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Sorry, I did not see your message earlier. The newer turbo engine would make sense, as do many of the other engine options. There are a numder of great options for the Delorean as we are getting more hp from smaller more relaible packages.
I met John Lane on-line and he is the fellow that got me suckered into playing with this orphaned power plant. John races, or at least used to race this engine in his highly modifed form. I am fairly well convinced that John Lane is right and that this is an pretty incredible block with a misrepresented history. Volvo did not pay enough attention to this generation of the PRV engine. John Delorean would have killed (maybe literally) to have the b280 availible in 1980. The Delorean is a dog because it starts out with less than 120hp, oil starved cams, poor water pump circulation and all of the problems that you get when you put an engine in the back of a new car.
Some of us are still fairly well convinced that a rear engine is more than appropriate. The Porsche 911 more than makes up for the Fiat X/19, the Corvair, the Fiero and the Delorean as it was delivered. I doubt that my Delorean will ever compete with my 911, or even my 914 for that matter, but it should be able to be quite a nice highway car with enough that I can pass when and where I want to.
I am staying away from turbo as it adds a lot to the budget and will overwhelm the cooling design that I am using. I turboed a Fiat X/19 long ago and it went to the grave early. It is just very hard to get hot water pumped 10 feet forward and 10 feet back quickly enough. So, the old adage, "no replacement for displacement" is being applied. At some point, someone will be able to turbo this Delorean and the engine will be string enough to support it. John Lane got well over 600 hp. The Deloren does not have a part on it that will stand for that kind of power for very long.
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