A DeLorean... With a V8.

[Joe Handley]

  On 1/6/2019 at 7:12 AM, Fat Brian said:

We had a Traverse LTZ with the 280 some odd hp 3.6 and that thing would scoot pretty good for a medium sized SUV. Most of the power feels really high in the power band but once it started coming on I never found the end of it in normal driving situations. I could see it being a popular swap where space is limited or you need a nontraditional mounting orientation. 

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What was the torque curve like?  the Pentastar starts pulling hard around 1500rpm and doesn't seem to let up, and if I'm just cruising, I can more or less leave the tach at 3k and the car still accelerates.  I swear the curve must be more of a big flat, fat plateau than a curve

[Fat Brian]

  On 1/6/2019 at 7:28 AM, Joe Handley said:

What was the torque curve like?  the Pentastar starts pulling hard around 1500rpm and doesn't seem to let up, and if I'm just cruising, I can more or less leave the tach at 3k and the car still accelerates.  I swear the curve must be more of a big flat, fat plateau than a curve

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It didn't really have a torque curve, it was pretty gutless until the horsepower started coming in about 3000 rpm. Then it would start to pull.

[Jordan White]

They should have used a Porsche V8, so that way it would sound the same as it did in BTTF! 

[iamsuperdan]

Honestly, I had no idea the DeLorean was a rear-engined car. Always thought it was mid-engined.