S4 E7. New project car ! Will it run??? What will it take to get this rare car running again?
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Season 4 Episode 7. Jimbo shows the audience his newly acquired project car. Will this car ever run again? Sadly, the odds are not looking good. Join Jimbo as he methodically troubleshoots and repairs a very rare car.
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I'm thinking this car is gonna end up with a 30cc Ryobi weed wacker engine.
I had a 1978 Vw polo with a 850cc engine and also a few early minis with 850cc they were 34hp and were fine in modern traffic, i'm sure with modern tech a small car should be workable with 300/500cc. They just make shit to complicated these days.
Or perhaps 4 of them - one for each wheel
@@krusher74you can get the fiat 500 with a 900cc engine! Don't know about the performance lol
With a turbo and 250psi boost.
I'm thinking it will get a visit from the fire department first. That fuel line splice likely will not hold.
"You can find similar cars for under a grand" *checks local pricing and cries.
You could get that 65hp mini-hybrid Mazda thats coming out!
whats it called?@@prjndigo
yea a beat up high mileage one with no working hybrid system, under a grand sounds about right
@@Mortalomena
Yeah, it literally was a "non-runner" when he got it. $1K for someone else's problem seems legit.
You are looking for vehicles that are way too nice.
@4:32 This reminds me of the Alternative Fuel Experiments I conducted when I was a little kid back in the late 19 and 50s. The experiments were to see if I could release heat energy stored in various petroleum products that were in my old man's garage using THE POWER OF THE SUN ... combined with a magnifying glass. The results were such an astounding success that I decided to switch from petroleum products to whatever else I could find. Things were going good until I started experimenting with acetone. The ignition was immediate ... and powerful. This caused me to jump back a little and knock over the can of acetone. Then my Father came running out of the house, put out my experiment and started throwing a lot of rapid fire questions at me about my sanity and if I was really trying to set the garage on fire. After a lot of yelling, a stout thrashing (1950s child rearing was much different than it is today) and banishment to my room I ceased my experiments ... until about 20 years ago when I discovered that diesel engines would run on old motor oil.
Me in the 1980s.
@@SlinkyD Interestingly, this all occurred in the very same garage that some years prior little Annie Kelly and I conducted anatomical observations and examinations that proved BEYOND AS SHADOW OF A DOUBT that she and I had significant physical differences and were preparing our report for the Journal of American Medicine ... when my Father walked into the garage. My Father's reaction to these events are probably the reason I never became a scientist OR a Doctor.
Had the Assistant Manager at our local O’Murray’s tell me that single $2.99 clamp was worse deal than set of two clamps for $7.99.
😂
Math is hard.
It is a worse deal... for O'Murray's.
Like barbie said "math is hard"
So between the two, the projects will be known hence forth as "The Twinsights"... :P
Ah... Sunday morning. Sunshine, relaxed breakfast, fresh, hot coffee, and a new video from Robot Cantina.
Life is good
I actually watch these videos while cooking 😂
Battery colab with Aging Wheels?
YES
But 100%Jake is local, and he's got an insight he already did the lithium swap from the second generation insight.... That promptly got rear ended, and last I remember, is just sitting at his house....
@@earlyre That means he isn't too far from JR.
I hope he can still sleep at night.
New Lithium batteries and motor with the Kubota running a generator.
I definitely want to see an upgraded lithium swap here
I didn’t know that multimeter talked…I thought you were messing with us at first
LOL, yeah its a talking multimeter. Its annoying, but handy.
Dig the dial up handshaking sounds (once).
When I was a kid, I used to watch saturday morning cartoons. As an adult, I watch sunday morning youtube. 😎
Mine ran 180 volts at full charge. There are 20 sticks of 6 D cell batteries, 120 D cells total that run from 1.2 volts to 1.5 volts each for 180 at optimum charge.
180 volts is pretty high and indicates resistance inside the nimh cells. It should peak at about 172 while charging. 164 is nominal for a fully charged battery.
@@chrisdenney6520 I installed a 180 volt charger in mine & it was recommended by the company that made the charger to bring it to that voltage periodically to balance the cells. Recently sold the car but the original battery was still good.
120 Ni-mh D-cell batteries? Sounds like an upcoming jungle site purchase for Jimbo.
Though not caring about the mpg, the lost 13hp could be restored for about $120 bucks assuming you can get a rechargable 1.5 cells for $1. (Probably can come close to that bulk ordering from the jungle site)
I think it just needs a Mr. Fusion unit and some banana peels.
I will miss that little car! hope you enjoy the new project!
Thanks for everything! It's a fun project that will make a great daily driver.
It was an awesome coincidence! ❤@@robotcantina8957
@@robotcantina8957 Awesome video as always!
To solve the "alternator" issue, you can get a motorcycle 3 phase voltage regulator/rectifier and connect the 3 phase input to the motor cables and the output to the battery. Choose a regulator from a bike with a high redline RPM so it can withstand the voltage generated by the hybrid motor.
