December 26, 2007

My latest motor make-over, I’m just not sure what to call it yet

This is a brand new Warp 9 motor bought by a local guy who decided he wants a Siamese9 set up now that Eric and I are about to build some.   As he’s just wanting to recoup his costs from it and being it was “already here”, I figuered I could spice it up before it got listed on Ebay.   In addition to getting a good go over, this motor now sports an anodized AL variable timing ring for those who’d like to play with brush timing.

After skimming and countersinking the housing, I brought it nextdoor to Underground Customs paint shop and asked Todd to throw a little love on it with total freedom on what EVer he wanted to do.   Sometime over the weekend he finished her and came by today to tell me she was done.   I got EVerything bottoned up as well today and she runs as good as she looks, because beauty only runs skin deep, right? 

I’ll be listing this up at Ebay here soon (sorry there will have to be a reserve put on it, lol)and will give another heads up when it’s listed.   Anyway here’s your chance at owning a signature series Hi-Torque motor without the wait.   BTW, in the course of building this motor I did put a little >< chip on the paint, but I don't think you can see it to bad, but I'd like to know if you all can see it 8^)   but with that said this motor is (if nothing else) built like a...steel brick!

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December 14, 2007

A DC motor for an EV1?

When the University of Missouri - Rolla asked me if I could shorten an Impulse9 down to 12″ from 13.7″ so it could be put into an EV1 they had, I said sure (even though the most I’ve EVer shaved down was an inch, lol!  What I didn’t know, or misunderstood is it also needed an OEM shaft installed… Doh!

It wouldn’t have been so bad if I hadn’t had to hack and slash the thing from it’s OEM length as we could have just used some existing shaft measurement’s, but we had to make sure the armature was going to sit where it needed to be and fit!  Eric at Mountain Machine came through for me and made a shaft that pressed into the armature like a gloove 8^) 

They received the motor today and hopefully there will be another EV1 cruisin around after winter break.  Maybe one day it’ll make it to Battery Beach Burnout, or The Power of DC events for some autocross or range runs 8^)   For me personally I thougt it a cool project as I got to play a part in helping an EV1 run again and for an old DC motor dog it just don’t get much better than this (except for projects like the post before this one, hehe).  Anyway, here it is, EV1 album

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December 12, 2007

Building the motors for Shawn Lawless’ dragster “Juiced Up”

Well it’s been a while since my last post but I’m happy to announce that the motors were shipped out to Shawn and he ought to have them early next week.  For those who may just be hearing about this project, it shouldn’t be long before you hear about it tearing up records 8^o   The rail will sport 4) Modified ADC 9″ motors, 4) Zilla controllers and 4500+ A123 battery cells made into 4 seperate packs (one for each motor) so this thing’s gonna fly like a Batt(ery) out of hell!   

In starting this project we had wanted to set them up as the first Siamese 9 motors but that didn’t pan out (it’s a whole other story) anyway, I ended up teaming up with an old machinest buddy of mine (who happens to be just one street down) who made shafts that have an 1 1/8th” tail shaft to couple to the 1 1/8th”  DE shaft on the front motor (it’ll have two side by side and two inline).  Although not a “dream” shaft it’ll be a lot better than having to couple to the 7/8th” shaft they come with OEM.   Hopefully by the time Shawn rips these shafts in half my hope is Eric will be able to create some splined shafts as replacements.   

I’ve got these motors set up with the veriable timing rings with as solid copper brush leads as fat as would fit coupled with as fat a flex connection that still flexes, lol.  I had Todd the paint guy add his skills to them and he patterned them after the dragsters paint.   It truly has been an honor to work on this project and it’s my hope that they’ll drive Shawn and crew to some “respectable” times and EVen better become the quickest EV in the world 8^o  That’s right Killacycle there’s a new kid in town ;^)   (just kidding  Bill knows all about this).

I’ve got a lot of pictures so it’s going to be a big album, hope you enjoy Juiced Up!

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