philooo

With all the story about engine failure, I was wondering if someone decided to go against the IMS problem in a radical way, and spent the $15-20k budget usually devoted to buy a replacement engine from Porsche, and instead put it into a fully electric setup ?

I have seen some car conversion but never on 996, was it ever done...

just wondering

nijoma

How does the fan work? Is it supposed to run after the car shuts off? For how long? I noticed mine shuts off with the car, I thought it should run for a while after car is off to cool the engine. In my last car I installed a seperate fan to run off of a switch for track days or when it was hot out, worked great. Sorry to jack your thread with another question but I thought it was related.

RPMulli

hey look at the thread i started called "some clarification on the radiator fans"

fpena944

My neighbor took an old Mazda pickup truck and made it fully electric.

Yeah it's not a Porsche but it's been a successful project. Couldn't see why not, but it would kill the spirit of the car and turn it into a commuter vehicle. After all how many laps can you do on a single charge on the track?

EastBay

turnkey

http://www.coolgreencar.net/

there was a guy in Germany doing one, but I lost the link

philooo

EVPORSCHE.COM

ouah, I am impressed, look at that, a 997 !

Website says between 15k to 25k that is pretty much what a new porsche engine would cost you. With the price of battery pack and electric motors going down each year, I would not be surprised to see a lot of porsche converstion. Especially that most Porsche owner don't use them for commuting so that 60 mile range is just fine for a lot of people.

Van

Wasn't there an article about a RUF electric 911?

Barn996

Yes, in Excellence a few months ago.

Pac996

Wasn't somebody on here looking for distance between the cross member and engine casing so he could install an electric engine near the standard?

aadrew10

as cool a concept that electric cars are, just doesn't work for me with a Porsche. The sound is half the fun.

Pac996

Yah the new GT sale the whales style has electric boost going to the front and it halls tail. But its not all electric which.....ah not cool.

Barn996

+1

RallyJon

I just can't imagine how you could make a Porsche exhaust sound with electricity.

You could go one better, and make it sound air cooled.

htny

please send some of what you're smoking over to the mainland my friend!

htny

at current prices, sell the roller for 10K as is, and buy another early 996 for 25-30K

There's a great build timeline for a guy who converted a simple 73 911t i read once. took him 5 years & 20K. the batteries expired in 6. sold the then undriveable car to ze germans for 10K euro