#SUCCESS!# THE SKIPTON ENGINE SWAP SESSION 19TH SEPT

[RobvdVeer]

Congratulations on that job, Tyson! Love to see some pics/vids of the new engine!

[Sally Bram]

I just want to say a huge big thanks to Tony and Al for coming up from some strange place down sarf with their weird accents, Tyson and Maria from somewhere in the middle with the couldn't do the job without it crane and Nick and Kathryn for supporting the Northern front to help Tom to finally get his baby fired up. Seriously folks you've been brilliant and we love you all xxx Thats the benefits of having a free Delorean Club.

[arranj]

Congratulations on that job, Tyson! Love to see some pics/vids of the new engine!

You - absolutely. I think we all want to "hear" this engine too......!

[tommy boy]

First off a really big THANKYOU to Tony, Al, Nick & kathryn and Tyson & maria for a brilliant weekend.

Here are the pictures i took of the eventful weekend 105 in total

http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u95/cmd12/

and a quick video of the first time (honest ) we started it up, as you can see we're all well chuffed!

All i have to do now is put all the other bits and bobs back on the rear end of the car and fit my new ss exhaust and i'm back in business

Again thanks to everyone who came, Tony with his bad guts, Tyson with the biggest house..sorry engine crane known to man



and Nick and Al with their supreme engineering skills especially with the custom distributor bolt, spot on that!



Oh and i promise i won't mention the missing part out of the top of the dizzy cap to anyone

[arranj]

pmsl!




That bloody thing gets everywhere!

When are you doing the exhuast then Tom? This is gonna sound mega!

[RobvdVeer]

Wow...

Why did you turn if off!!!?!?

[A Van]

A true team effort!, hats off to everyone involved.

Well TT is a true expert on PRV building!

Splendid hospitality from the Inman's... MERCI!, great to see everyone as well and best of all we got it all in and started.

Had a fabulous time, and even the weather held...in Yorkshire!

A carb'd Peugeot variant PRV in DeLorean, for probaby the first time.

[Admin-bloke]

Wow...

Why did you turn if off!!!?!?

No exhaust manifolds on.......didn't want the risk of flames coming out of the side for too long !

[Dan 6511]

Wow thats great!! I thought you had your work cut out to get that in and running, thats amazing. Is that running with the carb that came with the engine? What did you do about a fuel pump?

[Admin-bloke]

Wow thats great!! I thought you had your work cut out to get that in and running, thats amazing. Is that running with the carb that came with the engine? What did you do about a fuel pump?

If Tom doesn't mind me answering, the carbs were from his original carb conversion, although the same set came with his 'new' engine (less the small the carb). Tom already plumbed in a low pressure fuel pump at the front of the tank and ran a fuel line. This was wired to the original fuel pump wiring so incorporating the fuel pump relay as a safety device.

The distributor from the original engine was swapped over and fitted. This was to use the original pick-up pulse to run the original ignition amplifier to generate the spark at the spark plugs. Although it fitted the original stud was in the wrong place. A new hole had to be drilled and tapped and a bolt fed from within the cylinder head so it was locked. It is in the pic with the hoover end to suck up any drilled swarf. An oil soaked cloth was put in the head and other ports blocked so no swarf could enter the engine. It had us thinking ! It looked like the distributor from the "new" engine was just to distribute the High Tension pulse and the spark timing maybe coming from an ECU via the flywheel or something.

The water pump was swapped over from the original engine as the new engines water pump had some minor play although the backplate and pulley will be salvaged to another pump.

The chain timing cover may have to be swapped but this depends on the fixing of the bracketry of the air conditioning etc.
Luckily the club's gasket set contains all gaskets to do the job.

We had to re-align the clutch drive plate to get in millimetre perfect but once done it went in OK. Brilliant engine crane to get it in too.

Good fun and a great team effort in getting it in. It's what a club is all about !