Gutting the BRZ and putting in a Electric Engine?
 

I saw this video about EV West and their Electric M3 for Pikes Peak.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvnCgW5tSsc"]Bill Caswell Takes the BMW M3 Electric Pikes Peak Race Car for a Test Drive - EV West - YouTube[/ame]

Now this got me thinking imagine putting a super torquey electric motor into the BRZ. Of course keeping the 50/50 balance I think this chassis would be a great car to convert to an electric.

I think we have something here when you get a Rally driver get all excited driving a car on the street :party0030:

That's really interesting that they have made that race track look like normal suburban streets.

Very interesting. Have no respect for these guys since those were public roads. That's what we call... Tools.

Are there no other synonyms for "surge" ?

Gutted or not, an electric engine and its batteries (which aren't cheap to begin with) are very heavy, and one of the focuses of the FR-S/BRZ was weight savings. But what "50/50 balance" are you talking about? I'm pretty sure the car's existing weight distribution is slightly front-biased along the lines of 53/47 or so.

I'm sure it would be a fun project, but it's highly impractical, as you would pretty much have to give up the tiny backseats and likely a good portion of the already small trunk to fit the batteries.

Well at least when someones says "what MOTOR you got in it?", they'll be using the correct term. I dont know why motor and engine mix ups bother.

wow looks like a electric car on steroids, thats freaken ridiculously sick

How about Rocketry? They call them motors in that arena as well.

You don't understand it just...surges.... lol

Interesting video though.:thumbup:

Its actually 55/45 but with two people inside it's quoted at 53/47.

I don't understand why they were driving a race car on the street either, but I'm all for any advancements in technology that make for fun EV's. Hybrid gas-electrics and EV's will be a big part of the automotive landscape sooner or later, so the sooner they can figure out a way to make them fun, the better.

Le Mans-winning, all-wheel-drive diesel/electric hybrid, anyone?

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Great. Next time I'm have a converstation with the guys at JPL I'll bring that up.

Huh? Car engines are motors.

Heh, true - you could do that, but I was thinking more along the lines of model rocketry.

Yeah I guess that would probably be easier. I haven't made a model rocket in probably 20 years. I'm gonna go buy a model rocket and launch someone's cat into orbit.

It's not likely to happen anytime soon since a budget DC conversion is $10k for 40 miles of range with the heavy/unreliable lead acid batteries, and requires a large amount of design and fabrication. An AC conversion with lithium phosphates could cost twice that.

And I also found it insulting that he drove it on public streets like that.

Converting it to electric could actually improve the balance due to more rear bias from the battery pack. But we're talking a couple hundred more pounds overall. Not worth it for that reason alone but EVs are cool. :thumbsup:

I'd like to try out that M3 too. It seems to look like it's a lot of fun.

id love to convert a brz to electric a 200hp electric would be sick

really?? this thread is 2 years old and you bring it up for what reason?

I just saw it, whats the problem with that?

because if this thread was relevant it would not take someone 2 years to repost something to the thread.....

We don't need no frockin range!! Let's do it!

Lol i really dont need range i mean school is 9k for me so like 6 miles an electric would be so sick lol