Making of originally concepted DeLorean

[a112]

For all of you DeLorean fans,really don't know if you saw this allready,but i was amazed.

Did you know that John Z. DeLorean’s original plans for the iconic DMC-12 included a Citroen Wankel rotary engine, dubbed Comotar (developed by NSU and Citroën)? Of course, that never happened and the DeLorean ended up with an underpowered 130 bhp V6 engine jointly developed by Renault, Peugeot and Volvo. However, some lads decided to hook on DeLorean’s original vision and replace the ill-fated French V6 with a 300Hp strong, 2.0-liter 3-rotor rotary engine from the 1990 Mazda Eunos Cosmo.

And that’s not all. Since the stock transmission didn’t seem to be able to handle the power upgrade, they replaced it with a 6-speed manual transmission with Limited Slip Differential from a 1995 Porsche 911 Carrera 2. According to the guys who did the engine-transplant, zero to 60mph (96 km/h) has been measured at 4.5 sec. Quarter mile has not been tested, but they estimated it to be around 13 sec.

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2007/05/del...ngine.html

[Apolan]

wow nice! with such a Delorean you wouldn't need any lightnings to go back to the future

[Mux213]

Yeah, thats one great car that one

been around for awhile though

The PVR-6 was sortof a last ditch option...

The engine of choice was actually a V8 from Lotus that was long planned and in the original design plans. then Lotus was asked to finish the design when things went south with the injection molding plans they originally wanted (the DeLorean never originally was ment to have the lotus Y frame it was finally build on).

The story goes that when Colin Chapman was discussing the plans with JZD about the car he was already unhappy with how far back the V8 would be with the tranny infront of the engine (same problem as with the 911s), the engine compartment had to end right after the seats to be able to place the V8 forward enough.
when JZD told him that one of the design criteria was that his golfclubs HAVE to fit behind the seat so he can go golfing, it is said Chapman told him he would draw back the offer to install the V8.

In the end they choose the PVR V6 as it was a shorter block then the V8 and that saved enough space to put JZDs golfclubs behind the seat and not mess up the weight distribution even more.

Nowadays offcourse people simply drop in the northstar V8 with proper matching gearbox. The northstar is nearly the same size as the PVR-6 and it weighs about the same. Just happens to have 300+ hp just like the 3 rotor

[JTA]

And to make things worse, the PRV was originally designed to be a V8. So it wasn't be brightest option to begin with. Lets just say, it runs weird...

But if you want to, the PRV can be tuned enough to make the Delorean move. The engine has been used in rally's, making over 200bhp easy in the 504 coupe's.

The standard 130 bhp PRV6 would do 0-60 around 10 seconds. But with the upgraded "Stage 2" engines from Delorean here in the US you'll end up with just shy of 200bhp. And given that the Delorean doesn't weigh close to what most american cars weigh, you'll get some decent performance numbers. To bad the engine upgrade will run into the papers. $5250.00 including parts and labor to a low mile (>50000 miles) or $6750.00 for a dropped-in crate engine. And naturally you can't buy the parts seperatly.

I wonder what 5250 would do to a stock AE86... if you take it to a shop.