Nothing to do with the video but I just want to tell you. Thank you, in a previous video you said you left your ex ex wives and feel much better and you started a new life. I was fairy bumbed out at the same time because my gf left me. But your video/ comments helped me, made me more positive and felt better . I’ve since met a really lovely girl . So thank you

@KiwiEVadventures

7 ай бұрын

That's really good to hear. Time heals all wounds, but some wounds take more time than others. I'm really glad you're improving.

@memorialgardens1664

6 ай бұрын

@@KiwiEVadventures so true 🧠💪🤝

@jaja0374

6 ай бұрын

amazing work

@evjpgarage4976

3 ай бұрын

This guy GAV is an inspiration

@stevenharpervw

3 ай бұрын

Btw I’m from Ireland, so on the other side of the world your helping people too

Your welder friend with the workshop is so charismatic

As others have said, your perseverance and positivity are infectious! Loving seeing this project coming together. One day, i may get to do the same 🤞

So happy to see this latest Allegro electric build project video. Bob is certainly a talented chap & hats off to him for that awesome subframe, fabrication & welding job. Great work from both of you.

It's coming along so nicely, and seeing the motor, subframe, and mounts fit in perfectly was so satisfying to watch!

Gav, brother.... you are such of an inspiration... Since your very first video... Your positivity.... is amazing!!!! Well done again !!! I really can't wait to the next video! I wish you all the very best ! Thank you for the video ! Thank you for the piece of happiness watching you... surviving 2 electric cars... 2 wives... and now... on the 3rd electric car.... probably soon 3rd wife !!! I can't wait to the next video !!!

@KiwiEVadventures

7 ай бұрын

You just put a big smile on my face. Thanks mate. You're a good human.

Fantastic job! I’ve been looking forward to this video for so long. I’m really thankful that you didn’t give in to the algorithm and release a series of 20 videos that that only show tiny bits of progress like most content generators. Clearly a lot of effort went in to this build and to making the video. It’s much appreciated! I can’t wait to see the next one

@KiwiEVadventures

7 ай бұрын

Thanks mate. These videos aren't monetised and I made no profit at all from them. They're created purely to entertain people and share my joy. I don't think anyone does that anymore.

@hakansjorling1340

6 ай бұрын

@@KiwiEVadventures But why not monetising these videos?? You seem to need more funding, and the project is fantastic _and_ entertaining. How can we support you? 🥰

Great to finally see the project coming along! That new subframe was some very tidy engineering work - and yeah, probably stronger than the rest of the car 😂

Good to see CAD being used. Cardboard Aided Design.

So great to see the journey!

I laughed out loud at the public oil spill apology! Excellent and so bloody typical the world over.

Been eagerly awaiting this next installment! Fantastic! Also, Bob is awesome!

Seriously awesome videos. Started watching the first one and just watched the entire set for the Allegro so far.

You found an amazing helper or was it other way around. I really like that you keep the Nissan drivetrain with it's original reduction gear that way it's the most efficient drive.

@bobjetson

6 ай бұрын

We went to grab the same potato, and it took off from there

0:26 that socket set...man, that's a beauty ;-)

I have enjoyed this project sooo much! Bring on the next step! Edit: Thanks for all the awesome comments!

So glad you are finally making progress. Great work

Awesome work by Bob & Adam, really does look good, can't wait for your next video.

Amazing Gav, the hard part is done, awesome nice work there with the motor, what an amazing conversion! Keep it up.

Well done! Been following you for years. Can't wait to see more

man im happy to see it finally coming together! been following you for years now man, glad things are going well!

Man that motor looks perfect in there. Well done to you and Bob

Good progress lads, looks right at home in the engine bay, nice fab work 👍

Kiwi EV is the real Electric Vehicle Community Legend!

@KiwiEVadventures

7 ай бұрын

LIES! SCANDALOUS LIES!

Brilliant Gav. Work of art. Top work Bob!

Amazing project and wish you all the best 👌

What awesome progress. Hanging out for the next episode. Cheers

Great videos. Just can't wait for the next one!

