Hello AC50!

I had a hell of a time getting the right Clutch kit from the auto parts store. It literally took over a month and a lot of back and forth with the wrong pieces. My gearbox has a shaft with 23 teeth and is a 5 speed manual but there is also a 6 speed gearbox with 28 teeth. For some reason their system would never show that their exists a 5 speed with a shaft of 23 teeth. Still to this day i'm not sure why it was so complicated to get the right clutch kit.

here is a picture of the AC50 with adapter and new clutch installed

The other issue we had was marrying the ac50 motor and gearbox cause the quattro unit was in the way. So we had to take off the quattro partially then get the motor on it. But we finally got that done as well. You can see the Motor bracket on the left that I also bought from Canev. We will eventually need to add another custom bracket piece in order to attach it to the car original motor support. You can also see that i painted the gearbox blue with a Engine spray paint.

Here is the Motor and gearbox finally in place.

Next up is thinking about battery placement. I still need to order the Lifepo4 cells from a supplier in China and probably will go with 36 3.2 160ah cells. This should give me around 80km range. Also i want to try to keep the rear seats cause i want to be able to have my younger son drive with me. Lots of custom battery box designing to do... luckily i have my dad who is an expert at metal working and welding... :)

BYE BYE ICE!

So my Dad and i got to work early July to take out the motor. First thing i did was to make a short video showing that the car started and the engine ran good because i am hoping to sell the motor to someone else who may need one.

 

See how high the front raises up from not having all that weight from the motor.

Tear Down Begins!

So i was fortunate that i was able to secure a large garage that allowed me to perform most of the legwork of tearing down all the parts i didn't need. They also had a car lift that is capable of handling 9000lbs so lifting my little tt will be a breeze.

After securing the tt i researched n the Internet other people who may have converted an audi tt as well and found Allen in the U.S who converted his tt. Looks like he did a great job from what i read and saw through his pictures. I would love to see a more recent post from him on how the tt is doing.

My father (he's a autobody expert by trade among other things) is helping me during this conversion process without which I probably wouldn't be doing it myself. We put the tt on the lift and started to remove the exhaust system. I will only be able to work on the tt once a week as i have a full-time job so a few hours on Saturday morning is all she wrote. This will be a long process :(

The Gas tank for the Audi tt Quattro was a real pain in the A@& to remove. It snakes around the Quattro drive in the rear. We had to eventually remove the quattro drive down far enough to be able to get the pieces of the thick plastic tank out. This was back in June of 2015.

Here is a nice view of some of the parts taken out

 With the tank, exhaust and front removed time to take out the engine next

The Audi TT Quattro Conversion to Electric Vehicle

So i decided a couple years ago that i wanted to convert a car to an electric vehicle. I wanted something i could buy for relatively cheap although i also wanted it to be a good looking car that i would be willing to drive year-round.

The first generations of the Audi TT was an easy choice for me. Its a great looking sports car (actually still like the first gen better then the newer ones) and i can get them for cheap.

I looked for one with the highest miles/km's on it but still in relatively good shape and got real lucky! i ended up picking this one up for $3800 Canadian Dollars that had over 277k km on it.

When i was driving it back from the city i bought it from which was in another Province, i had so much fun driving this amazing sports car that i decided i would keep the ICE until something major happened to it that would require me to pay a lot of money to fix.

Well that happened when my clutch began to really wear and just moving it forward was a real problem. Time for the Conversion!!!