Pinto Car Club of America

Just thought I'd forward this on to any Pinto lovers who are interested.
Our electric Crazyhorse Pinto is featured in the National Electric Drag Racing Association 2009 Calendar.
Just so you are aware the Calendars are 13 month calendars and run from February 2009 through February 2010.
We are the December entry.

Mike
http://www.evalbum.com/1093

-----Original Message-----
From: ev-bounces@lists.sjsu.edu [mailto:ev-bounces@lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Chip Gribben
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 2:03 PM
To: ev@lists.sjsu.edu
Subject: [EVDL] 2009 NEDRA Calendars Now in Stock!!

Hello everyone!

Hot off the press. We now have Official 2009 NEDRA Calendars in stock 
and ready to ship.

The calendar features some of the quickest EVs on the planet with 
specs, best ETs and colorful photos of each vehicle. We also have ads 
for our sponsors and web links to NEDRA supporters.

They make great gifts for your favorite Valentine, EV enthusiast or 
buy a couple to send to friends.

Visit the NEDRA web site at http://www.nedra.com or "quick link" to 
the calendar ordering page at http://www.nedra.com/merchandise.html#calendar

Pay conveniently online with PayPal or by check.

Proceeds to benefit NEDRA EVents and educational activities.

Thanks for your support and see you at the races!!

Chip Gribben
NEDRA PR
http://www.nedra.com
pr@nedra.com
301-490-0657

PS: Send this info to people you think would be interested.

Quote from: electrabishi on February 22, 2009, 01:41:37 PM
Just thought I'd forward this on to any Pinto lovers who are interested.
Our electric Crazyhorse Pinto is featured in the National Electric Drag Racing Association 2009 Calendar.
Just so you are aware the Calendars are 13 month calendars and run from February 2009 through February 2010.
We are the December entry.

Mike
http://www.evalbum.com/1093

-----Original Message-----

congratulations.  how about an update on the latest concerning the car?
From: ev-bounces@lists.sjsu.edu [mailto:ev-bounces@lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Chip Gribben
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 2:03 PM
To: ev@lists.sjsu.edu
Subject: [EVDL] 2009 NEDRA Calendars Now in Stock!!

Hello everyone!

Hot off the press. We now have Official 2009 NEDRA Calendars in stock 
and ready to ship.

The calendar features some of the quickest EVs on the planet with 
specs, best ETs and colorful photos of each vehicle. We also have ads 
for our sponsors and web links to NEDRA supporters.

They make great gifts for your favorite Valentine, EV enthusiast or 
buy a couple to send to friends.

Visit the NEDRA web site at http://www.nedra.com or "quick link" to 
the calendar ordering page at http://www.nedra.com/merchandise.html#calendar

Pay conveniently online with PayPal or by check.

Proceeds to benefit NEDRA EVents and educational activities.

Thanks for your support and see you at the races!!

Chip Gribben
NEDRA PR
http://www.nedra.com
pr@nedra.com
301-490-0657

PS: Send this info to people you think would be interested.

Hey Mike, Cool deal. Make sure you keep us up dated on this seasons racing.

Sure thing.  Just as an update on the car, you may remember we were running direct drive into a 3.25:1 rear end.  We wound up with best 60 ft of 1.69 seconds.  For direct drive I had to go that low so I didn't over rev the motors on the top end at around 105 mph.  So to get a better launch and not give up my top end we bought a Gear Vendors Overdrive unit and swapped in 4.11's into the rear end.  Now we should gain quite a bit on the launch and in overdrive have an effective ratio of 3.2:1.  We're doing this and silver plating all our battery straps to try reducing the ohmic losses.  We found that that even adding the extra junction of a copper washer between the bolt head and the battery terminal introduced enough resistance to drop our 12 second times into the 13's.  So we lose the washers and silver plate the straps to reduce ohmic losses.  Even a minuscule reduction promises to help us greatly. We are shooting to break into the 11's this summer.

Keep in mind we'll be in Portland July 24-25th if there is anyone down that way that wants to come watch :-)

We're going to make up some Electric Crazyhorse Pinto t-shirts to help us raise funds to drive down from Anchorage.

Mike

Quote from: turbopinto72 on February 23, 2009, 02:27:10 PM
Hey Mike, Cool deal. Make sure you keep us up dated on this seasons racing.

Quote from: electrabishi on February 23, 2009, 02:55:30 PM
Sure thing.  Just as an update on the car, you may remember we were running direct drive into a 3.25:1 rear end.  We wound up with best 60 ft of 1.69 seconds.  For direct drive I had to go that low so I didn't over rev the motors on the top end at around 105 mph.  So to get a better launch and not give up my top end we bought a Gear Vendors Overdrive unit and swapped in 4.11's into the rear end.  .......

Here's the results of the 4.11 gear swap.  Still working on coordinating the series/parallel switch on the motors and the Gear Vendors Overdrive shift.  Trying to figure out how to make my controller anticipate the S/P switch and shift the GV unit 1 second before that.  For now the manual override (my finger) pushes the button as soon as we get launched and under control.  No personal bests yet this last two weekends at the track.  But 60 ft's went from 1.89's to 1.68's :-)
(http://home.gci.net/~saintbernard/IMG_7339_small.JPG)

(http://home.gci.net/~saintbernard/IMG_6780_small.JPG)