Finished front and back battery box mounts and trial fitted: 20231221_132857.jpg I flipped the orientation of the top and bottom battery modules to better accommodate the available space. The top layer will overhang the transmission a little, giving room for a radiator up front (I hope) Not shown th...

Update: Finished welding the battery box: 20231210_164749.jpg Welded up a shelf to mount the inverter and closed some holes in the firewall: 20231204_110501.jpg Here it is with my wooden mockup. Sooooo much easier to handle this than the real battery box. You can also see the chassis front crossmemb...

Nice! What are you going to put in her?

Gregski wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:40 pm LoL, that thing is already electric, it would be like cheatin', but maybe I should do an LS Swap on it !?

You could - a LS600H

Gregski wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 4:24 pm and the shortly awaited follow up Part II video

Did I see that Rivian wink at you as you passed (at ~8 mins in)?

With the drum brakes, you might need a pressure retention valve or residual pressure valve for a proper function with the newer style master cylinder. I'm not sure about the Scout, but some cars with drum brakes need to have a static pressure in the system even when the brake pedal is not depressed...

Have you spin up the ls600H transmission yet? Is it identical to the GS450H bar the transfer box? I like the look of that Hyundai EPAS, it looks way more compact than the Corsa options that are commonly used. Yes, see my video a few posts back. Seems pretty similar to GS450H, some inverter wiring s...

Stripped down the B250e battery pack and starting to work on the battery box 20231110_081006_1.jpg 20231121_125614_1.jpg The box will be pretty long (40"). Packaging is proving hard on this short wheel base truck with a long transmission and long batteries. Still I think I can do it and be able...

Mounted a ibooster from a Chevy Volt. The master cylinder has a large bore size - perhaps 9/8". Having a hard time stepping down the fittings from the M14 inverted flare female on the master to regular 3/16" for rest of the car. Still need to replumb the whole car. 20231011_172058.jpg 2023...

LS600H transmission going in! Modifying the rear Lexus mount
Welded new brackets to chassis front and rear
Finally mounted

Got an EPAS steering column out of a hyundai, stripped it down, and got it mounted under the dash. Verified it works in failsafe mode

Haven't posted in a while so this is a bit of a catch-up. I mounted the stronger jeep axles, leaving the axle perches un-welded for now and I'll burn them in once I get weight on the truck with batteries installed etc and set my pinion angles correctly 20230518_113123.jpg Put in new springs and shoc...

Make sure you keep the flywheel damper assy that has the splined center section so you can lock the input shaft to use both motors. Also keep propshaft and transmission cross member. Shift selector mechanism may be handy. Might want small things like fuseboxes and coolant expansion tank

Did a little more troubleshooting. From the schematic IC4 converts to 5V and then IC1 steps down further to 3.3V. I probed the IC output pins and it will hold 5V at IC4, but IC1 will only output 2.5V at first, dropping below 2V after a short while. I'm not an EE, but looks like something is up with ...

I had my PCS controller powered up. All looked good. Wired the minimum wiring to talk to the PCS, 7 wires on the X420 data connector. Was having difficulty getting it to go into enable mode by applying 12V to Input 1 pin, but last night was able to get it to enter drive mode by applying 12V to Input...

Vero BMS is also derived from SIMPBMS and is available in North America:

https://veroelectric.com/

It's unfortunate to hear about this, I have a PCS and Damien's control board and was planning on digging into charging this winter, still may try it but may need to consider other options

Nice, but I have a small dought: The orange cable has a copper shield, and I guess this shield is (or should be) grounded. In the pictures above the distance between the "hot" metal part and the copper shield seems quite small, even with the heat shrink it feels risky to me, that isolatio...

sigdigits wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 8:28 pm How much did it set you back, if you don't mind my asking...?

Battery was $4K

Since the Dana 27 axles are pretty puny, not to mention the front diff has the differential on the wrong side for the LS600H front output, and front axle only has drum brakes, I'm replacing them with axles from a Jeep YJ. It's a Dana 35 in back with Dana 30 up front. It will mean this Scout has a mo...

Beautiful build! Amazing attention to detail

Batteries! Proud owner of a Tesla pack from a Mercedes B250e. Purchased from a wreckers up in LA and now have to figure out how to get this 500lb lump out of my truck and somewhere safe in the garage :D 20230328_114457.jpg 20230328_114439.jpg Managed to get 5 feet of the main HV power cables and con...

Glad to see you come out of hibernation Gregski

I haven't read much about this version of the Lexus transmission. Does the axle to the front wheels only spin if it senses slip in the rear wheels? There is a planetary gear set in the transfer case to distribute power to front and rear. With no load, I'm thinking it is just showing a rear bias whi...

Anyone successfully using the Simp BMS with the 7s Tesla module packs from a B250e or Rav4?