Saturday, December 1st, 2007 - A major milestone in the electric DeLorean project has been achieved today. Tom Neiland and I finished installing the custom motor mount and there was little doubt in our minds as to what to do next. We just HAD to drive it! Well it is registered and insured so why let some little things like there's no rear fascia, bumper, lights or that thing called a NY state inspection get in the way. We HAD to drive it. So drive it we did. First we pushed it out of the garage and drove it up and down the driveway a few times. Then it was off to the local testing grounds where we put it through the gears. In 5th gear with 36 volts we got up to 20 MPH when the speedometer stopped working. (Hey hasn't there been a recent flurry of posts about angle drives?) Were confident that we can get to 88 MPH when we use the full pack voltage of 156 Volts. Also note that we have NO controller in the car so Tom WAS the controller. He sat on the back of the frame one hand holding onto the rear frame support and the other hand connecting and disconnecting the power to the motor. He said it was fun back there and it was certainly fun up in the front. As expected this baby is quite. If you want to know what its like, drive your car and shut off the engine. That's what it sounds like, no engine. It also braked like that since we haven't installed the vacuum pump for the brake booster yet. Anyway, this weekend, I will try to post some more pictures on our site electricdelorean.com Thank you, Dave Delman & Tom Neiland Electric DeLorean Project electricdelorean.com **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:dmcnews-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:dmcnews-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/