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I have been wanting to do this, and now i've finally taken the plunge! but i have no experience
however i checked out the build your own electric vehicle book from the library and just finished reading it, and i've been trying to do as much research as i can to get familiar with everything.
So far i have my chassis its a nissan 240sx 1992 its been laying around for a while. I haven't seen any of these converted in the garage part of the website though
so far i took out the fuel tank and the exhaust hehe no more gas... I'll get that ICE out soon, somehow, lol. First time taking out an ICE also
everything is not easy for me so far. This is where u guys come in 
So here is the plan! i want range range range 50+ miles at 50mph atleast ahhhh i dont care for acceleration i drive very slow to conserve but according to evconvert.com's evcalculator the build i was going for is poo
the GVWR on the side of the door says 3500lbs and online sources say the curb weight is 2700 lbs for my nissan donor car. My plan was shooting for a 96v system with 16 6v batteries 8 in front and 8 in the back, which is about 1000 pounds in batteries. I have been searching all the online suppliers of EV parts and the only supplier i found that has decent prices is http://www.kellycontroller.com/ but they do not carry the right EV motors i think they have mostly motorcycle ones. I want to find a good size forklift motor now because i feel like the adc and warp motors aren't what i need, im not sure where to look for the forklift motors though? i would say my entire conversion budget is just 4-5k i got the car for 1500$ so i guess u could say 6k 1.5k already spent as u can see not an easy task. I'm in california, orange county. Any expertise on where i can get all the parts i need for this EV conversion to happen?
So far i have my chassis its a nissan 240sx 1992 its been laying around for a while. I haven't seen any of these converted in the garage part of the website though
So here is the plan! i want range range range 50+ miles at 50mph atleast ahhhh i dont care for acceleration i drive very slow to conserve but according to evconvert.com's evcalculator the build i was going for is poo
the GVWR on the side of the door says 3500lbs and online sources say the curb weight is 2700 lbs for my nissan donor car. My plan was shooting for a 96v system with 16 6v batteries 8 in front and 8 in the back, which is about 1000 pounds in batteries. I have been searching all the online suppliers of EV parts and the only supplier i found that has decent prices is http://www.kellycontroller.com/ but they do not carry the right EV motors i think they have mostly motorcycle ones. I want to find a good size forklift motor now because i feel like the adc and warp motors aren't what i need, im not sure where to look for the forklift motors though? i would say my entire conversion budget is just 4-5k i got the car for 1500$ so i guess u could say 6k 1.5k already spent as u can see not an easy task. I'm in california, orange county. Any expertise on where i can get all the parts i need for this EV conversion to happen?