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To cut to the chase I have purchased a set of 11" motors to go into the car... They will also attach to my shortie powerglide. The motors were in a EV drag car "Renegade" from 2006-2011 was running the quarter in over 100 mph... Now finding a hime in my vette, they still need cleaned up a bit but can you say TORQUE?
Sorry for not paying attention, but are you running AC or DC motors?
Hi Zwede.
I'm running DC the motors are run in parallel at 170 volts and max of 1000 amps ea, (2000 Amps) or about 340Kw ~ 380 Hp at 85% efficiency. Somewhere from 833 ft/lbs of torque through about 600 at 4500 rpms
For the rest following the post I managed to trim the shaft on the Transwarp tonight so the 11" drive train is now ready to install.
In she goes.... Barely enough room to roll it down the tunnel... it is too long to drop from the top.
Can you say fill the engine bay? I still need to fabricate the front motor mounts...
Rear cross member installed and rear trans mounts are in.
I need to install the driveshaft and reconnect my torque bar, then concentrate on relocating the controller, and a few things under the hood and should be back on the road.
To cut to the chase I have purchased a set of 11" motors to go into the car... They will also attach to my shortie powerglide. The motors were in a EV drag car "Renegade" from 2006-2011 was running the quarter in over 100 mph... Now finding a hime in my vette, they still need cleaned up a bit but can you say TORQUE?
I'm surprised that the SMC floor can take all that weight! Looking sweet though!
Hi Tom.
Yes this was a concern I had as well..
So I reinforced the top side of the floor panels by sandwiching the SMC with 2 1/8" thick x 6" wide x about 18" sections on each side to spread the weight around, and of course the cross member below. It is VERY solid...
Sorry folks it has been a few weeks since the last updates...
So a few cool things going on.
The motors are in and I have had them driving the back wheels, have the tach working, I purchased a heat sink cooler for the controller to replace the older trans cooler with the fan, replacing the older 600W DC/DC converter with a 2KW Auxilary power supply from a Chevy Volt. The older DC/DC converter could not keep up with the energy draw. Also have the forced air bands for the 800 CFM forced air fans to the motors to allow running higher currents for a longer period of time...
Deraler Dual Pass Heat Sink Cooler for the Zilla Controller .
Volt Auxiliary Power supply takes 360VDC and drops it to 13.6 VDC to charge the battery at up to 170 Amps
The forced air cooling bands for the motors to allow forced air to cool and help reduce Zorching under High Amp draws.
One of two 800 CFM blower motors that will force air into the motors
View thus far from the driver's side, Zilla Controller mounted the the front motor
Passenger view the open gap on the front of the motor exposing the brushes will be covered with the cooling bands
10-16-2015, 11:54 PM
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that should provide just a little bit of torque 
