Lotus did a similar chassis execution with their Europa back in the day. The transmission was even used as a frame member with chassis links attached! Composites have come a long way since then so best of luck, this one could stick. The older I get the less comfortable I am in low slung cars from an era before crash testing (that I sincerely adore) so please hurry :)
cheers, sean On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:27 AM, jerry freedomev via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Hi All, > Things are moving along in my 63 Vette looking > EV project. The body, hood, doors were pulled out of the molds Friday so > now the fun begins!! ;^) > It still has some touchup, fitting the doors > but should have it home Friday. The shop with the mold which normally make > drag racer bodies, USBody, were amazed how strong it was with my layup > inside to make it structural as going to be a unibody/monocoque with a > composite chassis bonded into a single piece. > It is the male mold for my actual production one > which I'll modify some to make more aero, easier, stronger to build at less > weight and make the production simplified molds from it. The mold it came > out of has 10 parts vs mine will be 3 parts. ;^) > Now in the process of taking a 90 C4 Vette apart > for suspension, steering, A/C, etc which I'm selling the other parts to pay > for it and take the motor out which being fairly handicapped now, I just > can't do anymore. So I sold the transmission for $100 but to get it they > have to take the motor, A/C, > etc out. > Once that is done Saturday I hope, I can handle the > rest by working until I hurt too much, rest, repeat at my home shop. > Once the suspension is off I can design, build the > composite chassis and mate it all together fairly quickly. > Right now using 2 6.7"motors because I own them, > I'm on SSI so lowest cost is a big factor, but hopefully I can get an A/C EV > motor/controller that is hacked I can use. But must be a shaft output I can > put on a diff . Might have to change rear suspension so I can adapt a Tesla > to it now they have been hacked. And hard to beat in power, cost as more > crash. > It should end up weighing 1800lbs or so with 2 > Volt packs worth 600kw if I can use it which should get me 150, maybe -200 > mile range as I drive it. > As now legal to build 325 25 yr old or more > looking cars/yr/model and 5k/yr /company with minimal/Hot rod regulations, my > goal is producing production lines of multiple models including El Camino, a > Van, A Brubaker Box style gull wing tiny van, 68 Mustang fastback, etc. > All done the same tech in EVs drives to get EVs > being produced locally since big auto certainly isn't going to fast enough as > they have shown. > Jerry Dycus > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -- Sean Korb spk...@spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org '65 Suprang,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382 "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
