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.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Final Paint and Clearcoat Complete

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The day I've been waiting for for so long has arrived.  The paint and clearcoat are finished.  The only remaining issue is spraying the ...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Avila Beach Concours 2010

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This weekend is the Avila Beach Concours car show, and unfortunately it was cloudy and drizzly, so attendance was down but there were some ...
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Seat Restoration

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When I got the car, the seats were in pretty bad shape.  Both seat pads had cracks at the stitching lines, and the driver's seat had cra...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Steve Pittelli is selling his completed 914 electric conversion

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If you live near San Luis Obispo California, Steve Pittelli is selling his recently-completed 914 electric conversion.  The electric kit is ...
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...
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