World's FIRST Tesla Swapped Liberty Walk Nissan 350Z is FINALLY BACK!

hey there and welcome back to the throttle channel we've got some exciting content for you guys today and as you can see in the background it's about the 350z electric project if you haven't been following this build from the start we got this car pretty much as a bare bones 350z rolling shell it was at that time that we decided to put a tesla motor in it and build an electric car we started by mounting an entire tesla rear subframe into our 350z chassis inside that tesla subframe is the tesla motor and inverter as well as the axles and all the other suspension bits that typically tie in on a subframe because the tesla subframe is so wide we decided to add a liberty walk wide body kit by adding that we're able to encase the wheels under the fenders and also update the front end to a 370z face then we took the car over to stealth ev where we started the battery and wiring work now the car is back in the throttle shop and we're finally getting ready for final assembly and wiring now we know this thing's been on a bit of a hiatus from the channel but it has been getting worked on in the background you've probably seen that in some of the other videos like the freak and the eclipse there's just this random dude bebop and around the shop that you've never seen before and that happens to be my boy will here we're excited to have will here we hope you guys welcome him leave a comment down below saying welcome to the channel will you know cheer him on because he is the sole person behind getting this card done in a timely fashion i'm going to be helping him and ricky and i will be bouncing in and out to give him a hand where he needs it but uh this is on will's shoulders now and uh it's a big project so i cannot wait to get this thing running under its own power and uh yeah man it's an important job and i'm happy to have you here thanks i'm happy to be here so let's get into the content and get you guys caught up all right well as you can see i am not at throttle at the moment and that's because i am up in oceanside california at stealth ev which as you guys know is where we've been working on our 350z project and we're going to be installing our queef limited slip differential in our tesla motor i've never done a limited slip differential in an electric motor before we're also going to be installing some new bearings and those are from skf as you can see right there on the box and hopefully this will get both wheels spinning right so we can do some skids in our z that's the goal [Music] all right well matt had me pull the cover off of what's this side of the motor called that's the boot the inverter side of the engine of the motor converter side of the motor not the engine and man this thing is chock full of technology holy crap a lot of circuit boards in here and this is three phases you said unbelievable man this is kind of kind of intimidating and scary all at the same time for me not for you i'm sure because you do not do much in here this time so it's not not too bad okay so what was the purpose for taking this part off okay so there's a uh the mr wire that runs from the buddha side to the motor side you point that out that's gonna be was it buried it's pretty buried it's down it's this one this white one okay snakes down behind there right and we're just getting some extra slack in that wire okay let me split this thing in half so maybe cutting these zip ties well the three zip ties will allow us to sort of move that wire [Music] so that now allows a little bit more play there with that wire yeah all right so just a little background so stealth ev this is what they do stuff like this daily this is their business the reason i'm here is because they are the experts in this type of technology and doing these type of conversions stealth provides us as a service you can hit up stealth tv you can click the link in the description description down below to reach out to them but please only reach out if you're serious about this don't uh just send them random questions and comments just for fun cause that's no good for anybody i'm looking forward to get my hands inside this thing so this wire was tight essentially here because of the zip ties so matt went ahead and just scooched the wire as far this way as possible because this is connected to something inside the motor and as we pull that side of the motor apart we need this slack to kind of move it away because there is no way to just disconnect it easily [Music] all right well we got the this side of the motor button back up went ahead and cleaned out the inside cleaned off the flanges ran a little scotch brite over the mounting surface and also tossed a little bit of red rubber grease on the uh rubber seal inside so no elements can get inside here i also went ahead and made a quick note inside the housing that just states that this was opened and cleaned today and we installed an lsd in this thing today so whoever gets this motor down the road potentially if they ever pull it apart there's some sort of indicator that we've been in there and what we did to it i also went ahead at matt's direction scotch-brited the connectors for the high voltage and went ahead and we tossed on some silver paste which will help with conductivity we do need to drain all of the oil out of it so we're gonna go ahead and pop the drain plug off this thing we've got a quick little drain pan that was uh made up by matt here it's just an old water bottle that's been cut and sits underneath the pallet here because they do quite a few of