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.

Monday, January 2, 2012

Rear Window and Driver's Seat Go In

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I'm at the point where I can start reinstalling a lot of the interior parts.  In order to install the seats, you have to work backwards,...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

First Bluetooth Data!

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My Android app to read the PakTrakr data is complete, except for the actual reading of the battery data - kind of an important feature to ge...
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Carpet wrapup

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The carpets dried in the sun by the next day, so it was time to pop them back in.  I used spray adhesive to attach two pieces of vinyl on th...
Monday, December 26, 2011

Start of Interior - Carpets

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Alert readers will remember that I felt I needed a bit more clutch pedal travel to gently shift gears, so I bashed the firewall back about a...

Headlights Done - Really

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I try to own up to my mistakes, so I have to admit I scratched the driver's side headlight cover as I was installing it.  Argh! I trie...

Tail Lights Are In

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The latest saga was installing the tail lights.  First I have to say that I thought I had lost them!  I wanted to install them several weeks...

Radio Comes to Life

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I bought the new radio a long time ago, driven by the need for it to connect to my Droid (now upgraded to Droid Bionic) phone.  The two devi...
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Rear Bumper

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The rear bumper is made up of three parts.  The top is a hard rubber trim piece, the middle is the chrome bumper itself, and the bottom is a...

Engine Cover and Grilles

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Bodywork re-installation is starting now, well except for the rear trunk lid, which I can't install since the body shop has had the hing...

Officially Electric

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I have been waiting to stick on the "Electric" badge I got from Plug In America .  I cleaned, lightly sanded and painted the 914 ...
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