So here are some sketches I have been playing with. All are done in sketchup, i am doing some more formal ones in fusion360 as I have time. Mostly this was for clearance checking and just to see if the idea is feasible. The chassis is drawn from a 3d scan provided by Mason S. In this configuration you can easily get a large tesla drive in the rear with 18 lg chem batteries. I am showing a "side pod" version here where 6 of the cells run along the passenger compartment. You can also fit those 6 in the mid engine area, but they start to get higher off the ground, this seems like a better arrangement. If I had infinite money I would redesign the engine bay to widen it a few inches as we could better fit the batteries. With the two drives, fully cooled, and with the full pack you are looking at ~1270 hp and 960 ft/pounds of torque, maybe 120-150 miles of range depending how crazy you push it. Gearing it to around 6.5:1 would get you linear acceleration about 80 MPH, peak hp at 115, and a gear limited top speed around 225. Yo could even do interesting gearing, like dropping the rear gear to 7-8:1, and the front at maybe 4.5:1 if you really wanted to optimize for sustained high speed vs acceleration. Drives weight 290 pounds each, pack will weight about 700, you are looking at about 1250 pounds just for the drive and battery, I'm sure you could bring the car in under 2800 pounds, in race trim. I will pull my spread sheets out and look more closely at what I think a sustained top speed would be. I am showing my AWD thoughts here also. I basically add a front space frame out of 2" aluminium, then cover in aluminum panels. The front of the frame is bolt on, you can fit a large tesla unit up front, retaining all original mount points for the suspension, and only losing 4.25" of leg room, which could easily be made up by moving the seat back, as there will be no gas tank behind the seats. I have played with various suspension ideas, and this is the best I can come up with, it gives a 1:1 wheel to shock travel, you could probably add hydraulics to the push rods, or use a lift shock. I have seen similar used on some Ultima's. You will notice that I am removing the inverters for the drives and running them in front of the rear wheels. This has been done at least one other time on a EV conversion. I have some scans of the body work, and everything fits quite nice under the skin. Cooling, not shown on this drawing, is a combo of front mounted radiator, and 3 rear mounted AC loops. Anyway, I have been looking for a wreaked or abandoned SLC project for some time, as doing this would be a one way street, and I would hate to prototype on a good chassis. The more I play with the ideas, I keep thinking RCR might have a better chassis to use on than the SLC. The ultima has much more room for side pods, and I suspect the 962 and maybe the gt40 might also.
Bob
Bob