I was hoping to get the battery done during my current furlough. However the ongoing STM32 shortage seem to have put a stop to that. Along with ordering stuff from JLCPCB or PCBway being just way over my head. So the plan for BMS is to wait for OI BMS to come to market while I finish everything else. I can still make the battery box and place cells so it's not holding anything up too much.
If I get really impatient I can always throw in a prius battery just to move around the farmyard.
Other Jobs:
Charge Port
I ended up putting this in the fuel cap. The space available wasn't great, but it works for now.
Rear subframe:
Still some work to do on this before it can go back into the car. I have installed some refurbished suspension spheres and I pushed the boat out a little to get some new shocks as well. I'm waiting on parts to finish the coolant lines, I need to add in one more motor mount support and redo the wiring loom from the inverter to the OI control board.
HV junction box
Made a start on this. This is roughly how some of it will look. Positive line on the left with precharge contactor. AC line on the right. Fuse and Negative contactor will be in the battery box. The negative line will come through this box but just be a standoff connector.
In car repairs/mods
Removed the clutch pedal and lines. Removed, painted and replaced the coolant pipes from front to rear, I'm going to run the HV lines through these pipes as additional protection from the elements. Removed the rear crash cans that I ruined being a gorilla when removing the rear bumper.
Throttle
I was planning on using the Prius throttle. But it doesn't seem quite as easy as I first thought it would. So I am considering now keeping the original throttle, this normally operates a wire on the throttle body. My idea is to put in an MG throttle body as before then use the throttle position sensor as the potentiometer to operate the inverter accelerator signal.