Gasoline to electric conversion on a 68-70 Charger

[Kern Dog]

Personally, I'd prefer a Mountain Dew and a candy bar.
An electric Charger is the queerest idea for these cars that I have ever heard. I'd rather see a diesel conversion.

[Tilar]

I'm sure it can be done , but I like the sound of dual exhaust or open headers. Not the sound of big cordless drill.

I wonder if they can come up with a way to make it sound like it has a real engine under the hood and an exhaust, an elaborate exterior speaker system maybe?  

It could definitely be done with speakers (that's the only way it could be done, without adding a gasoline engine solely for the sound effect), and they definitely have plenty of juice to power them (far more juice than a regular car has available), though it would rob you of range, because the batteries would be drained quicker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9XAC-BvUyo

[John_Kunkel]

Back on subject, let me tell you about an electric car I saw back in the early eighties.

Picture a Triumph TR6 with the drivetrain removed and the rear axle replaced by a huge electric motor. Every usable inch of space consumed by standard lead/acid batteries. Doesn't sound too unusual until you look inside the body shell and see that each of the four suspension corners has a large diameter rod attached that travels up and down with the suspension travel....the rod passes through a vertical guide bushing. One side of the rod has teeth machined in it much like a steering rack and the teeth in the rack drive a pinion gear attached to a (wait for it) standard 46-amp Mopar alternator. Since an alternator will put out when turned in either direction, the genius designer thought that the constant up/down movement of the rack/pinion setup would drive the alternators fast enough to provide enough power to partially recharge the batteries.

Upon seeing this abortion my thought was "how fast does the Mopar alternator have to turn just to keep the ammeter on the CHARGE side?" Probably 2000 rpm? Obviously, the whole charging concept was a failure but it made for interesting eye candy.

I saw the car in a friend's shop that specialized in diesel and electric conversions. I've often regretted not rushing home for my camera to document this oddity...nowadays it would be on Youtube in no time.

[Cooter]

Dismissed.....


Back on topic again.
Worked on my first hybrid Toyota trans R&R the other day. Flywheel looked kinda like straight drive clutch.
Found out after swap that a coil on plug gone bad will kill one these trans'....
Tell your green buddies to at least tune up the engines.

[GL0169]

So your saying if i change my General Lee to electric i will have to call it "General Electric"

[Fred]

So your saying if i change my General Lee to electric i will have to call it "General Electric"

[myk]

So your saying if i change my General Lee to electric i will have to call it "General Electric"

Ba-dum-dum!

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

taking out all the BS posts in this thread was NOT worth my time and effort.

Screw it.  Locking this thread too.   Play nice