05 Mar 2011, 14:04
Interesting one for me, i'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the matter!
My Delorean is a 1981, rebuilt in 2005 by DMC Texas to the Stage 2 spec. It is an auto.
So there you have the specs. Now I did not drive the car for the first couple of days I was in Las Vegas because I was not insured, and my friend (who owns 2 DeLoreans) drove me around town etc.
I noticed, that before he turned it off, he revved the engine. I was shocked because I have worked/played with many modern sports cars with fuel injection and this is a real NO ! Similarly I have also worked with classic 60's V8's which are not fuel injected and generally seems to help for the start-up process later on.
Fair enough, but when I started to drive the DeLorean, I did not rev it before turning off, knowing it runs fuel injection I thought it would be bad. But then when I came to re-start the car, it would struggle, as if fuel starved. So I tried the rev before turning it off and it started first time on the the first kick over...
So i'm a little confused, it goes against everything I know so far (but I don't pretend to know a huge amount, i'm not a trained technician, I just love cars), but does this sound like something others have experienced? Is it just perhaps that my car has gotten used to the previous owner (maybe, I didn't meet him) and then my friend doing it so now it accepts it, and therefore I could wein it off, or is it a DeLorean (or Stage 2) speciality that I just have to get used to?
Long post for a simple question, but I hope it all makes sense!
Thanks,
Tom
My Delorean is a 1981, rebuilt in 2005 by DMC Texas to the Stage 2 spec. It is an auto.
So there you have the specs. Now I did not drive the car for the first couple of days I was in Las Vegas because I was not insured, and my friend (who owns 2 DeLoreans) drove me around town etc.
I noticed, that before he turned it off, he revved the engine. I was shocked because I have worked/played with many modern sports cars with fuel injection and this is a real NO ! Similarly I have also worked with classic 60's V8's which are not fuel injected and generally seems to help for the start-up process later on.
Fair enough, but when I started to drive the DeLorean, I did not rev it before turning off, knowing it runs fuel injection I thought it would be bad. But then when I came to re-start the car, it would struggle, as if fuel starved. So I tried the rev before turning it off and it started first time on the the first kick over...
So i'm a little confused, it goes against everything I know so far (but I don't pretend to know a huge amount, i'm not a trained technician, I just love cars), but does this sound like something others have experienced? Is it just perhaps that my car has gotten used to the previous owner (maybe, I didn't meet him) and then my friend doing it so now it accepts it, and therefore I could wein it off, or is it a DeLorean (or Stage 2) speciality that I just have to get used to?
Long post for a simple question, but I hope it all makes sense!
Thanks,
Tom
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