The dashboard is now seated in place and the heaters are firing. For having two heater cores, it is not as warm as I would like, but it should be enough to take the edge off on those particularly cold mornings. Additionally, I plan to add a remote start, which should allow me to turn [...]
Finally, the blower motor problem has been solved. With a new logicon (heater controller) and a changed fuse, all is well and the fans are blowing. Now just a little reassembly remains, along with hooking up the heater switches (just a few wires) and putting in the relay so they don’t turn on unless the fans are [...]
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Okay, well the heater isn’t technically blowing yet, but I do have the heater core built and ready to be installed. I used two 1500watt ceramic heaters, pulled the cores out of them and wired them up. I used the existing heater housing and built it into the car’s heater core, which should allow them [...]
At long last, the house has been outfitted with a 20A GFIC outlet just for charging. I even marked the territory with a Frankencar sticker, which is available on our Zazzle store. The outlet is wired to its own 20A breaker user 12 AWG [...]
So more on Frankie’s first charge. With the help of my electrical engineer brother-in-law, we have made some discoveries.
1. The charger may be drawing up to 19A, though based on calculations should top at about 17A for a short time then go down. This means we will need at least a 20A connection. That [...]
The Frankencar Electrocity now has its charger fully wired and ready to go! Complete with retractable cord reel, the Electrocity uses a Zivan NG3 smart charger to fill the 12 batteries with juicy electrons. The only problem for now is, after a few minutes it blows the breaker in the house…..more on [...]
Our motor is the ADC FB1-4001A 72-144VDC 19.5HP Double Shaft model. We purchased the double shaft model on a suggestion that we might use the second shaft to rig some kind of power steering pulley replacement system, but for now we are opting to have no power steering and keep things simple. The second [...]
Meet the Frankencar Electrocity donor vehicle – a 1986 Mazda RX-7 (Non Turbo). A few of our initial thoughts when we purchased this car:
- Cheap: clearly, unless you have the money to make this project a really really nice car, you want a cheap-o car. Ours cost $400. Look in the $100-800 range [...]
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