[MPaulHolmes]

Make a driving video! Ya!!!!!! Oh, I am so happy right now. Tomorrow, the insurance begins! They don't know it's electric. I'm so sneaky. Lee Hart (the gangster mac-daddy of EVs) said that in an accident, the insurance company needs to prove that the modifications were a part of the CAUSE of the accident. So, I'll just make sure no modifications cause any accident.

I did a laundry list of little things today on the car. First, I did the laundry by placing the entire car inside of a washing maching. Second, I cut out a piece of metal, and covered the vent that runs into the trunk (I JB welded it), so it wouldn't rain inside the trunk anymore. I added a (freewheel) diode from - to + across the contactor's coil. I had forgotten about that. Fortunately, the inductive kick didn't kick anything that I know of. I beat that inductive kick like a read-headed stepchild.

Next, I started to make the splash shield under the motor. I'm gluing a big rubber mat to the piece of wood in the video. Next I have to attach it to the sides. I'll take some pictures of that later.

Then, I added a spring to re-enforce the closing of the gas pedal when my foot is off of it (oops, closing of the the thingy). I did that because I have to add a new spring that keeps the gas pedal stuck to the thing that has a rolling thing on it that is attached to the throttle cable, and that would keep the PB-6 throttle from closing strongly without an extra spring.

I did some thinking about how to get the pre-charge resistor to close by turning the key part of the way. The SCR idea is really energy wasteful. It would work, but then there would be 6 watts running the whole dang time with my specific SCR. Maybe I can add a large gate resistor that keeps the power consumption down.

Also, it needs to be able to conduct at least like 70 amps for 1 second. This is because it took 3 seconds for them to charge through a 2.5 Ohm resistor. So, I may decrease the resistance to like 1 Ohm so it charges in close to 1 second.

But I still need to find a wire that becomes 12v once the key is turned only half way. The radio maybe? I haven't tried that yet.

I bought some new windshield wipers, but I forgot the VW book at my mother in laws house, so they still don't work. Also, the horn doesn't work. I have no idea how to fix either of them. We'll see what happens though.

I JB welded the accelerator pedal back together, since it was broken and kept slipping off of the back rolly thing that pushes the throttle wire back.

I can't remember anything else right now.