Hayabusa Swapped EV Mini Citicar First Drive!

gu on YouTube I never thought I would see that day life Welcome Back to the channel after months of work and over 11 episodes I finally get to drive my hyabusa swap City Car those of you that haven't heard the story this is a 1970s Electric City car that I picked up from an older guy in West Virginia anyways I have a couple weeks worth of progress in this episode so sit back relax and [Music] enjoy so I called in my buddy Striker to help me finish welding this thing and he does a lot of topnotch RZR roll cages and he knows a thing or two about creating that stack of Dimes yours looks better than mine shoot I don't even know what I'm doing I just wanted to see if he could give me some tips on how I could create even better better looking welds and of course I'm using my old trusting reliable Revolution 2500 welder it's an all-in-one machine and I welded this whole car with this one [Music] welder I cut out these stainless steel strut Tower braces and I'm going to weld these into the roll cage I did already brace the front struts so now I'm going to brace these rear ones and the whole reason is aluminum is just kind of sketchy it sometimes when it fails it doesn't give you a warning whereas steel is real [Music] so we got both of the strut braces welded uh next I'm going to add some [Music] gussets so I made these two gussets right [Music] here so I had to strategically place my filler neck to where you have access to it under this seat um and in hindsight I realized that the the cabin is going to smell of gas every time I fill this thing up uh which is why you should have your filler neck on the outside of the car but I didn't really think of that so I'll probably revise that later on or add a second filler neck outside and that is the finished outcome as you can see the filler neck is hidden under the seat and I did pressure test the gas tank all it takes is about 3 PSI and you know you'll be golden getting a little sidetracked here Evolution sent me their new cold cut chops out and it's amazing and so I decided I want to build me a little bumper rebar and so I have some clearance issues with the radiator so I'm going to add in some crumple zones and I'm going to pretend I know exactly what I'm doing but I really don't all right so these are my aluminum coolant tubes next up we need to crimp the ends on both sides and then we could slide our radiator hoses on the water will have a lot more cooling effect flowing through aluminum tubes rather than hoses now this is the poor man's way of bead rolling your tubing is grab you a set of Chanel loock 909 pliers and you can easily bead roll any tubing like this it helps to heat it up a little bit but I've seen guys do this on their 1,500 horsepower cars with no issues and I definitely haven't had any issues with this method since I'm running an electric water pump I got to relocate my water outlets and man this stuff was so hard to weld but luckily Rock Mount came in clutch they sent me their Neptune take filler wire I've used this stuff in the past and it works amazing for dirty aluminum also in applications where you don't know what alloy you're welding [Music] what I'm going to move on to now try to finish our shifter this is going to be how I'm going to Route the shifting cable around the headers that's the only way I could do it we're going to have to cut up part of this Tunnel right here so I pressed out this tube for the that end of the cable and it's going to slide over like that and then get secured on and then we'll cut an aluminum Tab out for that this side and then hopefully it [Music] works so guys we have a very special piece for the shifter this is off the GSXR 600 buggy that my subscriber gave to me and I actually donated that chassis to one of my other subscribers now if you take a look at his cable it's not very straight it has to snake around the engine so I still don't know if this is going to work I'm going to cut out some tabs for the shifter plop it down right there and weld [Music] it could work okay Moment of Truth it works wow yeah it works but there is a lot of slack in this cable that worked a lot better than I thought so guys it turns out a Miata master cylinder will bolt directly into the city car I just have to drill the holes a little bit bigger and then I'm also hoping that I can use motorcycle brake lines with these banjo bolts because originally this thing takes uh flare nuts and so I hate building hard lines for brakes they're so annoying so hopefully these motorcycle lines will save me a bunch of time [Music] okay sweet and here it is yeah see this thing is huge so yeah that's about how much technology has came in 20 years no actually 10 okay yeah so we did have to dble the holes a little bit but it does [Music] fit right so I'm working on the spool here and like I said I'm going to have turnbuckles that tie into the engine to keep constant chain tension on the Chain there's quite a bit of run out uh so I'm hoping it'll be fine so all we have left is the clutch the gas pedal finish the cooling system and then wire everything up and that's it which that's kind of a lot of work but anyways I'm doing some remote leading here with my master cylinder I'm hoping I could just mount it like that okay so it does seem to be working like this but you know I've heard folks say that it's it causes [Music] problems pretty lucky to have a whole bunch of Hayabusa parts we got to take this flywheel off and put put it on this engine because these uh 2000 engines are 16 bit $1 1999 two 2001 are 16 bit the newer ones are 32bit I'll show you the difference I got to take this off and put it on there to get the flywheel off you just use a M20 drain plug so basically to explain it a little bit better the 16bit systems cannot be flash tuned and you cannot program quick shifters in and all that stuff uh they do make Power commanders but you just can't flash tune them so that is the difference between a 16bit flywheel and a 32-bit flywheel see it has way more magnets on here if you want to do this conversion yourself you're going to need a new flywheel a new wiring harness and a ECU from a 32bit ear all right that's good enough all right and then the last thing on the list is to swap ecus let's go oh okay 2 hours later turns out the seller sold me a bad fuel pump I put the original one back in let's see if it starts that's better all right I forgot what take this is so check this out I got a Billet fuel rail I really didn't need this I just wanted to have the port relocated so you can see our uh gas tank is all the way over there the fuel line is like 3 ft long so instead of having the inlet here it's going to be right [Music] [Music] here all right and I just want to make sure that the pressure up here is uh 43 PSI at the bare [Music] minimum we are right at 43 PSI so it was at 45 so it did lose 2 PSI okay hopefully the airbox makes it run better all right guys I've had some challenges trying to figure out how to do this Outlet so here's what I've