A friend of ours in California wrecked his 1990’s vintage Dodge Viper and kept the car while replacing it with a then-new Tesla.
He ‘bricked’ the Tesla and effectively totaled it.
Getting clever he put the perfectly fine V10 drivetrain from the Viper into the perfectly fine chassis of the Tesla.
Result: A V-10 Tesla that’s exempt from smog rules. (-:
Just thinking this is something other people can do with their totaled electric cars.
Did this guy perchance put this conversion up on the internet anywhere? It would be very interesting as it would require a hell of a lot of red neck engineering.
“Getting clever he put the perfectly fine V10 drivetrain from the Viper into the perfectly fine chassis of the Tesla.”
I would love to see how they shoe-horned a Viper engine into a Tesla anything. Someone was going to put one into a Dodge Durango SUV, but would have had to lengthen the frame to make room.