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| General Description |
EPA Values |
Year: 1969
Make: Triumph
Model: GT6 MkII
Trim:
Vehicle Type : gasoline
Curb Weight: 0
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EPA City: 0
EPA Highway: 0
EPA Combined: 0 |
| Description |
I'm currently converting this car to an electric vehicle.
Stock, the car weighs in at 1,793 pounds, has a .32 drag coefficient, and 14.9 square foot frontal area.
I will be doing extensive body modifications. I hope to get Cd down to about .24-.27. I will be adding a rear spoiler for the purpose of increasing fineness ratio closer to 6:1, covering the rear wheel wells, adding smooth wheel covers, installing a smooth underbody, adding wheel spoilers, replacing the stock hood with a LeMans bonnet, shaving the rain gutters off, installing a shaved door handle kit, installing a shaved hatch handle kit, removing all chrome strips and exterior vents, among other modifications.
Further will be the addition of 14 inch wheels and Honda Insight tires. This has two benfits: increasing the overall gearing to allow higher top speed, and Honda insight tires have the lowest rolling resistance of any tire currently on the market.
It will have a Dark British Racing Green paintjob when funding permits.
It already has a Triumph TR6 transmission and differential installed. These will be needed to handle the high torque of the electric motor that the car will have on demand in a later upgrade.
The car is starting out as a cheap conversion for roughly $1,500-2,000. This cheap conversion will be able to top out around 65-70 mph, 0-60 mph in an agonizing 30 seconds or so, and roughly 50 miles range at highway speeds with the aero mods(without, more like 25-30 miles). It will weigh in at around 2,300 pounds including driver.
It will constantly be upgraded as financing permits. A Zilla controller, 9" motor, AGM batteries, weight reduction via fiberglass parts and lexan windows, you name it. This upgrading will take roughly $10,000.
Within a year or two and/or $10,000 later after the initial conversion, it will be upgraded for high performance and greatly increased range. With a pack of 25 Optima D750 lead acid batteries, Netgain WarP 9" motor, Zilla 1k, ect., it will be capable of 0-60 mph < 6 seconds, 140+ mph top speed, and roughly 80-100 miles range at 65 mph(or about 8 miles at 140 mph). Weight including driver will be roughly 2,400 pounds.
So basically, a green V8-killer(both in color and envirnmental impact). It will be raced after it is sufficiently upgraded
Efficiency, about .130 kWh/mile at 65 mph from the batteries after it is majorly upgraded(Or roughly .180 kWh/mile as the cheap conversion using an inefficient surplus aircraft motor). Consider that there are 33.8 kWh in a gallon of gasoline, testament to the efficiency of an electric motor!
Here are old pics of the car from last year:
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