I've been on a couple of little test drives now.
First drive out and I noticed a squeal coming from the front under acceleration, like metal on metal or a crap bearing, turns out its a drive shaft contacting the body as the motor twists with the torque.
The head lights did a real good job of illuminating the tops of trees until I adjusted them.
The controller occasionally throws a fault when turning it on complaining about a "sequence error". Cycling the key fixes this but I'll have to look into it at some point.
Also the display is way too bright for driving at night, I'll have to find a brightness setting.
Regen is a bit finicky. If I adjust it down it does nothing (obviously) but if I turn it up it works really well. So well it causes the motor to spin backwards, then it regen's and bounces back forward, then back and then forward etc. The car just sits there shaking. Its a real fine line between going too far one way or the other. I put a relay on the potentiometer for the regen level that is operated by the brake lights now so if the feed back loop starts I can just come off the brake for a second and it's fine. This also allows me to shift gears with out the regen interfering. Ill look through the settings and see if I can adjust the regen somehow to stop it because I would like to be able to ramp up the level a bit more under braking
Next problem is an old car problem. Because the car has been sitting so long and now all of a sudden it's being used naturally the brake master cylinder is leaking, as is the axle seals into the diff as well as one of the rear shocks. Sooo many fluid leaks on an electric car
And the last problem to come up (so far...) is I was rocketing through a car park and hit a speed bump. The jolt somehow snapped the steady bar on top of the motor. Tore my weld right out of the metal.
I guess I deserved it for welding cast iron.
In my defence I didn't actually think it would be under that much stress.
The real sad part is all the load then shifted onto the remote gearstick link rod which promptly broke it's mount out of the gearbox.

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