EV Beetle Conversion Project

 The car has quite a simple instrument cluster, and a single CAN Bus network.  The instrument cluster is mostly simple signals but a few are required to keep it happy. The cluster has a dynamic oil pressure warning, meaning that over ~800rpm the oil pressure pin needs pulling to ground otherwise the cluster shows an error and beeps. The RPM signal is on the CAN Bus, ID 0x280 where Bytes 2 and 3: RPM*4, I'll have my custom ECU replacement send out this signal. 2 Other CAN BUS messages appear to be required:  0x 488, this contains a counter,  Byte 0: Counter 0-F << 4 + 8, Byte 1-4: 21, 21, 7E, A6, Byte 5-6: 0, Byte 7: Counter 0-F << 4 0x580, this also contains the counter and some static data,  Byte 0: 0x80 + counter 0-F,  Byte 1, 2: 0, Byte 3: sequence 0x0f, 0x28, 0x7f, 0x28, Byte 4: sequence 0x1e, 0x10, 0x00, 0x10, Byte 5: sequence 0x70, 0x56, 0xf0, 0x56, Byte 6: sequence 0x0c, 0x48, 0xa7, 0x48, Byte 7: sequence 0x46, 0x90, 0x28, 0x90

 There's about 30mm space between the gearbox and motor that needs making up and they also need some way of affixing. I decided to try and use some box section to bolt the 2 together. This might have been successful, had I drilled more accurate holes. The motor has a wiggle on when the bolts are loose and when it's all tightened up, the motor is unable to spin, due to the mis-alignment.   I should have used a drill press and some proper transfer punches instead of a hand held drill and a bolt that had a point for a punch. If you are following along at home, take your time with this step and drill accurate holes, others have managed it. Anyway, photos attached for your amusement. I went in search of help from an expert, I put a post in a couple of the motorbiking groups on Facebook looking for someone to help with the situation. Garry from G S Precision engineering answered my call, and with the gearbox and motor dropped off a couple of days before Xmas, I move on to other thing

 I have the original Beetle clutch and a clutch plate from a Ford Fiesta. I just needed to join them together, simple, right? I cut away the friction material from both clutch plates and had someone from EBay make a part on a lathe that both halves could be pressed in to. Spoiler, I don't think this resulted in both clutch spline patterns being perfectly true. After welding the parts together and trying to clean up without a lathe, the result isn't pretty.