Blackbird singing in the dead of night - hrm, crow, actually

Adapter plate affixed to motor for the first time.

Flywheel with adapter which turns out to be really, really evil. EVCC has it in for me, I swear. On the other hand, they did give me my money back after bending a centering pin in my transmission, destroying my flywheel, and making a complete hash of the adapter plate.

This pillar had to be dropped.

Holes that the piller screwed into.

Josh and my newly assembled engine hoist, folding. Courtesy of Harbor Freight

Now let's see - what had to go where?

The trusty rubber mallet - a few whacks and this thing should be on. (p.s. Mac advises, don't do this. It's not good for the bearings.)

Why won't these damn screws go in? And why does the flywheel rub the adapter plate? Oh, could it be because the machinists at EVCC put the HOLES IN THE WRONG PLACE?

The vacuum pump with a bit of my day job behind it.

We lowered it Ghetto Style!

Wow that's a big spider.

A really big spider.

Got to cook the flywheel to make it line up.. Got to use this adapter or find a new flywheel because this flywheel will never balance with another adapter again. (Note the holes drilled in the side. They had to take off a LOT of mass to balance it).

My SO heating the flywheel.

Chris lowering the transaxle cum motor into the chassis.

The motor is almost in

The motor is in

The motor is connected to the transmission, which is also in

Yep, they're both in there - frount view

Yep, they're both in there - top of ass end of motor view. Yellow things are caps that cover cooling system ports

why long hair sometimes sucks

Another transmission top view

Transmission and 12V battery side view

Making a minor change to the adapter plate

One complete clutch/flywheel/adapter, some assembly required

And you put the hub on like so...

And you check the ride height like so...

And you tighten the set screws..

And you put the flywheel on again, this time a bit tighter and with a drop of locktite on each screw

checking the magic number again. Paranoid? me?

Just think of it as a really big record player

Installing the pressure plate

Take one transmission..

The end of the cyclons

First you have to figure out how many you could get in there..

Leo and Sheer deep in consultation

We have to fit _how many_ batteries in there?

Weighing the car yet again - this time the motor is in but the batteries are out

Marking pilot holes to show where to cut

The first cut

well, that was fun..

Leo cleans up around the edges

That's the hole. Er, sunfloor, yeah, that's it.

Battery layout for 'the sump'

Cutting steel tabs for the back of the battery box to rest on

Leo teaching Sheer how to use the chop saw. [look out world]

Sheer is once again hard at work

The inverter has been moved to a somewhat different location

A dim look at the back battery array.

Relocationg the car to seattle.. the car is on a car carrier, this is a view of the monitor that was rigged up to give the driver [i.e. me] some idea of how it was riding.