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Old 08-25-2008, 11:22 PM   #461 (permalink)
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Old 08-25-2008, 11:33 PM   #462 (permalink)
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Awesome Job, Ben!! You and Darin are my heroes I want to do something like this so bad just watching yards, fence rows, fields everywhere for the right donor still. Maybe I will get lucky this winter and find a oldy, but goody.
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Old 08-25-2008, 11:43 PM   #463 (permalink)
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You dang pimp bot! You beat me to a video!!! Oh that just makes me so mad. It's been rainy and my windshield wipers don't work. Arrr! You just wait mister! Maybe by tomorrow, but my wife wants it all nice and fancy, and editing takes time! You whippersnapper!
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Old 08-25-2008, 11:43 PM   #464 (permalink)
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The motor really needs to have a big torque arrester attached to it.

I only have a piece of slotted metal (probably scrap piece of cheap stand-alone shelving) holding up the loose end of the motor.

I think I can re-use the part that actually held the motor in the forklift. I will need to weld something to it, so that I can attach it to the engine mount.
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Old 08-25-2008, 11:57 PM   #465 (permalink)
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You beat me to a video!!!
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Old 08-26-2008, 12:11 AM   #466 (permalink)
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I love the competition between these 2 threads. It's exactly like a reality TV show!!

Except much slower, and mostly text-based...
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I humbly dis-agree.

This is SO much better than anything on TV.


PS - I vote MPaulHolmes off the island.
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I vote my mother-in-law off the island, into shark infested waters since I have to drive over to my parents' house to take pictures and work on the car, and I always forget the dang camera! OOH that just makes me so mad. Plus, I have power of veto, and won immunity since I did some weird game. Plus, aren't electric cars fun to drive! I moved our car up to the driveway again by driving it, but I thought it didn't work anymore, since it was so dead! It's an act of faith to step on the gas. hahaha! I love it! I love it!!!

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Old 08-26-2008, 01:06 AM   #469 (permalink)
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More video.

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Whoa. Wait a minute. There's another EV build thread? Argh! So many threads, so little time!
I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention.

Nice plug for ol' ecomodder.com in the video, Ben! I am so jealous of your project. I wanna build an EV!
*Lucille Ball voice* Whaaa!

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