Comments for Peter's E-914

Comment on New motor uses less power by Forrest2192002

Forrest2192002 — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:37:22 +0000

I confirm your suspicion our 40kw nominal motor uses delivery 150~145 watts per mile at freeway speeds in our IMW sedan Seven

Comment on Update on the motor by peter

peter — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:35:05 +0000

LOL, don’t hold your breath – most people don’t look good with blue skin (unless they are in a cheesy science fiction movie).

I’m working on a CANBus listener right now, so hopefully that will tell me what is going on in the controller.

Comment on Update on the motor by jan

jan — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:25:38 +0000

If it all eventually works out nicely, and you write a manual about it, I’ll buy it.

Comment on Motor works! by peter

peter — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:51:47 +0000

Not yet – tried a couple of different lines to the controller, but no joy yet. At least I got the cooling working, so I’m mostly happy. Will be doing road testing this weekend.

Comment on Motor works! by jan

jan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:14:59 +0000

Peter, did you get the regen to work?

Comment on Motor works! by peter

peter — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:37:03 +0000

Hi Jason,

I haven’t been in a Cayman (would want to buy it on the spot), so can’t guess how well that performs. However, my wife does have a 1989 911C4, and the acceleration is almost as good – so the new motor is about a 7.

Still not sure it is worth the pain and anguish for this motor tho – better performance can be had from the Warp11 and Soliton, plus you get customer support.

Cheers, Peter

Comment on About by markbrems

markbrems — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:27:58 +0000

Hey Peter,

Where did you get your wheel center caps? My wheels look the same as yours – the American 4-lug Fuchs reproductions. I tried the new repro alloy caps, but my wheel centers were just a shade to big for the caps – maybe by several millimeters.

Thanks,
Mark

Comment on Motor works! by luminarycrush

luminarycrush — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:55:00 +0000

So, on a scale of one to ten, with one = 1975 VW type 4 1.8L engine, and 10 = 2011 Porsche Cayman R, how is the acceleration? Any idea on the range?

Based on your success here I’m going to order the same thing… and probably want to talk to your fabricator for the motor mounts etc etc. I’ll still offer to help you work on the car since I consider your car my project’s prototype

-Jason

Comment on Motor works! by jan

jan — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:02:49 +0000

Congratulations Peter. Good news.

Comment on Motor is running – sort of. by peter

peter — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:47:06 +0000

I have no way of knowing what the minimum voltage is for the controller – factory doesn’t respond to requests. It is possible I could get the software to talk to the controller from a 3rd party, but I’m in a holding-pattern for that.
Thanks for the good wishes. Should know by tomorrow.