i'm just as bad.. oh i need this part.. add part to cart.. then see another part i didn't need but looks cool... eventually leading to browsing through cars to buy that i don't need. then still never end up buying the original thing i needed, lol.
@@Taylordriftshas it really been 4 years. I remember the move video and you working in the old garage port on the LS FC RX7. I still miss seeing that missile
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="284">4:44</a>. Growing up in CFL, my dad and his bar buddies always were golfing. Doing bar tourneys, or just getting out of the house for a day. There used to be a little 9 hole course my dad installed lights for. We basically always got an extra golf cart rental when he went, and i would drive aimlessly around the golf course (not disturbing other golfers too much...) by myself for hours!!! i freaking loved it. it was such a free feeling... I single handedly trace that back to why i love driving so much. I only wrecked one cart when i was like 10, drove it off a small bridge, but we got it out... lol good times. I think of my dad every time i drive a golf cart.
Cant be a real Florida man without a golf cart!! Takes me back to the days when I worked on a golf course fixing up the broken carts drunken golfers broke. I miss how simple and easy they were to work on. This will be perfect for the crew on drift weekends!!
Taylor, there are many RU-vid videos about golf carts, but with my personal experience I found that adding a nice voltage regulator to convert the 48 to 12 volts then go into a fuse box. I also added a relay to the ignition so that the batteries don’t lose voltage when not in use. Nice work with the cart!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1055">17:35</a> imagine chilling out in the front of your house and you see these 3 passing by in a golf cart....
I got 6 of those exact models and years at auction over a decade ago. I kept one and doubled my money selling the rest. Still have the one I kept. Love it. I might do the AC conversion. That is awesome.
For your 12v stuff you should be able to just connect to one of the single batteries. It should be 4 12v batteries in to give you 48v. You could also hook to all of them at once so long as you use diodes to make sure current only goes one way and doesn't mess with the 48v system. That would be a bit overkill though. The main lights should be 12v running this way.
Voltage works both ways. Tapping in on the first battery wouldn't make a difference. The whole system is the same voltage on every terminal, if not you would boil individual batteries when trying to charge at 48v or whatever voltage you charged at.
Nope the voltage is relative to its ground point. If you use ground at battery 1, you'll have 12v to P1, 24v at P2, 36v at P3, and 48v and the positive at the last battery. Depending on the cart and charger, some charge each battery at 12v and others charge the whole stack at 48v.
I have the exact same cart. There's a 12v supply already ran through the harness. Square 12 pin plug under dash, I think it is the blue wire directly from the front right hand battery
Cracks me up, can’t stop punching it, even when pulling into the shop 😂 I’m the exact same way with that inner child coming out when I get a fast toy😂😂
My golf cart is by far my favorite thing I own. My Granddaughter and I drive it 2-3 miles every single day. It's our catch up time. Oh the stories that get told on these back roads. lol I agree that they should look like golf carts. Mine looks very similar to yours but it's a 2003 Yamaha G16. Mostly stock with an electric fuel pump, after market carb and governor bypass. I imagine it goes about 20 mph.
I like sports cars and trucks and trailers and garages and man caves as much as the next guy, but I am so jealous of the golf cart. I recently took a job at resort where the main mode of transport is luxury golf carts. It’s a different kind of life and I want it. I would want to do it like you are; I want a hot golf cart in my life.
With a high voltage lithium pack that will do what you want, you are getting into the voltage range that can be lethal if you accidentally get current across your chest (impromptu defibrillator) so take special care (rubber gloves) when you start wiring up that pack. Also read up on the care and charging of lithium batteries. Over charging or charging at too high a current can create thermal runaway and a fire that is very hard to extinguish. More than one high voltage RC helicopter battery pack has burned down a garage and the house when the charger and its thermal safeties have malfunctioned. NEVER leave lithium batteries unattended while on a charger!
Hell yeah! Love me some golf cart content! I swapped a 650cc v twin into a golf cart, and it's the most fun/scary thing to drive lol. I have come across golf cart size TE37's before, they would be right up your ally for this haha
Just wanted to give ya a heads up, you may want to buy an m18 adapter that has a voltage regulator built in so it doesnt pull your m18 past a certain voltage. If it drops below a certian voltage, the charger wont charge it and youll have to trickle charge it to bring the battery back to life, made this mistake myself so wanted to help a guy out. Love the random stuff!
Shout out to the boys for knowing and understanding 3 dudes dressed in all black zipping around a neighborhood in a golf cart can be more than suspect, and throwing waves with smiles keeps the cops away. Good looking out!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="968">16:08</a> Josue says "say it with me... Orange". I laughed and spit beer all over my monitor. So funny!! You guys are having way too much fun.
