Sean says it would be Formula H. (not Z) What you didn't see in the picture was the salvage electric golf cart we have acquired...The Zuma motor running at a constant 75% in the old fuel cell location, will keep the police interceptor alternator spinning enough to keep all the onboard batteries charged. The rear wheels being driven by electric motor. Sean says i will be particularily good at employing 'coast down' technology to also ramp up the batteries, as he says I start coasting at T8 to make my turn into T10a at Road Atlanta.
Formula Hybrid... the wave of the future. I'm jumping on! You read it here first.
The local golf course manager promises we can get literally thousands of hours on a salvage motor. Making even the much touted Zetes duty cycle look whimpy. A refresh involes just buying another old cart off of eBay then selling off all the parts we don't use. Each multi-thousand hour motor will probably only cost us about $14.97 after the trading.
And get this, he promises we can easily prove that tens of thousands of a given model were sold in the U.S. getting by the committees new proposed manufacturing numbers rule.
We had originally intended to put motors in all 4 uprights, but we haven't figured out how to get by those sticky SCCA rules about 4WD. Prototype will only be rear wheel drive. The 135cm width rule allows us to install batteries down both sides of the car in the large wizzy looking sidepods copied from the Sthor and Speads.
What we give up in top end we make up in not having to make a pit stop but every 25 hours. Really advantageous in 30 minute races.
And the bonus. No sound penalties at places like Waterford. In our dyno tests it seems to make 40db at peak spead ( a loose body panel flapping).