A well setup 944?
 

I'd like to know what the conversion costs were for this.

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I think this is one of those “if you have to ask, you wouldn’t understand” projects.

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Economy at any price.

The same guy has also converted mid 80s Ferrari Testarossas (x4).
Here's a video showing what's in the workshop right now and it's utterly amazing - :eek:

There's also a mention of a US vendor who can import their "EV Kits".

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I would prefer a well executed LS conversion .

over 10 years ago there were already 914 EV conversions being discussed on this here forum

Checks and balances
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This is exactly the EV I want. Perfect size, range, and sportiness. I have no interest in the Tesla Model 3, although my wife drives a Model S. Almost everything else for sale here in the US is some form of crossover, which is a big no for me.

I don't know why others here are bagging on this conversion? We have no idea of the state of the car before conversion. It could have been a complete basket case. It looks remarkably well done, although I'm sure it wasn't cheap.

Ill Laugh when oil flows like a river and all of these nerd cars have to return to petrol power. LOL! Man!

Someday soon hopefully we'll see a video of how some guy put a V-8 in a Tesla and he's doing huge smoky doughnuts in a K-Mart parking lot.

the V8 tesla already exists


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I have thought about converting my ancient W140 S420! It's not a cream puff and it's not rare so why not? The car runs great but at some point something big will fail. Converting it to EV would be easy and it would then become one of the smoothest and quietest W140's ever. And it's a big car so there's plenty of room for batteries etc.

This is the rear suspension sub frame from a W140. I'd bet there's plenty of room for a Tesla drive train! Two battery pack - One were the fuel tank is now (behind the back seat) and another bigger pack were the engine is. You could run the cables and coolant lines down the trans tunnel. Charge plug were the fuel filler is now. With careful planning the car could look stock from the outside and I'd try to maintain the weight distribution. (Air suspension?)

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This is a model 3 drive train. It's a very similar in layout to the W140. Even the mounting points are in a similar position & I'd be using Tesla wheels.

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About 30 years ago I saw a Hyundai Excel that had been converted locally. It used a fork lift motor, original 5 speed gearbox and 12v lead acid car batteries. The batteries were packed into the rear luggage area. Its range was about 80km! Usable around the city but it took about 20 hours to fully recharge the batteries in a home garage (240v). How things have changed.

Hell yeah man!:D

https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-crate-motor-ev-conversion-small-block-v-8/

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^^^What the hell is that? It looks like a starter or something. LOL!

It's the next crate motor for Glenn's El Camino in another 300k miles.

I'm pretty much already in the " yawn another ev conversion " camp.
I did watch the video, and that looks to be executed very well, I love how they kept the original gauge pod. I bet its a hoot to drive also.
However, I kind of think a 951 as a somewhat special car, I hate to see one cut up . A testarosa? cmon man. What are you kids, hopped up ?

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This is an excellent video because you get to hear what one of these conversions sounds like.

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I don't know if he started it, but I always think of PFL when I see the title :)...

Did Sid go AWOL too?

Interesting. So they aren't all 500hp monsters.

I didn't watch the videos, but how much weight was added to the P car and red head? The Model S is a heavy car.

According to the video on the 944, the total weight and weight distribution are unchanged from stock.
It now has 300hp. :D

Best
Les

That's kinda amazing, if true. The batteries in any electric vehicle add a ton to the curb weight, so I'd be interested in seeing how they accomplished not adding any weight.

Simple:
It wont do the distance a modern ev does

And the little Alfa is supposedly the same weight, but essentially same as stock hp, but more torque

I have a few real safety concern with these EV's...

- What effect do the battery boxes have on the safety crumple zones of a car?
- How secure are the battery boxes?
- I know they're bolted in but are the bolt through areas reinforced like seat belt mounting point?

What I'm most concerned about is people doing these conversions in their garages.
- Have you ever bought a used car with a "DIY" aftermarket stereo that you had to reinstall? (Shrink tube??? :rolleyes:)

Yeah, well, Crash safety is not what people generally look for when driving oldtimers.
earl and mid 911's.. the crumble zone for a big crap, is really the B pillar, where the driver sits
Corvairs, unsafe at any speed
Air cooled Vdubs.. in modern traffic.. you really "become" your car if there's ever a pile up with modern vehicles..
Those 2002 BMW's or even E9's.. They are unibodies so bit better then a Vdub, anybody thinking those era cars will protect their driver against modern day cars is a fool and then some.


Just look at the Porsche cayman design.. heavy engine just behind the driver
In a super stiff, modern design chassis with high strenght steels and what not.
They still have to put a strong steel anchor cable in to prevent the driver being crushed by the engine

Now You can reinforce those battery boxes, and They probably are the strongest point in those conversions... New steal, hand welded.. Those boxes won't deform...But it won't matter if the rest of the car made out of 40+ year old ordinary steel crumbles around the reinforcements.

That battery box just becomes a man crusher.


You want safety, get a modern car. A ground up design EV.
You want cool car, convert an old one
You want to remain looking cool while driving a cool car... don't convert it :D

Get an SUV. Even a modern car will be plowed over by an SUV in an accident because the hard points on a SUV are higher than a regular car.