Teslarossa Ep4 - Fabrication 

One day we will have batteries so efficient that just replacing where the fuel tank was will get you more than enough mileage. Nostalgia of the future! Good thing about your ocnversions, is that when that future comes, it will be as easy as replacing the outdated battery modules with the latest tecnology ones. A classic EV car is a car forever, never gets outdated, can always be improved.

Hi , great ideas and work going on , once years ago I saw the wiring boards for concord , and years later met an aircraft electrical chap trying to wire a house on a building site , with the same ideas , big joint boxes . Amazing ideas you have .🤔👍👍

👏👏👏 It's easy to understand the reason of these high price conversions, after seeing such a massive work!!! 😅😅😅

Impressive and the way you guys address the conversations is really great.

Thanks Richard, for being so thorough and clear with your explanation of what's happening with the conversion. All the best from Tennessee.

Huge effort goes into these conversions. And lots of different skills needed.

the wiring is fascinating!! thank you for going into such great detail

Excellent video ! This is what I call "sensible recycling", instead of burying the Testarossa in some dark corner, it'll be again a fun car with much easier maintenance compared to the original.

Fascinating! Thanks for the explanation, Richard. The owner of that car is going to be a happy person. 🙂👍

Really good episode, fascinating seeing the loom board, the more technical the better for me

Absolutely Fascinating!!!

Thanks for the Update, what a marvelous project

Such a brilliant subject to convert. The older styling of the Ferraris but with electric tech.

Absolutely incredible. Brilliant stuff. My mind blown 😳

W hen I used to work for Dormobile we used to use peg board and golf tee's on our wiring table which meant you just changed the tee's if you were making a different loom so you only needed one table.

A loom board. Genius. Now I know.

Great stuff as usual. You guys really are wizards. Can't wait for the update on the Jenson. Love it. Keep it up.

Another great video and update. I absolutely love the size of the battery modules and boxes you have!

The harness/component build board is great. For a Fiat 850 Spyder, we mapped out its harness on plywood, marked with tack nails, and made a new one - albeit a very simple project compared to yours. For my 16 year old self, it was fun. I can’t wait to see this car tear up the tarmac! Keep up the great work!

I love the fabricated parts for the battery boxes and other electrical components. Very nicely done, looks like NASA parts.😆

Love your content. I have learned through you and others to the point that Sparks, our local guy was impressed by what I knew. My s10 pickup will soon be electric.

Greetings from the Netherlands 😊 enjoying this series

You do such a beautiful work, a lot of thinking is in the cars to make the best out of it!

I'm super impressed as I wrongly assumed that all the control units, wiring etc were off the shelf jobbies taken from a Tesla for example which all plugged together. Enlightenment that it's all bespoke to each car and a lot more complex! Well done again guys and look forward to the next video!

woot.. love your channel!

Very interesting and complicated the wiring. Great video 👌

Been looking forward to seeing the next installment of the TeslaRossa build. Good move to split that front battery box. Not only do you gain room in the boot, you also use space - where the fuel tanks were - that would be difficult to use for anything else. You've lowered the CoG and improved the spread of weight as you say , too, which will benefit the handling.

That was very good, to see how you can use all the available space efficiently and how much wiring is needed to run everything and Still make it look great when it is all done, no saturday arvo hack jobs here, all Quality Fab and Electrical work. I'm watching this build especially.

thank you Richard. I really appreciate the walk through.

Keep up the stellar work! Improving Ferraris one careful step at a time! 👍

Awesome detail in the videos and nice to see the improvements in design and why.

I see modules are still huge. I hope one day they will be slimmer and smaller and more dense, so you could fill more available shallow space inside the car with batteries if needed. Also I see the wiring is pretty complex. I hope your end users will get all the documentation like wiring diagrams etc. Assuming these cars can be later sold and shipped anywhere in the world, the support should be in place to help customers keep their converted classics on the road. Great job so far! I subscribed and will watch the progress on this Testarossa.

Testarossa - Teslarossa...the name just kinda begs for it to be done, right?! Brilliant stuff!

Great job. Looking forward to more telsarossa vids

Very interesting and informative. Congrats on your recent achievement.

Fantastic conversion. My bet is that it’ll be a better car all around too.

Maaan such a clean setup! You guys do inspiring work 😁

It's amazing how organized you all are and how it all got figured out in the beginning! Great informative video and I hope to see more! How about videos updates for the Jag too?!

Nice one Richard. Still looking forward to T25 Syncro video. I see the ICE dinosaurs have arrived.😆

Fantastic stuff.

Something like a Haltech Power Management Module Might make your Low Voltage controls much easy for you

Impressive stuff indeed, it's all the little fiddly jobs that take so much time planning and creating. I almost called in to say hello today on my way past, but realised if all your followers did that you would get no work done 😁

What an ineresting episode this was. We forget how compicated wiring looms are, so the work the lads have done with the low-voltage box and connections is really impressive. I had a question about the battery boxes etc. They are all fabricated out of steel? Is there a reason for this - just for strength, protection etc? I was wondering about weight - you can buy off-the-shelf electrical junction boxes made of ABS, etc, that would be easier to machine and attach cable glands. Farnell, RS components etc...Keep up the great videos, we love it!

First ;-) This is such a cool project.

Nice, clean design.

Impressive!

I know the best ideas always come too late but: You could have used the midship ex-tank-space for a Rivian R1T gear (or luggage) tunnel). 😉

As I like to be thorough and even add to a case as items arise, we should not forget a Ferarri's ABYSMAL Fuel Consumption and it's incredible COST. When that Clown Clarkson & Co took one round the Track and drove it as it is MADE to be driven, it returned 7 MPG*. Even my 10 Ton RV returned a frugal EIGHT MPG, and it had a TOILET !! Over a year with depreciation* and speeding tickets* that equates with the cost of YOUR HOUSE. So a Spark Job Conversion is a Win X 9 ! (You will still get those pesky tickets.) .

