Bmw Z3I , the electric zed's journey

Wow, it looks tiny. How will it compare to the petrol engine weight wise Leo?

Tony.
The petrol engine m44b19 4 cyl weighs around 100 kg and the motor weighs around 70kg
here is some comparison picture
 

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Thank you Leo, that must give around a 30% weight saving right there.

Tony.
 
Yesterday new in the post was the new g power oil radiator with fan and soon it will be installed to cool the motor!

the post is coming through slow as I'm writing this I have much incomplete homework as this year I'm doing the GCSE so the post will be delayed
 

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This is an incredible project for someone your age and experience. You should be contacting the likes of JLR and other car makers and also BAE etc. They will be fighting to get you on their graduate schemes even before you start A levels. You’ll probably get help with battery systems and control electronics.

As said several times - invest in proper safety wear and safe methods of working. I used to work in health & safety. Retrieving parts of people left behind in machinery is not for the feint heated. Often you don’t get a second chance. One mistake has great capacity to stop your budding engineering career dead in its tracks - possibly literally. Be safe!
Rotating parts, electricity and gravity will always win.

Much as everyone wants to see progress, put your school work first. Ok:thumbsup:
 
This is an incredible project for someone your age and experience. You should be contacting the likes of JLR and other car makers and also BAE etc. They will be fighting to get you on their graduate schemes even before you start A levels. You’ll probably get help with battery systems and control electronics.

As said several times - invest in proper safety wear and safe methods of working. I used to work in health & safety. Retrieving parts of people left behind in machinery is not for the feint heated. Often you don’t get a second chance. One mistake has great capacity to stop your budding engineering career dead in its tracks - possibly literally. Be safe!
Rotating parts, electricity and gravity will always win.

Much as everyone wants to see progress, put your school work first. Ok:thumbsup:
Thank you for your support and advice!
 

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I'm just blown away by this project @LeoIWH. Great stuff.
 
Problems have arisen so I will be discontinuing this thread and the project will continue and I'm leaving zroadster.org for a long time, most likely I will probably never come back and I also have left all owner group and page on FB as well and you can find the original thread herehttps://www.facebook.com/Convert2Electric/ and I would probably no longer update.
sorry for the inconvenience
 
This is my last message for a while
 
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