DMCH Open House Event May 2003 - DeLoreans drag racing!

Well, it has only taken six years to edit and post my short edit of the DMCH Open House event held May 2003. 11th May presented this great opportunity for myself and some of the other Brits to drive a variety of DeLoreans in race conditions and this for me was the highlight of the whole event. It was a hot, humid day (typical of Houston in May?). I also came home with a calibrated 170mph speedo, OEM steering wheel and other treats for my car.

The DeLorean with the Camaro muffler was sadly wrecked and written off a few years later. Does anyone know more about it? I am particularly interested in the non-stock manual transmission as to what it was sourced from.

The DeLorean with the DMC less grill and green decals down the side was an early DMCH Stage II car. The black Auto was also a Stage II too. Since then a Stage III supercharged version has been in the works
Hope you enjoy the movie!

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[SuperMuise]

all that stainless steel and an underpowered V6 really takes its toll eh....

[ChrisVonBron]

the fibreglass underbody balances the overall weight to less than 1300KG in total. The PRV can be up to 400BHP when not throttled for emissions like the US spec.

[SuperMuise]

I didn't know it was a fibreglass underbody....huh cool

but for drag racing, id prefer a V8 in the back of that thing, like they did for the movie

[ChrisVonBron]

I have no idea what V8 sound effect they used for the dubbing but the car in the films never had a V8. I would love to know which V8 they sourced the sound from

[SuperMuise]

Thats funny because both robert zemeckis and bob gale said that during the build up of the car, the mechanics installed a porsche V8 because the car was too slow for some of the scenes they needed to shoot. And usually when the director and writer say something about their movie, i believe them. So should you

[ChrisVonBron]

I'd love to see the source stating they said that. I thought some Volkswagon variant was put in to replace the PRV

[kilop202085972020]

they never hit88 mph.!!!! someone should make a device that shoots gas on the ground to make two fire trails behind it---lol

[vfIskullangel]

@SuperMuise A V8 wouldn't do no good for one of those. They are worthless for the Fiero's. Your better off either Supercharging the V6 in the Delorean or getting a 3800 V6

[leknightcluber]

prv v6 biturbo engine of the venturi 600 lm, I think I read somewhere, can produce up to 650 cv. had a maximum speed of 350 km / h

[centsless302]

OMG, its a geek dragrace event. I bet instead of selling performance engine parts in the pits like at an NHRA race, they have star wars figurines, and back to the future t-shirts.

[prv24v]

This looks like a great event. What are the quarter mile ET/MPH of the cars racing? What was the fastest time on the day?

[Juror88]

@ChrisVonBron i'm a huge BTTF fan somewhere a while ago i came across that it was actually a mustang V8 from the 80's 5.0 mustang. And although in the film alot of the scenes the car actually stalled and it was just rolled in neutral with the dub engine sound i think they had one running with an actual V8 sourced from a mustang V8. Hopefully i come across the source and will provide link.

[Finalflash50]

The delorean has never been to fast of a car, but it is definitely one of the best cars you can get.

[Kaspergaling]

If it hits over 88 MPH it can take you back in time

[taylorznikn]

the delorean on 3:19 is faster then the others what those it have in it a stage 2 PRV engine