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finished up plate-mounted

Posted 05-08-2010 at 11:27 PM by lou-ace

Finished up the mounting plate today, cut down the shaft with a 4"cuttoff grinder and premounted the motor and tranny on the bench. It looks like a god fit! And my concentricity looks great. I have the 2" connector being machined in the shop, 1-1/8th keyed on the motor side and I poped the spline out of the clutch and the machinist will lathe it and press it into the tranny side. This will be a direct drive unit. hopefully will be able to do a bench test run within the week. cost so...

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Why electric?

Posted 05-05-2010 at 06:33 AM by brainzel (New Beetle conversion)
Updated 05-06-2010 at 06:01 AM by brainzel

Tags solec riva junior

The reason to get an electric vehicle is surely different to everybody who get flashed by the conversion virus.
Our biggest personal reason is our first electric car, a swiss Solec Riva Junior.

Solec Riva Junior
year of manufacture: 1990 (Switzerland)
Motor: DC 6kW / 8,16PS / 8.046 hp
direct shaft, no transmission, no gears
60 volts out of 10x 6V LeadAcid (Banner 180 Ah)
Vmax: 90...

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New Beetle - translation and aggregation

Posted 05-05-2010 at 05:48 AM by brainzel (New Beetle conversion)
Updated 05-06-2010 at 06:01 AM by brainzel

Tags conversion blog, new beetle

Hi,

I will try to translate the important points to my New Beetle conversion in this blog. I got some questions about it, because my "original" blog is written in german language.
My english is surly not the best, so please feel free to correct me, ask me questions, comment and be patient to me

Michael

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back to work

Posted 05-04-2010 at 08:14 PM by lou-ace

Ok, Im getting excited now my AMD FB 4001 double shaft motor is coming tomarro. I have the tranny in the shop, replaced seals, fabricated plate and cut tranny shaft to make room for EM shaft, they will be a kissing 1/8" apart. THe hardest part to co-ordinate to this point has been to find a machinist to make the connector. My rig is going to be direct connection from the EM to tranny, no clutch, or flywheeel needed. I purchesed a 1-1/2" piece of stock steel 1/4" wall, the inside is...

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Changes as I go

Posted 04-20-2010 at 09:49 PM by hargadale

I Made a template of masonite of the transmission bolt patern to transfer onto the .50 inch aluminum plate as the first step of connecting the transmission to the electric motor. My plan was to connect the two Clark forklift motors together end wise. There just enough room to do it in the car. SO.... I went looking for a more suitable motor. I found and bought a Caterpiller electric fork lift truck, the end result was that for $600 I got three 48 volt dc mortors, and a controller. Plus a couple...