| Owner | Matt Chamberlain | ||
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| Owner's Other EVs | 1987 Suzuki SP200 Craftsman 19 inch 48v Push Mower 2012 Nissan Leaf SuperBlack | ||
| Location | Dayton, Ohio United States map | ||
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| Vehicle | 1974 Triumph TR-6 Set up to race as an electric autocrosser and then go get ice cream afterward (in other words, it will no longer be a nasty smelling, noisy cop-attention getter :-) ) | ||
| Motor | Mitsubishi 97220-03400 Series Wound DC Picking up the motor today - Should be a good fit - 8 brush design should take the 144 - 156 volts | ||
| Drivetrain | Debating whether or not to keep the tranny. the center of gravity would be nice with the motor tucked up where the transmission was. | ||
| Controller | Logisystems 550 AMP 120 - 156 | ||
| Batteries | 35AH, 12.00 Volt, Lead-Acid, AGM Got a good price on some 35AH AGM batteries - same form factor as on the motorcycle - Lawn Tractor / U1 sized | ||
| System Voltage | 144 Volts | ||
| Charger | TOP Chinese Charger 3x48v | ||
| Heater | Harbor Freight 9 buck heater | ||
| DC/DC Converter | Elcon 55 | ||
| Instrumentation | removed the oil pressure and volt gauges and replaced with 500 AMP ammeter and 80 - 180 volt Voltmeter | ||
| Top Speed | 100 MPH (160 KPH) I want to run high 13s in the quarter mile | ||
| Acceleration | I want to run high 13s in the quarter mile | ||
| Range | I don't care - 10 miles, maybe. | ||
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| Seating Capacity | 2 adults | ||
| Curb Weight | 1,800 Pounds (818 Kilograms) | ||
| Tires | Kumho Ecstas on 16x7 Konig Rewind Two Tone aluminum and gunmetal spokes | ||
| Conversion Time | a Month or two | ||
| Conversion Cost | 5 grand | ||
| I want to build a 50/50 weight distribution car with over a hundred horsepower and more torque than stock to go out and beat everyone at the autocross and make a good show of it at the dragstrip. The car has racing coils, big sway bars, and race tires. May do rear disc brake conversion and 4 piston front brake conversion. UPDATE - found a suitable fork lift motor - and have located bearings, brushes. In the process of getting some old TR6 cranks to cannibalize and cut the flange end off - then have it broached for female splines for this motor. Then use 2 1/2 inch aluminum doughnut spacer to locate the end of the crank flush with the crank end and bolt up the flywheel, etc. may add a large bearing around the crank journal end if it is a common size. Update - Things are coming together - decided to do away with clamshell motor to bell housing adapter and decided to cut things up instead - cut input shaft to tranny - and output shaft from motor (was bent at the end anyway) and cut the beautiful coupler down to size and jam the motor and tranny together sandwiching a 1/4 in steel plate. I have a new nickname after removing my nail, nail bed, tip of finger and breaking my distal phalanx of my left hand when my finger slipped into one of the cutouts in the frame while the motor was turning at 2500 RPM and got caught in the cooling fan breaking 2 fan blades - AMPutater. :-) There is LITERALLY a piece of me in the motor of this car now :-) UPDATE - DONE! - Went Racing this last weekend at an autocross. Had some problem that I couldn't track down that caused me to only pull 125 AMPs. I have since disconnected everything and reconnected everything and now pull 350 or so. Only problem is that I didn't get one connection secured and blasted a top post to Kingdom Come. :-( Drove her to work - performed well... has about 7.5 miles range - although I think it will get a bit better with a couple charge cycles. Update 7/24/2011 - I have been running errands for a while and have commuted a few times. I built it with too little battery capacity - at 35AH to be a reliable commuter - until they install a charger at work - or set me up with an outlet to use like they did with the bike (which I ride every day.) Another important update is that I need to advance the timing on the motor 12 degrees (see pooey1911 on youtube) to get more amps outta this motor. - Will do this as soon as possible - and report back - also, have a line on some 75ah UPS batteries that still have a couple years life left in em - will report back on that also! Update 9/1/2011 I upped the batteries to 88ah Biggins and went racing (Autocross) although I got slowest time of the day - it was faster than last time - am configured at 96 volts now and have wired up the motor as series and shunt cumulative Compound and it has a lot of pickup now - made the wiring change after racing or I would have beat several cars. | |||
1974 Triumph TR-6
“AMPutator”
Last Updated 09-15-2011
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