LT5 in a Delorean

[GTOger]

OK boys and girls, get ready for a really dumb idea. But it's an idea I am nonetheless enamored with at the moment.

I want to drop an LT5 into a Delorean. Why?

Because I'm looking for another wacky car to add to my menagerie, and I have been strangely infatuated by the Delorean since the first time I saw one at a car show in the late 80s. Well, the Back To The Future movies probably didn't hurt, either.

I have a little list of cars that I'd like to own, and the Delorean is on it. And being quite honest, it probably has the lowest cost of entry compared with the other cars I'm thinking about. But I just know that my wife is not going to be satisfied with that little 6 cylinder job. Partially because she likes to drive fast, partially because she won't hear the end of it from me.

So there's this kid out on the Interwebs who stuffed a late-model LS1 into his Delorean as an engineering project for school. I know... that would be a fun class, right? Anyhow, I'm thinking if this kid can put an LS1 in, why not put an LT5?

Which would sort of be fitting. Why? Because as you may know, Lotus had a big hand in designing the car. In fact, they pretty much designed the underpinnings and the way the car would be manufactured. And we all know about Lotus' roll in the LT5 development.

What do you think? I know that LT5's have been transplanted into a handful of other vehicles, though I can't name any off the top of my head. Shouldn't be a big deal to cram one in a Delorean, right? Maybe some transmission stuff would have to get worked out.... Hmmmmm. Insurmountable? An impossible dream?