Hi,

I'm (still) doing a conversion of an old Fiat 126, now using an Outlander rear motor. I need to connect the outlander rear driveshafts to the Fiat hubs. I could do the old cut and shut job on the driveshafts, but was wondering if anyone has found an engineering place that would take an existing ...

I've read that if you want to avoid the need for an IVA on a UK conversion, you should not make significant changes to the structure/body of the car.
How much is allowable? I'm converting a Fiat 126 and I basically want to drill some holes in the existing suspension mounts ~10mm ish for bolting some ...

Can anyone tell me the screw thread sizes for the two types of attachment screws on this unit. I measured both but could not work out what sizes. I think the smaller (vertical orientation) are M12 fine, but not 100% sure.

oh cool thanks for that link.
What is 52 p. in GBP approximately? I'm not even sure what currency p is!

Agreed the used parts websites are rubbish. I have a feeling that if a motor breaker advertises their stuff online, then they advertise at massive prices, otherwise they are offline sellers and ...

@konstantin8818 any chance you could buy one of those wiring looms and post it back to the UK for me? ;-)

I guess I need to go to a scrap yard and find the part myself then - probably cheaper way to get it than ebay. eBay seems to be a bit of a mix. Sometimes you get a bargain, other times there ...

I noticed that post, but for me, it wasn't clear if they are using the inverter to control the motor AS WELL AS using it for a charger?

Sorry, I've not read the full thread here, but does this inverter serve as your motor control AS WELL AS the charger?

Because I'm a tight-wad I'm wondering if it's possible to use the same Gen 3 inverter as a charger and inverter? This could save a fair bit of space, potentially and maybe cut down on cabling etc?

Possible, impossible, clever, stupid?

<r>I've got Damian's Toyota Prius Gen 3 brain transplant board, an Auris inverter and a Lexus RX450h MGR unit.<br/>
Looking on eBay I see various HV wiring looms available, but the Lexus ones are pretty pricey (seems that price is proportional to original car price, rather than the fact that its a ...

Thanks for all the input guys.

Quite a bit of work would be needed to move the suspension mounts in order to allow the MGR to sit far enough forward to fit. That would more or less be a complete suspension redesign... One of my wild ideas was to rip out all the suspension and fabricate a double ...

@kevin
Granted a bit of driveshaft angle would be ok- but in this case I think the unit would be about 20cm behind where it should be . Also driveshafts are quite diddy and short, which would worsen the problem.

@konstantin8818 that looks really interesting!

@sfk thanks for the detailed info - very interesting stuff there. Looking on eBay I don't see Leaf motors below about 700 GBP is that about right, or do I just need to wait for a better deal?
I'm thinking that 1) I would need some sort of oil cooling ...

How feasible would it be to saw the unneeded parts from a Prius transaxle and mount that to my fiat gearbox?

Oh cool will be watching that eagerly! Nissan Leaf motor would be pretty damn powerful for a fiat 126 - but quite pricey surely? Wouldn’t I be looking at around £1K ?

Thanks for the reply @sfk
I watched this video https://youtu.be/KuR0cihFAvQ and he mentioned about the oil lubrication mechanism also.
I heard some people mention about providing cooling to this motor by circulating the oil through a water/oil heat exchanger. Perhaps if some oil pump was added with ...

Hi,

I'm at the easy stage of my project at the moment: ripping the crappy old ICE out of my car ;-)

https://i.imgur.com/dA5XiUc.jpg
https://imgur.com/gallery/l4ckLr4


I'm planning to put in its place the MGR unit from a Lexus RX450h. I have a feeling that it's not going to fit very well in ...

Hi @tom91

Here's a pic of the underside of one of the slaves:

@Kevin Sharpe - cool - I've been wondering how long it would be before we see a prius-based inverter being used as a charger after watching this https://youtu.be/hkCRddO3Clc but this sounds like you are on about hacking a tesla charger to output a higher voltage? Anyway, I can wait a few months as I ...

Hi @tom91,

Here's a pic of the underside, not particularly interesting...

Hi,

I'm doing a conversion of my Fiat 126 using a Toyota/Lexus MGR unit (from Lexus RX450h). I have a Toyota Yaris inverter and the logic board from Damian Maguire. I also have a 6kWh 290V battery from a Mercedes C350 plugin hybrid.

My plan is to get the thing moving with the single 6kWh battery ...

Hi @tom91,

Cool thanks for the info! Will grab some more pics of the underside of the slave PCBs.

@boekel as you mentioned, there are indeed two wires between the BMS slaves.

Hi @tom91

Here are some more pics of the BMS parts, with the covers prised off!

@tom91 thanks for the replies (and you too @boekel) will grab some pics tomorrow evening - or as soon as work/kids/sleep-deprivation permit!

Excuse my ignorance, but are the BMS slaves within the part with the 8 connectors? (4th picture)

I'm keeping pretty much everything intact. I've split the ...

Hi guys,

I recently acquired the battery from a Mercedes C350 plug-in hybrid (6.3 kWh / 290V / 22Ah) for my EV conversion (for a Fiat 126) see here https://www.matthewdresser.com/ev/conversion/fiat-126p-introduction .
The pack as-is is too large to fit anywhere in the car, so I am breaking it down ...