Fantastic progress Gavin. You have some great friends. I particularly like the work you did with Bob to fabricate those engine mounts and brackets. Of course I have a special affinity with this model because (a) they were built a few miles down the road from me in Longbridge, (b) my mate had one in the 80's which we used to bomb around in and (c) my father would have repped from his job as an engineering troubleshooter for electrical parts (like light clusters) made by his firm Lucas's Awesome Ian, Birmingham, UK

Made my day, seeing this video. Love seeing the progress

Nicely done - great to watch.

A work of industrial art! I'll bet that drivetrain installation is better-engineered than factory. Very much looking forward to the next installment. Kia ora! (Or..."Aloha!" as we say out my way!)

@KiwiEVadventures

7 ай бұрын

I'm seriously in awe of Bob's welding & fabricating abilities. I can barely make a cup of tea without setting things on fire.

@jimcabezola3051

7 ай бұрын

@@KiwiEVadventures 😆🤣! Bob's certainly the one to have around when there're things to be welded! If he's not careful...he'll be inundated with MORE work like this. Like you, he'll be improving the world...one car at a time!

I was sceptical you would have space but i see Bob is a man who can steer large boats into small habours. You've done excellent work both of you. Whats cool is youre using the aze0 stack so full v2g could be possible with this unlike the ze0 drivetrain. Eager to see more progress and i hope Bob gets some more interesting projects out of this. Excellent custom cardboard aided design there.

@bobjetson

6 ай бұрын

Definitely more interesting things to come!

looking fantastic. loving the updates.

Hi Gavin. At last, the wait for the electrolysed Allegro is over. Have been watching for progress on this project since you bought the car from that showroom. The Austin Allegro holds a very dear place in my heart as I worked in the Longbridge , Birmingham factory on the Allegro, the Mini and they’d just started running a new vehicle, The Austin Metro. In fact I as working there in 1977 aged 19. I more than likely even worked on this very same car. When in the video you removed that black plastic strip that held the carpets down onto the cill, I used to affix that strip. We were supplied with Stanley “Yankee” pump screwdrivers and one day we were given cordless electric drills made by a Makita. Brand new technology. It was quite a step up, I tell you. We used to do two weeks of days and two weeks of nights. I remember after working the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night I was so tired, I couldn’t keep my eyes open after the “dinner” break at 2 a.m. so somebody came up with an idea. “ I know, we’ll have a talent contest in the dinner hour. “ well it was a great way to invigorate everybody until home time. There were comedians, impressionists and when somebody did a skit as a ball-room dancer complete with scarlet silk sash, everybody pissed themselves laughing. It was brilliant. Happy days. And that was 40 years ago. The Austin car factory. It was a great place.

Congratulations mate, great work

Looks amazing looking forward to the next update.

Love the use of CAD (Cardboard Aided Design). Good Luck for the rest of this project.

Fantastic progress! I'm doing my 914 battery upgrade in parallel with you.

You mechanic Bob is very skilled !

just finished it. thats awesome man! fits like a glove!

Wow! You Gavin, have some very capable friends. The Nissan Allegro is born!

Great to see you back Gav :)

Nice, been waiting for this video!

Bob is an awesome, very clever guy!

Bob is a godsend, well done!

Super to see it coming along. 😀

This is awesome. Its like the Mitsubishi tredia days all over but in HD. I hope you guys made a jig for that sub frame because once this goes viral the demand for allegro to leaf conversions will sky rocket.... oh wait.... no two allegros are the same. Scratch that. 😂 but in all honesty, great to see you back on the conversion project. Thought you might have been too owned by ecotricity. 😊 i think this also calls for an ecotricity plug with signup commission for allegro project for the win.👍

@johncorlett3699

6 ай бұрын

allegroes, ahhhh, you could hear them rust in the showroom, austin 1100' s though, brilliant

Very good my friend, amaizing 😊😊

Love the series … keep going

Big milestone! Well, done

Those Model s wheels are like mine on the model 3 💪. Good work by the way! 👍

Top class engineering, bob makes it look so easy, but its not. Brilliant

Man this is really awesome I love this video reminds me of the ole electric car you built years ago I have never heard of that car and couldn’t care less about evs at the time but I gotta say I was very interested in your videos and I really learned a lot from that built in pretty excited…to be honest I am very interested in evs as a diesel shop owner and it’s because of you man keep up the videos brother glad to see u again

I just can't wait to see the installation of the inverter and batteries.

