Mux213 Levin GTS

[Mux213]

Today proved to be a very interesting day. First I went to Grootebroek, my friend Ed was having a celebration because his DeLorean garage has joined forces with one of the biggest supplier of DeLorean parts in America.

For the occasion they had a dyno there to test the performance of the DeLoreans that came there. Later in the day they let other cars get a try aswell and offcourse I put the hachi to the test.

I am well pleased with the results. 112HP @ 6150rpm at the wheels measured. Calculated back with the measured drive train losses it came to 137HP at the flywheel give or take a bit. Not bad for a 23 year old stock 124HP engine with only the intake and exhaust changed.

Torque is 175Nm @ 4259 rpm but looking at the graph it has a jittery but pretty flat torque up to 5500 rpm so I am well pleased with that

In the afternoon I went to Jasper (TE71Corrola), unfortunately I had forgotten my camera. We put a rebuild caliper on the left rear, the others will be done later on. We also cleaned up my lights so they no longer look warn out and old and hooked up the blinkers at the side.

Last but not least my fiberglas front fenders came off and my old metal ones were put on. Jasper had cleaned them up for me and welded new bits of metal where rust used to be. It looks really good eventhough the fixed bit are now only covered with primer and I have holes where the old blinkers and antenna used to be.

What was most surprising however was that the old color of my car matches the new paint job EXACTLY! There isn't even the slightest difference in tint. Its amazing that a brand new paint job matches a 23 year old original paint job so well. It opens up a few avenues I haven't thought about for awhile