With the help of Tony Fabris, the world's first Empeg-equiped DeLorean is on the road (or in the sky as Tony would like to think).

Pics are posted at riocar.org. Thanks for the help over the weekend Tony.

-Christian

Damn you must have been sitting on the refresh button. I was still editing captions...

(Pics are here.)

actually, that was the first I'd checked it today.

Wish i could have made it down. I spent the day skating in Santa Cruz. I probably could have made it by... *smacks self for not dropping by*

Nice work guys. Damn DeLoreans are sweet. How do they drive?!

nice install.. lol those comments are too much

Loren,

It's disgusting how hooked up your Honda is. What kind of electrical mods did you have to do to run the playstations (along with everything else)?

I'm down in Sunnyvale and I get up to San Francisco often. We should hook up.

You, umm, will be at the No. Cal meet right? I've always wanted to see one of these cars up close. And, umm, (drools over pics some more), anyhow...

Wow, I had forgotten how much I love that car.

Yeah, I'll be there and the car will be there. I'm actually really looking forward to it.

Back In the FUTURE with Empeg !!!!!

lol those comments are too much

Yeah, I had fun with those.

By the way the "you mean this MP3 player is nuclear" comment was Jordan Mann's when I told him what I was going to be doing that morning.

Christian: you remember Jordan, right? He did the Multiple Personalities song...

Yeah, I'll be there and the car will be there. I'm actually really looking forward to it.

Get that amp-channel issue worked out first, though.

For those who weren't there (i.e., everyone but me and Christian):

Christian bought the car with an existing CD player and amplifier. It also included the time interface, er, Alpine remote-controlled equalizer module. And for some reason or other, the wiring to the amp and EQ cause the left and right speakers to not be completely stereo-separated. When you fiddle with the balance control, it doesn't do what you expect it to do. It does SOMETHING but it doesn't fully mute the opposite speaker.

I didn't spend the time needed to solve that particular problem since it wasn't directly related to the empeg. I did verify that it had nothing to do with the empeg, then left it alone.

And Christian, I also realized (on the way home after the con) that it might have been a problem in the RCA cabling on the way to the amplifier. I don't think we fully eliminated that as a possibility. We eliminated the equalizer, and I thought it might have been the speaker wiring, but I don't think we plugged only one channel directly into the amp and listened that way.

It still could be the speaker wiring, so do check that. But if it's not the speakers, then check the RCA cables on the way to the amp.

Ya know what, now that I think about it, I'm SURE I know what the problem is. The RCA cables that plug into the Empeg don't run all the way back to the EQ. 2 sets of cables are connected via RCA couplers. I didn't wrap the connections with electrical tape, so I betcha that's the problem.

I'll give that a shot when I head out for lunch.

-Christian

And yes, how does one forget Jordan?

The only electrical mod is a (i believe... it's been a while) 350 watt power inverter that's soldered onto the cigarette lighter power line, as is the LCD screen. That's about it. Hopefully i'll have some more goodies done by the time of the meet... but time is tight. We'll see.

... and yes. Let me know when you're up here next and we'll meet up!

Speaking of which... has anyone seen Cruzths around lately? We're supposed to do some Kite Buggying!

Hmm. I think I saw your car on Lawrence Expressway the other day. I couldn't peek over to see if your empeg was in there though. How many Deloreans could there be in Santa Clara right?

Calvin

He had a personalized plate, which you can see in the gallery.

Darn, must have been somebody else then.

Calvin