Garlits Gets New Body for Electric Dragster|

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Garlits Gets New Torso for Electrical Dragster

By |January 24, 2013

Peak Fuel legend "Big Daddy" Don Garlits' electric dragster, Swamp Rat 37, has received it's new body and will soon be getting a rear wing and a custom pigment job.

In add-on to the new body, the dragster features a Brad Hadman 300-mph-plus-rated chassis, Weld wheels, Mark Williams rear and a B & J Transmission. On the electrical side there are three 2,000-amp Manzanita/Zilla Speed Controllers, GE series motors, 1500 kW High Tech Systems lithium battery pack which puts out over 2000 HP, and a few extra "go fast" goodies.

In testing final month in Ocala, Florida, Garlits ran 60-foot times in the low one-second range and a quick run of three.22 seconds in the 330-human foot at 95 mph, shutting off the ability at 300 feet since the dragster was withal running without a body at that fourth dimension.

Swamp Rat 37 is being constructed by Shawn Lawless and his crew at Lawless Industries in Youngstown, Ohio. Lawless' 1000 kW drag cycle, Rocket, congenital with Orangish County Choppers and raced by Larry "Spiderman" McBride, holds the tape for the quickest electric motorcycle at 201 mph at 6.94 mph in the quarter mile. The dragster has 500 kWs more than and during test runs ran quicker then the Rocket's best 60 human foot fourth dimension.

Garlits was the first to take a car to 200 mph in the quarter mile on electric powerand now wants to become 200 . Initial goals for the automobile are six-2d, quarter-mile passes at 200-plus mph.

Swamp Rat 37 is the abstraction of Garlits and Mike Gerry and was brought to life by Jeff Disinger of the National Electrical Drag Racing Association (NEDRA).

(Photos by Tim Meehan, courtesy NEDRA.com; Click to enlarge)