Archive for February, 2007

450 HP in 60 little Orange Boxes!

Monday, February 19th, 2007

We have a new slogan at Plasma Boy Racing….11’s in 07!

I’m happy to report that Dick Brown (Aerobatteries) pulled through again for us this year and working with our sponsor Enersys, our new 40% more powerful batteries have arrived! This year White Zombie will again, be running on Hawker power, but instead of the 30 - 24.5 lb. 26 ahr Aerobatteries models we used last year, we will be using 60 of the smaller Genesis model 16 ahr batteries. Yes, these are nearly the same battery we ran with from ‘98 through ‘02, back when White Zombie had 28 of them making up an ultra-light 378 lb. 336V battery pack. Before they had been abused and super-heated to extreme hand-burning levels, we could pull 750 amps from them with very few failures. Even 800 amps was doable for less than 10 seconds. Yeah, we did blow quite a few of them up as the years were added on, but again, they only began to fail after substantial abuse. Details for those interested, can be found at the Plasma Boy web page…just click on the ‘White Zombie History’ button and scroll to ‘1998 Early Version’.

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Car and Driver EV Racing Article Debute Delayed

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Hello to All,

I had been assured by the editors at Car and Driver, that the anticipated EV racing story was slated for the April issue that’s about to hit the stands in the next week or two…then I got the phone call. For whatever reason, the story got bumped I’m now told, to the May issue :-(


It was sad news for me, as White Zombie is returning to the Portland Roadster show this year and will be on display at the Oregon Convention Center March 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. With the April issue to be on the stands at the same time, the timing ‘was’ perfect! There’s nothing better, than to have your car in a BIG show while at the same time, it is featured in a major magazine…. oh well.

The good news, is that Bill Dube’s exciting Killacycle is in the current April issue of Hot Rod magazine! Congrats to Bill and the crew for their recent success.

See Ya…..John Wayland