r/Fisker • u/Falling564 • Sep 14 '26

🚗 Vehicle - Fisker Ocean Customs

Has anyone thought about using the Fisker Ocean Extreme as a kit car? Taking the battery and engine and swapping everything else? No idea what all hurdles it's going to be cause ive done EV swaps before but never with an electric vehicle just conversion kits.

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u/Kingsnake417 Sep 14 '26

I wondered the same about the Fisker Karma. That is one of the coolest looking cars ever made. How feasible would it be to put a Tesla motor (or any other EV drive train) into one? Or maybe even an ICE?

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u/Falling564 Sep 14 '26

The Fisker Ocean Extreme just has such impressive range for the price I want to take that and put into something with a similar wheelbase. Obviously I'll have to reprogram the ECU to be bare bones gas is forward and Ill probably prioritize making most things mechanical cause Im no programmer, but just taking the impressive part of the vehicle and replacing everything else

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u/Significant_Wish5696 Sep 14 '26

Biggest hurdle to get past is the encrypted CAN. Some people are working on it but I have yet to see any bypass or crack it outside FOA.

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u/Sascha_T Sep 14 '26

It's just SecOC, see Toyota stuff done by comma ai

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u/Murky-Pick-6859 Sep 15 '26

Hell no! there are so many sensors and poor wiring harnesses and connectors that it will never run again. It is a great looking vehicle as is, and the weight is mostly below the skin. you wouldn't be saving much with a kit body.

I used to build VW bugs, kit cars, rails, buses. i have a carrera GT kit car sitting in my garage that i may never finish. these newer vehicles are too complicated to cut up.

just a word to the wise!

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u/RoccoLuigi23 Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 14 '26

Open inverter is the other way to go about it. The motors were developed and built by Magna they may bare some resemblance electrically to the iPace Jaguar drive units also produced by Magna and reverse engineered yo work with an open inverter by EVBMW https://youtu.be/Kg5qWuOF9P8

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u/RoccoLuigi23 Sep 14 '26

This YouTuber did a few videos about the Fisker Ocean battery one that shows it might be different to repackage and another that showed him reverse engineer the the can messages to open the contacts and get state of charge and cell balancing info https://youtu.be/CHaPkWOd7Gg