Post by mj on Apr 14, 2012 23:06:35 GMT -5
If I may resurrect a subject:
GTII-E Bodies Are Different (and better than GTII VW)
Well, maybe not better, depending.
I've had a number of conversations with people who had a GTII-E (electric) and there might be variations, but permit me just my experience.
My Bradley GTII was originally an electric car which someone stripped out and put in a VW engine in the most primitive way. $15,000 later, I have a highly modified conventional VW engine in its place. Yes, I went way overboard by installing a Jake Raby engine. Don't shoot me. Let us move on.
THERE ARE ADVANTAGES to putting a conventional VW engine in the place of an electric that was one of the original electric GTIIs. And if you REALLY know electric motors, there is an advantage to turning a gas Bradley GTII to electric, but I will not go there because. Just because.
So, what's different - if you are lucky. My two-bits worth.
First, and most important to me is that the engine bay is hugely wider than the the gasoline engined GTII. It is so wide that I can raise an engine right into the bay even if it has those wide-ass dual Weber 40+ carbs. What a wonderful relief that is! I don't like twisting my hands around installing carbs after the engine is up. It is like Indy now - drop the engine in no time at all, work on it (or replace it), jack it up and it is in.
Oh, the trick is to put the rear up on jacks, remove the left rear wheel wheel, run the engine under, lower the body just right, push the engine towards the front, and BOLT IT UP! Don't forget the third bolt behind the fan enclosure. It's difficult for people like me with large arms. Find a girlfriend with little arms who can wrench. It worked for me. "Darlin, this is a 17mm (maybe 15mm) wrench. Do what I tell ya." Then take her out for dinner. Happy times.
The other difference is, providing the previous owner did his job, is that the very front of the car has a proper *hood - ya know, the thing that lifts up to show the engine area (or where an engine should be). This makes installing and maintaining a battery and fuel cells, and maintaining front-end components so much easier.
That's what my GTII has. Hope y'all are as lucky.
Now on my 4th beer, I am not going to post anymore. Getting tired.
'night my friends,
MJ (John)
Peace
.
PS! This forum attempts to censor! Really. Make a post and put into it an expression that means the same as a pregnant dog. The word starts with B and ends with ITCH. The forum software will transform your message. I almost fell down laughing. BECAUSE in 1993 I came about the same kind of censoring in which I typed "e n t i t l e m e n t" and it turned my text into "inBREASTment."
OK, on to the 5th beer. I won't trouble y'all any more.
John
The hood
GTII-E Bodies Are Different (and better than GTII VW)
Well, maybe not better, depending.
I've had a number of conversations with people who had a GTII-E (electric) and there might be variations, but permit me just my experience.
My Bradley GTII was originally an electric car which someone stripped out and put in a VW engine in the most primitive way. $15,000 later, I have a highly modified conventional VW engine in its place. Yes, I went way overboard by installing a Jake Raby engine. Don't shoot me. Let us move on.
THERE ARE ADVANTAGES to putting a conventional VW engine in the place of an electric that was one of the original electric GTIIs. And if you REALLY know electric motors, there is an advantage to turning a gas Bradley GTII to electric, but I will not go there because. Just because.
So, what's different - if you are lucky. My two-bits worth.
First, and most important to me is that the engine bay is hugely wider than the the gasoline engined GTII. It is so wide that I can raise an engine right into the bay even if it has those wide-ass dual Weber 40+ carbs. What a wonderful relief that is! I don't like twisting my hands around installing carbs after the engine is up. It is like Indy now - drop the engine in no time at all, work on it (or replace it), jack it up and it is in.
Oh, the trick is to put the rear up on jacks, remove the left rear wheel wheel, run the engine under, lower the body just right, push the engine towards the front, and BOLT IT UP! Don't forget the third bolt behind the fan enclosure. It's difficult for people like me with large arms. Find a girlfriend with little arms who can wrench.
It worked for me. "Darlin, this is a 17mm (maybe 15mm) wrench. Do what I tell ya." Then take her out for dinner. Happy times.The other difference is, providing the previous owner did his job, is that the very front of the car has a proper *hood - ya know, the thing that lifts up to show the engine area (or where an engine should be). This makes installing and maintaining a battery and fuel cells, and maintaining front-end components so much easier.
That's what my GTII has. Hope y'all are as lucky.
Now on my 4th beer, I am not going to post anymore. Getting tired.
'night my friends,
MJ (John)
Peace
.
PS! This forum attempts to censor! Really. Make a post and put into it an expression that means the same as a pregnant dog. The word starts with B and ends with ITCH. The forum software will transform your message. I almost fell down laughing. BECAUSE in 1993 I came about the same kind of censoring in which I typed "e n t i t l e m e n t" and it turned my text into "inBREASTment."
OK, on to the 5th beer. I won't trouble y'all any more.
John
The hood
