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People who have been in the modified cars here in Australia for decades known for incredible business can be done from Japanese importers wreckers.
Because of the speed with which the Japanese riders throwing cars around nine, the kinematic chains or even complete halves before cars can be purchased surprisingly cheap engines and gearboxes with late model technology, for less than the cost of having rebuilt an old car is simple to buy a car, delivered locally can install a new Japanese import driveline with more performance over the years, I've done this twice and both times got a car great for the money.
And now there's a new and exciting opening Japanese import field.
Because Japanese manufacturers have led the world in creating gasoline hybrid electric cars the first was built there over 10 years and because many were sold locally in Japan, hybrid auto parts can now be Japan outsourced to the same ridiculously low prices.
Don t tell the tow truck you want an electric motor Prius Just ask them how much a Prius gearbox will set you The two electric motor generators in a Toyota Prius are both contained in the donation drive called t you want an electric motor Insight you say want an Insight engine and the motor gearbox is sandwiched between.
What on paper looks the easiest project to install in another car full driveline say a Prius is actually more complex because to do this successfully, you need every part electrical and mechanical systems of the engine, split device power ie transmission, inverter, battery, and the loom ECU to complete wiring, including high voltage cables You really to have to start with a full car giver.
Better watch using only the part of the electric motor.
I was recently at the University of Adelaide and saw how the electrical engineering department is currently installing a 50kW electric motor in a Prius Mazda Miata MX5.
Ve they divide the transmission Prius, removing one of the motor generators and a plurality of gears.
Half of trans containing the more powerful electric motor has been preserved in its entirety, with the opening in the trans closed by an alloy plate of thickness machined.
The electric motor output shaft has been connected to the gearbox of the Mazda by a splined shaft machined on order, through an oil seal rotatably installed in the plate.
The electric motor is controlled by a speed regulator of the commercial engine using custom software written lithium-ion batteries commercially available will be equipped.
As for short periods, it should be fairly easy to fetish engine output by a factor of three, it seems a great project and I intend to cover in detail when the car is on the road with Ian Linke since more details of the adapter plate and the splined shaft may become commercially available from the university.
But is it a project that is even easier, I think the other day, I had as a press car RX400h Lexus softroader The engine uses a full Prius style and peripheral power split front to lead the front wheels.
Curiously, however, at the rear, it has a further electric motor drive train to power only the rear wheels This assembly combines an electric motor independent 50kW, and probably a differential It also has output drive shafts.
And it seems that the absolutely perfect unit to install in an electric car as a new powertrain.
I have not done the measurements, but it seems that it would go directly into the front of a few small front wheel drive, requiring only the adaptation depending on the drive shaft of the front hubs of origin.
The RX400h is too recent for a car found in scrap yards in large numbers, but rest assured, it will come.
The Prius is in Japanese yards demolition now.
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