these so we're going to pull the drain plug check that oil and see what kind of condition it's in [Music] all right before we start cracking this thing in half by removing all of the 13-millimeter bolts that hold the clam shell together there is a tricky little guy under here that has an aluminum plate over it with two torx bits in it so you'll want to remove those for sure so that's gonna hold it together i'm gonna go ahead and pull the rest of these bolts out [Music] all right well we found a little surprise inside our motor maybe a piece of bearing material not sure sounds like we hit the lottery i'm not messing with you this time lots of metal in here but we need to find out we need to find out where it came from to see if we're replacing the broken parts anyway it was sitting right here yeah the diff pin slid out came out it's gonna unfold i see it right here i'm replacing that right you can see the diff pin sitting down here it's kind of wedged in holy cow so this thing might have locked up that's what the pin is in here we've never even seen that ever no no i said you won the logo man i don't know if you can see down here but the diff pin that locks the differential into place here is completely dropped out the bottom and majority of these motors come from crash cars right so they're salvaged cars that have been taken apart so who knows this thing could have been in a super tragic accident and like as a result of the accident so we'll go ahead and pull it apart see where we're at well that's a sign that it's been in there for a minute hey wow shrapnel that's no small piece of metal either all right well hopefully we avoided any other damage and we're replacing this guy anyway so hopefully all right we've got our motor opened up remove the 10 mil nuts off the back of the uh i guess this is capturing the differential to the outside yeah by the axle as you can see matt's kind of dragging it out one thing he did mention to me was you kind of want to open this thing up like a book because of that thermistor wiring that's back there you don't want to put any pressure on that because you could damage it that's about as far as you can split this one some of them you get a little more room there it is beauty she's out now we gotta take her apart and add our quaff parts onto there oh yeah you got it all right guys real quick i want to let you know that all the new merch is live on the site you guys have been absolutely killing it we are running low on some of the stock of some of the items so if you are interested in getting your entries in to win the supra i recommend doing it right now pause the video hop on over to our site check out the top link in the description and check that out because every one dollar you spend is one entry to win and we're gonna be picking the winner here very very soon all right guys and one more thing we are also going to socal euro this sunday october 3rd we're bringing the ice cream truck we're bringing a ton of cars it's going to be an awesome time so if you're in the southern california area you want to make a road trip head on over to socal europe i'll put the link in the video description for everything so you guys can check that out that's it now enjoy the rest of the video [Music] welcome back everybody we've got the long awaited 350 ev update for you guys and i've got someone i need to introduce because he's new to our channel here this is will you say what's up will what's up now actually i'll begin by saying that i met will he was doing some contract work for stealth ev as you guys know we work with stealthy v quite closely on our 350 ev project but for now we've got the car at our shop we've got to get some stuff done so we brought will down here to our place and he's going to help us but i'm going to let him update you guys on where we are and what we're about to do next ah they've actually got a lot of the hardest work done on this thing now it's just kind of connecting everything between the high voltage and the uh 12 volt and making it all work what is this is this a road map or what is this basically a road map yeah and like i said you got like 80 of this done right but it's all this stuff back here that we need to kind of figure out and route we've got some loom we got some heat shrink we got some cables to run and we have some charge boards to put in a lot of fun stuff to begin will and i are going to get caught up on where we left off because it's been a little while since we've touched this thing and we've got some catching up to do so the good news is for you guys is we're going to be working on this thing a whole lot more because will is going to be here pretty much every day until it's done we want to see this thing running we've got our work cut out for us but it's going to be exciting and i can't wait to see this thing run under its own power so let's go ahead and start in the rear back here and give you guys an idea of where we are currently that way you're caught up so this is the back of the car we've got our honda civic radiator mounted back here and this is going to cool our tesla drivetrain our tesla engine or motor sorry motor not in engine is gas consuming that's right so we've got our electric motor back here we've got our full tesla subframe mounted into the 350z which is pretty cool that's really the hard part of this whole project is getting a way to mount all this stuff in here now either you need to make your own custom subframe or you can do what we did and actually fit a full tesla rear subframe in the car or portions of it what it did do was widen the track