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Motor is officially, actually, installed.

(05/17/2026)

I had some time to put the motor back in the chassis and install everything in the car. I still have a few bolts to replace, such as the four in the back of the rear diff, but everything is in place and looks fantastic.

The install is always a little sketchy – I need to lift the car about another foot in the air, which isn’t going to happen. That means the process is to slide everything under the car, then slowly bring each side up until I can get a floor jack under it. Repeat that process until it’s fairly high up, then I can switch to a scissor-lift table, which gives stability when I’m fitting things up.

It stays on the lift table while the drive shaft is attached, then the belly pan is installed to which the rear trailing arms attach.

I also still need to make 1/4″ shims for the rear trailing arms.

Big progress done. Now I can start working on plumbing the TorqueBox cooler.

Ut-Oh

(05/10/2026)

Update…! In the EV Conversions Reddit forum, a user said that this error is consistent with the resolver and that this would be an interesting failure. With that I decided to check the resolver impedance and it was fine.

i firmly reseated both cables and … It works! I think the large connector was maybe not set in all the way.

whew. Still leaving up the old post, just because. And here it is:

Well, a small setback.

Today when I was bench testing the motor again, I failed to connect the negative to the inverter control board and now the inverter thinks the motor is running at 16,383 RPM. Why this specific value? Well, 16,384 is 14bits, which is a typical bit resolution for an analog to digital converter.

I think I let some smoke out :/

Maybe, on the bright side, if the power part of the inverter is ok, I’ll upgrade to an Open Inverter board for some more power…

Wheel Spin!

(03.22.2026)

Alright! I have had less than zero time to work on the car, but since the last time I posted I have actually made some major progress.

For starters, I have the rear trailing arms made and installed (although there is still more welding to do, then cleanup and paint) and I had a driveshaft made!!

Here’s a quick video showing the first move of the wheels! Ignore the driveshaft vibration, that has been corrected with an angle adjustment and both rear tires are pretty square.