Porsche 914E Electric Conversion and Tesla Obsession

This blog follows the progress of restoring and converting a 1973 Porsche 914 from stock to full electric drive, with an electric motor and half a ton of batteries. Now that the car is done and in storage while I live overseas, I'm adding descriptions and pictures of each Tesla location I visit.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Welcome to Home Power Magazine readers

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My article, titled "KEEPING TABS ON YOUR PV SYSTEM" has just been published in Home Power magazine, issue 139. It's a survey...

A fully clean Transmission

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Four sessions and around ten hours later, the transmission case is clean enough to eat off.  Compare the pictures here with the one I took w...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

Start of Final Paint!

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I stopped in at Rainbow today to find they are working on the final paint.  They started by spraying the front trunk, passenger compartment,...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

How much will it weigh? How fast will it accelerate?

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I wanted to know the completed weight of the converted car to get an idea of the net extra weight from the electric kit minus the weight of ...

Cleaning the Dirty Bits

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While waiting through the delays getting the body and the electric kit parts, I've been working on cleaning the items I pulled off the c...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Guide coat during priming is on

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Rainbow sprayed what they call the Guide coat this week.  It's a light black mist sprayed over the primer to give guidance when doing th...

ElectroAuto story on National Public Radio

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A colleague driving home from work heard a story about Mike Brown and his work with electric cars on NPR (National Public Radio).  Of course...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Buying the remaining conversion components

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Since we're so close to getting the car back and getting the electric conversion kit, I'm ordering the final components I'll nee...
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Targa Top Restoration

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The targa top came from the factory with a pebbly / textured surface, but the one that came with my car was chipped badly.  I decided to san...

First Primer Coat

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I stopped in to Rainbow on Thursday to see that the first primer coat had been sprayed and they were in the process of filling and blocking ...
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