Interesting project! I came here from another Excel video on which you commented. I hope your fusion goes well and even adds more rigidity to an already brilliant chassis. When do you expect your car to be roadworthy?
With my current rate of progress, I'm not putting any expectation on getting it on the road. I keep getting interrupted fixing other stuff and silly things like buying another Excel.
@@EVguru Congratulations on the acquisition. Hopefully that means you'll be driving an Excel sooner than later. I've gotta warn you though. Once you start driving it you may not want to do much of anything else... :-) I also have to say that having a fully electric Excel that also converts to a submarine like the one they made in Top Gear would be one of the coolest cars in the world. It seems the electric drive would be ideal for that type of build. It has certainly haunted my thoughts for a number of years. I heard that when Elon Musk bought the "Wet Nellie" Esprit used in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, he vowed to make it into working and driving car and submersible. I've wondered if anyone would ever beat him to the punch. The more the merrier I say. Godspeed Paul!
@@samrobinson9091 The latest Excel was supposedly ready to run, other than being well overdue a cambelt (on age, not miles). The cambelt change turned into a complete carburettor rebuild after seeing how much fuel was leaking from the acellerator pumps. It has now made a 180 mile round trip to Colchester, but there's more to fettle as the steering rack has play.
@@EVguru That should be fun. Incredible how things have moved on in the EV world in a few short years since the days of Yellow Tops, DC controllers and series motors!
Great job Paul,keep to it mate, going to end up a dream..Great videos too.
Nice project. Pity they never got us those pocket lasers from 60’s sci-fi.
Interesting project, looking forward to lots of more videos.
Excellent work, great to see the progress. Love the attention to detail.
fascinating video Paul. Thank you.
Looking good mate.
Hope you took plenty of measurements before cutting the end off. 😝
Interesting project! I came here from another Excel video on which you commented. I hope your fusion goes well and even adds more rigidity to an already brilliant chassis. When do you expect your car to be roadworthy?
With my current rate of progress, I'm not putting any expectation on getting it on the road. I keep getting interrupted fixing other stuff and silly things like buying another Excel.
@@EVguru Congratulations on the acquisition. Hopefully that means you'll be driving an Excel sooner than later. I've gotta warn you though. Once you start driving it you may not want to do much of anything else... :-) I also have to say that having a fully electric Excel that also converts to a submarine like the one they made in Top Gear would be one of the coolest cars in the world. It seems the electric drive would be ideal for that type of build. It has certainly haunted my thoughts for a number of years. I heard that when Elon Musk bought the "Wet Nellie" Esprit used in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, he vowed to make it into working and driving car and submersible. I've wondered if anyone would ever beat him to the punch. The more the merrier I say. Godspeed Paul!
@@samrobinson9091 The latest Excel was supposedly ready to run, other than being well overdue a cambelt (on age, not miles). The cambelt change turned into a complete carburettor rebuild after seeing how much fuel was leaking from the acellerator pumps. It has now made a 180 mile round trip to Colchester, but there's more to fettle as the steering rack has play.
I'm so looking forward to when you let us in on the powertrain setup. Have you decided or is it going to progress organically?
I've talked about it before. Leaf EM61 motor with single stage reduction box, 160Kw inverter (post 2018 Leaf). MG ZS battery pack.
@@EVguru That should be fun. Incredible how things have moved on in the EV world in a few short years since the days of Yellow Tops, DC controllers and series motors!