Motorcycles generate electricity with permanent magnet generators attached to the crankshaft, just like the Honda Insight.
Robot Cantina, now with high voltage electric shocks!!!! 🤣
It's insane how many auto parts stores don't stock rubber fuel line anymore! Seriously. If they do, it's usually extremely short lengths for insane prices. I buy mine online in bulk so I have it on hand. This video also gave me a great idea for rust proofing steel brake/fuel lines I repair. After cutting back the line, I'll slide heat shrink tubing over it, then flare and add the fitting or connection, then add silicone lube and heat shrink the tube over the exposed steel area. Just like protecting wiring connections! Using big enough heat shrink or two different sized pieces you could even cover and rust proof the entire junction.
Dang, I started to see double there at the end, great show again Thanx! 🎉
Jimbo's town must mow be the one with the highest number of Honda Insights per citizen.
I had no idea you could make so much horsepower with that 4 cyl engine. 500hp in that light little car would be fun! Thanks for another great installment.
some mods are needed internally on most k-series engines to handle cranking a bit more torque from the engine, the stock rods are toothpicks.. taylor ray and the cefiro he had.. blew the stock bottom-end out the k24 he first put in it after he put the correct parts [he forgot the wastegate fire-ring] in the turbo setup he was running in it
Some internally reinforced Honda K20 turbo engines (2.0 L 4 cylinder) make 600 to 1000hp.....The 2L makes less torque than the 2.4L but the 2.0 is preferred for making big 500+ hp. Can't remember the reason. I think the shorter piston rods mame it stronger & get to high rpm easier. The more I learn about the gen 1 Honda Insight, the more I want one. It's all aluminum, so no rust issues, very lightweight, very aerodynamic, lot's of usable hatchback room. Even with a non turbo Honda 2.4L engine. Modded to put out 150hp & decent torque. A manual Insight would have some pep, be fun to drive & still get 55-60 hwy mpgs. 🤔 I read other people have added a bigger battery pack. So the electric motor between engine & gearbox puts out more power, creating even better fuel economy. If someone drove say 40 miles round trip to work each day & had bought a used 100K insight years ago for a couple grand. The car would pay for itself in fuel savings.
@@michaelbrinks8089 The K20 has a "square" bore/stroke ratio: bore=86mm, stroke=86mm. The K24 is very undersquare with bore=86mm, stroke=99mm which means higher pistons speeds and accelerations, and more stress on the pistons, rods and crank.
@@ferrumignis Stanceworks put a turbo K24 in an 80s Ferrari 308 to build an awesome looking race car...The guy is very knowledgeable & built the thing himself doing tons of custom fabrication work. Then blew the engine racing. It wasn't until after the engine blew up. That he learned a k20 would have been the better choice for trying to make a 900- to 1000hp engine. I was very surprised to learn he didn't do any research before choosing to buy a K20 or K24. I guess he automatically assumed the K24 was the best choice since it was bigger (like I did) ......🤔 I'm wondering if the 3 cyl stock insight engine could safely make 100hp with a small supercharger or turbo? He could sell all the working hybrid parts & use the $$ for a turbo engine only commuter car. Maybe do E85 build to help keep engine temps down. My guess is the engine probably isn't built to handle much over it's original stock hp though.
@@michaelbrinks8089 I'd be surprised if the internals weren't up to the job, 100bhp from a 1 litre turbocharged engine is not particularly stressed. However the engine does have a fairly high compression ratio (10.8:1) so would need some care taken.
To solve the alternator issue, you can get a motorcycle 3 phase voltage regulator and connect the 3 phase input to the motor cables and the output to the battery. Choose a regulator from a motorcycle with a very high redline RPM so it can withstand the voltage generated by the motor.
I do this type of diagnosis and repair all the time nowadays - have become the finisher for many people trying to revive projects, yet somehow you still make it entertaining. Pretty exciting seeing anything back on the road!
Surprised how well that engine started and sounded after sitting so long!!
Love the content, as I’ve never had to dig into my 260k 2000 model, it still gets over 60mpg driving 70-80mph!
Another great Sunday. This channel is always great with my first cup of coffee.
I had a bone stock base model 04 Civic 1.7L 5 speed, I absolutely LOVED that car and did my level best to drive it into the ground. I did not succeed. It got rear-ended, I drove it home after the accident and my insurance totaled it. If Honda still made that car I'd buy one without hesitation.
I have a 02 Civic, which I bought with a blown head gasket, which I fixed.
I just never finished putting everything else together...
I got into grad school across the state, so I just hope to make the time to make it running so I can sell it.
Grad school is expensive!
@@drippingwax I wish you the best of luck. They hold their value fairly well, even totalled they offered me $4500 for it.
@@Rattus-Norvegicus Thanks! :)
It has 250,000 miles and Kelley says it would be worth $2,005.
It is a good-looking car, but I see decent-looking Civics on Facebook Marketplace starting a little above $2,000, so I am tempering my expectations--whenever I can finally put it together.
