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191 viewsThis shows how there will be 6 batteries across at the back. (there are 8 across at the front)
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Battery Box Bottom195 viewsThis is the bottom of the battery box. It is 3/4" plywood with a 2x2 edge frame.
The colored boxes are pieces of plywood cut to the size of Golf Cart batteries.
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Motors Installed381 viewsEverything is in and bolted down. The framework is mounted to the original rubber engine mounts that used to support the 460cui Gas Engine.
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Painted Motor Mount275 viewsI then sandblasted it all ,and painted it.
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Completed Motor Mount271 viewsThis is the motor mounting framework, after all the welding was complete.

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Building Motor Mounting Framework321 viewsWe decided it was easiest to juts build the motor mounting framework in place. Carefully cut pieces and clamp them in place, then tack weld it all together.
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Position motors392 viewsMotors were mounted to the transmission, then lifted in from below.
Transmission was then bolted to it's mounts, and the motors placed on blocks to keep everything in position
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Adapter Plate alignment finished69 viewsThen we slid on the Motor adapter plate.
This allowed us to drill the holes to bolt the 2 plates together, and put in a couple of locating pins between them so they can be taken apart and re-assembled without shifting.
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Adapter Plate alignment, contd 266 viewsThen we mounted the Bell Housing adapter plate.
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Adapter Plate alignment, contd76 viewsHere the alignment tool has been pressed into the bell housing.
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Adapter Plate alignment66 viewsI had a big aluminum plate made into a bell-housing adapter plate, and another big aluminum plate for the Impulse 9 motor.
In order to get everything lined up with the transmission shaft properly, we built an alignment tool.
It fit snugly into the hole in the bell housing where the transmission mounts, and was the same diameter as the centering ring on the motor.
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Flywheel adapter - drilling holes68 viewsDrilling and tapping the holes to bolt it to the flywheel.
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