JUST ANOTHER LABOR DAY WEEKEND

If I have any hope of taking the Fiero to the Drive Electric - Columbus event, the battery charger must be installed, as there is a possibility the car will need charged to make it home. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday were spent working on the car and the bottom trim has all been painted satin black, there is now plexiglass over the top of the front batteries, and the battery charger is mounted in the motor compartment.

BOTTOM MOLDING PAINTED SATIN BLACK

PLEXIGLAS OVER FRONT BATTERIES

CHARGER MOUNTING BRACKETS

CHARGER MOUNTED

In addition to working on the Fiero, I was able to finish the drywall in the bathroom, got it all painted, put up the new light bar, and installed the new mirror.

The interior paint for the SLK230 also arrived late last week and I was able to wet sand and touch up all of the places where the paint had pealed off on the passenger side of the car. After all of the nicks and scratches are pre-painted, the whole console and dash will be wet sanded again, wiped down with alcohol, and a good coat of paint put on all of the surface.

It has been a busy weekend but a lot of work was done. I signed up for Chargepoint, so as soon as the charger is wired up, will take a trip to Walgreens to make sure the J1772 plug and module are working. I may need a little charge next Saturday to make it back from Drive Electric, so want to make sure everything is working properly.

Until Next Time,

Randy

CHUGGING ALONG

Today was my first day back to work and it was a real drag after being off for 10 days. After work I kept chugging along on the mount for the fuse, shunt, and contactor and attached the last side with 3 screws. Then I removed all of the components, wiped the aluminum down with alcohol, dried the plate and then painted it with bed liner paint.

COMPONENT MOUNTING PLATE PAINTED

While the paint was drying, I test fitted the new trunk seal and after fumbling with it for a few minutes, snapped it right into place. It needs to be moved so the split is in the center but for now, it will keep the rain out of the trunk.

TRUNK SEAL FROM SIDE

TRUNK SEAL FROM BACK

Until next time,

Randy

WORKING ON THE GROUND!

Today, the tabs were finally bolted down to the battery rack rails and the module support rods were all tightened up. I had to go to Ace Hardware and get some button head bolts to have enough clearance to get the rod nuts to turn but all is good now. Also, before taking the Fiero off of the jacks, gave the underneath side of the rack a good coat of bed liner.

HOLD DOWN CLIPS MOUNTED

ANGLE CLIPS IN PLACE

BED LINER BEING APPLIED TO RACK

INBOARD HOLD DOWN CLIPS FROM TOP

CLEARANCE BETWEEN MODULE AND CONTROLLER

An electrical box was purchased from Home Depot to mount the conatctor, shunt, and fuse. The box will be bolted to the inboard end of the battery module on the negative terminal. I will probably put another contactor and an emergency/maintenance switch on the positive side also, so work began on laying all the components out and mounting them in the box.

Only a week to go until EVCCON and it is looking like the Fiero will not be done in time to take it this year but I am still going to keep trying, until it is time to leave next week.

Thanks for visiting, 

Randy