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Originally Posted by freebeard
You seem willing to entertain concepts others are promoting, that you previously scoffed at.
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The start/stop technology would have made my stop-and-go experience unpleasant to say the least. Furthermore, even if I overhauled my engine block with reduced friction ceramic coating and ceramic coated parts designed to handle stop/start equipped cars, I can't help but consider the unnecessary wear and tear that is still occurring. Plus, I fail to see the savings when I learned that you needed more fuel to get a car started than just letting the car continue to idle. Yes, the car is already hot when restarting but you still needed more fuel than what is being used at idle, hence, you negate any gains as I see it.
Moving on, I wasn't scoffing hybrid technology. I just have a different idea of how it should be used, which is all the time. For all the times that hybrid technology is needed to assist a gasoline engine, I fail to see why you don't just use the electric assist all the time! If it is truly hybrid, half-electric car and half gasoline car, why not have the electric assist on all the time? However, if these systems can't be designed to charge themselves which I have a hard time wrapping my head around given how a car electrical system works, then I have to accept it for what it is.
I want to increase my city mileage and hybrid technology will do that. I want to help my engine out when it starts to lose vacuum, here electric assist will help.
I just need a company or specialists to set this system up to do as I expect, I don't know nearly enough to be able to tap into my car's PCM and have an electric hybrid kit perform as expected. Furthermore, I would rather have AWD ability for winter driving conditions with a hub mounted kit versus an inline drive kit that uses my rear wheel drive. So, I lose the benefits of professional installation that come with the inline drive kit.
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Originally Posted by freebeard
One can choose a cam profile with larger overlap without suffering reversion at low RPMs. Better?
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A little. I should have gone to college to pursue a career in the automotive field granted this passion I have. Regardless, I am trying to learn what I need to make a more informed decision about the modifications I wish to make to my car to get it to behave the way I am expecting.
With this said, I thought more overlap was bad for fuel economy? Too much overlap and the car idles so choppy that I couldn't tolerate the daily drive!
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Originally Posted by freebeard
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Yeah, but if such headers don't exist for my car, especially in a form that permits me to equip catalytic converters and use my factory emissions devices, it is of no use to me. I was given the advice to use long tube headers on my car that are optimized for the powerband I am focusing on, but I run into issues with optimal catalytic converter operation along with how to use my emissions devices with such headers, requiring custom work! (Sigh)
I am not sure if my shorty headers are hurting my car's performance or not. I have the weirdest sense that maybe my stock exhaust manifold was actually better...