Ok, so I love my AW11 and I also have thought Priuses are pretty cool. I've been reading up on the technology behind the Prius and it's so simple and regardless of being a hybrid or helping MPG it just seems like a smart idea all cars should have.
If you don't know about the PSD and how it works this is the best resource I've found:
Toyota Prius - Power Split Device
Basically it's smaller than any other transmission, removed the starter and the alternator and adds two motors a battery pack and a controller.
I've looked and looked and am hoping to find a good resource of individuals with Toyota knowledge, the 1NZ-FE should be the same block and most everything, does anyone know what kind of output shaft it has? What other blocks/output shafts are similar. That is, what is most probably that I could hook the PSD up to. Because for some reason I'd really like to hook it up to my 4A-GE or even better a 1MZ-FE I have available and then cram it all together.
I'm sure most people will think I'm crazy, but it really doesn't seem like that many components, I just need to know how to hook up the PSD and what it fits on. Eventually it'd probably be good to remap the computer to know where whatever engine I'm using's power band or sweet spot or etc is. On a more crazy note if my 1MZ-FE is possible I'd like to see what crank/piston changes I'd need to make that 13:1 and then regrind the intake cam to delay intake close (so I basically get 10.5:1 intake compression and 13:1 power expansion ('atkinson').
Am I crazy?
04-20-2009, 03:22 PM
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