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Old 11-14-2010, 01:13 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
There speaks someone who's obviously never owned a British sports car!
But he doesn't own a british sports car, he owns a Mazda (I think) thus his starter should not just die on a whim! if he owned a VW I would have told him to rebuild his starter every other year but as it is if he checks it over every 100,000 miles he should be fine!

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Originally Posted by saand View Post
aahh, good question
That is the easy part for me, im an elec engineer so i can make up a DC to AC device which will control the motor.
It is fairly involved and time consuming but i know that part is possible. It would be similar to the motor controllers which the electric vehicle people use

The crazy mechanical magic is the trouble for me.

But can you make one that can handle 200+ amps? when I put an amp meter on my starter it seems like it was getting close to 200 and if you need it as a back up then figure that something is going to be wrong with other parts of the car so it should be over built.
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