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Ben,
Are there other couplers on the market that could be used? Are other EV modders all using lovejoys? By design, yours will be wearing (sliding) to deal with any mialignment.
In industrial conveyor drive systems, we'll use these couplers that look almost like a spring. It's just a metal cylinder with a spiral cut in it, or a series of cross cuts. Maybe they don't make any high-torque enough for your application, but if they did, it'd be a non-wearing solution to the problem. They just bend.
Also, most inboard/outboard (stern-drive) boats use a system that could be interesting. It's an internal spline, mounted in a bowl full of rubber that bolts onto the flywheel. IT accounts for any misalignment of the crankshaft and the gimbal bearing.
I know you're under space constraints here, but you've got a bellhousing, and perhaps some other EV modder out there could use something a bit different.
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