Las Vegas NEDRA Electric Drag Races

03/9/01

The Trip there

03/10/01 10AM

Blueberry Breakfast
near the track


Half of the crew had already left to prepare their EVs


We went out in the drizzle to check out John's improvements


White Zombie front


Rear


Under the hood


Godzilla controller


Dual inline motors


Dump charging port


Interior view


Emergency kill switch


Pack everything you need to race


John will seek some connectors at a local hardware store

03/10/01 4PM

At the track, $30 for the racers & $10 for crew


The sky was clear with the racers in preparation


Silvervolt battery pack


with three belted motor


driver's view


3 belted motors


Ebike demo


Dragster preparation


Watts inside ...


Driver's view


side view


Homebrew
Escooter


John Wayland's Currie Escoot


Eskateboard


Rodrick Ebike'n


Rich Brown's ...


Dual'in 7s


topping off the batteries


dump charge adjustments.


generator onboard


The Colorado .....


Trio


How many Nedra .


does it take to fit it?


Father Time charges up


Wayland anxious to go


Generator rented by
Las Vegas EAA


Lined up for the race


John's dump charge
started at 150 amps


charging his pack 15 min per quadrant.


KTA's K&W chargers generator - trailer


Aircraft power connector


Driver's view


Finishing the charge


Ecart tow vehicle


Eskate pusher


The manual method


On the line


xmas tree lights ...GO!


Track officals stopped race because of rain


Officals turned off parking lot lights before all had left


Speedway resturant for the farewell dinner


Look who got carded!


The long drive home

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Courtesy of Lou Tauber NEDRA:

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