I was going to remind you to connect your vacuum pump to the HVAC ductwork as well, then I realized you won't have anything for the ductwork to do! What are your plans for A/C and heat? Bill Robertson #5939 >--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, doctorDHD@... wrote: > > 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/