01 Dec 2014, 22:33
Hello all!
My name is Michael and I have owned my car for almost 6 years now. It is a remanufactured 81 black interior, stage II auto. I have been active on the DMCTalk.org and the .com site before things blew up, but things and policies change and I decided to step away about 5 or 6 months ago. I then joined the "rag tag" group of owners and enthusiasts at DMCToday.com and am very active there. We are small, but close and continue to grow.
I never knew how deep this site here was until I joined. What an amazing hoard of information, and you have your own magazine available too? Color me impressed! Even though I can't make meets and shows, I an going to look into joining just for the magazine subscription. I do have to confess, there is one big reason I finally decided to check this place out for myself.
I am on the verge of bringing an automatic transmission filter to market. When I bought my car, It had 1,700 miles on the NOS engine and transmission. I changed the fluid then along with a complete service(yes I am an "over maintainer" when it comes to my car). Over the years I serviced my transmission about every 15 months give or take...all the time cleaning the filter best I could with brake cleaner. Now however, it's more than just time since last service, the mileage is an issue. The car now has 20k miles on it and just changing the fluid isn't going to cut it. I was very surprised to find out there were no filters available for the auto transmission, not now, not since the 80's. Maybe that was OK in that time, even the 90's and the 2000 era, but now it's 2014 and the low mileage cars are starting to see 15 and 20k miles now.
I am having a very small run of 250 filters made. We are using the original filter for all materials sourcing such as screen mesh size, and case dimensions, etc. so it's going to be exactly like the OE filters. I hope to have these in my hands and ready to sell in the next 4 to 6 weeks.
Anyway, I got off topic. I will start a thread when we are ready to start selling. I look forward to becoming a "regular" here and sharing any info that I can. As far as myself, I live in Tennessee and I am an artsy guy, I do a lot of art inspired projects which I love to share with anyone. I built a small illuminated DMC dealer sign about a year ago which turned out great. I enjoy building sci-fi models realistically illuminated and I do a lot of art work. I like to run and bike, and any spare time I have when the weather turns is spent on my car. I regularly put it on a lift and wax the frame, polish the suspension, and clean everything that has a speck of dirt on it. It's either that or watch "Dancing with the Stars" with my wife. I would have never thought that I would be lucky enough to own my dream car. I bought it in Feb of 2009 and I joke my wife that my anniversary is coming up soon every time Feb 25th rolls around. She didn't get the whole DeLorean thing at first, but she has quickly had a change of heart when she sees how happy I am to own one, and she saw how much attention she gets. Now when we go out on a date, she is always asking "Are we taking your car out tonight?....gotta love it.
Here are a few pics of my baby:
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My name is Michael and I have owned my car for almost 6 years now. It is a remanufactured 81 black interior, stage II auto. I have been active on the DMCTalk.org and the .com site before things blew up, but things and policies change and I decided to step away about 5 or 6 months ago. I then joined the "rag tag" group of owners and enthusiasts at DMCToday.com and am very active there. We are small, but close and continue to grow.
I never knew how deep this site here was until I joined. What an amazing hoard of information, and you have your own magazine available too? Color me impressed! Even though I can't make meets and shows, I an going to look into joining just for the magazine subscription. I do have to confess, there is one big reason I finally decided to check this place out for myself.
I am on the verge of bringing an automatic transmission filter to market. When I bought my car, It had 1,700 miles on the NOS engine and transmission. I changed the fluid then along with a complete service(yes I am an "over maintainer" when it comes to my car). Over the years I serviced my transmission about every 15 months give or take...all the time cleaning the filter best I could with brake cleaner. Now however, it's more than just time since last service, the mileage is an issue. The car now has 20k miles on it and just changing the fluid isn't going to cut it. I was very surprised to find out there were no filters available for the auto transmission, not now, not since the 80's. Maybe that was OK in that time, even the 90's and the 2000 era, but now it's 2014 and the low mileage cars are starting to see 15 and 20k miles now.
I am having a very small run of 250 filters made. We are using the original filter for all materials sourcing such as screen mesh size, and case dimensions, etc. so it's going to be exactly like the OE filters. I hope to have these in my hands and ready to sell in the next 4 to 6 weeks.
Anyway, I got off topic. I will start a thread when we are ready to start selling. I look forward to becoming a "regular" here and sharing any info that I can. As far as myself, I live in Tennessee and I am an artsy guy, I do a lot of art inspired projects which I love to share with anyone. I built a small illuminated DMC dealer sign about a year ago which turned out great. I enjoy building sci-fi models realistically illuminated and I do a lot of art work. I like to run and bike, and any spare time I have when the weather turns is spent on my car. I regularly put it on a lift and wax the frame, polish the suspension, and clean everything that has a speck of dirt on it. It's either that or watch "Dancing with the Stars" with my wife. I would have never thought that I would be lucky enough to own my dream car. I bought it in Feb of 2009 and I joke my wife that my anniversary is coming up soon every time Feb 25th rolls around. She didn't get the whole DeLorean thing at first, but she has quickly had a change of heart when she sees how happy I am to own one, and she saw how much attention she gets. Now when we go out on a date, she is always asking "Are we taking your car out tonight?....gotta love it.
Here are a few pics of my baby:
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