Thread: Goingbush's Electric Vehicle project

Originally Posted by garrycol

What is an EV conversion and why do you need disc brakes?

EV= Electric Vehicle, I am putting 45 x 180 Ah LiFePo4 cells and a HPEVS AC51 3 phase motor in it , I don't expect I'll be driving it any faster than I do now, but it has the potential for 3 x the current power @ 10,000 RPM . so the engineer deems disc brakes desirable .

The batteries will occupy the existing fuel tank & under bonnet space , so as to not infringe into load area. Outwardly theres will be no changes except for lack of a tailpipe.

I can easily make my own disc brake set up , no biggie but I thought I'd be helping a bloke out by buying one of his kits, but if its too much trouble I'll do my own. I'm seeing a VASS engineer for the EV conversion anyway so no extra complications to do the brakes.

Purely a guess - Electric Vehicle?

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

How soon do you need them? Cookey has supplies of the caliper brackets which fit either front or rear. The disk mods and rotors done for me are the type with large inner and smaller outer bearings. Im not doing that conversion till after the 80" and Defender 6x6 are completed and the MSA box for the Isuzu only arrived this week. So he may make mine available for you.

Thanks, Im not in a hurry, anticipate Rover will be off the road for 3-4 months during conversion, hopefully done for Summer its a '73 Series3 , (pre metric) . hope to use 5" rims if possible , Front only will be fine .
won't need the booster etc as I'll possibly fit a 12v electric booster since I wont have any vacuum.

I can machine and tap my hubs to accept rotors on my mill if that helps .

if email is easier evrover@mailcan.com

Originally Posted by goingbush

EV= Electric Vehicle, I am putting 45 x 180 Ah LiFePo4 cells and a HPEVS AC51 3 phase motor in it , I don't expect I'll be driving it any faster than I do now, but it has the potential for 3 x the current power @ 10,000 RPM . so the engineer deems disc brakes desirable .

The batteries will occupy the existing fuel tank & under bonnet space , so as to not infringe into load area. Outwardly theres will be no changes except for lack of a tailpipe.

I can easily make my own disc brake set up , no biggie but I thought I'd be helping a bloke out by buying one of his kits, but if its too much trouble I'll do my own. I'm seeing a VASS engineer for the EV conversion anyway so no extra complications to do the brakes.

Found your write up on your website...very interesting

I know a guy that has made inquiries about converting a 130 to electric drive but struggled getting replies or info.....

Originally Posted by weeds

Found your write up on your website...very interesting

I know a guy that has made inquiries about converting a 130 to electric drive but struggled getting replies or info.....

Absolutely !! Its like banging your head against a bloody brick wall . Trying to deal with the sole Australian agent for HPEVS AC motors is almost impossible , its a common complaint of Australian EV forum , almost to the extent that I was about to become an Eastern States agent for HPEVS just so that I could get a motor.

And as for the batteries..... I can get them for almost 1/3 the price than advertised on the DIY EV price guides, the industry in Australia needs a good kick up the arse.

and thanks for reminding me, I do need to update the website.

Ooh this all sounds interesting! Can you plug your website here so we can take a peek?

Originally Posted by dickyjoe

Ooh this all sounds interesting! Can you plug your website here so we can take a peek?

Going Bush

Nice project!
ive thought of electrifying a Landie many times...
I'd love an electric D2. Thinking an HPEVS Twin35 running into the LT230 with some rock crawler diff gears.
Tesla modules for around 80-90kwh.