Engine Removal of Hyundai Tiburon Electric Car Conversion

[RocketMaker10000]

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.....

[Scorpion85629]

Damn, I hope my daughter grows to love working in the garage with me.

[maxpaul11]

parts are already obsolete for this car

[jdmderick]

can the dude filming it stop sniffing his snot or stop chewing gum.

[RocketMaker10000]

a Very bad allergy sufferer filmed this, my apoligies to your sensative ears....

[thechamp6199]

its tiburon

not tibAron

[RocketMaker10000]

What are you 12? Cawfee or Coffee....What differeence does that make?

[pipersall]

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!

[mixtronic]

you butchered a perfectly fine tiburon!

[RocketMaker10000]

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.

[ferraridriver16]

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.

[RocketMaker10000]

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.

[louisrosa]

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.

[RocketMaker10000]

No problem... Keeps the kids around during the building and with limited range they can't go that far once they have their licenses.....

[PeeweeFromSweden]

What is the camera women smackin' on??!! LOL

[RocketMaker10000]

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!!!!!

[PeeweeFromSweden]

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?

[RocketMaker10000]

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.

[blacktalon606]

What kind of engine are you using?

[RocketMaker10000]

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.

[kylehondarider]

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)

[RocketMaker10000]

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.......

[landkratzer]

dude i`ve never seen somebody so unprofessional taking out an engine, safety first... take care!!

[RocketMaker10000]

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!!

[RocketMaker10000]

This one is a 2003 Tiburon. It has a small dent in the side but it is repairable. My project is on hold temporarily. Money is tight but my plan is to finish it by next summer. I am at the point where I need to order $7000 worth of parts and that is going to put a strain on cash flow. Once I get cash flow back to normal I will buy the parts. Plus battery prices keep going up. That hurts this project as well.

[visualvideos]

Why would you start project like this and extract the motor without having the parts to convert on hand? I admire the fact you want to have a cleaner running car, but it doesn't make sense to rip apart a car that's only 5 years old only to sit for nearly a year.

[RocketMaker10000]

I bought the car with a bad engine and got it for a good price so it ends up being my project car. I put the electric engine in tonight and listened to the radio to hear that Obama is now our president elect. I will video the engine in the car so that people can see all the space inside the engine bay for the rest of the components. This car was sitting around for over 6 months by the previous owner outside. At least she is inside my garage while she gets the electric makeover!!!

[visualvideos]

Cool, I can't wait to see your video and progress. Thanks for your reply.

[RocketMaker10000]

Gas is fine...Electric Car is going to be awesome!! Driving around in a car that plugs in at night and is ready to go in the morning. Nothing like pulling out of the garage without the smell of CO2 lingering in my garage and then pumped around the house by the forced hot air oil burning heater. That will be the next thing to go I am sure. Enjoy $5 a gallon next summer. You thought this summer was tough.....

[HKseanhk]

thats stupid! lol why? gas isnt that bad! epic fail.

[RocketMaker10000]

I have 8 kids and one coming....We still have to ride in a ICE. It would be fun to convert a Ford E350 Van someday!!!!

[Odziz]

Great project, nice to see the kids helping as its going to be their future ride.

[scientastic]

I came from a big family too, and I appreciate being able to do stuff like this... but this looks a little dangerous for the young ones to be hanging around, don't you think?

[RocketMaker10000]

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.