Pics from today

Hello everyone!
I've been meaning to start a blog for the E-Rex for quite a while but I've been a little too busy welding to get to it. Luckily today Beth set one up for me, and took a bunch of pictures too! Thanks Beth! This post is pics from today, the others are from the last month or so and not necessarily in chronological order. Hopefully I'll be making regular updates to the blog as I'm planning to make a lot more progress soon.

For any randoms who don't know what the E-Rex is: it is basically an old Honda CRX that is being given a second chance at life, only this time it will be a much cleaner life. E-Rex will be getting an electric motor and a HUGE battery pack. The main goals of this EV conversion are to take me to Seattle's Greenlake and back home on a single charge and to have room for my dog in the back. A secondary goal is for the car to be faster than it was in stock form. I figure if I can build a fast enough EV to satisfy my speed addiction then I can stop driving my cobra which will help ween me off of my oil addiction... and if I can do that then why can't the rest of America?


Accelerator pedal, cable cutters, cable, lugs and a crimper

Test fitting the sides of a battery box

Chopping more steel...


Anybody need a 1.6l honda engine?

More photos of Electric car

It is always good to keep a tidy work area for trying stuff out ;-)

Battery box frames

Pulling engines is easy with a cheap harbor freight engine crane. Hmmm, now where am I going to store that monster?


Be sure to use strong hooks even when pulling small engines. This one came dangerously close to losing it :-o

Car Project Pictures

Honda built a nice little 1.6 liter engine that was still running strong at 234,000 miles.

It took me the better part of a day to remove all the ICE components. 99% of the work was done with a 10mm wrench and a pair of pliers :)

Anybody need some old crx parts?

Before...

After much cutting and mig welding the rear battery box frames are test fitted. Needless to say, they fit perfectly!
A BIG thanks to Godot for loaning me the mig welder!