dramatically on the car so as you can see we had to put wide body fenders in order to encapsulate our tire which worked out perfectly we've got a liberty walk wide body kit on this which is pretty unique so as you can see here we remove the rear seat panel area these cars don't have rear seats but oddly enough they did have like indents for rear seats if they wanted to add them i guess at some point in production but we did cut all that out we added a bunch of materials in here so that we can put a battery box back here that's going to house four tesla batteries our battery management system and a bunch of our contactors and a bunch of wiring and cooling so that box is still up at stealthy v we will get that here this week and get that mounted back up in the car it basically sits in this area right here and we've got all of our cabling routed our high voltage cabling from the motor to the box and then the box to the front battery box which i'll get to in a second now as you know so this is electric vehicle we no longer are using the transmission tunnel area because we don't have a transmission anymore so we've used that to route some cabling we've got some other stuff that's going to need to go up in this area as this becomes a very valuable cavity underneath the car this is a battery box that's basically the shape of a small block chevy v8 we know that fits in a z so we knew the box would fit so here it is it sits on the existing subframe and it mounts on the front frame rails and on the back frame rails back here on both sides and this will support another additional 12 batteries cooling and our thermistor wire and then we have a full-size 350z radiator up here and this is going to cool down our batteries and i think that's it the battery's in the charger here's where our high voltage cable terminates for now but that's going to go into the battery box here we're pretty far along in this process it's basically now just connecting the dots the cool thing about working with will is he's laid out all of this stuff for us already in a blueprint will wants to get the thermistor expansion module mounted and this is doing what so this is going to go to each of the battery modules in the front box and read the temperature of the coolant going in and coming out this is a power module and this is also the data that's sending to our battery management system so will already kind of specked out a place he wants to put it we're going to put it up underneath the glove box which is out of the elements which is good because these are not weather packed um so we want to keep these in a dry safe place and then we need to run the thermistor wiring to the front battery box correct so we'll have to bulkhead the firewall or something or a pass through yeah one other unit that's going to have to go under here as well which one is that so that is the orion wi-fi connect this allows you to communicate with your vms on your cell phone okay sweet over the over the wi-fi land so that can either go up here along with this uh vms thermostat module or it can actually go back here it doesn't have to go underneath the dash oh okay i'm thinking this might be good back here because you can reset and join a new wi-fi lan if you're not at home and you want to log on to your over ibm so your buddy's house we can't use this pocket because this pocket is where i keep my i got you okay just kidding we're gonna put it there so this is gonna communicate with our cell phone and allow us to know the the status of our battery orion makes a lot of really cool stuff for these conversions yeah anything that has to do with the battery management system okay sweet and we're told that's kind of the industry standard like the the baller style special projects and yeah high-end projects sweet so we're in good hands uh so we'll go ahead and put you guys on time lapse and you guys can see will install this real quick [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right so now that we have our thermistor expansion module for the bms system mounted underneath the dash just behind the glove compartment that's going to keep it out of the elements now we have a couple of wiring harnesses to get from this module itself down to the front box inside of the engine bay now our small connector just to the right there is our power and coms the two larger connectors to the left of that are for the thermistors themselves so we got two wiring harnesses and we need to get through the firewall and we're going to go and show you the process of that these are not labeled so we need to go ahead and lay out some tape write down some labels and throw them on the end of these so we don't lose track between the pins and the harness and the ends of the wires once we get down to the front battery box alright so we have our harness opened up and as you can see there is quite a length between the harness plug and the end of the wires we actually printed up the document from orionvms.com that tells us which ones are the grounds and which ones are the thermistors that go back to that reference ground uh for every five thermistors there is a reference ground they'll kind of pigtail together and reference the same ground so we've got to really be really careful about our labeling difference between ground and the thermistors that reference that we're going to take our time i'm just going to time lapse this you guys don't need to watch the whole thing [Music] so now we have both of our harnesses done these are the leads that will be going through the firewall through the cable land and what we're going to