Hi All
Ive been lurking for a while and I thought its time to finally start talking about my first EV conversion project.
Ive owned minis since i was a kid and had so many over the years ive lost count.
I have been looking at EV conversions for sometime and speaking to Chris at Zero-Ev and seeing some of the awesome work from people on here i thought i need to look into converting a mini.
The mini you see for my project is a 1971 Mini Marcos Mk4, full GRP monocoque shell using the mini drivetrain and subframes.
I was going to turn this into my trackcar as I dont have anything for trackdays at the moment although i have 2 caterham chassis' sat in the garage (yes one will become electric!)
To this end i have started up a website www.electricclassicminis.com and have an instagram account to showcase all the work people are doing to there classic minis.
At the moment im still trying to figure out what drivetrain I am going to use. There is the popular leaf conversion, using a hyper 9 mounted to a Honda or Vauxhall gearbox,and retaining the mini gearbox and mounting a motor on the top.
As people know the mini is quite a compact car and there isnt much room to package anything, my biggest concern with this project is batteries as I want to be able to use the car at a local track about 20 miles away and do a couple of track sessions whilst there.
Having a large enough battery pack that will deal with extreme usage isn't going to be easy, but as I'm an engineer i love a challenge.
I will say this now my pet hate with working on cars especially minis is the electrical gremlins, ive never liked electrical work so this really is a baptism of fire.
I will be no doubt asking lots of stupid questions, but any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Gaz
Ive been lurking for a while and I thought its time to finally start talking about my first EV conversion project.
Ive owned minis since i was a kid and had so many over the years ive lost count.
I have been looking at EV conversions for sometime and speaking to Chris at Zero-Ev and seeing some of the awesome work from people on here i thought i need to look into converting a mini.
The mini you see for my project is a 1971 Mini Marcos Mk4, full GRP monocoque shell using the mini drivetrain and subframes.
I was going to turn this into my trackcar as I dont have anything for trackdays at the moment although i have 2 caterham chassis' sat in the garage (yes one will become electric!)
To this end i have started up a website www.electricclassicminis.com and have an instagram account to showcase all the work people are doing to there classic minis.
At the moment im still trying to figure out what drivetrain I am going to use. There is the popular leaf conversion, using a hyper 9 mounted to a Honda or Vauxhall gearbox,and retaining the mini gearbox and mounting a motor on the top.
As people know the mini is quite a compact car and there isnt much room to package anything, my biggest concern with this project is batteries as I want to be able to use the car at a local track about 20 miles away and do a couple of track sessions whilst there.
Having a large enough battery pack that will deal with extreme usage isn't going to be easy, but as I'm an engineer i love a challenge.
I will say this now my pet hate with working on cars especially minis is the electrical gremlins, ive never liked electrical work so this really is a baptism of fire.
I will be no doubt asking lots of stupid questions, but any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Gaz
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