After nearly completing all the battery racks and nearing installing them in the car, my wife convinced me to move to Sacramento, so I had to pack up the project and get ready to move to a new town. The move is good because we will be much closer to her work and also closer to the hospital where our son would eventually be born. I just pushed everything into the back of the new garage and there it sat until a couple of weeks ago. Anyhow we did get moved, our son was born and I got all the other new home projects completed and also put some solar panels on the roof, and now it is time to start back on the Porsche project. In the mean time, I changed the plan. I decided to purchase a eGearDrive and Siemens drive train from EVTV and go for a real change instead of just a battery change. In fact I sold the Thundersky batteries I bought earlier to a guy in Las Vegas and then I bought a set of 100 of the CALB CA 100aH cells. Much larger pack for more range, and still less weight than the lead I took out. It adds some more complexity to the project, but it should be an even better final product. The rest of the plans for climate control, lightening and such still remain.
I’ve got the work area cleared and now I’m about to start fabricating.