Rear Seat Delete Install

One of the key challenges of the EV Challenge is to make sure your team's vehicle looks as stock as possible, basically to make the car look like nothing was changed on it. In order to meet this requirement, our team has removed the rear seat that was in our Mustang, but installed a rear-seat delete kit supplied by Late Model Restoration. The rear seat delete consists of three pieces of thin plywood covered with carpet to simulate the rear seats and provides some extra cargo space under the "seat". The install was pretty easy and went very well. The Mustang's interior should look great now going into the EV Challenge this weekend.

Clinton and Tyler installing the rear seat delete kit.

Clinton secures the lip piece of the rear-seat delete kit to the bench part.

The rear seat delete after being installed into the car.

The car is in the final stages of its conversion as our team races to finish before the competition. The next step includes rigging a kill switch onto the main batteries, installing new tires and wheels onto the Mustang, and completing the interior.

Controller, DC/DC Converter, and Aux. Battery Install

With the EV Challenge coming up this weekend, the team is starting to feel the time crunch, but is still making great progress. Just last week, we installed our Soliton 1 controller, Curtis DC/DC Converter, and our 12-volt Auxiliary battery supplied by Interstate Battery Company. The controller and one extra 8-volt battery are fitted on a plate produced by GP Fabrications that is positioned just above the electric motor.

Our car's engine compartment before we installed all of the hardware.

Hunter Foulks deciding on which way to install the plate with the controller and battery.

The controller and battery after being installed into the car.

Eli Strickland examines the electric motor before the plate is installed.

Under the hood after the controller and extra battery after being installed.

DC/DC Converter (Small black box to the left) and auxiliary battery(to the right) after being installed.

Our car's 12-volt auxiliary battery supplied by Interstate Battery Company.

Our car's Curtis DC/DC Converter.

As of Sunday, May 15, the wheels on our Mustang turned under the power of the motor. This is a great sign that our vehicle is almost complete and ready to compete this weekend.