Hi EVDL, As promised, here is a description of the car that I'd like to see go to a good home.
EVAlbum: http://www.evalbum.com/3915 Blog: [email protected] I bought the car in 2008 as a running stock Super Beetle. I pulled the engine and sold it, then stripped the whole car down to the metal, including the wiring harnesses. There was nothing but metal. I towed it to a body shop where they welded over the side vents and exhaust pipe cutouts, then painted it with Toyota paint code 8P1 Bright Blue Metallic in Acrylic Enamel with hardener (which is no longer legal). The motorcycle custom paint shop a couple doors down from the body shop added pearlescent "ghost" lightning bolts to the sides. Then I towed it to an auto upholstery shop and had the whole interior done. I towed it back home, added all new seats from Aircooled.net, plus disk brake conversions on all four wheels. I created the complete new wiring harnesses, and started to add the EV components. See the blog and the evalbum entry for the rest of the details. The Elite Power Solutions BMS works great when the car is sitting still. The little LCD shows a list of all of the individual Lithium Ion cells (56 total) where you can scroll to see all of them. There is also a state-of-charge bar graph and other various details. The problem I had with the BMS is once you start driving, the LCD values go berserk and the SOC graph gets reset to zero. Apparently the Zilla creates so much high-energy PWM hash that it drove the BMS crazy. The car was a blast to drive, got it up to 85mph on the freeway. Drove from the Chatsworth area to Santa Monica on the 405 one time, then back home over Topanga, all on one charge. Eventually the batteries went out of balance, due to my inexperience. I let the car sit and sit, and it fell off of my radar for a few years. Fast forward to today - the car is still sitting in my driveway under a car cover, and I'm afraid that the poor lithium ions are permanently dead. Other than that, aside from some dust, dirt, and a little rust, it was a perfectly fine running machine when last I drove it. I don't want to give it away, it is worth something. I would love to see it "go to a good home". I cannot keep it, it must go. One idea I had was to donate it to a local college automotive department and take the tax write-off. However that might be difficult at this time (and into the foreseeable future) since nobody is physically attending school. So there you have it - does anybody want to buy a Zilla-powered VW beetle? At a much lower cost than it was originally worth? Thanks, Gene -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20201005/2fd3589e/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
