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Originally Posted by redpoint5
My point is, my big electrical project is replacing a battery in a rice cooker, and you guys are swapping engines, tuning, and rewiring everything. Very impressive.
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Originally Posted by Ecky
I've come to find that while a big project like this feels horribly intimidating in my mind, I just need to get out my angle grinder or wire cutters and start cutting, and the rest follows. The fear of doing is far worse than the doing.
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Oh, no doubt. I've worked on a ton of projects (electrical and mechanical) but nothing of this magnitude. I started my swap because I knew I couldn't afford the $6k to actually fix the cars hybrid problems. However, there was no way I was giveing up one of my dream cars just because it had a failure. No matter how long it took to "fix"
After pulling the engine I had a little while of "oh ,S#!* this is going to be a disaster"
However, just take it as 1000 small projects. One wire, one bolt, one part, one harness one bracket at a time. Given slow steady consistant work, youd be amazed what you are capable of.
Mine took 8 months in a 10'x15' storage unit without power.
But I have a solar panel, battery, back up car and power inverter !