On 16 Oct 2013 at 23:02, David Chapman wrote: > I seem to recall someone converting a Mini many years ago.
I also remember someone doing a Mini. Minors too? Someone was working on (maybe) a minor with (maybe) a pickup configuation. This would have been a good 15-20 years ago. Sorry, I don't quite have it straight in my mind which were Minis and which were Minors. I see four Morrises in the EV Album, including a sweet looking '62 Minor 1000 : http://www.evalbum.com/type/MORS And here's a Mini : http://www.evalbum.com/4768 Wayne of Electric Blue Conversions has mentioned a couple of times that his first conversion in the '70s was a Morris Minor. Nikki Bloomfield was working on a Minor 5-6 years ago. I think she eventually gave up, deciding that hers was too rust-eaten to save. Nikki writes for some of the online EV publications these days. Steve Clunn and Audrey Martin did a '67 Mini quite recently. Ah, yes, here it is. "No brakes!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKiURqO2M3s Induction AC is certainly one way to go. This light little guy would be a good candidate for one of the relatively low cost, low voltage AC drives that use Curtis controllers. You'd get regen "free." Lots of small DC motors would suit too, but with the common series motors regen is nigh onto impossible. You'd want to look hard at how to improve the brakes, especially if you live in a hilly area. FWIW, a high school chum of mine had a Morris Minor, a '57 (gas) IIRC. The grille had a port for the manual crank, for when the Lucas Prince of Darkness struck! However, in such cases my friend usually just stuck his left foot out the door and got it coasting enough to pop the clutch in gear. It was that light. Alas, his Minor never reached the age of majority. He tried, carrying on with patching the body with old license plates, pop rivets, and mud. But somewhere around 1971 or so one of the front torsion bars nearly poked him in the bum, and the car kind of slouched down. That was the end of that. I remember thinking some years hence that if not for the rust that would have been an intriguing conversion. David Roden EVDL Administrator http://www.evdl.org/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
