Sunday, October 19, 2008

Just installed

Saturday was installation day. Hoisted in the motor and transmission. Bolted both back to the frame. Reattached the drive axles, steering gear, control arms, and linkages. Bled out the air from the clutch.

After this was all done I hooked up the motor to the power supply and gave it a spin. Wheels and drive axles working well. Clutch engages and disengages properly.

Here is the motor installed.


Next step is fabricating front battery racks and component mounts.

1 comment:

RacerX said...

Wow! Things are really coming along well. Can't wait for a ride in the e-saturn. FYI - BMW has an all e-car (the e-mini) coming out next year in limited test markets - see http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/autos/0810/gallery.electric_mini_cooper/index.html?cnn=yes