Author Topic: Electric P126 (Read 2923 times)

galjanos · « **on:** September 08, 2008, 09:32:52 PM »

Hi!

I am new in this forum and not a native English! We have a sports-team in Hungary, and we are building an electric driven P126 for racing purposes. You can see some picures on www.ev-sport.hu

I joined this forum because we have a problem. We intend to speed-up the steering by changing the connection of tie-rods. However to do this we should also turn the idler arm by 180degree, or change it to a right hand side driven fiat126's idler arm. Is there anyone in this forum who can make a photo of a steering assy, in which the idler arm can be seen? I just would like to see how is it assembled in UK models.

If it is possible, please send the photo to [email protected]!

Gordan · « **Reply #1 on:** September 09, 2008, 07:25:21 AM »

Hy, and welcome to the forum. Im sorry i cant help you cos my bis is LHD, but im sure other rhd owners will...

as ive seen before you guys in hungary have quite a 126 scene set up... lucky you....

ChrisRLewis · « **Reply #2 on:** September 09, 2008, 12:10:24 PM »

Welcome to the club126uk forum.

Here is a pic of a rhd idler and a rhd drive steering box. I think that this is the only differences in the rhd/lhd drive setup? Perhaps another member can offer a better photo?

Another option may be the rack and pinion setup fitted to some of the later 126's

Tomasz · « **Reply #3 on:** September 14, 2008, 12:40:26 AM »

Welcome! My girlfriends dad has an electric one but its not very fast!

galjanos · « **Reply #4 on:** October 13, 2008, 03:26:07 PM »

Thank you all!
I was a little confused. For the first reply I received a mail, but I did not receive any notification for the last two posts. And I did not check it...

Chris! Do you know someone having spare idler arm and steering arm? I would need just the arrowed pieces.

I have a friend living in London, he may send them by post.

Tomasz!
Maybe our's is faster!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beBPBx9wr74

galjanos · « **Reply #5 on:** October 20, 2008, 04:03:25 PM »

Last weekend we went to race with our p126. I've uploaded a movie to Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3wQ8y6LDek

nrg19uk · « **Reply #6 on:** October 20, 2008, 09:14:38 PM »

wow what motor is in that? it accelarates well!!! need more pictures of the drive train....

neil

all torque · « **Reply #7 on:** October 21, 2008, 01:32:50 AM »

Impressive!

What sort of a range do you get out of those batteries?

galjanos · « **Reply #8 on:** November 01, 2008, 01:31:00 PM »

You can see some pictures of the drivetrain on our homepage:
http://www.ev-sport.hu/index.evs?lap=fotoalbum

The motors are IL18 airplane engine starters. Unfortunately their efficiency is very low, we intend to change them to some new one designed by ourselves.

I do not know the range, we never tried. I guess it can be around 20-30km.