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Old 11-25-2011, 02:41 AM   #7 (permalink)
Piwoslaw
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Originally Posted by niky View Post
Not worth it. Better to do the ghetto hybrid. Replace the starter motor with an assist motor supplemented by a battery pack. There's an Indian group that's producing these "low cost" hybrid conversions where you have the assist motor attached to the main motor by a belt attached to the main crank pulley instead of going through the transmission.

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This way, you can have assist and start stop without a special transmission or a complicated hybrid conversion.
Do have link to that group?
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