There seems to be a lot of room under the floor at the mid rear of the car. Not sure what exactly your plans are, but I'm already seeing how the floor could be cut out and a battery box dropped in there.
Might want to spray some undercoating on those rust spots before wrapping everything up.
yeah, I plan on doing something with the rust.. it's odd that it's so rusts free except for a couple of pieces (they must be made of a different type of steel or something)
I thought about boxes below the rear seat, but I really want to keep the seating in tact and there is only about 8 inches or so of space.. not as much as it seems.
leaving in the tranny may be more work later than taking it out,the alignment of the new couple and the adaptor plate is very prescision work I bolted mine together with the motor facing straight down with the tranny facing up. If you have the adaptor plate built and the coupler built from someone who has the exact dims you may luck out by leaving the tranny in all the way through it. ( but I doubt it)
What are you doing for the adaptor plate and coupler? Local fab?
Personally that part scares me a tad. I plan on buying them prefabbed for my gearbox and matched to my motor.
I think I will end up buying a welder and building my own battery boxes. I looked around a little, and decent welders are cheaper than I thought.
You said you're going with a 120V system. I'm curious about how you came to that. I hope to squeeze 144V in my Saturn, but I don't want to sacrifice amp hours to do it.
...and I must ask... Did you wash the ZX2 with Irish Spring? 'cause it looks smooth as a baby's arse!
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What are you doing for the adaptor plate and coupler? Local fab?
Personally that part scares me a tad. I plan on buying them prefabbed for my gearbox and matched to my motor.
I think I will end up buying a welder and building my own battery boxes. I looked around a little, and decent welders are cheaper than I thought.
You said you're going with a 120V system. I'm curious about how you came to that. I hope to squeeze 144V in my Saturn, but I don't want to sacrifice amp hours to do it.
...and I must ask... Did you wash the ZX2 with Irish Spring? 'cause it looks smooth as a baby's arse!
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..the main reason I chose 120 v is simplicity... same voltage of my outlets.. Seems if you go over 120 everything gets more expensive. Plus I know a guy who has done many conversions and he does them all at 120. I've been in one of his coversions and it is plenty fast enough, with enough range, etc.
I did pay Ken of EV Consulting to do a quick analysis of my wants/needs and he verified that my 120v sys (and all related components) should work fine for my needs.. highway speeds when needed.. ~50 mile range, adequate acceleration. I just need it to be quick enough to keep up decently with traffic.. I have a prius, so I am no hotrodder.! (I save that for road rallies in my Miata!)
If you read the more information about that video it looks like its coming from evamerica. That looks like a great way to do the adapter, and after seeing that, i may go that way wity my mx-3 conversion. Looking through the EVA catalog it looks like that adapter plate will run about 700$
If you read the more information about that video it looks like its coming from evamerica. That looks like a great way to do the adapter, and after seeing that, i may go that way wity my mx-3 conversion. Looking through the EVA catalog it looks like that adapter plate will run about 700$
hmm.. surely I could have it made locally for less.. I finally decided the engine and tranny are coming out.. Just have the motor mounts left to unleash the beast! Taking the driveshafts out wasn't the newbie nightmare I had envisioned. Of course, I may say different trying to reinstall it all. lol!
Removed the exhaust, all fuel line, emission line, heat shields (there were four or five of 'em!) and got the driveshafts off and shift linkage undone.. All in all, a long day but some good progress!
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