My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck

[Gregski]

I tell you what doing LS Swaps has sure prepared me for this.

so let's saddle up this horse, shall we

here we have those two resolver plugs, followed by the shift solenoid plug, and the last one closest to the tail shaft is the VSS Vehicle Speed Sensor

The orange high voltage AC wires are capable of handling upwards of 600 volts there are two of them, each one goes to a separate electric motor inside of that Lexus GS450h transmission

[Gregski]

and on the other side, aka the driver side we have only one plug this is the Safety Neutral Switch

we will need three signals from this one

1. Park
2. Reverse
3. Drive

The orange high voltage AC wires are capable of handling upwards of 600 volts there are two of them, each one goes to a separate electric motor inside of that Lexus GS450h transmission

[BAD1916]

Very cool build. Will follow along for this one.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by BAD1916

Very cool build. Will follow along for this one.

glad to hear, thank you for the positive feedback, keeps the shenanigans going

[MDPotter]

Always enjoy reading your threads for the humor and the wizardry. Looking forward to seeing this in the truck!

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by MDPotter

Always enjoy reading your threads for the humor and the wizardry. Looking forward to seeing this in the truck!

thank you so much that made me laff, when can I swing by and shove one of these in your '68 GMC450h ?

[MDPotter]

Originally Posted by Gregski

thank you so much that made me laff, when can I swing by and shove one of these in your '68 GMC450h ?

It's going to be awhile before I go electric. I'm waiting for GM to start manufacturing crate setups that could drop in place of an LS.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by MDPotter

It's going to be awhile before I go electric. I'm waiting for GM to start manufacturing crate setups that could drop in place of an LS.

Oh I hear you, but knowing the General it is going to be a $30K kit, and with electric vehicles being around for a decade now and thanks to texting and driving (looking at you soccer moms) there is a cheap abundance of electric and hybrid components filling up our junk yards already with most wreckers having no idea what they are sitting on, I mean I scored a dual electric motor transmission for $700 bucks, I bet GMs electric motors run 10x that easy

[Big Kev-O]

Ford is already selling their "Eluminator" e crate motor. All available units sold out the day it went on sale. $3900 for a 210kW (281hp) motor not including inverter or battery. I suspect GMs e crate will probably be around the same price.

If your two motors combined provide similar performance you have found a much more affordable alternative. Good work Greg. Thanks for sharing all the details. Can't wait to see it go!

[Gregski]

the engine bay wiring harness was next as you can clearly see from this Lexus wiring diagram

[Gregski]

and since apparently I don't like money, I paid $300...

[Gregski]

for a $235 dollar harness

[Gregski]

fortunately mine came with a handsome, organic, fully biodegradable [think 450 years] carrying case

[Gregski]

so most guys buy this Lexus GS450h engine bay main wiring harness for this Inverter plug, part num...

[Gregski]

30 minutes later...

[Gregski]

... part number

[Gregski]

second verse, same as the first...

[Gregski]

here is the Lexus GS450h Engine Room Main Wire harness all laid out

Part number:

82111-30K62 fits 2008-2009 (this is the used one that I just bought)​
costs $7,144 new
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82111-30K64 fits 2010​
costs $6,341 new

[Gregski]

I did not know this prior to purchasing it, but learned later on that in addition to getting that Inverter plug we also get the two resolver plugs which will allow us to directly plug in our transmission harness into this Inverter harness, Bonus!

[Gregski]

I actually enjoying wiring, especially unwrapping bulky harnesses and seeing where the wires actually run to

Note: second pic shows the unwrapped Inverter plug section, this is where most junk yards will cut off the pig tail for this connector, HUGE MISTAKE as you can see if you keep scrolling down because they lop off the two Resolver connectors which are only about 8" further down

[Gregski]

and separating the strands into more logical branches instead of bundling them all together

[Gregski]

... and 7 beers later, here's all we really need, so about $3 bucks worth of that $300 harness, ha ha

[Gregski]

here it is all separated into different component runs for dramatic effect

[Gregski]

so having acquired all of the components it was time to start building things, so although I bought a VCU kit it does not come fully built, you have to solder on the connector and a few gizmos like this voltage regulator yourself

and being a minimalist I only soldered on one of the two 20 pin connectors as that's all it takes to get the motors to spin, the other connector and the little red WiFi card are for temp sensors and gauges and such, we won't need them till later

[Gregski]

as I attempt to wire this truck up let's count together the few components we need in a 100% electric vehicle

1. VCU - Vehicle Control Unit (the brain, the controller)

so I like to build up my electronics starting with the basics, and most need the ground and power leads first, this VCU Vehicle Control Unit aka PCM/ECU/ECM what ever you want to call it, aka "Brain" is no different

glowing red LED = Success!