Not sure how I'm just now seeing this. Way cool, and I can't wait to see the finished product. 
Not sure how I'm just now seeing this. Way cool, and I can't wait to see the finished product.
Turbocad6 said:In reply to bbbbRASS :
I do want to get rid of all the electric crap, only thing I was considering salvaging was a few contactors in the battery I dont have the patience or desire to start breaking this pack down to salvage cells, make me a ridiculous offer I want it gone anyway tbh...
initially I tried to individually charge the cells back up, I got a lot of them to eventually come up and hold charge after days of micro amp trickling I even got the center bank up to over 90 volts and somewhat even over 3v each cell but then some were resistant and rose slower some would drop from 3v back to below1v in a few days... I didn't even bother playing with the third bank, at that point I gave up on the OE electric it's just sitting in the back yard trying not to get wet atm 😊
Yep, sounds like the BMS decided there was a fault and it did the "safest" thing and drained all the cells, which in turn damaged some and led to higher internal resistance. Or it could have been the other way around. I'm in SC, and just decided not to come to the City this winter so I would have to figure out how to get stuff down here since shipping would be quite the issue. Are you by chance going to the challenge, or know anyone local who is?
In reply to bbbbRASS :
No chance of getting this ready for the coming challenge, maybe next year but depends on budget I guess 😊
don't know anyone really, didn't realize you were so far. I'm pretty sure I could get a pallet from work and crate stuff up, not so sure how worth it it is though...
Maybe try one of these. It's a Winters Performance "non-quick change" differential. Flip it upside down, but it would be driving on the coast side. At your power level that should be fine. This is a 10" ring gear, they make a smaller one "SRP437-838NQ" with an 8 3/8" ring gear. Porsche drive flanges are available.
In reply to Turbocad6 :
Okay, tweaking your account again.
I am quite sure that Audi and VW rear diffs (obviously from the Quattro/All wheel drive cars) are reverse rotation.
This winter I tech inspected a Volvo 245 with a Passat TDI engine and gearbox. The owner explained that he drove it first using the Volvo rear axle - with 6 reverse gears and one forward gear. The VW Passat rear axle is a surprisingly good fit in a Volvo 245 (and gave him 6 forward gears). Not to mention the fun of having front driveshaft stub axles doing nothing :-) when the gearbox is used as an rwd.
In reply to therealpinto :
that is very interesting, I haven't found any of that out in my searching so far, thanks I will dig into this a bit and see what I can see 😊
In reply to XenaFordPrincess :
That thing looks like it costs more than my whole build so far 😂 10" ring gear is way overkill here too
once I'm flipping anyway there are a ton of more reasonable options that are still more than strong enough even on there coast sides
Looks like a 2000-2005 Passat 4-Motion or 1998-2005 Audi A6 Quattro are reverse rotation. I think after that they are standard rotation. DEFINITELY cheaper than my suggestion.
have you watched the episode of Faster with Newbern and Cotten where they put a VTR1000 engine into a 1972 Honda Z600. not exactly the same thing... but it might give you some ideas
In reply to XenaFordPrincess :
Wow thank you I've been searching for Vw or Audi stuff since therealpinto mentioned it but haven't found anything yet, this pic shows the ring gear opposite side which is what I need, going to do some more digging now, thanks 😊
Go Xena!
Love how this forum has people brainstorming and finding solutions. Especially impressive when they are new readers.
Now I feel I am not pulling my weight 
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