https://youtu.be/cRlCDQjzLcs
It's finally drivable on the new power train. I drove it around town for a bit running some errands.
Gravity feed doesn't work well for fueling the generator; it dies after a few minutes of use, so I put a little 3 PSI electric fuel pump in the fuel line. That made a big difference in how it runs overall, the RPM is much more stable and it feels/sounds much smoother under load than it ever did before, even before I deconstructed it. Maybe all of these things should have a fuel pump.
The handling is vastly improved; setting an additional 300-ish pounds over the front axle does a lot to make up for all of the weight over the rear axle. It drives more like a normal car now, hardly scary at all.
Under hard cornering, the oil will go away from the oil level sensor and it will shut down the generator, so I may have to disable that for racing. It's splash-oiled, so I'm not really hurting anything by sloshing it around the crank case.
The generator is still noisy, but not having the noise, heat, and vibration two inches from my right arm is much more tolerable. It may not even drive us insane after driving it for 5 straight days.
The generator creates a whole lot of heat, but it is ducted so it channels it out past the muffler, causing a big hot stream of air to shoot out of it at one point, right at the wiring harness, which gets all melty after a bit. I'll make a duct to carry it out of the hood and shield the wiring and contactor enclosure. For this trip it will be hoodless; I'll make a couple of lexan panels to shield the electrical bits from rain.
Everybody grab your brooms, it's shenanigans!