Hybrid conversions for performance!!!

[Kar98]

Probably cheaper and easier to just buy a Prius C ;)

[Bluevitz-rs]

Originally Posted by Kar98

Probably cheaper and easier to just buy a Prius C ;)

That's not really a performance upgrade is it

The Prius C uses a 1.3L if I'm not mistaken.

[Kar98]

Originally Posted by Bluevitz-rs

That's not really a performance upgrade is it

The Prius C uses a 1.3L if I'm not mistaken.

You are mistaken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_...Specifications

[ivanstepul]

Originally Posted by Kar98

You are mistaken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_...Specifications

This is what I'm talking about ,this set up in the picture but the electrical system is reprogrammed to add horsepower. Its the goal of first knowing if its possible to make it worth it for the power, and if not with that set up. What can be done to make it 180hp. cuz that would be worthwhile and a cool vitz. This is the future the electrical system is proly more reliable than a turbo?

[JustPassinThru]

Originally Posted by Kar98

Probably cheaper and easier to just buy a Prius C ;)

Yup.

The idea...got me thinking...what would be the advantage of a Prius setup in a Yaris body.

I really can't see it. Is the styling that important?

I remember two Jeep projects I was involved in. First, twenty years ago, someone had a rusted-out Jeepster Commando. That was Jeep's prototype SUV/CUV of the 1960s. Small station-wagon body on a stretched Jeep CJ chassis.

Back then, fiberglass replacement Jeep bodies were available by several makers. This guy, bought a CJ-6 tub to mount on his frame. The CJ-6 was a rare bird; from 1956 to 1975 they only sold about 20,000 of them. Most of them to various government agencies. Worked until they were scrap.

But, with plenty of grief, he did get that body to fit. The frame was mostly the same but the axles, spring mounts, body mounts, steering column, pedal setups...all very different. But he wanted his CJ-6, and eventually he got one.

About ten years after that, I got myself a Jeep YJ Wrangler. I, too, wanted a CJ - and hanging a CJ front clip on the YJ looked like a fifteen-bolt project. So, with a lot of work, I found the parts - and then with WEEKS of trimming, fitting, more trimming, more fitting swearing, painting, shimming...I had my fake CJ-7.

And of course the first thing the Jeep purists would ask me was: "WHY? Why does the STYLE matter?" It did, to me, at the time - I liked the retro look, more utilitarian than the styled erzatz Jeep look of the original Wrangler.

But those were LIGHT modifications. Here you're going to take an INCREDIBLY complex system, out of the car it's been designed for, and put it into a much-smaller car it was not. Just the thought of that work gives me the willies.

And what you get out of it...is, literally, a Prius with a differently-styled body.

Hey, everyone to his taste. If you like the idea and want it that badly, go for it. But I think long before you even reach the halfway point, just buying a Prius will seem like a much better idea.