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I guess it was a fairly standard install, but it sure taxed us all the way. Without the proper tool, it took a lot of "drifting" (whacking with a hammer) to separate the steering rod from the steering nuckle. We found that supporting the steering rod on a hydraulic jack helped. The steering rods ar...

Surely this must upset the brake balance. Is there any adjustment made in the brake bias? How legal is it?


We're lucky we don't get snow here.

"I don't think nitrogen is that safe when exposed to anything slightly warmer than a badgers freshly laid turd."

Nitrogen comprises 78% of the earths atmosphere as molecular nitrogen. Stable as.

"When you are halfway around a corner and want to change gears you have to guess where the paddles are going to be... " I find it incredible that one would want to change gears whilst cornering. It upsets the balance of the car and one should already be in the right gear prior to going into the corn...

While the partnership between Mitsubishi and Peugeot to bring electric vehicles to market has been officially official for some time, the deal we told you about that would see the Peugeot lion logo perched proudly on the nose of the Japanese automaker's i MiEV hasn't. Until now. On the eve of the un...

"Shock absorbers are quite mis-named. They are dampers and not absorbers ! "

I agree and disagree. Clearly they dampen, but where does the energy go? It goes into the damper, thus the damper adsorbs it, therefor they should be named damper-adsorbers.

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Jetson's sounds as requested, i like the last one.

From the tesla fast charger instal guide: "For maximum charging performance, a 240 Volt 90A circuit is required. Although it is possible to use a lower rated power supply, this will increase charging time for the vehicle. If a 90A circuit is unavailable, you’ll need to de-rate the HCS’s charging cur...

Well, I imagine that the Innovation Australia committee who will be responsible for judging Green Car Innovation Fund applications will probably care... That depends which of the two faces of our two faced government you believe. This is the same government that subsidises the commodore and the fal...

Who cares that coal creates more emissions. Those emissions come from coal, not from the car. When the hell was it unacceptable to buy a toaster if you going to run it from coal. How efficient is an ICE powered toaster anyway? Coal is the problem, in about a billion different ways, from sulphur diox...

I'm Booked in, i suppose i'll see some of you there?

Lithium carbonate is selling for around US $8 per kg up from US $0.50/kg a few years ago, which works out to about US $180 per car for our purposes. Remembering that that is for battery grade material, non battery grade material still sells for only 1USD/kg. Here's a recent diatribe i pulled from my...

If you know someone who can make the bits, can we place orders?

The other thing i should mention is that the Motorboard that i had did about 24kph, and had front suspension, but hard wheels. I used to drive it between offices for meetings in a suit and business shoes. The distance was about 2km, but after about 1km, the vibration from the road surface and footpa...

I have one of these, except the old model that i picked up from ebay with NiMH batteries. http://www.rothmotors.com/products/2000xr-motorboard Well the NiMH batteries were useless so i removed them and added 2 dewalt 36V packs, broken up into 4 18V packs. As you know these batteries when asked to de...

"Cardboard box ? If any Holden engineers are reading this, this is not a comment on your skills, just the direction you are being pointed by your sinking captain ! "

Yeah, thanks for explaining what i really meant.

TIC http://forums.aeva.asn.au/smileys/smiley2.gif With a release date of 2011 (maybe, if the world doesn't pass them by), the think for themselves Oz manufacturer is going for another re-badge ! GM """"""Holden"""""" Volt Why not 2009 ? They are just importing it and fitting the stickers ? Oh, that...

"The only way to massively increase our power generating capacity in the near future is by adopting nuclear power quite soon. " Nuclear just aint going to happen, anyone wanna pay $0.30 per kWh? See: http://climateprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/nuclear-costs-2009.pdf An extract of the concl...

"Your pool pump will be smaller due to the liquid cooling? " Pool pumps dont have liquid cooling. I don't know of any pumps with liquid cooling and i know pumps. Pool pumps are around 0.75-1.25kW that's why they don't have big fins. From memory they are an aluminium body mostly, with a plastic wet e...

Ring Movement systems on: Movement Systems 100A Burswood Rd, Burswood, WA 6100 Phone:(08) 9362 1488 They have all sorts of scooters, motorised bikes, motorised skateboards, motorised roller blades, go karts etc etc etc. The only thing they didn't have was a motorised snow board. (i'm now going to go...

What they didn't say is that if Captain Slow had driven the Honda FCX around the test track like Clarkson it would probably only do 40 miles. I am not convinced that fuel cell vehicles are better than battery vehicles. Rod. Rod, i think you're quite generous there. What is the throttle response of ...

Rattrap. I love the part of town you live in, i lived over there for a few years and used to spend a bit of time driving through there at high speed. I hear you on the logging trucks issue. I was an official in targa on the Mole creek stage one year. That said, i think you're going to struggle to ge...

If you're going to mention thermal inertia, then you're just opening up a whole world of pain in the form of thermal momentum

Ok, my concern, so to produce a hub motor, it must have the same weight and same moment of inertia as the factory road wheel for a conversion. i.e. same unsprung mass. (particularly in a high performance vehicle). When Holden, ford, nissan, toyota etc start to use aluminium suspension components li...

You're wrong about the gearing ok. I said ACP (which includes cars like the Tesla) have 8.25:1 final drive. You're average car has a 3.5:1 final drive diff ratio with a top gear of 1:1. The only time an ICE even gets close to having the same kind of torque as an EV at the wheels is in 1st gear, usu...