Porsche motor in BTTF Delorean?

[Vern Lyle]

A friend said they just heard that as fact - referring to the car in Back to the Future. But as a non-technical person, they had no details. I have no idea and would ask why?

Anyone know about this? TIA

Obligatory picture.

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

I always heard it was a small block Chevy.

[svandamme]

i don't see how it would fit in the delorean

the engine bay really doesn't have much room for it:

[Laneco]

No they kept the original Peugeot V6's in them. But I did read somewhere that they dubbed a Porsche 911 engine sound into the sound track at the times when the car is running on the "internal combustion engine" instead of the flux capacitor thingamaggy.

I haven't watched a BTTF movie in years, so I can't confirm that, but I am quite sure I read that somewhere.

angela

[JeremyD]

Six DMC-12s were co-opted for use in the making of the films.[35] For the second and third films, producers replaced the underpowered stock engines in their production cars with Porsche engines.[citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lorean_DMC-12

[legion]

Wow...you guys seem to think that Porsche only made flat sixes in the 80's.

They did make at least one engine that would fit...

[rouxroux]

Originally Posted by svandamme

i don't see how it would fit in the delorean

the engine bay really doesn't have much room for it:

Stijn, are the red arrows pointing to the binding posts for the flux capacitor?

[crustychief]

It looks like the flux capacitor cooling line on the lower right might be occluded.