@bobjetson

6 ай бұрын

Inverter is in the motor stack as well as the charger.

@youxkio

6 ай бұрын

Good strategy to save room.@@bobjetson

Cool project.. well done

Everyone needs a Bob in their life.

This popped up in my recommended feed alongside another Allegro that’s had a drivetrain swap, your vid intrigued me more. You couldn’t have picked a more perfectly sized motor, Bob’s done well on the subframe too. +1 Subscriber

@bobjetson

6 ай бұрын

Thanks

Absolutely brilliant. My dad used to have one of these, I called it the tortoise, be interesting to see it run.

Need to see it on the road as an EV: good stuff mate...

I watched your ev diesel heater videos back in day, was watching saved videos and came across that diesel heater video again. How have you been doing. Hope all is good. Stay blessed man.

Man that's looking good.. As good as an allegro can anyhow! 😅

I love this project! Thanks for sharing. You and Bob should do a few EV projects together, it's fun watching the chemistry. -Edit- you get and extra like for including Depeche 🙂

Love this! So good to see that nasty fossil burner motor removed and this mega satisfying clean install. Total joyous viewing. I so want to do this myself. Cannot wait to see the battery install. Keep up the good work. Subscribed. 👍🏼

you guys are awesome dudes.

what a cool project. I'll sub for this. please add more content soon. cheers from Iceland

@KiwiEVadventures

2 ай бұрын

Thanks mate. I'm getting close to finishing the next video!

How much of a legend is Bob!

@bobjetson

6 ай бұрын

How much of a legend are you!

You'll be surprised how often the Jeremy Clarkson approach works and for what applications, Great Video!

Hope you lined up the drive shafts! Cool video.

Hell yeah, been waiting for this 👍👍

@fenrir7525

7 ай бұрын

brilliant, can’t wait to see what comes next

subbed, i get the lack of money vibe but you have a positive outlook and i think you'll smash it

Great pls keep sharing!

What tools do you need to do this? 1. Grinder 2. Plasma Cutter. Wow man.. what an amazing build. Bob's subframe is truly a masterpiece. Great job editing and narrating the video, too! I'm so excited to see what's next.

@bobjetson

6 ай бұрын

I'll help you if you have anything that can be done remotely.

Great work, going to be sweet.

Just something regarding that Allegro fuel tank,,,, Back in the middle 70s I was courting my former wife and my future father in law lent me his Allegro 1300 (only 3yrs old) to go for a day out to Bridlington. So I check the car over ,and looked under the backend (as you do!) I just lightly touched the fuel tank with my finger and the bottom fell out...Cost me 86 quid for a new one from the dealer,because said Angry future father needed it fixed to go to work the following monday.... That mech has done a really good belt and braces job with those mounts....

This is smart. When you are done you will have a "how to" on repurposing a Leaf unit. That should be of interest to quite a few people. I see a few early Leaf's coming up at the auctions with tired batteries. So, at some point there will be a lot of Leaf units looking for a new home. There is a guy on youtube who put a leaf motor in a Honda CRX for drag racing. He built his own inverter, blew up a lot of expensive stuff getting that right. I think he was building an AWD version with two Leaf units. Leaf units are capable of a lot more power but are limited to preserve the battery I think. A quick search found a couple of options for getting the Nissan unit to run. Thunderstruck motors VCU and Resolve-EV's controller. I'm interested in what you plan to do here. Getting the Leaf charger/DCDC to work could be another challenge. Someone on youtube got the DC to DC to power up and charge the 12V by just applying the correct power to the correct pins on the car connection. Hacking the charger might be a bit more involved. Leaf motor and inverter are liquid cooled, Its a pity your wreck didn't come with those parts. Maybe Pick-a-part bits could fill in the blanks. Mangere yard has a Leaf, but its been there since June and is an earlier model. There is an electrically actuated parking pawl in the trans, apparently just needs 12v to disengage. Good luck and congrats on home ownership. PS., There is also ZombieVerter an open source VCU that will run a Leaf. Looking at the shop manuals for my Leaf it looks like the parking pawl is driven by a 3 phase star wound motor controlled directly by the VCU. Brakes, there are a couple of ways to go there, vacuum pump, or electrically assisted brakes. I believe some of the newer Honda's (2018 or newer) have electrically boosted brakes using the same Bosch booster as Tesla model 3. See kzread.info/dash/bejne/hYaOmrp9ft2Yprg.html. I'm sure there are a lot of other cars that use electrically boosted brakes. Anything electric or partially electric such as a hybrid and then anything else with autonomous emergency braking. I was converting a Hyundai Accent when you were converting the Tredia. I still have a few bits, possibly the vacuum pump somewhere.

