leadvillerpm
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My 1958 snow trac (serial # 58025) was delivered about a week ago. I live in Leadville Colorado where the elevation is over 10,000 feet above sea level. At this altitude a combustion engine looses about 30% of it hp. Took it for it first trip this week end and it is defently a little underpowered. This got me and my employees talking about how to get this thing to perform a little better. I run an auto repair shop and have decided to go build a 1904cc air cooler and am working on getting an EFI set up off of a 1993-2004 Mexican produced air cooled Beetle. But one of the coolest ideas that is getting tossed around the shop is to run a generator off the vw engine, eliminate the variators and install batteries and two electic motors (one on each drive sprocket). Electric motor can create much more torque than an combustion engine and this set up would also give you the ability to counter rotate the tracks. You could even set it up to drive with a couple of joystick on the dash. I believe the only downfall other than the cost of conversion (probably over $12,000) would be the extra weight of the batteries.
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?