Thanks! It's been good fun. I've mostly been pleasantly surprised. I
remember when I first converted it that it was annoying dealing with all the
rust and I often thought that I should have spent more on the glider (it's an
'87). Now that it's been sitting in my garage for the better part of a decade,
it doesn't seem all that bad for an '87.
There have been a few bolts that I was really thinking were going to be a pain
to remove but they came right out.
Of course, then today I tried to swap out the torsion bars in the front
suspension and they are pretty firmly in there. I'll be taking the air hammer
to them tomorrow…
But, it's fun to drive and better than it ever was before.
Thanks!
-Jeremy
On Apr 10, 2013, at 8:59 PM, "Tom Keenan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Congratulations on getting it back on the road! Owning an 'older' EV has
> its challenges!
>
> Tom Keenan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Jeremy Green
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 11:18 AM
> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List
> Subject: [EVDL] EV Grin and a fun little mystery
>
> So, my Honda CRX EV is finally back on the road after 11 years of
> inactivity.
> I took the EV apart 11 years ago because the water pump needed to be
> replaced and there were a few other upgrades I wanted to do.
> Then, my brother moved his shop to another state and then 8 1/2 years ago I
> had my first kid.
> So, it sat idle for a long time and as these things tend to do (with me),
> the scope of the project got much bigger.
> I decided to upgrade the controller and replace my transmission with a later
> model Integra transmission since there were better clutch options and it is
> a much beefier transmission.
> So, this involved custom mounts and a new adapter plate. Of course, I
> couldn't find anyone who had the adapter plate I needed so I decided to
> machine my own on my CNC machine.
> The CNC machine had been moved to my brother's new shop in RI (from
> Massachusetts) and needed quite a bit of work to get it going again (again,
> as I tend to do, I made it a bigger project by replacing the windows
> controller software with EMC 2 running on linux).
> So, it was quite a while before I actually had the adapter plate machined
> (December of 2010).
> Anyway, I'm back on the road with a Zilla controller and 64 CALB 100 ah
> cells (unfortunately, the old blue case ones).
> I went from having a range of around 25 miles to what looks like 65 and the
> car is a much more reasonable weight.
> There's a lot to be done still but at least now I can drive the car!
>
> So, on to the fun mystery. I was testing the car out on the highway the
> other day and noticed that under hard acceleration, the brake light came on.
> I was a little confused and thought either the fluid was low and sloshing or
> that I had messed up the wiring for the idiot lights. Then I realized that
> one of my high voltage cable goes right next to the master cylinder and, the
> float switch for the brake fluid level is a reed switch. So, under hard
> acceleration when there was a lot of current going through the cable, it was
> generating enough of a magnetic field to cause the reed switch to pull in.
> I only had to move the cable a tiny bit to get it to go away.
> I expected to be having to track down some problem in the wiring. I was
> happy to find it was a simple (and interesting) problem with an easy fix.
>
> Glad to be back among the EV drivers! I almost broke down and bought a leaf
> a year or so ago.
>
> -Jeremy
>
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