do now is put them in kind of a trunk uh close end expandable loom to protect them keep them together these are very small wires and smaller wires have thinner insulation since we're punching through a firewall which is metal there's going to be sharp edges potentially on top of having expandable loom on the wires but we're also going to be doing a cable gland and we're going to actually be oversizing this cable gland because not only are we having these thermistors punch through the firewall but potentially some 12-volt wiring a couple of other wires that are going between all these components we have a lot of things that need to connect and the fewer penetrations through the firewall that we can make the better so we're going to aim for that we have all of our uh all of our thermistor leads taped to about the same length now we're going to go ahead and test fit this 3 8 expandable see if it's good that's looking pretty promising [Music] okay so we are ready to go ahead and put the cable gland in place in order for these thermistor wires to come through the firewall we've actually got pretty nice little spot kind of taped out i've done a pilot hole to test where it is on the side of the cabin it's actually going to have a pretty nice path once it gets through this firewall now once it is on the outside of the firewall then it's going to be a perfect kind of kink route up right here and then it's going to go down along the side of the box [Music] all right so we got the hole drilled through the firewall and the cable gland installed it's got a very nice kind of downturn it's going to throw the wires down we'll be able to route them down and through this corner down alongside the box or if we want to we can kind of step them up go behind the box and get to the other side [Music] this thing is all the way through so now what i'm going to do i'm going to take a look at this see where it's going to end up once it's in place oops those are my connections that i need right there powering columns that's going to come from the the back and these are the thermistor wires that we just terminated and we're going to put through okay so i need to route it back up here we got a lot of brackets and stuff that we can fasten these wires to and keep them flopping around making noise uh getting chaffed anything like that so plenty of room this is like this is a really good spot for this there's almost enough room for the wi-fi module too but you want to be able to get get to that in case you need to change the wi-fi network that your module is on so we did not install that under here because we don't want to have to take the glove box and the cover off in order to get to it that being said man we are in good shape these are the spare leads that i ended up not using so once it's in place it's just going to be sitting just like that [Music] all right so we went ahead and wrapped up uh the thermal expansion module is in with all the looms ran it looks actually really nice in here it's nice and clean it's avoiding all the sharp edges there's even a little bit of slack in there for a service loop in case this thing needs to get dropped down or removed and replaced and i don't know if you can see it but it's popping through up into the firewall nice and gradual we did go ahead and do that heat shrink just around the uh the loom as it's inside of the cable gland for added protection and waterproofing now on the outside you can see it's popped through the firewall it's angling right up and we're gonna go and drop it down so let me go ahead and put this uh this car up on the lift and i'll get under there and show you what we do to route it to each the locations that it needs to go to in order to get through the box okay so we went ahead and routed that loom down the back of the battery box and now we have popping down here we went ahead and chopped the loom shorter and we're going to split it into two runs because we have uh 12 thermistors that need to go to the left of the box and 12 that need to go to the right so we're going to go ahead and step down to some smaller loom rounded to about where our penetration in the box is going to be and this thing wrapped up until we're ready to terminate into the box [Music] okay we went ahead and loomed up these individual thermistor wires in the smaller loom uh they're running back into this trunk larger loom we're gonna throw a loose heat shrink tube on here and not quite cinch it up yet because we don't know where this is gonna end up splitting so we're gonna leave that open and i left the full length of these on here because we need to know what route these are going to take in order to get to their termination point before we go cutting these to any kind of length so this is just going to be coiled up and ready for us to go ahead and terminate once uh once we have our connectors in place all right so that pretty much wraps up us initially running these thermistor wires from the thermal expansion module up in the glove box to underneath here so now it's all nice and tucked away around uh not resting on any sharp edges and we now have all 24 of our thermistors ready to go all right guys that is it for today's episode this is just a preview of some of the fancy wiring some of the fabrication and finish work we got to do for this project give us a like subscribe and leave us some comments on what you think is going on with this project and we'll see you next time [Music] you

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Length: 22min 57sec (1377 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 26 2021