The Warp 9 and Zilla 1k are still very respectable choices in terms of moving a lighter vehicle such as a VW Cabrio around. It is your money and your project of course, so you should indeed weigh the options before starting, but if it were my own then I would be planning to get an adaptor plate for that Warp and find out which Lithium batteries would work best for the range and power and Voltage that the Cabrio can use with the Zilla 1k LV.
Success! Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: cwa...@proxim.com Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of ph...@bill-collins.net via EV Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 3:59 PM To: ev@lists.evdl.org; ev-requ...@lists.evdl.org Subject: [EVDL] Conversion advice A few years ago I decided to convert my '98 VW Cabrio to electric. At the time, a Warp 9 motor and Zilla 1K controller seemed to make a lot of sense, and are probably one of the best combinations today for a DC conversion. Since I've now put 90k miles on the car as an ICE (after buying it cheaply because the previous owner thought it needed an engine) and a few years have gone by, I'm wondering if a DC conversion still makes sense. I know Curtis makes an AC kit that's designed for similar applications as the 9 inch DC motors. Any opinions on it, or other AC options? Any idea of the resale value of an unused Zilla 1K LV and Warp 9 motor? At least lithium batteries are a lot cheaper than when I first thought about doing this! Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140810/3fc0 3cf7/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
