Coating the plate with blue dye for drill holes. The book that is open is a copy of "Convert It", a very popular book for electrical car conversion. You can buy it for about .00.

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Frank > This is a picture of the aluminum plate that will attach the motor to the transmission. Adapter plate kits are sold for bugs, but at the cost of $600.00. We decided to make our own. so with this plate we will drill holes for the transmission and the motor.

Frank > Coating the plate with blue dye for drill holes. The book that is open is a copy of "Convert It", a very popular book for electrical car conversion. You can buy it for about $25.00.

Frank > Now we are ready to drill the holes. The drill press makes drilling easy.

Frank > A close up view of how we made the drill marks. You can see how Justin carefully marked each hole after determining the radius.

Frank > Some wires that need to be removed. I took this picture so I would know how they go back.

Frank > Another wiring picture here. I don't want to forget. That rust in the back ground will be removed and painted soon enough.

Frank > Here is a picture of the motor on the left and the VW flywheel on the right. The shaft of the motor must align with the inner diameter of the flywheel.

Frank > Here is a picture of the aluminum plate mounted to the motor.

Frank > A piece of Stainless steel being machined by Justin. This hunk of steel is used to connect the motor shaft to the flywheel.

Coating the plate with blue dye for drill holes. The book that is open is a copy of "Convert It", a very popular book for electrical car conversion. You can buy it for about $25.00.

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