Welcome To LegitStreetCars! Come join the LSC family and subscribe! My name is Alex Palmeri and I love cool cars, car adventures and wrenching so sit back, relax, grab that cold pop (yes we say pop in Chicago), and enjoy the show! Oh and say hi to Max Beecher my editor in the comments!
Those were the days….seized cold start regulators , fuel pressure regulators that didn’t want to work, good old Bosch jet-tronic. All had to be diagnosed by intuition and a bit of luck. At the time what little diag. equipment was available was very expensive and not an OBD port in sight. Yes these were the times when you drank out of a can and rode on a bus 😊 Great to see the highs and lows of turning this around. There’s nothing like that feeling of the probably the second or third drive after major work on an engine fault when you finally have it fully sorted. The DeLorean Midwest come across so well, who wouldn’t trust them with their pride and joy. Shame you can only like a YT video once. I always point young aspiring mechanics at your channel Alex, so much can be learnt from you and we all know there’s no substitute for experience.
New to the channel and caught up on this series since I have a 98 GSX, you make it look so easy, can definitely tell you've been building cars for a while. Really smooth content. Researching and ordering parts in a good sequence is really hard imo and you've done everything pretty much the same way that I would. Awesome tip on the muffin trays You should inspect the harmonic balancer closer because the OEM ones separate at 100k, it must have been replaced already. Fluidampr is a good upgrade, they can't fall apart and smooth out the engine some like when starting from a stop and rev matches Be a lot more careful with the valve cover they're known to crack, as well as the rear diff covers. Watch the tightening sequence and don't over tighten etc just treat them like they're gonna break T6R's look great, I still think red calipers would be cool but the silver is clean too
Great video Alex sorry to hear about your situation. This was one of the reasons I got out of the DSM world. Their great cars lots of fun, but so many issues all the time. 6 Bolt, 7 Bolt, the shit still blows up 😅
Hi am new to your channel.. This being my first watch of one of your videos. I am not a fan of foreign cars and how they sound but your new car does look really nice and I am actually a Nissan fan as I had one of their trucks. But overall, American muscle for me.. and NO MULLET. Military style haircut... In this video you have a beautiful Firebird sitting behind you in white. I can't tell if it is a TransAm, WS-6 or Firehawk for sure. Regardless, I own one of the last built 2002 Firebird TransAm WS-6 HURST editions, including subdued internal lighting, leather everything, etc etc. I do not want to alter it from its perfect stock condition persay. It has a bit over 50,000 miles on it, never seen snow and now I only drive it for special occasions as the value has started to really increase on it. But I do have question for you, where are you getting your parts? Namely I would love to swap out the brakes to something like I see there on your white Firebird, that red really looks nice and second what are those rims as I would love to store the original factory rims, which are on the car still. Mine is all black with subdued black markers on the sides etc. It is also T-Top in pristine condition including covers to block sunlight. Has some other nice features like the full monsoon system with 12 disc changer making it 13 disks total, 6 speed HURST manual of course, and more. Along with the wheels, I am trying to find replace side wall speakers for this thing. The glue on both side walls for the stock speakers dried out and these speakers have dual cable ports, one on each side for the monsoon system. So far not had any luck finding new ones or OEM versions that will replace those. Would love to talk a bit more detail with you and if there is a way for me to reach you for that, please let me know... Would love to hear more about the Firebird there behind you!
I'm only 35min in; pre failure. You have to be careful with that rear balance shaft. the sprocket cover isn't splined to the counterweight itself so if someone had it apart it may not be lined up. What you want to do is rotate it by hand until you feel the counterweight is at the bottom. There's a check bolt on the back of the block you can stick a screwdriver through to double check if positioned correctly. Best thing to do is an eliminator kit anyhow as a belt failure can take out the timing belt + more oil pressure.
And especially after seeing the tuneup help from the Delorean specialist. I am completely against every swap possibility. There is a lot of material about that. But to experience with you the torment why there is 6k Deloreans existing and nobody ever sees them. This is historically really precious material and also entertaining. Like that lambda sensor adjustment. I am pretty sure my obd scanner tool would not have told me how to do that job. 😄💪🫡
Dum dum! You were supposed to go back to 1991 to protect the frame from rusting! Meeting yourself is really bad idea cause it creates a rip in space time continuum! Great scott! 🤯
@35:20, I worked for Snap-on tools in the Harrisburg Repair center for 20 years. Fixed SOOOOO many of those Blue Point angle drills. I used to have the Subaru SVX, designed by the same people who did the DeLorean body. I miss it. Only 240hp, but a lot of fun and it turned heads.
All the grease and grime was keeping from leaking then you cleaned it off and it didn't like it! LOL Or fixing its leaks caused a new one. it likes leaking! :)
