To be fair shes not wrong in terms of the road safety aspect. Alot of builds have lithium batteries piled into the engine bay - If there was a bad enough collision it could turn bad pretty quick if any were damaged.

Rather annoying but this seems to have died, no response to my messages since the initial phone call. There is a separate number I'll try tomorrow.

I'll message him and see what the price would be for 4 packs. I'm happy to forward pallets on?

JaniK wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 4:33 pm I could use one on my 24kWh Leaf, but I think shipping to Finland could be a problem..

How so?

Any idea if this is still available, thinking of putting it in an older high mileage leaf Did you contact them? Yes I sent them a message but have had no reply, did you give them a call? Did he tell you what size packs any of those 7 were? I sent a text but he called back. They are all 40kwh packs ...

I spoke to a chap Mike, he said they have 7 Battery Packs in stock. He was asking what sort of money i would be willing to pay for one. Any ideas on a ballpark?
I mentioned 3k and he seemed keen on it, wish id of said less haha

Please give us an update

Domt177 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:22 pm Any idea if this is still available, thinking of putting it in an older high mileage leaf

Did you contact them?

I also follow the Space X Starship progress on youtube, their latest revision (SN8) features a Tesla battery pack! You can see it here at the top of the bulkhead:

Yeah thats how i understood it, was that it was bonded together, on top of this it seems like they will be gold dust to even Tesla themselves until about 2030, so buying them directly does not seem plausible either

Anyone else watch the conference? New battery tech looks really cool, tabless cell, wonder when these will filter down to DIY'ers

They also noted the newer battery packs will be bonded together and part of the chassis....

Looks good mate, what is the total kWh of your new packs? Are you selling the old ones?

Well I know I was late to the party but I'm 100% interested. I can put a deposit or whatever is needed.

Thanks

Cant we just ask them to wrap it as a birthday present like everyone else

Feels bad man, im so tired of scouring the internet for some battery bargains, even contemplating building packs myself from 18650's

Dang this would have been perfect too.

What would the price be for ~20kwh of packs? I'd be interested in joining this and maybe for more.

How much kWh are you going to use in the E46? How much mileage do you expect to get from it. I'm hunting like crazy for some nicely priced packs.

Ah, I thought what I linked to were engine oil pumps for the S85? You are absolutely right - my apologies, its one of the two scavenge pumps for the partial dry sump, at a glance it looked similar to SMG Motor. I will ask my friend who is breaking his S85 if he has a one for mates rates :D EDIT: Af...

The viscosity of the fluids doesn't seem to be massively different from what I can tell.

My only consideration is the SMG Pump does not run continuously on the S85 V10, the SMG only uses pressure to actuate the clutch and shift gears

It was this one but i think that is the only one looking back.

https://www.evbmw.com/index.php/evbmw-w ... cm-partial

If you do then please share the design. You could try one of these : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-BMW-M6-M5-E60-E63-V10-S85-engine-electric-oil-pump-7834496-6174134/254712591961?epid=602295955&hash=item3b4e0db659:g:PP8AAOSwl7pearYz They are good pumps and typically last ~100k miles, rebui...

One thing i did notice when browsing the shop was that the price quoted in some of the descriptions was lower than the actual list price of the item.

Isn't it done on your license as opposed to the vehicle?

In which case on a normal Cat B License it would be upto 3500kg

Interesting project, im gearing up to do the same in an E61 so will be watching this closely.