Great video, I really enjoyed your effort with the conversion, looking forward to the next installment with the Allegro. I also liked your BYD Atto3 review and bought one myself. Fantastic little car. I am doing a $100 AUS challenge to see if I can make 5000 kms. So far half way there. I am using my solar house power, free shopping centre power and some holiday accomadation that will provide free power.

@KiwiEVadventures

5 ай бұрын

That sounds really cool. Are you making a video or anything of your progress? Could be a fun watch! And congrats on the Atto 3. I see almost nothing but praise for them by their owners.

@brettbarnes7370

5 ай бұрын

Hi Gavan, i did make a short video recently after watching your videos but mine is not as good as your USA video and others. This is the link to my Atto3 holiday. kzread.info/dash/bejne/e6OC162mmLSaf7A.html. Cheers Brett

I am not given to young people's language, but this work is awesome, as in awe inspiring!

Magic Bob!

I'm eagerly waiting for the next update 🙂

@KiwiEVadventures

3 ай бұрын

Me too! It should be before the end of March if the planets align.

@sveip

3 ай бұрын

@@KiwiEVadventures great news! I'm grateful for whatever I get :-) Keep up the good work!

Liked and subscribed 🙂

Fantastic.

Fantastic work, nice in-depth presentation of some proper engineering or "backstreet mechanicking" as the late great Fred Dibnah would say. The pessimist in me is asking "Why didn't you make sure the motor runs before making the mounts?" though.

Lumping a couple of Leaf cells in that drafty engine bay will do wonders!

you should do a crowdfunding thing to help pay for this!

Glad be along for the journey again. Will we get a kiwi ev 2 dvd?😉

lez gooo

Enjoying your videos and like this build, just a note on the speedo, you can't get certified with a GPS speedo, they don't work in tunnels is the main reason I believe.

brilliant!

Great video, i am interested in how you will be integrating assistance for the brakes ? ... looking forward to the next video matey !

Amazing progress. I'm sure you've seen @thelatebrakeshow and Johnny Smiths Aggro project. Both good, but would prefer the Leaf powered one!

@MrAnwarsmith

7 ай бұрын

Gav's E-leggro is way cooler than Jonny's Allegro conversion, and guild free! Recycling two cars into one emission-free beauty.

EV unit fits in well… lot of hard work getting to that stage… Hope you don’t mind me mentioning, the rear mounts of the hand built subframe and it’s reinforcing etc, looks to be in the hole for the drive shafts, on camera anyway…? 🤞

Brilliant

Good choice of car as hydroelastic can be adjusted

Good to see the Kiwi EV channel up and running again, its been a few years since you did the Tredia. (I ued to own the Tredia before you). Are you still in Auckland .

I was wondering if you were going to update your project and here you are 😎, it’s a type of job I’ve been considering myself

Liking the Smiths/Morrisey background music

I have been following your journey on LinkedIn and finally watched both videos. Potato 🥔 I like the subframe your mate made, neat, Potato 🥔 👌 Then I was so excited to see you finish the project in a supervideo, but alas, Potato 🥔 😢 I'm looking forward to the next Potato 🥔 😂 It Waa great to see the Leaf motor/reduction feature, controller/inverter and charger tower is about the same size as the A series motor/box. Potato 🥔 😅

Followed link from Imgur. ☕🙂

Bob is a bespoke man doing bespoke things for a bespoke guy who wants a bespoke electric car.