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Originally Posted by bennelson
Right now, I have the possibility of buying an entire crashed Chevy Volt. It's from the mother in law of a guy I know. She ran a light and crashed it, but drove it away from the accident, so even though it looks bad, the driveline is OK. The insurance buyout on it is $2500.
I think I would buy it just for the battery plus the other great parts on it. BUT, I also wonder about using the driveline to build a FRONT-WHEEL DRIVE plug-in hybrid pickup truck.
My S10 is rear-wheel drive, NOT 4x4. I know that front drive hubs are available. Rock auto even carries the front half shafts from the Electric S10 Chevy made. I know the devil would be in the details, as the Volt is complicated and there would be so many sensors, CAN, etc to work with and figure out. A pickup with a Volt drive train would be pretty much EXACTLY what I want. However, it would be complicated
Let's keep this discussion going and figure out the best way to do one!
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Personally Ben if the Volts lower unibody is straight I would just make a FWD pickup ala hoopie style, most difficult part will be packaging the dash content so you can see it,
Just remove what you don’t want and sit the s10 cab up top, may have to recycle the volt hood but who knows?
I have seen stock Volts pull large boats so I have no doubt it can handle any load you want in stock form.
Although your cluster could just be replaced by a Dashdaq and just tuck the OEM stuff away, only necessary stuff is the heat (in my mind) unless you live with it always on auto and 8 amps 110vac
Making a 4wd Volt I think would be too frustrating a
FWD pickup is likely fine, better start taking measurements and seeing how wheel wells, cab and other somesuches can fit in.
Good Luck
Ryan