Quote:
Originally Posted by RarlyL8
Yes 'cause there are so many of those around. How many threads are there on how to reduce weight in a 911? How much weight does this crap add? Sure if you want an expensive hypercar that goes fast and not much else this is great stuff. If you want a nimble old school sports car that you actually drive without computer assist then not so much. I see where this is going. Sure power options of any sort are great as long as the government leaves are fun old cars alone.
|
doesn't need to be tesla levels of power.
some kits being developed add 60kg (or half an american passenger, if you use freedom units) for a roughly 30kw/100nm gain from idle.
not huge power but doesn't need huge power to torque fill low in the range.
the idea is to supplement the old school character not replace it. it's just a power adder like anything else..
these kind of kits will possibly become no different in a sense to using modern turbos for example.. otherwise we'd still all be using dinosaur units because 'lag is part of the character' etc, which is just a way people use to justify **** driving characteristics.
at 75k it makes no sense, but i see EV west does full conversions for 10k, so someone will come up with a more affordable compact kit.
would i do one for my own 911? no not at this point, battery tech will come a bit further and drop the price point/weight.
for something like my daily mx5 etc? yeah for 60kg and that extra shove for a daily, no brainer.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraftday
Torque fill retrokit = exactly the modern enhancement the older models should be all about. No constraints! For the 930 perhaps an electric drive motor in place of the starter.
How cool if Porsche would do a "Project Silver E" or something to 964 / 993 C4s. As the front drives wear out they get updated with an electric motor retrokit.
Williams Engineering and the Singer boys could branch together and better utilize the C4 chassis. I think there is a market for all that.
930 era look to the new 935 for example.. E drive it's coming and I'm all for it.
|
exactly this.