After 10 years, I'm finally able to begin my electric car conversion. My goals are 0-60 MPH in < 8 seconds, 100 mile range (60 is an absolute min) at 80% dod, >80 mph top speed, and 4 seats.
I've narrowed the donor car decision down to two: Porsche 944 or Porsche 911/912. I would prefer the 911, but not at the price they seem to be selling for in my area, $14 -20 k USD (1978-1989). The 944 goes for between $1,000 - $5,000 (1983-1987).
For components I don't think I will stray too far from what a lot of people have been doing:
9 inch Warp - keeping the clutch and flywheel
Soliton Jr, or Soliton1
56 cells at 130 aH CALB or 48 cells at 180 aH
Manzanita 20 - The idea of long recharging times (12 hours) doesn't bother me
Battery monitoring and instrumentation - not selected yet
I'm thinking that the batteries will be the system bottleneck and any money I can squeeze from the bugdet should go there. Not sure how many will fit without messing up the weight distribution too much.
I've narrowed the donor car decision down to two: Porsche 944 or Porsche 911/912. I would prefer the 911, but not at the price they seem to be selling for in my area, $14 -20 k USD (1978-1989). The 944 goes for between $1,000 - $5,000 (1983-1987).
For components I don't think I will stray too far from what a lot of people have been doing:
9 inch Warp - keeping the clutch and flywheel
Soliton Jr, or Soliton1
56 cells at 130 aH CALB or 48 cells at 180 aH
Manzanita 20 - The idea of long recharging times (12 hours) doesn't bother me
Battery monitoring and instrumentation - not selected yet
I'm thinking that the batteries will be the system bottleneck and any money I can squeeze from the bugdet should go there. Not sure how many will fit without messing up the weight distribution too much.