This dude in Germany made an electric 86
 

It's electric.. boogie woogie woogie

https://insideevs.com/news/394797/to...san-leaf-swap/

IDK of that will end up clickable, but there you go.

Sure, he fixed the torque dip...

But he still needs 50 hp more!

was really hoping for more build details...

Great, now I am looking at salvage Leaf's AND Twins :bonk:

Well, if we are going to take the article seriously... yes, I would love to know what weight distribution was achieved- from the scant details it would seem to be biased to the rear... I suspect negative impact to handling. The article basically implies the car has not really been driven- just moved in short distances under its own power.

The 295 foot pounds of torque is nothing to sneeze at though.

But...

A rough search says that:

The stock engine weighs in at about 350 pounds.

The Leaf engine and batteries come in someplace around 800 pounds.

The weight distribution of the batteries is based purely upon convenience of available space. The thing will be grossly butt heavy. Nice for traction but truly horrible for steering.

The thing has an 80 mile range which would just plain suck.

Fun project car but really no "improvements" made.

Converting cars not designed from the ground up to be EVs rarely results in a great vehicle.

i don't want details for a future project, just a curiousity-- as tcoat said, converted vehicles aren't extremely good at much, converted ev's using air-cooled leaf parts even less..

Well I thought it was pretty neat but you guys are right, #totalled...

Yeah no- it's still pretty neat :P . Functional no, but neat nonetheless. I would like more build details though. That "acceleration pull" was at least very obviously done with the wheels off the ground: If the door wasn't open I'd think he was trying to say it could do that on pavement.


Random:
Hey OP, your sig made me think of this for the first time in at least 10 years. Gave me a chuckle.
youtube.com/watch?v=WjElZ-O9EpM

Edit: Hmm, I really didn't mean to take over the whole page with that Youtube link.

Weight distribution is easily addressed with ballast, although it's not adding so much power that you would really want to start bolting on pure weight.

It's just interesting to see how electric vehicle technology is changing the modification world.

This kind of stuff is like nails in the coffin for the world where you can stuff a 350 in basically anything. In 50 years, what will the electric equivalent of that be, I wonder?

Why not like put a big engine in a Tesla or something and pull a big switch-a-roo?

And make sure you go way back in tech!

https://car-from-uk.com/ebay/carphot...ebay711629.jpg

Original 2JZ?

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Bigger! Badder! Back to the the days when American muscle ruled the roads.

And further back even yet.

Ya want torque and a light body - we had it back in the 50's - :D

https://youtu.be/e58NJU5B3v8

(that song ought to drive ol @Tcoat back underground)

Actually, that race was on the Old Spiral Highway, coming up from Lewiston, ID.

:burnrubber:


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