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There is always the chance that the motor has gone bad. Try running it disconnected from the belt and see if it is behaving badly. Give it a bit of resistance with your fingers and see if you can feel anything wrong. If one of the coils go out they loose a lot of torque.

I think I might actually have one or two laying around. Shoot me an email ImprobableConstruct at gmail and I will see what I have.

I ended up scrapping this idea. It worked fine but there was not really any gain (actually a loss of speed) for a ton of complexity. I picked those motors because that was what they were willing to build a small quantity of that fit my requirements. The hard part was finding a motor that used screws...

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I just dug around my shop and I found couple of the prototype plates. They are unfinished aluminum but they should do the job.
Shoot me an email with your address and I will send one your way.

I have the drawing and BOM. I will put it on my "To Do" list

Its Miata based. It has the whole drive train from a 2000 Miata in it. 120 or so HP, little less than that in torque but it only weighs about 1500 lbs. Its about a 800 lbs less than a stock Miata. Here is the whole build log: http://mevowners.proboards.com/thread/6048/improbable-constructs-build-low...

I guess I should have been a bit more specific.

This is my Exocet

The Kits are no longer available but I do have a couple of the plates leftover. The rest of the parts can be sourced individually. PM or email me if you are interested.