I can't wait to see that Teslarossa screaming like a banshee!

Afternoon mate

thank you

A great deal of the value in a Ferarri is in its engine and transmission. That gets put on the shelf in a project like this. For a bunch of money, I suppose it can be returned to the original. BUT, once one has driven your take--the TESLA-rossa, few may want to turn back the clock!

Decent size battery pack. Any idea of the approx range?

Any plans for another ,Vintage Voltage ? Also any plans for a sleeper ,Austin Allegro ,to complement a certain sleeper Vtec Allegro?....🙄😏

Richard, are we going to see double the performance on this insane project?

Your little metal box looks like the ECU in my e-scooter. Massive connectors with wires going to every part

Epic! You have no idea how much I wish I could be a part of this. Do the boxes get painted or powder-coated?

awesome work! What is the estimated weight distribution now? Is there any scope for making the sensors wireless? You'd still have to power them but that's the way everything else is going so I imagine they will be in the future?

A COMPLETELY overlooked fact is how EXPENSIVE, COMPLICATED and OFTEN a Ferarri Engine is to maintain. Add to this a Seriously bad Fuel Consumption, inconvenience in refilling, and having to mix with the Commoners at the Fuel Station. All in all, Swapping a Ferarri Engine for an Electric job is a Win-Win-Win-Win_Win-Win situation. .

Cool 🚗

Great explanation Richard. How is the race car coming along. Now end of October and only 8 months til pikes Peak. 25 June And the car needs to get there and that means needs to be in a container and on a boat by end May and customs cleared and at Pikes by Mid June.

Nice battery boxes but how do you seal them and also how do you ensure they are safe? With only one or two boxes it is relatively simple using contactors and fuses but not so easy with four boxes.

Have you considered using one of the "new" (or at least recently more affordable for a mere mortal) PDMs to simplify the wiring harness? I'd guess the relays are less efficient than solid state switches which would be a disadvantage in an EV.

Que sonho, só falta girar as rodas e sair voando que nem o Delorean 😅

What are the part numbers and brand for the high voltage battery box connectors? Thanks for the video

Fantastic work. I am starting a Delorean conversion myself , and these videos are an invaluable help. On question I keep having though: ECC never talks/shows/explains the battery cooling side of the problem. I have seen fittings on the cooling plates of the CALB batteries, so I assume ECC is cooling the batteries?

Looking good! Are you having a battery disconnect on each battery box?

Wow, this is an incredible build and series. Q: will the car have ABS & T/C with your conversion?

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Complicated stuff, you'll be building a NASA rover next! 🙂

Hi, interested in the Calb modules you're now using. I seem to remember you were using Tesla modules earlier. Are the Calb modules used in any mass produced cars or are they off-the-shelf? Also, are these LiFePO4 and, if so, what are the pros and cons? Thanks.

Fab guys do nice work.... Do you bead blast and powder coat all the fabbed bits?

I was wondering if all those battery boxes and the fuse box also get an anti-corrosion treatment to really make their life last for the life that the car itself is now getting.

I may have missed it but what brake setup are you using? Remote vac pump or an all in one electric servo and abs unit?

How much does the full complement of batteries cost? I'm interested in doing something similar with an Aston Martin

I love the new battery distribution but are there any concerns about the front battery position in the crumple zone in case of a crash? Has anyone considered a fire retarding system built into the chassis in the region of the battery boxes?

What lfp battery packs are you using? They look pretty clean and simple to distribute across the car

@0:45 Get with the times: _FRUNK IT!_

Anyone notice the Queensland Australia modification plate on the inner guard

What do you use for a BMS? An off the shelf system or a custom one?

What steel type are you using? HSLA? What grade?

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Are the silver boxes stainless? Just thinking about rust etc…

The jag in the background is almost a distraction

Where do you get those modules from? We reconvert Mercedes batteries to Nissan leaf to add more power and autonomy and I'm curious of more modules to experience with. Will be working with CATL modules soon too

have you looked into something like the Link razor pdm? or is that just adding more complexity to the wiring? or lets face it, fuses and relays are a lot cheaper

Are you going to put red paint on the electric motor? Because the Testarossa was named for its red cylinder heads ("red head", in Italian).

What are the fabricated boxes made from? I would have hoped they are made from Stainless Steel but they already look like they are rusting .😮

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If I may add another question: energy density of batteries (weight). In one of the episodes 'petrol versus batteries) you explain that the energy density of the Tesla is up to 0,22 kWh/kg. I assume this is for the pack including the cooling provisions. How do the CALB batteries score on this ranking (including the cooling plates)?

Great video!! Where dose the spare tire go?

what brand battery packs are you using? cheers from texas!

yo, dude has hv connecters in his pocket. he is 100% legit.

How to get things done right :p I have a question, however: with BYD and CATL going Blade and Qilin respectively, not to mention Tesla (which basically means structural batteries), aren't you afraid that battery manufacturers will at some point stop selling battery modules as they currently do? Or do you already have a plan for this?

do a electric conversion of a 69 camaro (my dream car)

If some at Tesla had vision they would promote after maket use of there electric motors.

I’d love an electric 300zx

Irony. The E-type Jag is the car Enzo Ferrari wished he'd designed.

0:44 The word you're looking for is Froot.

I am wondering about the fact that you start replicating the orginal box already. Is the original one tested yet?