Jerry- Would love to see some pictures as your build progresses! Thanks, Tom
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 7:27 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) > > -- *“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls"* ~ Pablo Picasso -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20170630/37237e5f/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
