I guess I'd also add that I've chopped all the body parts off the rusted smashed 4 door, that car was about as bad as they get, but it did have a few good parts. I'm driving the 450 miles to southern california from sacramento to get a pair of 2-door hardtop fiberglass "race" doors. Shipping on ...

Thought I'd give an update.

I acquired two gen1 leaf motors for the rear drive of the Nomad, which i think now I'm calling it the MadC6 project.
I acquired a 2008 Corvette C6 rolling chassis, could not resist at the price point of $500.
Also acquired 3 Volt motor inverters from the picknpull ...

There is something I regret already...not a single "that's cool" for what I think is the coolest project ever. oh well, wrong crowd I guess.

The original idea was a motor to each rear wheel to get torque vectoring. So going with a single differential is already the simpler plan.

I don't see how I ...

I want to go faster than a Tesla and take corners like a C6 Corvette...and have a budget like a Canadian. :)

I think two 300 hp motors are going to be easier than one 600hp. I said 400hp, but that is minimum, really want 600hp.

Was looking into a Chevy Volt inverter, it has two motor drivers ...

Another consideration is I have a few gen1 prius transaxles. I want to use the junk I have if possible.
Taking one and removing everything but the mg2 and the planet, lock the mg1, and then I can use the ICE input shaft as the output and have a 1.2:1 gear. The gen1 prius motor looks to me like a ...

No problem. I can get one locally for $270 right now.

Can you ship it to california? I am considering using one but without mg1, so I could just destroy it, prefer to destroy a free bad one. I'd pay shipping. thanks.

I have a 56 Nomad EV project. It have a very low budget but want to make it as fast as possible.
The car is actually starting out as a 56 4-door wagon that I am modifying to look like a Nomad, as I have a real one and will make fiberglass parts from it, the specific nomad parts are the roof and ...

Well I dismantled a gen1 rotor I had. Was not easy to get out the magnets, very powerful. took an hour. Need plastic tools. :!:

Can I upload images to this forum? Magnets are 1-3/8 wide, 1-3/4 long, and 1/4 thick, so about $20 ea retail, 16 thus saved me $320.

I checked our pick-n-pull wrecking ...

The cost of a 2in x 1in x 1/4in magnet is $15, and 40 of them in the Gen2 is $600 to buy them retail.
I'm sure Toyota pays nowhere near retail..I have a gen2 I could tear down, but I need 3 more.

I just bought two Highlander transaxles for $100, but unlikely to find more at that price.

Hello folks, I'm going to be building a big diameter wheel motor and was shocked to see how much 6ft of magnets would cost, like $1000.
I'm wondering what used part source I could scavenge the magnets from, Prius rotors come to mind, anyone strip them out of the rotors?
Any other ideas?