I’ve been working on my car almost everyday for the last three weeks. It has been great, I’ve gotten a ton of stuff done.

My roll cage/body mount needed to be tweaked in order to get everything lined up. This meant cutting it off and re-welding it. Now the body sits on the chassis squarely and the wheel wells line up with the wheels. While I was at it, I finished up welding the windshield columns and added some gussets to beef up the roll cage.


Long ago I cut out a large section of the center console. The chassis came with a center console that was extra large to make room for a large fuel tank. Seeing that I didn’t need a fuel tank, I decided to retake the space by cutting it out. Now I’ve re-welded a smaller center console and filled in all the holes.

I added connectors on the battery cables and the cables to the motor. This adds a level of safety when working around the high voltage. It also makes it very easy to remove all the high power electronics, just take apart a few connectors and all the high voltage electronics can be removed.

I started wiring the battery box for BMS v2. One wire to each battery.

I started preparing the body for mounting. Step one is to scrub off all the resin wax. I flipped the body over and scrubbed the heck out of it. Next I’ll be painting the underside black and mounting all the grills. Then I can glue it to the chassis.

Here’s some other misc. stuff I did, but didn’t take pictures of:

- Cut out a safety cover for the batteries.

- Fabricated a safety cover for all the high voltage electronics. I used 1/8 polycarb bent in a sheetmetal break. Polycarb is great as is bends just like metal.

- Discovered that my air lift system kind of sucks. To install it, I would need to modify the chassis a bit. Plus in the best case it would raise the nose by 2″. I think I might ditch it and just put rollers under the front nose.

- Solved the problem with the vacuum brake booster. I figured out that one of the ports on the reservoir had a built in one-way valve, and I had the tubes on backwards.

- I modified the battery box to accommodate some better battery hold downs.