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| Joe Bob |
 Feb 21 2008, 09:23 PM
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http://www.electroauto.com/gallery/vp914.shtml
http://electric914.wordpress.com/ http://www.evcl.com/914/ Electro Automotive has a kit for 14K...yikes..... Otmar seems to be REAL busy building components..... I'm thinkng of doing one for my twins..... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) I have two years to get it done..... |
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| r_towle |
Mar 5 2008, 02:41 PM
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Custom Member Group: Members Posts: 24,574 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Taxachusetts Member No.: 124 Region Association: North East States 
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QUOTE(356 @ Feb 23 2008, 08:50 PM)  I signed up for the EVDL discussion list....hope it's a little more tolerant than the 356talk list. Anyways, searched the archives for 914 conversions and got a pile back..... http://www.evalbum.com/type/PORS I saw that Otmar has TWO 8 inch motors bolted together.....WTF? Mike Zois I cant believe that YOU would consider modifying a 914 to produces anything but a COA concourse car with all the original parts. How do you think this will affect the overall value of our original cars and impact my perception of reality. The talk list is one of the most tolerant and open groups I have ever seen. Welcoming all people who love cars they cannot afford and ensuring large profits for owners of the real cars that they all bought for 3k twenty years ago. With the hardcore members all aging and moving on due to the fact that they can no longer drive the cars anymore, the list is dying. Oh, did anyone think about a forum?? hell no, that would give free and open access to data and threads that should never be shared outside the inner circle. Please dont consider making the car faster, safer, or god forbid driveable, that would ruin the entire point of saving these old true engineering marvels.. lol KTF (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Rich Attached image(s) 
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| Joe Bob |
Mar 5 2008, 02:44 PM
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Put down the crack pipe and answer my last email on the "B"....
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| r_towle |
Mar 5 2008, 03:01 PM
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Custom Member Group: Members Posts: 24,574 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Taxachusetts Member No.: 124 Region Association: North East States
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never got one...send it again...
just got the COA... Dark midnight blue, biege leather interior, headrests, alarm, luggage rack, super 90... sweet color combo. alarm is a kill switch from the factory...cool... R |
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| neo914-6 |
Mar 5 2008, 09:06 PM
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neo life Group: Members Posts: 5,086 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Willow Glen (San Jose) Member No.: 159 |
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| Joe Bob |
Mar 5 2008, 09:28 PM
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QUOTE(r_towle @ Mar 5 2008, 01:01 PM) never got one...send it again... just got the COA... Dark midnight blue, biege leather interior, headrests, alarm, luggage rack, super 90... sweet color combo. alarm is a kill switch from the factory...cool... R I'm interested....just answer yer email numnutz.... |
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| Joe Bob |
Mar 5 2008, 09:29 PM
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QUOTE(neo914-6 @ Mar 5 2008, 07:06 PM) Actually, I'm looking at a Mazda Miata EV that's local.....wonder if it's gay enuff fer me? |
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| buck toenges |
Mar 11 2008, 09:19 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 553 Joined: 25-November 03 From: Fort wayne In Member No.: 1,388 Region Association: None
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What about capacitors with batteries? Read something recently about manufactures using capacitors with batteries that provide the electricity you need as you push the pedal down without causing serious drainage problems with the batteries, thereby reducing the replacement battery issue.
How feasible is it to use photovoltaic "charging stations" at work in the parking lot. How expensive are they and can they give you a charge you need during business hours? Seems to me that if you can get the charge for free and get about 40mpc (miles per charge) then hooking up some sort of rear wheel drive electric system to a diesel vw bug would really kick some serious ass in opec! O.k. Tell me why I am a dreamer? |
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| swl |
Mar 11 2008, 11:32 AM
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QUOTE(buck toenges @ Mar 11 2008, 07:19 AM) What about capacitors with batteries? Read something recently about manufactures using capacitors with batteries that provide the electricity you need as you push the pedal down without causing serious drainage problems with the batteries, thereby reducing the replacement battery issue. A capacitor is just a way of leveling the demand curve. When the demand is low it charges up from the batteries. When demand is high it releases that energy instead of the batteries having to do all the work. It doesn't create energy of course - just a storage technique. I could understand a theory that says avoiding demand spikes is good for the battery. Where I'm a little skeptical is in a capacitor that was big enough to make a difference for any more than a fraction of a second. |
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| smontanaro |
Mar 11 2008, 08:31 PM
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QUOTE(swl @ Mar 11 2008, 12:32 PM) Where I'm a little skeptical is in a capacitor that was big enough to make a difference for any more than a fraction of a second. Google for supercapacitors or ultracapacitors. Skip |
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| swl |
Mar 12 2008, 08:29 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,409 Joined: 7-August 05 From: Kingston,On,Canada Member No.: 4,550 Region Association: Canada |
too cool skip. 10,000 fold improvement would do the trick!
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| shelby/914 |
Mar 12 2008, 08:47 PM
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Just sold a tub to a guy in Aurora for an electric conversion. It will be his second. Gave him info about this site but have not heard from him since. He is suppose to contact us about an interior and some other parts. Will tell him about this thread if he ever calls back.
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| Joe Bob |
Mar 12 2008, 10:08 PM
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Well the current 914 is too nice to convert...gonna keep it as a gas burner for awhile until I tire of it....still trying to get the Miata guy down on his price.
He wants 7500 and it needs all new batteries.... |
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