came up with I just cut out a new flange with a 5/8 hole that's going to act as our restrictor to uh you know pull more heat out of the engine believe it or not that that restriction is needed um I'm just going to have to fine-tune that hole I'm going to weld on our nipple on here I am kind of worried about it trapping air in the system but I hope that doesn't and that is the flangel finished I pressure tested and held pressure so we're going to put it back on the engine that's the filler neck right there and I'm going to go ahead and O pour pour in some water just because if there's any leaks I don't want to waste the coolant okay guys it's a good thing I poured water in there because there's a bunch of leaks but luckily they're all from the hose clamps now I am having an issue though this uh Bosch water pump it has a safety feature it won't run when dry and just the way that I have it set up I didn't realize that it was going to run dry you know there's so much coolant lines that filling it up through here just doesn't work um so I'm going to have to add a filler neck right here at the radiator I did have to relocate the water pump down to the lowest level okay guys so it turns out I had to bleed the water pump so I wired it into my high beams so check this out dang that's a working cooling system system this thing is fast dude it's flowing like I think it's it flows like 5 gallons a minute or maybe even more than that it's full of water but I'm going to add this uh super cool additive uh just about half the bottle and hopefully that uh keeps me covered okay guys I am going to do my first load test I'm going to spin the wheels apply the brakes see if anything flexes if it can handle it I did change out the spark plugs there's there's going to be a bogging issue but I think that's because the injectors might be kind of dirty so I'm going to clean the injectors tomorrow but uh I'm going to see what it does for now SC it actually works all this was empty before I started the video except for a couple of these things and yeah we're almost there so I'm going to go ahead and erase that and we got a new set of uh things that we got to worry about okay so I got the hardest extended uh that's all the wire basically recycled from the city car the next step was to clean my injectors up so my buddy has this nice injector cleaner we cleaned uh eight injectors we found one bad one and then we flow tested them and found these four perfect ones and then I thre threw them all in the bag and I forgot which one were which so yeah why are the jet the Jets aren't you know symmetrical or oh it's actually off just one so uh you want to take a picture of that that's wild that's like that's like really bad dang uh let's run it again wait that might be the one that dropped on the on the floor actually it could very well be uh should have marked it dang no you can see it yeah you can see yeah that one I'm just going to throw away yeah go ahead and drop kick that one all right guys so this is this is nerve-wracking right [Music] here all right guys first gear this is nerve-wracking [Music] dude again man we're going guys it just has no power really hoping that's a tip over sensor that's what I've been having issues with just keeps cutting Fuel and our gearing I I thought the gearing was going to be spot on but it's down on power man dang it yeah guys this thing just has no power for some reason I mean I did everything I cleaned injectors I changed the spark plugs I put a brand new fuel pump in the only thing that could be wrong is the cam timing is messed up see all that heat is radiating radiating into the cabin so we got to we got to do something about that the bushing is bad and it's rubbing the rim all right guys I reviewed the footage and I realized there's two cylinders that aren't even running and then it dawned on me that I had swapped the coils backwards so so there were two cylinders that weren't even running and that explains why it was backfiring on idle guys so check this out so I assumed this was like a car and the shorter wire goes like 1 2 3 4 but these two coils need to be swapped around but I was watching Brock's performance on YouTube and I realized that the blue uh should be this one right here it's not like a car so yeah I guess my ignorance the next day he guys so I did change uh drain all the old oil out it did smell like gas just kind of concerning but I mean it's a Suzuki wow sounds so much better that's so much better [Music] wow dude it's not your name wow so much better [Music] all right we're going to do a baby pool [Music] [Music] here go over the [Music] Poli wow so much [Music] better right here we go [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] let's freaking go guys so much nerve so much time went into this thing and to finally see it ripping is just amazing n that calls the [Music] second [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay guys so the temps are staying very good not overheating which is good and it's just running straight water with just a little bit of the additive guys I am very surprised that this drivetrain is holding up although I'm going to redo all of it because I don't really like how it looks um but I guess don't fix what's not broke so I'll see and then I'm going to redo the whole exhaust system uh probably make it even more quieter the straight pipe was just not a good call are you the guy on YouTube yeah you have a channel doing that thing yeah man I never thought I would see that thing in life yeah finally got it running really you got a video on it I have a tck oh you got okay oh boy it's F I want to give an incredible shout out to Schnitz Racing they made all this possible they sent me the Billet oil pan the water pump delete and so go ahead and check them out down in the description if you need motorcycle parts crossrocket parts ECU flashes they got it all anyways I got a lot of work to improve on this thing but I'm actually surprised the drive train held up one of my biggest concerns was the drivetrain and it it's holding up and as you can see I only have one turnbuckle here even with one turnbuckle it's it's actually holding up I want to add a firewall clean this thing up uh harnesses even more chassis reinforcement although I didn't really feel any chassis flexes I'm going to redo the rear struts uh yeah just you know a couple more episodes before this thing is all dialed in and perfect but I think I want to take a little break from this thing but there's going to be plenty more videos to come so with that being said guys I hope youall enjoyed stay tuned peace God [Music] bless

Channel: Vasily Builds

Views: 175,249

Keywords: race car, ev conversion, how to fix a tesla, race car motorcycle engine, car engine hayabusa, suzuki hayabusa, rich rebuilds, time lapse, smart hayabusa, engine swap, race car bike engine, car engine motorcycle, car engine bike, mini hayabusa, smart hayabusa drag

Id: P-yZoSq-N5k

Length: 23min 42sec (1422 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 10 2024