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Originally Posted by ksa8907
The gm hybrid trucks aren't too special with parts, and currently you can get them very inexpensively (spare parts). Just a simple LS engine, a special allison transmission, and toyota NiMH batteries.
Only real point of failure is the battery and afm on the engine, but there's ways around the afm.
Get the denali model and you have about as nice of a truck you can think of.
Simple solution in my mind.
Edit: as it turns out, no high end spec on the trucks, but I suppose you could swap interiors.
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From what I’ve been told swapping any year GM Truck drivetrain with any other year GM truck is child’s play, different “incompatible “ years usually fit together with a minor change to the rear xmbr and mounts.
If he wanted 1970’s era sheet metal with a 201X hybrid GM drivetrain it’s probably easy, just a harness and dash frustration
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
The numerically highest gear set I know of for a front axle is approximately 6:1. With a series wound DC motor it should work, but you are looking at more like 30hp and up. But all the good motors are at least 98v and up.
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Dodge Flightline (rear axle) is usually 8.x
The ops Idea would be to clone Bens hybrid super truck into a 1/2 ton with an irrelevant random V8
Given the superior gearing available for the rear he could proceed to obtain a Caddillac FWD V8 transaxle (preferably 5mt) and then install an 11” Nissan Leaf A/C motor controller and battery using the universal inverter hack face mounted citicar style straight to the face of the 8.x rear pumpkin.
This would give him the most useful DIY through the road hybrid but costs could still be rather outrageous depending on how much controls background he has.
My diesel suburban imagination conversion would have gone that direction, I already had the 5mt + diesel which turned out to be good enough but then everything rusted out
