Owner | Ron Berry |
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Owner's Other EVs | 1986 Holden Scurry 1991 Mazda RX7 Series 5 Savannah |
Location | Nimbin, New South Wales Australia map |
Web | WebPage Vehicles.htm |
Vehicle | 1977 Porsche 924 Martini Under construction/being restored after finding it under a tree mostly stripped already. It has been painted black over the martini colours and needed work on some rust and lots of parts missing. All ICE components are off the car and I am nearly done doing up the body. Already reupholstered the seats and found the missing bits. |
Motor | Permanent Magnet DC Homemade Axial flux PMDC motors planned, trying to find suitable magnets for what I intend to make is proving difficult. |
Drivetrain | I am planning on building my own two PMDC motors directly driving the rear CV joints with a toothed belt reduction drive (or just large circumference) as per axel borg's book with some modifications of my own (see his motorbike on here- number 3318) |
Controller | EPC Jr prototype IGBT based controller made by EPC corporation. |
Batteries | 0.00 Volt, Haven't bought them yet, waiting to see if anything better than lithium titinate cells turns up before I finish the rest. Will probably get more leaf cells (see my other conversions) |
Heater | 12V hairdryer. |
Seating Capacity | 2+2 |
Curb Weight | 0 aiming at 1100kg |
Tires | 14" 185/65 |
Conversion Time | 30hrs of body/rust work and stripping down and adding parts where required. |
Conversion Cost | So far around $1500 |
Additional Features | sway bars and red go faster carpet and seats as well as a celebratory plaque for winning le mans for the fourth time in 1977 sets this model apart from the standard 924. |
Progressing slowly but steadily as funds allow. My local engineer will not commit on if I need to use a differential. Considering a chinese EV motor/diff combo PMDC motor, gearbox and controller in one unit as a possible option if he wont allow my 2 homemade motors running in torque mode as an electronic diff. Started this one first but will probably finish it last. I now have 3 on the go. |