Yeah, that Capri project is pretty sweet, I've been following that one closely, as well as Gav's now completed Kiwi EV project at <a href="
http://www.kiwiev.com">kiwiev.com</a>. There are heaps of youtube clips for both of those, very well done...
I'm pretty keen to try something too along those lines but it is really going to have to wait at least another year till after my wedding. It's going to have to take a bank loan though to fund it. Something like $10k to $15k for a relatively basic conversion...
Fred, an EV micra would be sweet! I'm sure that you've looked at <a href="
http://www.evaustralia.com.au">evaustralia.com.au</a> and related sites? The MX5 project at <a href="
http://www.zeva.com.au/registry.php?id=1">zeva.com.au</a> will be pretty cool. He's wanting to build a pretty quick car...
I'm also keenly watching the <a href="
http://carsguide.news.com.au/site/motorshows/story/mitsubishi_i_ev_plug_and_play/melbourne">Mitsubishi i-EV</a> which is supposedly coming to Australia late next year. I know I read it somewhere, but can't find the link.
If it ever happens for me I'm hoping to convert my dodgy olds-kool Datto lol. A 1965 Datsun p410 sedan, from back before the days of the Datsun 1600...
At the moment I am collecting parts off ebay, and Datsun forums to get it back up to scratch, I'm wanting it looking pretty much 100% factory standard eventually.
This is it as it is at the moment though, complete with all the previous owners mods, i.e. non standard white vinal roof, venetians, old 1980's supra bucket seats, bump-stop spec suspension, Mazda 1300 hubcaps and white-wall re-treads. It looks pretty cool from a distance, but completely defectable. As it is, I hit a bump at 40km/h and it was enough to snap the welds holding the drivers seat to the floor. Much to say I'm not driving it at the moment.
Take note of the direction the window wipers operate, lol, even basic stuff like washer bottle to spray water at the windscreen was a factory option back then, so I have loaded water pistol in the glove box... If it was just one year older, there'd be a hole in the grill for those occasions you have a flat battery, and you'd have the ability to manually start with the hand crank...
The best thing about modifying something this old is that there were zero ADR's back then which from my understanding means pretty much anything goes... The worst is that replacement parts are a bitch to find, and the idea of buying and stripping a perfectly good one for parts makes me sad.
Sorry for the hi-jack smidge, but the idea of an EV Micra on the site got me excited...
I guarantee both methods will work.
