How funny, the very first car I converted was a morris Minor, a 59 4 door, I was working for Clark fork lifts in Chicago when I got out of the Army, then the gas crunch hit, the 74 embargo, Clarkh ad a dead lined 5,000 lb fork lift, I took the motor and contactor panel out and put in a junk Minor they had in the back lot, Back then there was nothing on doing a conversion. But the fork lift was a car but it had forks, So I made an adaptor plate, (that actually worked) . made a coupler, (that actualy worked) , removed the stick shifter locked it in 3rd, and mounted 6 volt and 12 volt batteries, I dint know you couldn't mix them LOLOL.. to give it about 120 volts, no charging system, I changed the contact coils to 12 volts, back then you could do that.The neet thing was it had field weaking also
Mounted every thing in and to my surprise the damn thing ran !!!. I took it on the road at lunch time and it did as good as expected the first time out...BUT !!! I didnt have any brakes.... so as any good electric fork drive does, I threw it into reverse ,I still was useing the fork lift, forward and reverse lever, it did stop, REAL GOOD LOLOL hard on U-joints but it did stop. wow that brings back memories . I drove it for about a year until I moved to florida and sold it to a friend at Clark before I moved -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131017/f546e7ac/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
