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Making progress Alibro How soon do you think you'll be booking an MOT given the current booking delays?

nkiernan wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:00 pm Making progress Alibro How soon do you think you'll be booking an MOT given the current booking delays?

LOl, Maybe before the end of the year.
MOT is easy to get quickly if you phone them.

This is getting like Project Binkey with the number of episodes.



Hopefully I'll be a little quicker than them.

Great to see your progress on this (and copy some stuff shamelessly since I have the same parts )

JaniK wrote: ↑Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:25 pm Great to see your progress on this (and copy some stuff shamelessly since I have the same parts )

Copy as much as you like but there's no point in copying the stupidest student in the classroom.

First Drive.

Good job! Performance is looking impressive as well.

looking forward to having this much go in the beetle. Not looking forward to doing it.

Nicely done, love the big lump of battery in the boot for testing.

Bigpie wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 7:15 pm looking forward to having this much go in the beetle. Not looking forward to doing it.

Take lots of video so we can all have a good laugh at your expense.

JaniK wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 7:17 pm Nicely done, love the big lump of battery in the boot for testing.

It was only when I had the modules spread out in the back of the car I realised how much space they take up.

LRBen wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 6:28 pm Good job! Performance is looking impressive as well.

Thanks mate.

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Alibro wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 3:14 pm First Drive.

I'm a month late but... well done!! First drive I always the best... and most scary! Great acceleration off the line. Now the easy bit... the tidying up of all the test rig

Cookie6000 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 3:44 pm I'm a month late but... well done!! First drive I always the best... and most scary! Great acceleration off the line. Now the easy bit... the tidying up of all the test rig

Thanks mate, it was a big moment.
I still have a lot of work to do but getting scarily close to the bit I've been a bit fearful of - connecting it all up for real.

Alibro wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 10:40 am Thanks mate, it was a big moment.
I still have a lot of work to do but getting scarily close to the bit I've been a bit fearful of - connecting it all up for real.

Nice craftsmanship .
I would advise you to mount the HV contact box in a way you can get good access to battery modules underneath. I found i had to constantly access battery at least in the beginning. This is why i made my battery boxes on the top of everything. Its really annoying to have to move inverter, charger and all its plumming to get to the battery .

arber333 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:55 am Nice craftsmanship .
I would advise you to mount the HV contact box in a way you can get good access to battery modules underneath. I found i had to constantly access battery at least in the beginning. This is why i made my battery boxes on the top of everything. Its really annoying to have to move inverter, charger and all its plumming to get to the battery .

Good point thanks but I'm going to do it all perfectly the first time so won't need to move anything.

Believe that and you'll believe anything. LOL

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Nice to see this coming together. Great to see you thinking of a better way to build it constantly, but do consider this, atleast I tend to sometimes just stop and say "good enough" and continue to next step. Otherwise may end up doing 73 versions and then changing back to ver. 3 anyway.

JaniK wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 1:30 pm .

Nice to see this coming together. Great to see you thinking of a better way to build it constantly, but do consider this, atleast I tend to sometimes just stop and say "good enough" and continue to next step. Otherwise may end up doing 73 versions and then changing back to ver. 3 anyway.

If I was doing this again from scratch I'd change many things but as you say it's "good enough" however I have made one biggish change recently.
I've ditched the fuel tank battery box as it is just too much trouble and made two rear battery boxes the same way. I've one large one in the boot and a smaller one under the boot. That way the cables can go directly from one box to the other so no need for fuses or contactors between them.

That's a good idea, if you don't need all the boot then fueltank batteries can live there. I think I will also try to make a 5cm overlap for my boxes too, so cables would just go through.

This is my bottom box which fits under the boot floor.
And in position. Freelanders have a storage box under the boot floor so this hole is normal. I removed the bottom of it so my modules can fit. And this is the box in the boot. I still need to secure the modules and cut holes for cables.

Looking good!

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Plus a bonus hidden video testing with everything bolted down better than the last time.
Unfortunately no sound as I managed to turn off the mic somehow but the smoke tells the story.
The first run was in first gear and the second in second gear.

A quick vid showing my solution for power steering in action.

New video posted last night.