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Mission for 2007 Accomplished: Convert an ICE to an EV.

Hi my name is Manny. In March 2007 I picked up a nice '69 VW pan with upgraded disc brakes,shocks and an electric motor already mated to the tranny. I also acquired a '71 pan/'74 SuperBettle ICE based/'79-'80 styled Bradley GT2 (non-electric version with an '88 title.) from eBay. Took pretty much the whole month to get legal (not me, I was born here) with the DMV and CHP. Now the fun begins. Update: EV completed in December 2007

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Friday, November 30, 2007

New Logo 11-30-2007

While I'm waiting for BelkTronix to finish fine-tuning my controller (one of his component manufacturers revised a part, so he has to match that revision with his own) I goofed around and created a new logo for the blog. I was going for the '70s vibe with the text. Kinda makes you wanna cruise around and look for a Discotheque.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Some local Electric Vehicles both Live and In Progress

Paul Marshall has his car at Bob's Garage too. Check out the largest car conversion EVer:



Mr. Q worked on this Toyota MR2.


Lloyd is converting a Porsche in his spare time. Ok he has very little spare time, but is Jones-ing for an EV bad, so he's also going the pre-converted route and buying this electric Hyundai:

Friday, November 23, 2007

Electric Vehicle ( EV ) Conversion 11-23-2007

Took some more pix of my Lead Sled.










8 12V PowerSonic PG-12V140-FR in the rear, plus 4 in front all cabled up.
All according to plan:
BelkTronix BatMon battery monitors on each battery.

Will install my PakTrakrs after I'm done testing the TouchScreen Interface...

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Theme Song

Ok, this was fun for a bit. Moved it here to avoid loading each and every time.


Monday, November 19, 2007

Electric Vehicle ( EV ) Conversion 11-19-2007

Lloyd helped me load 800 pounds of batteries onto the rear battery packs.
OK, he did most the heavy lifting, but I'm more of a management/supervisor type anyway.

Later, Paul couldn't wait another day for me to wire all of the battery management boards and resistors, so helped me cut, lug, and crimp cables on the condition we would make the wheels spin.

Bob, did the honors after spending ten minutes testing my batteries, checking my connections, and letting me know I connected the front pack to the rear pack wrong.

What happened was that I had labeled the 2 cables (1 red and 1 white) and forgot that the red was to go from Positive in the front pack to Negative in the rear, and the white from the negative connection in the front to positive in the rear. Well it took just 2 days for me to forget and I hooked up the red labeled cable in the rear to the positive and the white to negative. No sparks, but I wasn't getting the expected voltage.

Once we switched the cables around in the Anderson connector, we were good to go.

Bob did the honors of spin testing the motor and wheels. 1st with 4 of the batteries from the rear pack.




We weren't expecting that big of a spark, and didn't want to burn the motor out, so decided to lessen the voltage before connecting the jumper cables again.
Next we tried it with 24 Volts.

I'm pretty stoked, as before today I had not tested the motor. I had seen the rear shaft spin while rolling the car, but not via electrical power.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Electric Vehicle ( EV ) Conversion 11-17-2007

I think we helped raise some cash for kids who are homeless due to the recent fires.
Bob, Bill and Lisa were there.


After the show I went back to Bob's to work on my car and had a couple of volunteers donate some sweat to the venture. Bob is pictured about to help remove the driver's seat while Paul is helping situate the rear battery box.

A couple of days earlier I finished wiring the front 48V battery pack (4 12V batteries) plus the Belktronix BatMons, and an Anderson Connector. It was nice to see that the 400 pounds of batteries were still suspended by my ghetto welding job.

Friday, November 16, 2007

EVs for Charity

EVAOSD is being asked to join in with San Diego Car Clubs to support fire victims and their families this weekend. We have two invitations for this Saturday, November 17, 2007. Please support these events with your electric-drive vehicle and/or your attendance.

Car Show to provide toys for burn victim children during the holidays. Ramona, CA; Fitness Center; 500 Main Street from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, 11/17/07

Car Club Charity Event from a home built in 1917 in Lemon Grove, CA; 8301 Mt Vernon St.; 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. by Woody Downing Fire Chief Retired and “You-Auto-Know” Dave Stall live radio broadcast www.kceoradio.com.

I urge you to support these outreach Car Shows to support our neighbors in need.

Also next weekend (Saturday, November 24, 2007) Dave Stall is donating a 2 hour Radio Show to discuss electric-drive and our up coming Electric Dragin’ EVent in January. Be sure to attend; bring you car or listen in to the show.More Info at www.ElectricDragin.com

EV ( Electric Vehicle ) Conversion Nov-2007

The car needs a new clutch cable and some additional work that are beyond my BigLots tool set.

Good thing I made friends with a professional EV mechanic, Bob Van Gorder. I've posted about him and his electric Cony before. A few of the cars that will be at the Electric Dragin' EVent were converted by Bob including a Rolls Royce.

So, Keith (of LightningBugE fame), along with Joseph (Friendly Neighborhood Electric Car Dealer) helped me load up the EGP onto a trailer for the 20 mile trek to Ramona, CA. Luckily Bob's shop survived the recent firestorm, and he had an open bay available for me to work on the car there.











While I was there he was readying a Mazda Miata conversion for its 1st test drive. Here's a video of it.


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Yeah, I care about the environment as much as the next guy. And yeah, I'm a nerdy geek. But, when it comes down to it, what really made me spend my free time and money on this endeavor, is knowing that: every time I put in any gas in my car, some money (a penny is too much) is going to people that want to KILL our kids.
"You don’t have to be a military strategist on the order of Sun Tzu or Carl von Clausewitz to understand: It is a bad idea to fund your enemy’s war effort. But every time we fill the tanks of our cars with gasoline we put money in the pockets of terrorists intent on killing Americans."
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