My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck

[Gregski]

so each one of those Battery Packs (consisting of six Cell Modules) is 9.1 kW and I plan on running at least two of them in the front and one or two more under the cab and or the bed of the truck

general rule based on my experience with a Nissan Leaf for three years says you can expect roughly 3 miles per killer watt so 9.1 times 3 equals a range of 27.3 miles per pack

now I get that by dividing my Leaf range of 84 miles by it's 24 kW battery pack which gives me 3.5 mile average per killer watt and because my vehicle may be heavier and less aero dynamic I round that down to 3 miles instead of 3.5, kapish

and we can thumb wrestle over this till the cows come home, but I can also tell you that, that Leaf has seen a range of as high at 106 miles on the same battery pack so there's that, it all depends on your driving 'habbits" as they say

[Gregski]

second verse, same as the first

[Dieselwrencher]

Those fit in there pretty nicely. So you're thinking you will have roughly 160 miles of range with those 6 batteries?

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Those fit in there pretty nicely. So you're thinking you will have roughly 160 miles of range with those 6 batteries?

no all six of those equal just one battery pack and I hope to get 27 miles out of a single pack

I plan on having at least three of those battery packs so a total of 18 of those "batteries" twelve up front and another six under the bed

[Mike Bradbury]

Originally Posted by Gregski

no all six of those equal just one battery pack and I hope to get 27 miles out of a single pack

I plan on having at least three of those battery packs so a total of 18 of those "batteries" twelve up front and another six under the bed

Whoa, so one battery pack only gets 27 miles? Did I miss how the Leaf got close to 106 miles from its pack? Seems like a lot of batteries for 80ish miles. Are the new 2020 and newer batteries more efficient or just more of them? Some adds for the current electric vehicles claim 300 or more miles per charge. how do they accomplish this range?

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Mike Bradbury

Whoa, so one battery pack only gets 27 miles? Did I miss how the Leaf got close to 106 miles from its pack? Seems like a lot of batteries for 80ish miles. Are the new 2020 and newer batteries more efficient or just more of them? Some adds for the current electric vehicles claim 300 or more miles per charge. how do they accomplish this range?

this battery is from a hybrid called a BMW 530e the Nissan Leaf battery is from a 100% electric vehicle

this one is only 9 kWh the leaf one is 24 kWh

just last night I received some good news from a fellow EV Converter running the exact same battery pack and transmotor and he confirmed we can now calculate 3.25 miles per kWh if not 3.5 (son on par with the Leaf) I was being conservative at 3 miles per kWh

the BMW pack is much much more bang for physical space the Leaf battery pack is huge

[Mike Bradbury]

Originally Posted by Gregski

this battery is from a hybrid called a BMW 530e the Nissan Leaf battery is from a 100% electric vehicle

this one is only 9 kW the leaf one is 24 kW

just last night I received some good news from a fellow EV Converter running the exact same battery pack and transmotor and he confirmed we can now calculate 3.25 miles per kW if not 3.5 (son on par with the Leaf) I was being conservative at 3 miles per kW

the BMW pack is much much more bang for physical space the Leaf battery pack is huge

Okay that is good news, more miles the per pack the better. But you will need three of the BMW packs correct? Which should equal the Leaf pack size? But at total 27KWH (9x3), does it work that way?

[YellowK5]

Fun project! More value as of lately

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by YellowK5

Fun project! More value as of lately

thanks mate, indeed, I could not wait to get crackin' on this project

[Gregski]

Costco Jack & Craigslist Jill what could possibly go wrong

Oh no it's too big! how many times have I heard that before [don't nobody answer that!]

[Gregski]

someone once said you haven't wrenched until you made or modified yer own tool, am I right fellas

I once volunteered at a motor cycle shop for Big Al the man who sold me this truck, we quick become friends, and I asked him once why he cut his ratchets down to stubbies and he said: "cause I got tired of snappin' them bolts"

that's some street credit right there you feel me Young Blods?

[Gregski]

so let me get this straight, now we needs a jack to put the transmotor on the jack and we needs another jack to lift the rig up on ramps to git that trans on this jack under the jacked up rig??? follow all that? ha ha

this sounds like one of them two things we likes like chocolate and steak just not together there deals

I recon all them hernias from bench pressing those 850 lbs transmissions [I'm looking at you Muncie SM465] was a worth it

shout out if you know what a Granny Low SM465 feels like, ha ha

[Gregski]

so here we go again, another one man slow dance

[8man]

Trying to play catch up, and it's tough for an old guy. The batteries looked good inside the frame rail. Can you run them toward the tail end further too? Looked like there was some frame back there to put another row. If I remember your work from before, you've already considered that.

Also, like the jack conversion. Beats getting a buddy and laying on your backs to try and muscle that thing in!!! Did that with a Torqueflight 727 when I was much younger.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 8man

Also, like the jack conversion. Beats getting a buddy and laying on your backs to try and muscle that thing in!!! Did that with a Torqueflight 727 when I was much younger.

I bet, well unfortunately Robert the trans jack adapter sucks big time, it is wrong in so many ways, it is way too tall, and the plate is not long enough (trans falls off of it)

with the truck almost one foot off the ground on blocks, I still could not roll the trans on the jack under it, so here I am literally hoisting up the trans with an engine crane just so I can set it on that stupid jack with the trans adapter on it, PIA PIA major PIA

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[8man]

I got the HF trans jack, worked ok for the 4L60.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 8man

I got the HF trans jack, worked ok for the 4L60.

was it this thing?

[Gregski]

just increased my chances of injury by 400%

making a bell housing block off plate since there will no longer be a Lexus V6 internal combustion engine in front of this hybrid transmission or transmotor as I call it, because there are two electric motors inside of it

[Gregski]

took a bit of back and forth, and for some odd reason Lexus decided to use two different sizes of bolts on this bell housing, the red circles mark the larger ones which in SAE or American standard sizes equate closer to a 1/2" and the smaller ones are roughly 7/16s

it may take another round of nip and tucking to get the plate to match that weird shape it happens to be

[Gregski]

next it was time to work on the Ninja star, this is the clutch plate coupler I cut out of the original clutch plate thingie, I will be using it to lock out the input shaft of the transmission, doing so will force the front electric motor to spin the output shaft assisting the second larger electric motor, win win

[8man]

Are you going to convert the space in front of the transmotor into a trunk?

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 8man

Are you going to convert the space in front of the transmotor into a trunk?

ha ha a Frunk? the wife and I joked about that, how I should mount the batteries under the bed and leave the engine bay completely empty and pull up to car shows like that and pop the hood

[8man]

Put some motor mounts on and the radiator, with torn off hoses like it just jumped out of there somewhere along the way.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 8man

Put some motor mounts on and the radiator, with torn off hoses like it just jumped out of there somewhere along the way.

that would be hilarious, and stand there all like: "it's the second time this has happened this week, damned LS!"

[Gregski]

cutting 1/2" aluminum plate a mil at a time using my FREE Craigslist Craftsman Radial 10" saw with a Diablo 84 tooth non stick blade, yeah baby

thrilling I tell yah!

Craftsman Radial Saw cutting aluminum plate