You might want to get in contact with those guys who were doing an Electric Geo Metro conversion.
I don't remember which island they are one, but I know they are in Hawaii somewhere!
Here is a post on Ecomodder:
Shocker! ForkenSwift's identical twin under construction...
And here is a link to their blog:
http://electricmetro.blogspot.com/
Report back if you get together with them!