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Jack Bauer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 3:39 pm Lessons learned today :

1)It's always my fault.
2)You can drive a 2 ton E39 on the motroway at 60mph with no coolant in a Gen3 prius inverter and the Toyota engineers protect the transistors.
2)Tesla gen 2 chargers thermal limit at 92C.
4)The Siemens motor is very tough.
5) See item 1.

Oh man...that's hilarious. Glad to see you figured out 2 and "2".

-Matt

Jack Bauer: doing it wrong for YOU

You should sell t-shirts in your webshop that read:

You're doing it wrong!

I may just do that:)

I'd buy one!

Hope it has a picture of Elon on it with that disdainful look...

Well, guess what? The E39 drives great now with some coolant:)

Ditto on the Disdainful Elon "You're doing it wrong" shirt

Always an enjoyable watch, out of interest what do you charge you phev modules to? 4.1v or 4.2v?

Long time no update. As some of you will know I have a bench setup with a GS450h and GS300h now for software testing with the VCU. A few folks on Patreon had suggested fitting the 300h to the yacht and I started parts gathering for an "auto swap" Anyway, plans change and I'm now going to pop the 450h in the E39 as it will give me a nice testbed to get things like gearshifts etc ironed out. The 300h is going in .....a new project:)

Cool!

Stripping out the charger, inverter and motor.

Few more progress pics from yesterday. No work today as spent the night puking into the toilet courtesy of some bad lunch

Little more progress.

Looking good. This is the project that makes mine easier I can see the gearbox mounts line up well aft of the standard chassis holes. good for weight distribution a hway. If I recall you already had added more, not sure if that was on this car.
I would argue with the 2 tonne thing by the way, my touring is 1850kg. How many leaf cells are in the front, presume you are keeping same battery?

It bolts to the same points as the auto crossmember.

well, thats me sorted then.

Little more progress.

That is great to see , are the gear positions on OEM bmw shifter the same as positions on GS450?
How is on IS300 ? (more interesting to me )
laverage is ok ?

Nice progres , tnx for the answer

A point of clarification: are transmission jacks crap in general for getting it in place, or just that particular type? Any recommendations on something that's not crap?

mark wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 2:14 pm A point of clarification: are transmission jacks crap in general for getting it in place, or just that particular type? Any recommendations on something that's not crap?

It looks like a motorcycle or ATV jack. My guess is the GS450h is about 100lbs/50kgs over what the jack is designed for.