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Wanted to give you all a quick heads up. Lots of discussion with friends, lots of reading. This community site is awesome!
While I would love 4x4, I've decided the approach to take is one of minimizing labor, ebay bidding, and searches through salvage yards. This may result in more cost of hardware, but will reduce the soft costs significantly. My friends want to start up a new business doing classic conversions, I'm not ready to retire yet and start a new career, but this is also a major objective to enable more conversions per year with fewer people. There's hardly any body out there to hire anymore. This truck is the trial run.
I figured out how to mount a drive unit in the rear with an art Morrison chassis. They have a nice IRS system. But I really prefer to keep the gearing a little above the 10.5:1 range. All the drive units I've seen are lower, I think the highest was a tesla with about 9.6. It's maximizing fun at the speeds I'll drive this beast, 55mph and less. Torque tends reduction and a high heard differential hits the target.
The im225 will work very well for this application. If I must for battery or other fit, I'll break it up, but integrated costs less and reduces labor.
Next step is to figure out the batteries, voltage, placement, etc. My first pass is 600 Wh/MI for poor aero dynamics, lots of steel. Ideally 120 kwhr battery to get roughly 200 miles. If I want to cross the mountains, maybe I throw a little generator in the bed and fire it up at rest stops. [emoji23]
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While I would love 4x4, I've decided the approach to take is one of minimizing labor, ebay bidding, and searches through salvage yards. This may result in more cost of hardware, but will reduce the soft costs significantly. My friends want to start up a new business doing classic conversions, I'm not ready to retire yet and start a new career, but this is also a major objective to enable more conversions per year with fewer people. There's hardly any body out there to hire anymore. This truck is the trial run.
I figured out how to mount a drive unit in the rear with an art Morrison chassis. They have a nice IRS system. But I really prefer to keep the gearing a little above the 10.5:1 range. All the drive units I've seen are lower, I think the highest was a tesla with about 9.6. It's maximizing fun at the speeds I'll drive this beast, 55mph and less. Torque tends reduction and a high heard differential hits the target.
The im225 will work very well for this application. If I must for battery or other fit, I'll break it up, but integrated costs less and reduces labor.
Next step is to figure out the batteries, voltage, placement, etc. My first pass is 600 Wh/MI for poor aero dynamics, lots of steel. Ideally 120 kwhr battery to get roughly 200 miles. If I want to cross the mountains, maybe I throw a little generator in the bed and fire it up at rest stops. [emoji23]
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