[jclars]

Recognizing that this was my first Electro-Mod, understand that there was plenty of false starts and misdirection along the way. Without the help of online examples and forum participants, as well as excellent vendor tech assistance I would not have had the final success that I did!

That said, I also had to get rid of a hotrodder bias to show off the wrong stuff! Funny but true. I had that beaten into me the hard way by trying to show off the motor and components in a car that could barely fit in the battery packs, let alone the motor! It struck home when someone finally said "that motor is about as exciting to look at as the alternator on an ICE! Okay already!

So it started as a hot rodder might expect - What motor can provide better performance than the original ICE 70 HP? So this is what was selected after looking at available options:

Netgain's Hyper9HV with HyperDrive X144 contoller. 120 HP and 173 ft-lb torque. My hot rod heart skipped a beat!

I got the motor/controller on order and only then did I start to determine what batteries could fit. A mistake, but eventually helped me realize my hot rod bias ran deeper than I thought.

At the same time, I had learned that EV West had done a previous Volvo build and still had the design files for the bellhousing adapter, But they had no record of specific year and it was also a different model than what they had done! it was left to me to confirm a match to my particular car. Several CAD files later it was determined to be a match, as was the coupler they offered. I held my breath until they were on the bench with motor and original 4 speed transmission joined!