Hey Guys
In typical Hacksmith fashion
We've decided to take on
Way too many projects at once
So let me be the first to introduce you
to our latest project.
We're building an electric BatmanTumbler
What's that?
Oh, the Tumbler?
Oh, you wouldn't be interested in that
Now it's not gonna look quite like that one from the movies
But we're going for 'Function' over 'Looks'
And it's gonna have all the gadget that that one did
Or at least as many as we can fit into it
So the reason we're doing this is because of my neighbor
He works for this really cool company
that actually makes electric drivetrain solutions
And just a few months ago
He gave this opportunity
to play with one of the drive systems
on electric go kart
And man, was it fast
In case you're wondering how it got so much power
in this No-Go kart
It's all because of this little power pack
Now the electric drivetrain is awesome
Unfortunately, the go-kart chasis was
pretty crappy
The shocks barely worked
and it turned turned them on in one direction that the other
and a hell whole bunch of other problems
So, we decided to rip the electric motor off that
and we're gonna put on a much better chasis
We started browsing kajiji and
for our american friends, that's kind of like craiglist
And we're able to find this awesome deal
Check it out
We paid 500$ for this Baja
and it was steel
See, it's actually an SAE competition race Baja
that was produced by a local university
by engineering students
It represents hundreds of engineering hours going into the
design of this, for a competition
Now, the way the SAE competition works, is basically
after 1 or 2 years they retire the frame
it means they either have to scrap it
or sometimes the student gets to buy it
to take it home and do a project with it that way
And that's exactly what happened with this one
One of the students who worked on this project
bought it from the school, took it home, planned to
get it running again
and it never happened
So he listed on kijiji
and now we bought it
Now as you know, we've been really busy with a whole bunch of projects lately
expanding the channel
because what I do, well sometimes in practical, is turn fiction into reality
So the baja is kind of just set aside for a while
Until now
Now when we bought it, it was in pretty rough shape
All the bolts were loose
and most of the parts were in boxes
So we started putting it back together
Did I mention it's super light?
Now
the biggest issue with it when we got it was
it was missing the rear wheel hubs
Now you might be asking me
"But it has rear wheel hubs"
Well, that's because we made them
Now, the beauty was,
they actually provided us with a full 3D CAD model
of the entire system that they made
which means, we just have to go into the model
find the hub
export the drawing of it
and send it up to a water jet cutter
to have our parts made
and as you can see, it works great
and now we have all 4 wheels back on the Baja
So now, let's get it running
Now where do we put that steering wheel?
Let there be light !!
Now as you may have noticed before, we don't actually have a seat for the Baja
Well that's okay, coz we actually have a 1993 Honda Del Sol seat
which is actually kind of like a racing seat
which was from one of our original projects that we worked on
before we went to engineering school
And that was converting a 9300 Del Sol to an electric king
Check out that video here
take it out?
Yeahh!
So this is the brushless DC motor that we used
with the Go-kart
It's a 15 HP peak electric motor
and it can provide upto 54 pounds of torque
which is HUGE for something this small
We think it'll perform pretty good in the Baja
But, if it's not quite as fast as we're hoping,
we're gonna double it up and get a second one
That's all for now, I'm afriad
But this can be a 4 part video series
Part 2 will be converting it into electric
Part 3 giving it some Batman gadgets
and
Part 4 The Grand Reveal
and the big test
Also, a big shout out to GForce racing
who will be sponsoring this project
They've sent us a whole bunch of racing gear
which we'll be using with the Batman buggy
And this is a 1000$ racing suit
that is also, Flame-Retardant
So you know we're going to have to test this, right?
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