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olason
11-14-2011, 09:34 PM
From some of the magazines I read, import and domestic car magazines, the import ones are saying the tuning market is taking off for hybrids over seas. Being an engineering student and just thinking a little outside the box I got to wondering when someone will transfer a Chevy Volts technology to a pro-touring build.

The battery pack is set up in a T format which would make it fit around a bucket seat and jump seat setup out of a coupe car. Off the top of my head I think a small coupe would be a cool option, but the corvair would be another cool built car using this technology. Yeah it isn't fast, but to me pro-touring is a moment of using new technology into an older car for an attitude a new car can't produce.

James OLC
11-14-2011, 09:45 PM
Mary and I had discussed a Volt project but we never got much further than figuring an LS9 would be cool...

spacepirate
11-14-2011, 09:51 PM
I buddy of mine converted Anthony Kiedis from Red Hot Chili Pepper's 67' Camaro to electric.

olason
11-14-2011, 10:05 PM
Nice, I have seen some cool EV projects, but just taking the OEM parts and putting them into an older chassis in itself would be cool. I am still learning on the whole mechanics by turning wrenches when I can, but I am also learning a lot of the mechanics theory as I am a mechanical engineering student. I am starting to look at everything new as boring for the most part.

I get asked why I don't mod my trailblazer ss, and its because I have a 442 right now as a project. Looking at my SS tonight wondering if I could ever make flares for the wheelhouses work. Yep, someday I may take a stab at the SS, but I need it to be my DD right now.