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Originally Posted by Ecky
There's a thread on Insight Central about this very thing. It went dozens of pages before the minds there considered it too difficult. You'd likely need a second clutch and to move either engine or transmission to make room. The belt-drive will work well enough though, even if it's not ideal - this is (almost) how all of Honda's hybrids work, with the exception of the Accord, and Honda was all able to extract in excess of 50mpg (60+ in the hands of a hypermiler) from the Civic platform, and 70+ from the G1 Insight.
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I've got it figured out...at least for a smaller engine. The one-way clutches that aren't hard to hard to get can't handle a whole lot of torque, though. I'd be ok with a 1-litre engine, but nothing much bigger.
Option B is an electric clutch - like aPTO clutch from a ride-on mower - but they too are limited on how much torque they can handle. Unless you want to spend $$$