If you want to increase the offroad capability hey do make lift kits for these that run about $400-700 dollars depending on the size and who you go through. It switches the suspension to a a-arm style suspension and gives you a spot to mount a front guard which you could then mount the push bar for the drag car.
Before I even watch the video, I gotta tell ya about one of my Razer MX350 kids e-dirt bike. It comes stock with a 24v super low wattage set up, barely gets up to 14mph with a 150 lbs. Now its a 72v 1200 watt set up that does 40mph. Now that is a swap! No suspenion, super sketchy chinesium tires, thin walled square & tube tin frame. Couldnt have it any other way haha
I bought an old Yamaha golf cart with a 2 stroke 440 rotax out of a ski doo sled earlier this year. Had to make it less sketchy and remove the piece of wood the engine was mounted with but it rips.
FAB PROJECT!!! Removable Wheelie Bars with the new lithium batteries! Make it sound beefy by using the new car fake engine roar sound! Black Roof might look good also! I am digging these videos
We have multiple electric carts including what you have there. Our bushings were completely F'd so I made solid bushings out of solid stock aluminum and they worked so good!
Do yourself a favor when you upgrade the battery get a reducer to fuse box wire every thing to fuse box. It will be half the battery weight when upgraded
Actually it should have been to make it louder and add an even louder horn. You've never had to push a car to or from the pits at an event. Everybody gets blind and deaf when you ain't the one at the line.
Hey Taylor so to run 12v lights on a 48 v system just run the the battery wire from the lights to the 1st positive from the ground. This is how I ran my switches on my hydraulics off a 48v system of 4 12v batteries in a series. It won't see anymore that the 12volts. If you put it on the 2nd positive from the ground then that would produce 24v and so on to 36v then 48v. Did I say that good enough to understand? Lol. Love this!
Taylor I love all the little toys in the shenanigans that you do in the loft in the shop but can we get back to the real talent of drifting I don't care what anybody says you are one of the best out there also you already have the car to do it I just want to see you progress more than that and that would be awesome 💯🙏👍
ive had 2 different golf carts. my only thoughts, mirrors on inside the frame. someone or something always hits the golf cart and the edges. for me, my favorite random custom mod is the tail gate hitch step, followed by the dash from a boat. I used a smaller system like for a jet boat. weatherproofing is ideal ya know
Love watching your videos, very rarely comment, but want to get the feedback out from a nobody subscriber - I am very much looking forward to you getting back into car builds. The shop stuff was cool and turned out awesome but the boat and now golf cart, they just don't really do it from me unless its breaking up a delay in a build.
Cut the backup safety alarm. Just cut the wire and insulate it so it doesn't ground out. Probably a pair of diagonals would solve it. With your ocd, just insulate the hot wire and be done
I work on golf carts for a living and what’s funny is everyone loves like ez-gos and Yamahas but I love the club car precident it’s my favorite look and favorite to work on
Here’s my thought about this It’s all well and good switching the golf cart to a lithium battery bank but how much voltage can the controller and motor handle reliably
A 4 volt to 12 volt step down converter is all you need to run the lights and the stereo. You already have head lights which means it should already have a step down converter. W0 dollars for a cheap one and about 65 dollars for a good one. No need for batteries and separate charging. I think the mirrors with the built-in lights look better but were mounted to high which is what made them look tacky. Mount them down low like you did the second set and I’m betting they’ll look better plus give you even more lighting as they even looked brighter.
What about roof mounting the mirror lights vertically or mount them at the bottom of the window frame right at the body may look more natural down low.
He explained it a few videos ago. The Vette has nowhere to go. It's like kicking puppies anywhere close or fun and anywhere it has competition is a week+ trip and heaps of money.
That ting is street legal but a kei truck is not x) also! Underglow: nope! ❌ Rock lights: yes! ✅ 😂 ALSO ALSO! You should make a "hot pit" tool chest thingy that can host tools, tires, wheels and spares that you can tow behind the golf cart! Those Nascar style things are super sick!
I think AC motors let you uses regen braking too, which is wicked awesome - I think I got that from Rich Rebuilds, but, don't quote me on that, or to be correct about it. Seems to me like you should be able to get regen either way since charging a battery is reversing the flow of electrons from a discharge event. But I digress
You don't have to run a voltage step down. That 48v system is 4 12v batteries in series. You can just grab power and ground from the first one in the chain and you'll have 12v.
You can thank an Engineer by the name of Sandy Munro for the designed of that Clubcar. He has his own consultancy firm these days called Munro & Associates. They do teardowns of all the EV's and cost them etc. They have a RU-vid channel as well.
Taylor, ever thought about a wireless mic for when you’re in shop talking to the camera? I notice a lot of echo and it’s a liiiitle hard to hear you sometimes unless I turn my volume up just a thought
Taylor be careful running all that off the M18 battery without a low voltage cutoff or a voltage readout, it could end up damaging cells the battery pack.
