I've been mulling over some ideas for the past few days. The 914 doesn't run well at all when its cold and after going to the DEQ, I realized that I'm going to need a lot of work to get the car to pass emissions (it's a rather gross polluter right now). So, given that it's cold and rainy for a few months and I have the suspension, I decided to start the conversion, despite not having all the parts from ElectroAuto yet.
You know what that means: Time to buy toys! (er... tools) Most of my battery management research has been done at work using the equipment there, so I decided to bring the experiments home and analyze them with a cheap analog oscilloscope ($390 from Frys). I also ran out to Harbor Freight and got a 2.25 ton floor jack. Since I'm working out of a one-car garage (tight!), I need to use only half the handle to jack up the car. In fact, I jacked up the back end of the car this afternoon to poke around under there. I regret not taking more photos, but things look pretty clean.
The next step is to go back to Alan at A & P to replace the suspension and steam clean the engine compartment. Maybe I'll take a day off to go to A & P as well as Farwest Golf Carts to pick up some old 8V golf cart batteries for desulfation testing.
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