20 year old conversion rebuild.

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20 year old conversion rebuild.

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My third EV and the second full conversion was a 1984 Mk2 VW Scirocco 1.8GTI.

I got it on the road in 2001/2 and it was my daily driver, but I ended up selling it in 2006, then in 2019, I was offered the car back.

It's still quite sound, but needs a lot of work and pretty much a complete interior.

The pictures are from when I collected the car from Birmingham.
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1000a DC motor controller out of a Prius inverter?Would get you back on road quite quick 😃
See if you can find a donor parts car (possibly a really tired golf) for the interior and usefull spares and sell the rest, you'll probability break near even if your lucky 😃

Edit: just watched the 650a 192v on 2000 (ISH) that's quite impressive, that must of cost you a pritty penny back then.

You could also split a normal pick in 2 half e.g. your i3 pack spit into 2 paralleled 48s packs.
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❤️ the Scirocco. Brilliant car. Such a great size and shape.
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Stripdown mostly complete. I can now see most of what needs to be done to repair the shell.
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You are making me jelous with the stand and garage!
Just spent my evening welding on the floor!
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Seems I've missed a few updates, but here's the latest;
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