Taking Parts sans Database
by jayce on July 2, 2010
in Database, Electrical
At the suggestion of Ali, I decided to not bother pretending I’m going to build a nifty database and track all this, but to just start taking parts.
Yesterday I went to drive the Buick and the battery was nearly dead (I blame a defective solar charger that I just started using). I got out the charger and while I was waiting for it, I thought I’d pull the battery from the Civic — after all, it’s doing it no good to be slowly discharging and I can probably use it for something else … like jump-starting the Buick. Alas, it didn’t have enough juice, but I think it helped a little in conjunction with the charger.
Now I have a car battery. I’m working on converting a gas scooter to electric, so I may use that battery to test the electronics. I got the corrosion cleaned off of it and set it to charging last night. This morning it was done, and seemingly holding a charge. I’m sure it’s not like-new, but it holds a bit of energy.
The Low Hanging Fruit
In taking Sassy apart, I’m going to start with the “low hanging fruit”. I’m sure I can sell the OEM alloy wheels on eBay. The VTEC-E engine might be a popular thing too, but I’ll need to figure out how to ship an engine. Likewise with the transmission … a nice bolt-on for someone toying with an electric vehicle conversion, for instance (plus I have the original clutch in the garage). The control computer will probably fetch a good price too.