About 10 years ago Net Gain was making a kit to do just this. They had two motors that were 11 inch and also 6.7 specially developed to have high torque and lower rpm. It would fit right in line with the drive shaft. You cut the drive shaft and attach one end to the front of the motor and the other into the back. Of course you have to have a way for the drive shaft to expand and contract. Their idea was to make it with a plug that would plug into the car's computer and would turn the motor on and off at the appropriate time and be able to drive around on battery power for short distances. They had a 72 V Alltrax controller. I'm sure a lot of development time went into this to get it to talk to the car's computer. Some nice idea but they discontinued the program. That said there's nothing saying you couldn't pick this idea backup. I worked on one of these setups briefly with another company. I don't think it ever really workout as well as they had hoped as it was a big truck and as you can imagine a big truck with a 7200 volt 6 AGM batteries would not get you very far. Today with the lithium batteries you could get a much larger pack and much more distance. I've done a few of the drives haft modifications on vehicles where we use Two 9 "s or one net gained 11. I found that the price of drive shaft work varies quite a bit. Here in Oklahoma I had a drive shaft shortened and then and new skyline put on, to match the Transwarp net gain 9" motor and it was a little over $100 back in Florida the same work at another shop cost over $300. I believe that Net Gain still makes the 6.7 inch motor for this application. I am NOT it Florida and I'm don't have a computer. If you need any information on the 6.7 mention that Net Gain motor and Audrey can supply that for you.
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