Ah... Now THIS warms my heart! All the beauty of an MGA without the stinky, agricultural, pushrod engine! Slowly...step-by-step...you're saving a bit of history! I wish you every success! Aloha!
You should put together a pay-to-watch knowledge base for those of us that might want to do our own projects. EV conversion 101, advanced EV systems, something like that. There are a number of ways to get paid for sharing your knowledge, and always more people looking to learn over the years.
Congrats on opening the shop up to the public. You're jumping into the deep end right off the bat with a customer over their head job. Those are always fun. Look forward to watching this one ;)
I think... SOME OF THE BEST Electric cars, are the ones where the electric motor is connected to a proper gearbox... Why? IF the electrc motor is linked to a well programmed ECU you can STILL get a great power curve, and then when you add in you manually changing proper gears you get a WAYYY BETTER driving experience than just a 'Two pedal setup'. I've seen videos of an old Porsche, Karmann Ghia, MG's even a Triumph Spitfire with this electric motor & proper manual gear box setup, and they're BRILLIANT! 👌👍 😎🇬🇧
Wow, shades of the Whisper project, lol. I absolutely love your first choice for a customer build!! My longtime friend and I talked about this kind of a project off and on over the past half-year or so. This is the kind of hands-on type of thing that interests both of us, and the car choice is almost precisely what we were thinking of. Looking forward to seeing more about this project, and I am definitely forwarding it to my buddy to get his reaction. Best of luck with sorting some of those parts out. The only good thing is, if there was ever an online version of the manual or any of the literature, it is still floating around, somewhere.
WOOHOO!!! I am so excited for you Jeremy!!! So glad you're finding a way forward - even without a traditional job. I hope you're able to make RU-vid a full time gig so you never have to play the corporate game again. :)
Genuinely very happy for you, Jeremy. It looks like letting you go from your previous job might not be a bad thing altogether. Still waiting on upgrading your videos to 4K!
Hell of a way to jump in! Pretty brave taking over someone else's failed project. I hope you quickly get to where you can plan and design the projects from start to finish. You have proven that you can fix someone else's project (Jerry Rig Everything) without starting from the beginning. Good luck, I will eagerly watch!
Hi! Greetings from Finland :) Just wanted to congratulate you for being able to combine your passion hobby and work together. I really hope it will work out as you wished!
ha, i've now owned the original versions of three of your electrification projects: a '61 mga (bought used in 1970) , a nisson 300 zx Twin turbo (bought new in 1990). and a 2007 cayman coupe (bought about a year ago), all fantastic cars...what a coincidence!
This looks like an ideal first project for your new business! It is a beautiful, classic, European roadster. And there should be no EPA issues with converting an older car. Plus the simpler electrical, and the relatively simple kit should be relatively easy for you to take on (compared to the complex work on the Porsche) even with the lack of available support from the kit's manufacturer. I am excited to watch your progress on this build.
My coworker did his MG turned out amazing. Glad to see the original transmission and a hyper 9, hopefully it can take the force. I am looking to use a hyper 9 for my double cab.
ln some ways this is the start of your ev " career " as you've now committed to it full time . l really hope you regularly take a moment to reflect on that so that you make sure you enjoy the experience despite the occasional setback. You've worked hard and done incredibly well to get this far and l reckon it will only get better for you from here. l'm very confident that you'll make it a success.
Congrats on opening up a EV conversion business! I originally converted a 1999 MG roadster to electric few years back⚡, now co-founder of Electric Dream Machine in Australia. I see you have a zeva BMS for this build, a nice BMS system. I look forward to future episodes. Cheers Mark.
It's easy to make it "running and driving": just remove the wooden plate underneath the steering wheel and it is a nice exercise while driving it around and as a bonus it's extremely environmentally friendly
Consider a sponsored link to products that you feature when possible. Especially here for the conversion kit company. Any of these guys looking for sponsorship? It’s a very captive audience for their product. You can monetize several angles here. Congrats for your first customer!
That's called a "wing mirror" at 2:45 - "wing" is British for "fender". Fender/wing mounted mirrors were common on older British cars, and required in Japan.
Great choice of motor - that tiny little car definitely doesn’t need a 400 hp Tesla motor. I would guess 120 electric horses will make it twice as fast as its original engine.
Good to see you and another project. 👍 hope it worked out fine and fast for you. Or if you got paid for working hours it took a while to get it running 😅.
Nice build. I'm hoping to see a lot more of these small classics converted to EV on the road. I think Hyper 9s are a great option, but I really wish they would start offering some higher voltage/RPM options. A 300+ V, 10,000+ RPM AC motor-controller kit would make for some very easy conversions with the option for DC charging.
Great to hear things are off to a good start. Curious question, with being the builder / installer of the gear, do you have to have any special insurance or protection if the products the customer provides cause or fire or accident?
Dude couldnt put this together? woof. All those things are basically handed to him. But at the same time, this guy spent a small fortune on 120hp. Hope you get paaaid!
I have seen several Triumph and MG conversions and none of them required require active cooling (Assuming you are only doing sub 25KW charging). They often have a fan for the electronics but no liquid cooling. Also none of them needed boosted brakes. Regen and decent pads up front are all you need.
@@ElectricSuperCar I would think putting that where the radiator used to be with a temperature controlled fan would suffice. That is what I have seen on all small car conversions to date... (unless the owner lives in Arizona or somewhere with 100°F average temps...) ;)
Are you aware of Edison Motors of Canada and Deboss Garage working on a "kit" electric conversion for full size pickups? They may well need help with the software/CAN buss side of integration with late model truck bodies. You might be able to help them since you have time...and get paid.
