Electric Starion EV – Electric Car Conversion – Part 4
category: Electric Cars
Most of the hard part of cabling through the sub-frame has now been done. The car’s been pretty well stripped to the bone but all this work should be worth it. While a lot of EV builders get their cabling to run under the car, protecting it in the sub-frame is my preferred option and this has been checked by the road-legal engineer and so far so good. Metal saddles are used to clamp the conduit flex where exposed, so nothing is loose. The main issue has been space in the engine bay, making sure the batteries sit comfortably under the hood and trying to fit the ancillary stuff. With the laser-cut mounting plate for the AC air-con and pwr steer driver motor etc, orientation had to be decided upon, and the battery placement largely dictated this, so its placement may appear odd at first, but will be very secure when completed. Battery balancing was also performed prior to installation and now we’re on the road to re-assembling everything, dash, final wiring etc. I bought some Electrolube DCA200H conformal silicon spray for the BMS PCBs but we’ll install and test everything first. Some BMS modules such as the TS-90 have all components protected in a resin block and maybe BEV who build the modules in Australia will integrate moisture protection in a future version. Nathan has done an excellent job welding up the supports for the ancillary drive components and the pulley part I supplied (which I happened upon by chance in my big box of junk in the shed) should do the job well …
I like her electronic instrament clusters
ahhhhh nooooo WHy !!!! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO A RARE CAR.
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Nice.
Hah, I wish I had the time :-|, they were designed by Ross Blade at Blade Electric Vehicles in Melbourne – the modules are pretty good but I am disappointed with the control box -a bit expensive for the components involved. I was going to get the TS-90 but ordering a job lot of other parts made it easier from Ross. Hope this helps, Cheers, C
Hi, great job. Did you design your own BMS system?
yeah that was last week; check out ‘Electric Starion Part 5′ on youtube for a vid. Cheers
Hi Guys, good work… is the Annangrove Electric Show Show on tomorrow 26 Oct or was it last weekend? I’d love to meet up and chat.
LOL you bad boy :-P
I see you took some of my advise and made a great video :)my favorite parts in this movie are from 3:35-4:15 and 5:59-6:20 and my reaction to this video resembles the part from 5:23-5:26 keep up the good work car looks great to:)
Hey thanks for talking to me at the EV show today, I learned a great deal. Your Starion is an excellent example of a well built EV and one of the stand-outs of the show. (even though it’s not quite finished). It looked great on the makeshift test track too. I’m told you did a terrific burnout. Go Bulgarian Horsepower!
Hi, the show’s on at:
344 Annangrove Road, Rouse Hill, Sydney, at the NGINA Nursery, 10am – 3pm, Sunday 19th October 2008. Thanx for the comments!
Where and when is the annual EV show in Oz? I’m in the ‘gathering info’ stage of my EV build, I must see some EV builders in person and find out what I’m really up against.
Nice work by the way, and fine wardrobe choices ;-)
Ah, I had wondered how you’d do the cabling… neat!