Well that's the problem right there.

Took care of the remaining rust problem.  I had planed to mount the DMOC 440 and charger in the trunk; so I knew fixing all the rust during the painting would be a waste.

 But after placing everything into position.  The batteries REALLY wanted to be in the trunk.

So now the get their wish.
The DMOC 440 and battery charger are being installed in the engine bay where they can cool themselfs to their hearts content.

Look what I found!

I went to a local Nissan dealership to pick up some information; and guess what they had on the lot?

A brand new Leaf. They had gotten two, and dropped one of them off the previous night. But the second was still there. Waiting in the rain.

The sales women was very nice and got the keys and let me and my girl take a look. First of all it was very well built. And look like a completely normal car (which you would expect).

Lots of room in the back. It was interesting to see it in person; after having read a couple of blogs that talked about how boring a car it looked. I didn't get that at all. I guess I haven't purchased enough Italian cars yet, to get a sense that a nice new five door hatch-back is boring.

I will note that the bug-eye front lights are far 'more' than I had expected. I don't think my camera phone did them justice. They are REALLY 3D!!! I had known that they are big. I didn't know that they actually raised up out of the cars.

The photos I had always seen kind of showed them flush with the car; they're not. It would be interesting to see more cars with forward facing fins! (Yes bring back cars with fins on them!)

Big toys!

Got my big old motor. I was thinking that maybe this motor is just too big for the car; but then I reminded myself that it is a Porsche after all. And isn't putting a giant motor into a tiny car what Porsche is all about?

Well as you can see it is an AC 55 motor.

Picture from behind. The silver spot is where a temperature sensor used to be. It didn't make it and had been disconnected at some point. So I just removed it.

Now here is what the front should look like (this is from Ross's Electro Jeep blog).

This is what mine look like. Not quite sure how I'll mount the clutch plate and transmission to it. I'm thinking of making some type of adapter ring.

There seems to be enough spline for a number of options. But nothing is leaping out at me. Of course since it's a 200+ lbs motor; I'm going to have to be mindful of stress when it's mounted.

Sorry about the horrible quality of that last shot. It's showing 2" (trust me).

Working but not working..

Currently the 914 is still getting ready for it's big reveal. How they do these in one week really is a mystery to me now. Still fabricating metal for the rusted out pieces. The hood, doors and trunk lid are completed and primed. The passenger compartment is complete and the trunk is almost done. We're still working on the engine bay rust.

Oddly the soda blasting is working for and against us. The bare metal is a breeze to fabricate and weld to. But because the job was done so well; the priming paint job requires two coats (minimum) to fully protect. Cal-Blasters got to every nook and cranny; so now the paint has to as well.

Did I mention this car is going to rock? I'll try and get some photo's next time I'm at the shop.