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Old 10-17-2008, 03:47 PM   #17 (permalink)
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IMO this wouldn't be a good idea at all. No offense intended. It is a neat and fun idea. My reasoning is, the prop is not going to give you an equal amount of thrust per amount of energy spent that an electric motor is going to give coupled to your tranny. Thus you have one more loss of efficiency and a less efficient system overall.
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