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Originally Posted by soundman98
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I was going to post the same thing but with this article
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/e...c-crate-motor/ I'm seriously contemplating a way to make a conversion like this happen in a few years.
There are some great old cars that I've always wanted but stayed away from because of terrible fuel economy, they're terribly underpowered or wholly unreliable. Something like this might make some of those more feasible. Think Jaguar or some of the big land barges from Caddy, Olds or Buick in the 70's...
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Originally Posted by Tcoat
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.
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Don't forget that you'll also be losing the weight of the cooling system, gas tank and a few other minor things but yeah it would still be at least a few hundred pounds heavier. A bunch of batteries could actually fit up front where the radiator is and then I'd think where the gas tank is would be a good place for them too and that would put the weight in the right place.