Engine Elimination of Hyundai Tiburon Electric Car Conversion
This video shows the my friend Mike, my children and I pulling the motor and trans out of my Electrical Conversion 2003 Hyundai Tiburon. The sound is not really connected using the motion inside video clip. Sorry. We acquired the motor out now the engine bay is truly open. The motor will be separated from the trans so I can then have an adapter plate created which will accept the brand new 144v Electric Motor that may be mounted to it. Stay tuned.!..
September 3rd, 2010 at 1:29 am |
It was exciting for them because it was becoming Electric!!! As they get older they are more interested in Boys….You know how that goes…..
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:28 am |
Damn, I hope my daughter grows to love working in the garage with me.
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:47 am |
parts are already obsolete for this car
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:23 am |
a Very bad allergy sufferer filmed this, my apoligies to your sensative ears….
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:43 am |
What are you 12? Cawfee or Coffee….What differeence does that make?
September 3rd, 2010 at 4:06 am |
can the dude filming it stop sniffing his snot or stop chewing gum.
September 3rd, 2010 at 4:47 am |
its tiburon
not tibAron
September 3rd, 2010 at 5:02 am |
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September 3rd, 2010 at 5:47 am |
Thats great that you have included your family in this. Your kids will remember this all their lives and maybe will convert their own rides to electric. Keep up the good work!
September 3rd, 2010 at 6:28 am |
Yeah right, the car had a large dent in the side that I fixed. The engine was fryed and useless so I did this car a favor and gave it a second life.
September 3rd, 2010 at 6:57 am |
you butchered a perfectly fine tiburon!
September 3rd, 2010 at 7:49 am |
That depends on your donor. Creating an Adapter Plate is going to be much harder to do with the Trans in the car in my opinion unless you have a rear wheel drive donor. Since this one was a front wheel drive donor, it was much easier to just remove both at the same time. Then measuring and cutting the adapter plate was much easier. Contact me via Private Message if you want help or a good price on WARP motors. I am a dealer and sell these to people at great prices.
September 3rd, 2010 at 8:43 am |
I’m looking to convert my Mazda MX 5 to electric. Do you really have to pull the engine and the transmission out of the car? Can’t you just unbolt the engine and replace it with the electric motor? I’d think that would be easier.
September 3rd, 2010 at 9:24 am |
The one in this car is an Advanced DC FB-4001A. I have since become a WARP motor dealer so I will only be using WARP Motors now.
September 3rd, 2010 at 10:04 am |
No Problem..we laugh about her smacking and snorting as well. The range has yet to be tested on this vehicle as it only has 7, 12 volts installed currently and it is going to get 5 more before it is done. Should have a 30 mile range when done. That is the goal.
September 3rd, 2010 at 10:37 am |
No problem… Keeps the kids around during the building and with limited range they can’t go that far once they have their licenses…..
September 3rd, 2010 at 11:14 am |
Sorry but I thought it was funny
I’ve looked at the finished project, really cool! Wish I had the fundings for my project. How many miles can u go on one charge?
September 3rd, 2010 at 11:16 am |
thanks for letting me know about your video. my boys have embarked on their project. everyone has been great. nice folks, neat learning experience. besides it gives the kids a reason to come home and saves money. good luck to you.
September 3rd, 2010 at 11:20 am |
Funny, She has alergies and is chewing gum…..Only had one take so I left it as is…. Check out the car driving…. It is rocking and rolling!!!!!
September 3rd, 2010 at 11:34 am |
What is the camera women smackin’ on??!! LOL
September 3rd, 2010 at 12:19 pm |
What kind of engine are you using?
September 3rd, 2010 at 1:06 pm |
This was done with the utmost care. The heavy duty chain was bolted to the engine. It was slowely jacked out with the kids pumping the hoist (far away from the actual engine as you can see) and remember gravity pulls things down. If the chain actually could break the engine would fall down. Nobody was actually underneith it. BTW, I need to get that old engine out of my garage and over to the dump for some salvage cash!!
September 3rd, 2010 at 1:55 pm |
This wasn’t as dangerous as you may think. The chain we used was bolted to the engine and the chain has pulled my 10,000 lbs van out of a ditch in the winter so it easily supported the engine weight. If it broke it would have fallen back into the engine bay (not likily however) and the kids just had fun jacking up the engine out of the bay. The kids enjoy working on the project but I am welding together some battery boxes and they can’t really help with that.
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:27 pm |
Don’t worry, everybody has an opinion these days and I have my own. I am posting videos to try and help people. This engine came out really easily and left lots of room for the New electric motor. Once I get more money I will finish it. I am building battery boxes now. Should have a video up in a week or so. I hope…….
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:29 pm |
Looks great! I’m also doing a conversion (and posting videos). I haven’t seen all of your videos yet, but I will this weekend. I see there’s lots of people giving you a hard time on a bunch of your videos, that’s a bummer.
We’re here for ya, Good Luck
Kyle
(I hope to have mine finished by May)