EV West Electric Crate Motor, Thoughts?
 

EV West apparently just came out with a Tesla powered crate motor that mounts up to Chevy LS or other Chevy V8 small block mounts. Theoretically, anyone that makes LS swap kits for a vehicle could use their motor. I think this is awesome! I'd love to see more and more EV swapped 86s.

https://jalopnik.com/you-dont-really...ore-1845245596

I love it. Too bad I can't afford to do something like this right now with my car dead in the driveway with a blown motor.

Where do you put the batteries to make it move?
If you put them above the axle centerline it won't go around corners very well.

something really cool about conversions like this is the chance to alter the balance of a car to alter the handling characteristics. plenty of cars have downfalls directly related to where the mass is.

Neat. That would be cool to put in my trans am. No idea where I would put the batteries though.

Question is if the space of the fuel tank and maybe additional space in the engine bay would be enough to install enough capacity for a reasonable range. And also the question is what weight this would mean compared to the conventional options.

Besides that a cool idea in matters of engineering, but it cant realy get me in an emotional way. Even if it would be faster. StarTrek sound and screaming tires are something my brian cannot overlay in a convenient way. Maybe I'm a Neanderthal, sorry.

I prefer to be propelled by explosions created by burning dinosaurs that once rose above us on the food chain. No hate, just my preference

Drive unit is only the sexy, very first item in a long list of super expensive parts of a complete system. Never mind handling, $$$ first.

Don't get me wrong. I dream about this, but my experience designing similar systems quickly brings me back to reality.

It would be fun to install in a lada. No one would believe I could sink $90k into one

Oh it would be cool AF. Build amp from scratch. :evil:

If I'm going to spend this kind of money, I'm thinking tube frame chassis and go all out. Or something like the Ariel Atom...

Cut up a shit-ton of hobby batteries and stick 'em all over like dynamat. :D

From the youtubes I have watched of EV conversions, the motors tend to be small enough to fit in the transmission tunnel which leaves room in the engine bay for batteries. Hard to say from the couple of photos in the article but I'd hazard a guess at it being considerably smaller than a LS motor.

another company was at one point designing a drop-in lsx block size motor/controller/battery assembly for the aftermarket, to take specific advantage of mounting kits already made for adapting to an lsx. haven't heard much about it recently though.