates to the aforementioned fuel distributor (the "spider" in both pictures):

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When you do, please don't make any cocaine references. They weren't "drug fronting" cars, there was never cocaine found anywhere in any DeLorean ever from the factory, and it really keeps "spreading the misinformation" for almost 40 years now.

You might be joking, but please understand, it can be a real source of annoyance to DeLorean owners. Please help stop the spread of misinformation.

When I bought mine 17 years ago, all I could find (read: afford) was an auto. I loved it when I was in stop and go traffic. It was really great.

Once the VR6 motor was brought in, I chewed through (2) automatics no problem. That's when I realized the 5-speed manual was practically mandatory, and as you suggested, is far more fun and enjoyable!

I want to give you a quick "thank you" for your positive and respectful response to my comment. Very much appreciated. I genuinely mean that.

If you aren't part of the DeLorean community, trust me, you really don't know what we have put up with. It is one thing to have DeLorean friends and observe them handle the jokes; it is a whole nother to spend more money than some people do on boats or entire pinball machine collections only to hear something about white powder and license plates.

In 17 years, I think I have heard every single last BTTF comment you or anyone else could possibly come up with. And I have had the bath tub effect: I loved the BTTF jokes, I loathed the jokes, and then I love them and continue to love them now. Those really don't bother me anymore. The trilogy made this car into the icon it is today. Without that movie trilogy, the DeLorean would be a dead orphan car that nearly no one would know. If you don't like BTTF jokes, sell it and buy a Honda Accord.

Shameless plug of meeting both MJF (2019) and CL (2014) as I am 100% all in with BTTF:

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All of that being said, the cocaine thing and him "being a druglord" was a farce. He was going to launder money to save his company, that I completely do believe and do not mind admitting as such.

I see people 55+ years old walk up to me at car shows, knowing I am the owner of the car, and start spewing their vitriol about how the car was a sham and it was nothing more than a way to bring drugs into the US, and there's cocaine somewhere and my buddy has actually found baggies and blah, blah blah....that shit gets old, especially when they REALLY believe it.

It is not about "not having" a sense of humor. Trust me, I have listened and fielded more flux capacitor jokes than entire pinball clubs have probably heard "pinball wizard" jokes. That I do not mind, but the cocaine stuff I will correct as a keyboard warrior here or face to face at any cruise in or car show. Seventeen years and counting.

Is what it is.

This is like the DeLorean community's "price bubble" thread of the pinball world. No joke.

DeLorean Motor Company of Houston CONSTANTLY makes this announcement. Nearly every year, they get some of the best free publicity out there when they announce this .........again.

Allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the way back in 2007 on Good Morning America:

2008: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2007/aug/30/usnews.internationalnews

2010: https://leftlanenews.com/2010/02/24/jay-leno-samples-new-delorean-dmc-12/

2011: https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2011/10/18/141457164/delorean-goes-electric-company-plans-new-model-of-iconic-gullwing-car

2012: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-17428818

2013: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1067795_great-scott-heres-how-the-2013-all-electric-delorean-drives

2014: https://www.cars.com/articles/delorean-motor-co-takes-film-fans-back-to-the-future-1420662998707/

2015: https://www.delorean.com/new-delorean-production-update.htm

2016: https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/27/10844326/delorean-motor-company-new-low-volume

2017: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/want-to-buy-a-2017-delorean-dmc-12-nows-your-chance/

2018: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/DeLorean-s-Humble-home-could-be-producing-new-12607216.php

2019: https://buy.motorious.com/articles/news/302281/dmc-delorean-2019-comeback

2020: https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/a30641441/new-delorean-dmc-12-confirmed/

Predicted now fall 2021: https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/a30641441/new-delorean-dmc-12-confirmed/

Imagine the confusion THAT starts at any car show or cruise-in.

We got something special for that question (back with I had an automatic):

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It's a silent and happy victory for me every time someone asks.

I wouldn't necessarily say he is a purist. His gig is giving the cars some well deserved power through extreme upgrades of the PRV, which is totally cool.

He makes some fantastic products, and is one of the only companies to push DMC to do more than sell 40 year old fuel components.

While dolling your DeLorean up to look like BTTF is cool, it adds like 500 extra pounds of mostly "junk" that does nothing but look like a movie car. Some of the mods (drilling holes in limited quantity stainless panels) are relatively irreversible.

Josh wants to give the car a better platform to be seen on with modern updates to nearly all areas of the car from doing a twin turbo setup with forged internals down to structural updates like a stainless steel roof box to add rigidity to the door opening portion of the car as well as the ultimate upgrade: a stainless steel frame, which costs less than a Rick and Morty pinball machine.

A whole new fucking world.

If you are not mechanically inclined to turn wrenches on a car, do NOT get one.

There's a difference between turning wrenches on a pinball machine and turning them on a car, much-the-less one that you cannot take to nearly ANY garage to write checks to have them do it for you. Trust me, garages will SAY they know how to work on it. They don't.

And if you are the kind of guy that needs 300+ WHP in a grocery getter, you will abandon a DeLorean so fast you don't even know. I went 10 years before doing the engine.transmission swap in mine. 90 WHP is anemic at best, and most don't have the patience or fortitude to deal with it.

Called it!!