Week 10: Clutch hydraulics + Painting

This week I worked on finishing my electric motor research to determine the best types of motor to use. I found that the BLDC and DC permanent/series or shunt wound motor would be the most effective in this project in terms of cost, power and efficiency. In mechanical engineering class, I am working on designing and building the electric motor to reduce costs and to design to fit my application of an electric car.

With some help I also managed to fix the hydraulics in the clutch system, but there is still a compression issue in the master cylinder which needs to be sorted out as the actuator slips when the pedal is moved slightly till the clutch is engaged which makes take off very difficult.

Apart from that, I worked on sanding down some rust spots and body filler on many areas of the paint. I then spray painted with the cars colour to patch up these spots which it looks way better now.