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watch this Certified Zip Tie Technician attempt to explain how a pre charge circus works

bigger 24 kWh BMW battery pack going in tonight, this should give me a range of just over 80 miles



modules arranged in installation formation

the patented porcupine design

well then I saw this mess and I just couldn't let it go...

So now lemme tell you what I'm not supposed to tell you, the extra curriculars

so it all started with me wanting to relocate the water pump which then led me to this, replacing the radiator, and I did this for a couple reasons, first I got tired or using many reducer hoses to step down from like 1 1/2 inches down to 3/4 for the Tesla water pump and even further down to 5/8ths for the inverter, and transmission

and the second reason was cause the darn bottom outlet port on my stock Chevy radiator headed straight for the passenger side frame rail, so I needed a narrower radiator, complements of this sexy 2014 Nissan Versa


Mandatory Stare 'n' Compare

the new Versa rad has only 1 1/8th inch inlet and outlet

all moched up

notice how the bottom outlet clears the frame rail now - Winning !

Consider blocking some of the grill off if you haven't. You likely don't need that much of an opening with your reduced cooling needs. Should help you get some more mileage.

you all ever werk on your car and say ahhh I'll do that later, well looks like now it's later for the Greg and he is going around and a fixn' everything he should have done did right the first time

here I am finishing loomin' the OEM headlight wire harness, I swear once I run out of this corrugated split wire loom (pronounced: cheap crap) I am graduating to that sexy braided expendable wrap like all the cool kids be runnin'

I swear there's a wire mess every where I look, that green and yellow wire bundle is the stock rear lights harness, and all I really have going to the OEM bulkhead (everything else was engine related and has been deleted) is the red wire which supplies main 12v power to the OEM fuse box in the cockpit, the tiny black wire is the signal for the Prius EPAS Electronic Power Ass. Steering, this should get cleaned up tonight, so that my brain can function and not be distracted


that's a little gooder

Just follow my mantra and all will be well.
"If you can't be bothered to make it tidy, cover it up"
You're bound to have a suitable 'something' that will hide all sins.

Alibro wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 4:45 pm Just follow my mantra and all will be well.
"If you can't be bothered to make it tidy, cover it up"
You're bound to have a suitable 'something' that will hide all sins.

ha ha, you mean like I've been hiding this fugly Prius power steering mess for over a year, note the unclipped zip ties, how recluse it that?


I can live with this

Progress Not Perfection


I live my life one module at a time!

This is getting real!

Ghia66 wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 4:02 am This is getting real!

GMCe DIY EV 24 kWh BMW Battery Pack Upgrade

how it started...

Wow, that's a real nice paint job on that piece of card.

how it's goink...


[ just a trial fit, so please put away your EyeCrometers ]


meanwhile at the lesser known, Send, Notch, Send Facility

Nice box!
Not even slightly jealous!

Alibro wrote: ↑Sat May 17, 2025 7:32 am Nice box!
Not even slightly jealous!

rethinking the component placement, not in love where the black box has taken residence

good ol' air cooled first gen Chevy Volt DC-DC alternator

and above it in the middle(ish) is it's older sibling first gen Chevy Volt battery charger

I see a lid for the top, is there a Bottom to the Battery box?

Also the SBox outside the battery box, thats a NO-NO in my opinion as its the thing that shut off HV from leaving the box. It is also clearly not waterproof in any way.

so my Alibaba 400x300x200mm Electrical Outdoor Metal Waterproof Vented Junction Box With Fan finally arrived

$112 bones


BMW 530e sBox inside for sizematology reference

BMW i3 Safety Box inside for a size reference

a little sneak peak ahead to Phase III, we will be upgrading to a 6 Killer Whaler battery charger/dc-dc combo unit, and rolling our own contactor/junction box

no Phase II is not completed, you did not miss anything


that gray box looks ridiculous

Nice looking box.
Too rich for my tastes tho.

Alibro wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 11:10 am Nice looking box.
Too rich for my tastes tho.

I hear you, well it all started with $52 bucks, then the fees, charges and taxes added up

Gregski wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 12:48 pm I hear you, well it all started with $52 bucks, then the fees, charges and taxes added up

Alibaba Box Price.jpg

Is that your 'Trump Tax' that was meant to be absorbed by the importer costing $36.75?
Oh!, I guess you're the importer.