Today’s featured electric car owner isn’t the first one to convert his , but he is the first in our series to perform a home conversion with absolutely no prior experience.

We all learned how to wrench somewhere — for me it was tie rods and brakes on my ’88 Supra Turbo, for my friends I’ve helped it’s usually oil changes or coilovers. Taking an MG F, pulling out the motor, and turning it into a home-brew electric vehicle is a very ambitious first project. Certainly it will teach you a lot and make you some fun new friends, as this week’s EV owner/builder Mark is here to show.

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y among them — and so they were able to help significantly in the process.

Relatively strict laws regarding car modification in Australia made the swap even more complicated. Registration and the associated engineering inspection (or “rego” as everyone seems to call it there) dictates how cars can be upgraded and still remain legal for public road use. Mark had to work with a certified engineer at every step of the conversion process to ensure his car would still be allowed to drive places other than racetracks. The only real constraint he ran into was the maximum weight Australia allowed for the MG, which is why he only used part of the Leaf battery pack instead of the entire system. Luckily, the range was still enough for him, but he said as technology improves he intends to upgrade the batteries with higher density versions to get even more range from the same overall weight of energy storage.

Jumping straight into a powertrain swap with no previous knowledge — and pulling it off — is one of the most Jalop things I could possibly imagine. Doing it with no prior documentation and an electric drivetrain that increases your power and torque over factory, all while getting to meet new people in the hobby, is definitely the core of what many of us love about modification, and it was a joy to be contacted with this car. Thank you so much for sharing, Mark, and I hope your MG F EV gives you many more years of reliable driving fun! We’d love to hear from more readers about their EVs, modern or classic, factory or otherwise.

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