Been working away. Doing a quicky update to bring things up to date.

Roadworthiness
Had the automotive engineer out to look at what I'm doing to make sure I'm not going down the wrong path. No issues so forging ahead

Brakes

Wired up the iBooster up and tested it - seems to be working OK ...

Alibro wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2026 11:10 pm Am I the only one that dislikes flashy lights?
Bah humbug!

I get it. I can't stand the unibrow headlights a lot of new cars are coming with!

Can I interest anyone in an over-engineered tail light?

I put the brake pedal back in so I could figure out where to position the accellerator. Here's a little video of testing it out.

https://peertube.chrskly.net/w/9iMg2LQkj2bPKLHWRrhMwJ

I've also mounted the mid-pack disconnect in the lid of the front battery box.

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Alibro wrote: ↑Wed Feb 04, 2026 11:14 pm The new battery box is from 7:13

You make it look easy I think I'll give this a go for the rear box.

I also didn't realise that you did a video series. Now I have loads more stuff to add to the queue

Davidk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 04, 2026 9:46 pm https://xometry.eu/en/ i used them in past for some small parts (not car related)

Ooh, very interesting. How did you find them price-wise?

jrbe wrote: ↑Wed Feb 04, 2026 2:00 am If you're in the US you can check send cut send or OSH cut. Both can bend and are fairly priced.

Nah, I'm in Ireland. If something like that was available to me I'd be all over it.

Alibro wrote: ↑Tue Feb 03, 2026 8:26 pm You don't need a bender, it would only work for two sides anyway, just cut half way through at the fold (on the outside or it won't fold properly) and it will fold nicely. A quick bead of hot metal glue and your done.

Gotcha, like scoring cardboard.

Building your battery box this way is a lot of work, I built a couple this way but the last one I just cut the sheet steel like an opened up cardboard box and folded the corners with the help of some angle grinding along the fold lines.
For the locations I was putting them they are strong enough ...

Just a quick update to post a few pics of the battery box progress over the weekend.

Cutting out the lid ...

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Cutting out the other panels ...

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Still to do on the battery box
* Lifting eyes
* Cutouts ...

wjdijkstra wrote: ↑Wed Jan 07, 2026 8:53 am Is there an L210 conversion fully ready and driving out there? I still have one sitting in my shed, but this year will be the year I am going to convert one of my oldtimers
Edit: @chrskly seems to have one finished and running!

Nope, not quite there yet

Hello fellow Mustang converter. Looking forward to more updates on this build! Will be watching closely

Gregski wrote: ↑Wed Dec 31, 2025 3:59 pm the Rustang is coming along nicely, will you be rounding off the corners on that 1/4 inch transmission mounting plate, asking for my OCD

For you (and your OCD) I will

I hope you don't mind but I never heard of Peertube before so had a nosy.
The time lapse vid of you restoring the car was great viewing with my morning cup of coffee. The bit I liked most was that I wasn't doing it. :lol:
Have you tried working out how many hours you spent on this?


No, I ...

Alibro wrote: ↑Wed Dec 31, 2025 8:32 am It's coming along nicely.

Thanks, coming along, slow and steady, but coming along

the world needs an update ?


yessir! :)

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The car went to the Dublin Maker festival (on a trailer) back in August and I thought I had done an update around that time, but, apparently not. So, while I've not done much since August, there are still some updates.

The 300h motor is ...

Alibro wrote: ↑Sun Sep 28, 2025 8:21 am Thanks mate, looks much better now.

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Looking good

OBD-II has a structured methods for transferring diagnostic codes. There's also UDS that layers on top of that. This is what the OEMs use.

CANopen SDO has mechanisms for transferring simple strings and structured binary data. It also has bulk upload/download capability for larger data transfers ...

One other little observation ... We printed out stickers with just the logo and stickers with a QR code to the website. We also had the QRcode on the posters. Loads of people scanned the QRcode (even people who didn't otherwise engage) and I handed out loads of the QRCode stickers. If/when we do ...

Hi all,

Anyone know of a protocol or standard for sending log messages over CANbus? Turns out this exact thing is hard to search for and it seems like there should be already something for doing this.

What I'm trying to do might make more sense if I give you and example. I have lots of code that ...

Wow, what a great weekend it was. Lots and lots of interest in OI across both days. Very, very busy. We spoke with a lot of people!

Huge, huge, huge thanks to @marcexec for getting this all organised, arranging transport, and generally herding all of us cats!

I'll post a few pics I took along the ...

Stickers came out OK

I've made a A0 poster for the Prius gen2 stuff will print if OK:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zimUMpByx5BWNJo7T3cqgmaYWZWvkafD/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=115317954493078860833&rtpof=true&sd=true


Ooh, that's nice, If I have time I'll try to do something similar.

I ordered some stickers ...

Would it be worthwhile getting a few sheets of OI stickers printed to hand out? Everyone loves a sticker I'm happy to do it

Did some battery-boxin'.

This is the front battery box to go in the engine bay.

Made the bottom out of some 30mm x 2.5mm angle.

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Then welded in a bit of sheet for the floor.

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Then I welded nuts to the bottom, cut some lengths of threaded rod and popped them in ...