28 Feb 11 07:10, TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:   
      
      
    RW>> I believe it. Electric motors make instant horsepower vs a piston   
    RW>> motor.   
      
    TW> Sorry Roy I jsut cannot resist on this one.   
    TW> The advantage of an electrical motor is that it provides Maximum   
    TW> torque at Zero RPM.   
      
   I knew that, of course.   
      
    TW> So for matched horsepower between the electrical motor and the   
    TW> Internal combustion engine it is no contest off the line.   
      
   Right. But, either the long extension cord or the charge in the batteries   
   that power it, limits the amount of distance one can go with an electric   
   motor.   
      
                   R\%/itt   
      
   PS - When I was a kid, a bunch of us pooled our money and built a slot-car   
   dragstrip for 1/24th scale cars in the basement of an insurance company.   
   One of the guys used an electric motor that had dual shafts and mounted   
   his wheels and tires to it giving him a direct drive. All of this in a   
   1/24th scale 1963 Impala and it was fast to say the least. Unfortuntely,   
   we didn't have a long enough shut-down area after the finish line, so it   
   ran off the track and crashed into the wall. It was after that, that we   
   thought of reverse polarity in the shut down lanes.   
      
      
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