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Oct 012019
 

Ok so I bought an AC motor for the Porsche. It’s not a Tesla motor but has more power than one and is more compact. I’m looking forward to doing the fitup with my subframe and if it works like I think it will I’ll have a lot more room under the vehicle. I’ll have the entire engine bay for batteries and the motor will fit where the transmission sat. Super exciting to see this get going again.

 Posted by at 7:31 am
Dec 102016
 

Well, were moving again, so since I had not finished (or even started) the fabrication on the motor mounting brackets, I had to pull the new motor from the transmission and bolt the old motor backk on to it so that I could mount it in the car for transportation. I’ll be moving everything into storage until we settle in the new house and then I’ll move it to the new location. With a new job, who knows when I’ll have time to work on it…can’t be much worse than the last few years at this house where I’ve essentially done nothing.

 Posted by at 11:35 am
Jul 212014
 

Ok, this project which was supposed to last two or three months, has now passed three years. I’ve been extremely busy at work and no time to work on the project, but a change in my vehicle status has now prompted me to rethink the project. I have a one to two hour drive to each of my customers, so lots of time to think about the project, but ZERO time to actually do anything about it. My gasoline car that I take to work has run into some hard times, so I had to purchase a backup vehicle for when this car decides to just give out completely. I have a couple of options on what to do with this car when it “passes”. I can go to a wrecking yard and get a new motor for about $500 and give it a new life (of course labor for the remove and replace by me). The car has 250,000 miles, so I’m not sure if that is a good idea or not given the wear on all the other items. On the other hand I just put a new suspension on the vehicle at 220k, so its relatively new. So that brings me to my new idea. After purchasing the second battery pack, I now have enough parts to build two electric cars. My thoughts are to just put the Porsche back together with the parts that came off, after I give it a mild restoration, so it does not rust away. Then I can use all the new high tech parts to turn the Prius into an electric car. These parts are better suited for the Prius anyway if I want to make a long range vehicle. Long range in a 914 is not really all that great of an idea. Putting the old parts back into the 914 will make for a very light car, and its still more power than stock, at probably nearly the same weight. I wont have the range or power I was considering, but it should be an improvement over what I had built in 1995. So that makes the Prius my long range EV and I’d like to see it with enough battery for a 350 mile trip. So now I need to find time for two projects…the first one was going so well, why not add a second? We’ll see how it goes this winter. I don’t expect I’ll find any shop time until September.

 Posted by at 10:40 pm