[DRIVING] 1979 MG Midget with GS450h and custom battery pack

[ggeter]

Don't you think at this point you should start your own project thread instead of littering every thread that mentions the 450h/300h with your questions about RPMs?

I am happy to help. No issues with the questions in this thread.

[ggeter]

Quick update: thanks for the [TAG] idea. Love it.

I've been using this car as a kid shuttle around the neighborhood for well over a year now. Batteries are holding up, no huge issues. My MG1/2 configuration is pretty flawless (no locked input shaft, spin up MG1 for oil pressure. See earlier posts). Still getting between 60 and 80 miles per charge on 15KWh usable pack. I've never charged the pack fully.

I have promised to do more detailed walk thru video(s) and I will try to get to that in the next month or two. More info for the community the better!

-g.

[CapriV]

Nice project!! Hopng to get mine going this summer.

[ggeter]

FOR SALE?

So, I'm at a crossroads with this midget. The battery pack that I built was sub-optimal. And many of the cells are beginning to fail. It will be $2000 to $4,000 investment to get a new pack and wired up.

OR, I can sell the complete car to one of you guys. What do you get? A complete running gs450h powered system with a bad battery pack. Refurbish the pack and have a runabout car, or pull all the components out for your own project. Everything that you need is here.

Please let me know if any of you would be interested. I can actually haul this for a buyer within 200 miles of Houston.

I will definitely consider parting everything out and loading it onto a pallet for shipment. But that would be a lot more work for me. The midget shell itself may be worth only about $2,000. But it's got brand new brakes, brake lines, master cylinder, etc.

Message me if you want to talk about this.

[marcexec]

Repower it with OEM modules, e.g from a PHEV: https://openinverter.org/wiki/Batteries#OEM_modules. Maybe some of your existing cells/blocks can be used for home solar?

[ggeter]

Some of the cells are for sure salvageable, but I may just rather sell the entire thing as a running project for someone technically astute but just starting out. I wish I'd had an opportunity to buy everything I needed all at once when I started.