[Clev]

Sigh.

Originally Posted by Winfield1990

batteries and motor are next to the drive wheels for extra weight over the tires.

So you want all of the weight over just the back wheels. That's fine; just remember that it's going to handle like crap and probably swap ends when you want to make an emergency lane change. It also doesn't do a thing for efficiency.

Why would the things you said for the AWD eclipse apply for a FWD eclipse , when I could do the same things as a fwd crx that you stated? Keep in mind this is with an electric motor so stock engine , transmission doesnt fit the bill.

Got it, so you're not keeping the stock transmission either. So we're down to cutting the floor out, hanging the engine and transmission off the suspension (increasing unsprung weight by 300+ pounds), making custom motor and transmission mounts, custom drive axles, adapting the rear suspension from an AWD or RWD car and heavily beefing up that suspension to handle the weight of all those batteries. Oh, and fabricating some custom shift linkage so you can shift it correctly. And filling up your trunk with batteries, since now that you've got the motor and transmission in the back, you can no longer sink the battery box into the trunk floor.

That about cover it?

Just naming off information has nothing to do with my car choices really helps with what im doing , such a great help. Order of operation for brainstorming and problem solving I think starts with gathering information.

That's because none of them is a good choice. You asked what kind of work would be involved. We listed the various things you'd have to do, along with the immediate and obvious caveats. As soon as you started to bring in excuses (it's for efficiency! It's cleaner! It's for the MPGs!), I started calling you on them. If you had just said, "because I think it's cool," there would have been no argument, but since you continue to not only insist that your idea is technically better, but to ridicule people for pointing out the obvious glowing flaws in your foolproof plan, you're not going to win anybody to your side.

The car would be converting cause I like the car , if Im making a car electric , why would I try to keep stock weight , when weight and aerodynamics are the biggest factors in car efficiency? It may be heavy to start with but thats what fiberglass and plastic is for. May not be the optimal car but like I said I stated it because I also liked the car.

Great, so you like the car. Put the motor in the front, spread the batteries around for 50/50 weight distribution and drive what is otherwise a gorgeous and well-engineered car.

Just because its a bmw , as one option what would the bimmer forum offer for these modifications that I am wanting to do not for every car how would that really apply? Honestly I would much rather tell them my plans than you because then they would actually ask what , why , how , instead of immeditately freaking out.

I know the why. You alternately say it's cleaner, more efficient and somehow better to bodge up a massively rear-heavy car. I don't know you from a hole in the ground. If you want to waste your money and cut up a perfectly good car, you're only wasting your own time.

And for clarification , the only person on this forum that I am talking trash back to is you. Because you are the only one who is purely disregarded with your information , you must not of had many conversations growing up , or never got to get a word in where you just feel obligated to get a false point across.

Yup, when you can't win, insult the other person. Go ahead and point out one false point I've given. The only sin I've committed here is not agreeing with your idea that a tail-heavy Frankensteinned contraption isn't a waste of time and energy.