The LandYacht BMW E39 Saloon

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Jack Bauer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 3:39 pm Lessons learned today :

1)It's always my fault.
2)You can drive a 2 ton E39 on the motroway at 60mph with no coolant in a Gen3 prius inverter and the Toyota engineers protect the transistors.
2)Tesla gen 2 chargers thermal limit at 92C.
4)The Siemens motor is very tough.
5) See item 1.
:D :D :D Oh man...that's hilarious. Glad to see you figured out 2 and "2". ;)

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Jack Bauer: doing it wrong for YOU :D
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You should sell t-shirts in your webshop that read:

You're doing it wrong!

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I may just do that:)
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I'd buy one!
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Hope it has a picture of Elon on it with that disdainful look... :D
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Well, guess what? The E39 drives great now with some coolant:)
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Ditto on the Disdainful Elon "You're doing it wrong" shirt
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Always an enjoyable watch, out of interest what do you charge you phev modules to? 4.1v or 4.2v?
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Long time no update. As some of you will know I have a bench setup with a GS450h and GS300h now for software testing with the VCU. A few folks on Patreon had suggested fitting the 300h to the yacht and I started parts gathering for an "auto swap" :) Anyway, plans change and I'm now going to pop the 450h in the E39 as it will give me a nice testbed to get things like gearshifts etc ironed out. The 300h is going in .....a new project:)
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Cool!
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Stripping out the charger, inverter and motor.
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Few more progress pics from yesterday. No work today as spent the night puking into the toilet courtesy of some bad lunch :mrgreen:
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Little more progress.
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Looking good. This is the project that makes mine easier :) I can see the gearbox mounts line up well aft of the standard chassis holes. good for weight distribution a hway. If I recall you already had added more, not sure if that was on this car.
I would argue with the 2 tonne thing by the way, my touring is 1850kg. How many leaf cells are in the front, presume you are keeping same battery?
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It bolts to the same points as the auto crossmember.
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well, thats me sorted then.
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Little more progress.
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That is great to see :) , are the gear positions on OEM bmw shifter the same as positions on GS450?
How is on IS300 ? (more interesting to me :) )
laverage is ok ?
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Nice progres , tnx for the answer :)
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A point of clarification: are transmission jacks crap in general for getting it in place, or just that particular type? Any recommendations on something that's not crap?
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mark wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 2:14 pm A point of clarification: are transmission jacks crap in general for getting it in place, or just that particular type? Any recommendations on something that's not crap?
It looks like a motorcycle or ATV jack. My guess is the GS450h is about 100lbs/50kgs over what the jack is designed for.
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