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I’m skeptical that you can get a 9.25 second car for only an old Miata and 20k. Unless maybe the battery you’re getting only lasts a couple years or has some other shortcoming. If you can, it seems like quite a steal to me.
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It probably would have been a lot more. I didn’t actually dig into it… It would have been cool though.. Drag isn’t my thing, but I was thinking it might be a really good autocross car if the weight is reasonable and balanced and low…
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[quote=Hobie]Flu: Maybe I’m just old. Drag races *need* to be loud. Quiet electric, albeit fast, just doesn’t do it for me. Part of the full tactile experience.[/quote]
Yeah, that’s the other issue. I used to mock rice racers back when their cars were 14-and 15-second cars getting smoked by 11-second V8 muscle. Partly because of the lame 4-banger sound but mostly because they were slower. But now you’ve got these electric cars, many of which can smoke the fastest muscle cars. The damn Tesla Roadster does 0-60 in 1.9. Yikes.
Still, the sound does complete the experience. I have a Challenger Scat Pack which can be blown away by your faster electric cars. But I wouldn’t trade it. I love the sound too much.
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There was this one time, there was a run-off autocross where the top finishers compete against each other using a mystery car. The mystery car was a Chevy Spark EV.. One of the best drivers was kinda funny, because when he started out, he was howling out the window simulating the noise of an ICB engine… Vrrrrrrrrrr (2nd gear change) Vrrrrrrrrr…. We laughed…
The thing that got my attention was the near instant torque of an electric car.. You can’t duplicate that with a regular ICB, unless you get into supercar territory.. The negatives would be weight, weight distribution, and range that you can run the car. Autocrosses don’t last that long, range really isnt an issue. The weight however……I don’t care about the sound, though I guess we could play soundtrack while driving, lol.
What i don’t understand is why cars use Lithium Ion and not LiFePO4. The former is not stable, the later is…I use a 2lb LiFePO4 starter battery in my race miata that weighs 2.5 lbs and has about 300CCA and sits behind the passenger seat… It replaced a 30lb AGM battery in the trunk, so the weigh savings was great. Of course the LiFePO4 battery costs 3x of the AGM battery….That’s a different story…
