Goingbush's Electric Vehicle project

**350RRC** · 28th December 2018, 04:43 AM

Well if we're picking the eyes out of it...........

The shock absorber looks like its letting the fun out too.

Kinda glad I haven't tried to post pics of my stuff.

This thing is just such an awesome idea brought to fruition. I wonder what the crew on Pirate 4x4 would make of it if the whole build thread was posted up in the LR section.

DL

**goingbush** · 28th December 2018, 06:37 AM

I'll get a chance to put a spanner on the spring bolt today. I suspect its tight , I loosened , rotated the & retightened the bolt when fitting the battery box because theres literally a bees dick of clearance , between it & bottom of battery box & flat of bolt head. I think the looseness mark is from then , but I'll double check.

Ha the shocker oil, Its all good , there dated 1973 , not many 45 year old cars still running original shockers. Still operates fine & passes 2 x RWC like that so i'm in no hurry to get new ones .

I dont think Pirate 4x4 are ready for EV yet , maybe try in 2025 ??

**JDNSW** · 28th December 2018, 06:40 AM

I'm not picking the eyes out of anything - I was simply making a helpful suggestion. Operating with this bolt loose will end up increasing the work needed for repair, as the hole will get enlarged.

If I was ten years younger, and had a bit more money, I would be emulating this conversion.

**350RRC** · 28th December 2018, 07:16 AM

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I'm not picking the eyes out of anything - I was simply making a helpful suggestion. Operating with this bolt loose will end up increasing the work needed for repair, as the hole will get enlarged.

If I was ten years younger, and had a bit more money, I would be emulating this conversion.

Was tongue in cheek, sorry if it was read otherwise.

DL

**350RRC** · 28th December 2018, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by goingbush

I'll get a chance to put a spanner on the spring bolt today. I suspect its tight , I loosened , rotated the & retightened the bolt when fitting the battery box because theres literally a bees dick of clearance , between it & bottom of battery box & flat of bolt head. I think the looseness mark is from then , but I'll double check.

Ha the shocker oil, Its all good , there dated 1973 , not many 45 year old cars still running original shockers. Still operates fine & passes 2 x RWC like that so i'm in no hurry to get new ones .

I dont think Pirate 4x4 are ready for EV yet , maybe try in 2025 ??

The LR section of Pirate has been pretty quiet since 2008 and the GFC.

It has changed a lot. No longer does the board light up with posts of 'Sawz All, Sawz All' when someone finds an un molested RRC. The older forum members just say things like 'be a shame to chop that' and they used to be the 'worst offenders'.

DL

**goingbush** · 28th December 2018, 07:23 AM

I dont mind at all . Oftentimes i don't see the forest for the trees and miss the bleeding obvious.

**grey_ghost** · 4th January 2019, 06:12 PM

Off topic BUT - screening on Foxtel, Jay Leno’s garage, Season 4, Epsiode 4 - he is testing a Bollinger...

**VladTepes** · 10th January 2019, 02:04 PM

I clearly don't look far enough afield on AULRO.

It was only today that I found out about this vehicle / project from a post on a hunting website of all places:
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Nice job.

When initially planning the project did you consider a hybrid, so as to solve the range issue?
Know of any LR hybrid builds?

DiscoMick · 12th January 2019, 01:37 PM

Range Rover is already offering a factory Rangie hybrid.

**Blknight.aus** · 12th January 2019, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by goingbush

The drag created by the generator/s would use more energy than recovered,

Some people have also suggested wheel dynamos , Even in a perfect world of superconductors and zero friction it does not work.
There are lots of scams about asking for investors in such devices, but with such presentations its easy to get sucked in.

Different but Even Toyota are using a ploy to promote their Hybrids as a "Self Charging Electric Car" they have been made to stop such false advertising.

DOES NOT WORK, CAN NEVER WORK .

I know a guy who did this exact thing and sort of got it to work..

BUT..

Its not because he was doing the free energy thing it was because he couldnt get regen braking to work on a single battery bank so he put in 2 banks of batteries and the mother of all change over switches..

he drove with one motor running off of one bank and a second motor charged the second bank. He split his original bank in 2 so I dont recall it cost him too much more weight, from very vague memory he reckoned it got him 30ish% more range from when he only had electric drive.

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