T3: RE: Plans for Fastback

["Erkson, Toby" <toby.erkson@intel.com>]

I say we get together, scrap this hot rod and electric motor stuff and
make 
a bolt-in jet turbine setup.  Exhaust gases are diverted up to keep the 
butt on the ground but will be on an adjustable 90 L-joint that would
allow 
the exhaust to be ported out the rear incase some meathead was on your 
bumper.
    Toby "No dollars and even less sense" Erkson
    air_cooled_nut@pobox.com  <-- Please use this address for email
responses
    '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L
    '75 Porsche 914 1.8L, ORPCA member
    Portland, Oregon, http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/


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Subject: Plans for Fastback
Author:  Schmitt@aerovironment.com [SMTP:Schmitt@aerovironment.com]  at
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Date:    3/9/98 3:03 PM


I suppose its time to come clean with what Plan A is for the '71
Fastback I 
recently purchased, despite the potentials for flames and "how could
you"s.

Over the past several years I have been very much into electric
vehicles. A 
couple of years ago as a summer project bankrolled by my parents, I
bought a 
VERY beat up 1978 Honda Accord (interestingly, it, too, cost $250). I
fitted it 
with a 8" (diameter) DC motor, 18 8 volt golf-cart batteries, and a 72
kW (about
96 HP) controller. Performance was good, but I felt kind of bad putting
these 
shiny, new (expensive) components into the POS that this car was...