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Post by Lokifan on May 15, 2015 19:46:22 GMT
According to a blogger, the DeLorean couldn't make it up to 88 mph in the space shown in the movie. They even found the original mall that was used to shoot the scene, and given the poor performance of the DeLorean, it simply couldn't be done. oppositelock.jalopnik.com/doc-brown-if-my-calculations-are-correct-youd-be-dead-1704242406/1704304036/+pgeorgeBut, it's all on paper only. I'd love to see it in real life. Lots of racing around in a DeLorean in Alameda, anyone? Costumes, Jamie as Doc Brown in a fright wig, Adam as Marty? I think this is as close to a time travel myth we could try.  Any other BTTF myths? |
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Post by GTCGreg on May 15, 2015 21:17:00 GMT
According to a blogger, the DeLorean couldn't make it up to 88 mph in the space shown in the movie. They even found the original mall that was used to shoot the scene, and given the poor performance of the DeLorean, it simply couldn't be done. oppositelock.jalopnik.com/doc-brown-if-my-calculations-are-correct-youd-be-dead-1704242406/1704304036/+pgeorgeBut, it's all on paper only. I'd love to see it in real life. Lots of racing around in a DeLorean in Alameda, anyone? Costumes, Jamie as Doc Brown in a fright wig, Adam as Marty? I think this is as close to a time travel myth we could try. Any other BTTF myths? And if it was proven that the DeLorean couldn't have accelerated to 88MPH in the distance available, the next step would be to prove that you really could launch into time travel at speeds below 88 MPH. Heck, maybe there's hope for my Jeep after all. |
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Post by wvengineer on May 16, 2015 0:12:31 GMT
Of course, who is saying that it had a stock engine? The Doc would have no trouble ticking it out. With as much equipment as he bolted onto that car, you would need some major upgrades. Do you realize how much the shielding alone for a nuclear reactor weights?
So how much would you have to mod the engine of a stock '82 Delorian to get the performance that you see on screen?
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Post by the light works on May 16, 2015 3:20:15 GMT
rumor has it the intended engine for the delorean was a good bit more competent.
but yes it was a running joke that back to the future was farfetched, because nobody believed a delorean could go 88 MPH.
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Post by Lokifan on May 16, 2015 4:58:18 GMT
If I recall correctly, the first movie used a Porsche engine in the prop car, while the second and third used a Ford V8.
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Post by silverdragon on May 30, 2015 9:26:45 GMT
Swapping Engines for the America market, isnt that what you all usually do anyway?....
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Post by Lokifan on May 30, 2015 14:17:57 GMT
Not for the market, just for the movie. There is, however, a company that will sell you a Delorean that's built today from old parts, and will install a different engine if you wish. |
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Post by the light works on May 30, 2015 14:42:26 GMT
Not for the market, just for the movie. There is, however, a company that will sell you a Delorean that's built today from old parts, and will install a different engine if you wish. it is also understood that the "stock" engine in the DeLorean is not the engine Mr. DeLorean originally envisioned the car fitted with. unfortunately, he went over budget in the design phase and had to make some compromises to bring the car to market. |
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Post by silverdragon on May 31, 2015 6:56:38 GMT
Not for the market, just for the movie. There is, however, a company that will sell you a Delorean that's built today from old parts, and will install a different engine if you wish. That company bought the whole stock from the NI firm and the American firm, they have enough spare parts to build about a thousand whole cars.[~?~] I have mentioned it before somewhere on here?... |
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Post by Cybermortis on Jun 3, 2015 20:06:17 GMT
The Doc would have no trouble ticking it out. With as much equipment as he bolted onto that car, you would need some major upgrades. Do you realize how much the shielding alone for a nuclear reactor weights? <Snipped quote for clarity> That extra equipment was, as I recall, parts from another DeLorean. From what I can remember they were given a couple and took one of them apart to use as parts on the hero car. At no point does Doc say that the car is powered by or contains a nuclear reactor. In fact the films don't support this as the car itself runs on gasoline (a major point in the last film) not electricity. It appears that the plutonium was being used to provide electricity in a sudden burst of power, which would probably make it more akin to a bomb than a reactor, that powered the time machinery not the car itself. The smallest nuclear devices mass some 50lbs, with shielding, so Marty probably masses more than the 'reactor' and related systems combined. Figure that the total mass would be roughly equal to having three passengers in the car. |
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Post by c64 on Jun 27, 2015 22:47:23 GMT
Of course, who is saying that it had a stock engine? The Doc would have no trouble ticking it out. With as much equipment as he bolted onto that car, you would need some major upgrades. Do you realize how much the shielding alone for a nuclear reactor weights? So how much would you have to mod the engine of a stock '82 Delorian to get the performance that you see on screen? Correct! This was AFTER the car was heavily modified in the Future. It could fly after all! A friend has a 1992 VR-6 engine in his barn. This engine was designed to get as much power as possible into the Passat 35i which has a very short engine bay. This engine can fit into almost any car of reasonable size, e.g. it fits nicely into a VW Golf-1 ("Rabbit") or Jetta. Inside the Golf, you have lots of room left to install better turbo chargers to quench out 500 HP easily! Since the engine and transmission is one compact unit, you don't have much trouble installing it into a DeLorean. All you need to figure out is how to keep it in place inside the engine bay. And all which is required is an engine which was just about to hit the market when the film was made. No distant-future technology necessary. The VR-6 really fits into almost any car. Even vehicles most people wouldn't consider as a car: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrabantThe 18HP 2-stroke engine can be tuned to 50 HP easily enough. Right after the fall of the iron curtain, tuning and racing those "cardboard boxes" was pretty common since thousands of those unwanted cars were available. And this is how it looks like when you pop in a VR6 engine: |
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 28, 2015 8:57:05 GMT
Like you cant coax enough power from an existing Golf engine anyway?...
500hp in a Golf, its the power-to-weight ratio of that bloody Veyron thing?...
Sticking that in a Trabbi, thats a nice "sleeper", if you have the dangly bits to press the loud pedal with urgency.
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Post by the light works on Jun 28, 2015 15:31:46 GMT
The VR-6 would be no advantage in a Delorean. it was designed for a full V-6 engine, or possibly even a V-8, whereas the VR-6 was designed to fit 6 cylinders into the space provided for an inline 4. now you might be able to squeeze in a VR-12 and have some fun with it.
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