As I recall the battery pack was very simple. 100 and some "D" cell nicklel-hydride wired in series.
Twenty sticks of six NiMH cells each, yes. Not as powerful as modern lithium, but a LOT more durable.
I let my first-gen sit too long during the pandemic and the car wouldn't accept the hybrid battery. So I took it out, reconditioned each of the 6-cell sticks using RC car battery chargers to drain and charge each of them multiple times, used a thermal camera to monitor individual cell temps and trickle-charged the ones that were imbalanced back into better shape, then charged them to equal voltages, put them back in the pack, and the car was happy again. Beat shelling out $3k to the dealership for a new one to be installed.
I've also seen video online of one owner who just hooks the battery up to some floodlights overnight to drain it dead, then charges it back up again. Does it once a year and the car has apparently been happy with this arrangement for years. If someone tried that with lithium it would be a considerably more exciting time. :D
@@IstasPumaNevada _" Not as powerful as modern lithium, but a LOT more durable. "_
They don't suffer the exciting thermal runaway events that we all know and love. Just as well when the pack is mounted in the trunk.
Jimbo continues to knock it out of the park every episode!! Love it, Jimbo!! Keep up the good work! You're doing the kind of projects I want to do.
another spaceship in the shed jimbo!!! NICE
Just when I thought this channel couldn’t get any more weird you go up and do something like this… and make it 100% better 🎉
This is so awesome you got this car Jimbo. I bought an 03 Civic Hybrid 5 speed for $800 and ive got it running pretty well. I trickle charged the 12v for a whole day and it seems to have eliminated all but an airbag and o2 sensor codes. I have to do a little rust repair but im gonna have it on the road soon. Looking forward to this season,its gonna be excellent
Man ive been looking for a dead one for years with a 5 speed. I love these cars like i love geo metros 😂
Brilliant! I like the Insight. This car has a Citroën like appeal to me. I’m looking forward to more Honda adventures. Thanks for this story and see you soon… 🇺🇸🥰🇩🇪
Hi Jimbo, it's a Honda, it's a keeper.
Without the hybrid it still works (with the hack) and so you're in good shape.
Thanks for this one as well.
Cheers 👍💪✌
I'm glad you have put the new project car on hold. This gives me time to convince you to try burning wood gas! There is a LOT of info on this on the disc I sent you ... and PLENTY of examples of gasifiers on UA-cam ... in the form of old WW2 vintage Volvo (and other) trucks. Some of the information I sent was put together by FEMA, you know ... THE GOVERNMENT ... so you KNOW it's OK to do!
MPJA - another favorite tinkerer's paradise! Keep up the good work!
Another excellent video Jimbo. It's great to see how well those old vehicles old up after all this time. And that K swap was beautiful! I'm impressed you managed to do all of that work inside 16 hours. I guess that's what years of experience brings.
Really appreciate the electrical education 👍
Excellent, what a good find, loved the k swap too!
Auto parts stores can't do anything without their computer telling them what to do. It's sad. I went to 2 different ones you mentioned and was looking for a muffler with a 2 1/4 inch inlet/outlet. I was making a custom exhaust.
Do they have mufflers? Sure, but they can't find it without year, make, and model. I keep telling them, it doesn't matter what make a model is, I just need any muffler with the right sized inlet/outlets, but they still can't do their job without the computer telling them what box to pick.
I used to work in a bike shop on the parts counter and I allways had people queuing to get me to serve them as I would go the extra mile and match up Berings cables or whatever. Unfortunately the new boss thought that a beard was inappropriate in a modern shop !!! The half wits that took over couldn't find there ass in a dark room and the company lost lots of cred in the local bike scene....I feel your pain as I had this experience in a local car dealership,the young goon wanted all the details when he could just go look on the shelf.....
No beards... in a BIKE SHOP? That's impressive.@@cedhome7945
I used to work in auto parts. the manufacturers started saving costs by not editing the catalogs (so many mistakes!) then shrinking the print catalogs by removing reference pages such as interchange, product info, and SPECIFICATIONs. they also stopped publishing old auto and non auto catalogs. Then they quit publishing paper catalogs all together. meanwhile, for a little over minimum wage, the new hires who got jobs because the old timers quit, can use the computer but the computer programming was never updated to search beyond Year Make Model Engine 4wd... I don't know if some groups got sued for specifying non application parts or what but parts stores definitely are not what they once were.
I needed a fuel filter. Just any standard clear filter like for a lawn mower. They could not do anything for me without year make and model.
Ahh yes, the irish auto parts place.
"Old Oily"
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Really's?
It might be nice to replace all the electronics in the cabin with a simple bridge rectifier and regulator under the hood to both make some more room and get rid of the high voltage stuff.
Another cool project. Keeping it for a shop runner sounds good. If anything cut it up and make a ute out of her. That'll spark the purist.
I thought the other chain was "Never Any Parts Available", at least there is competition for the title from O'Rarely and OughttaKnown.
I have a buddy who bought his insight used from someone and replaced the batteries (and a few other things). That was over 15 years ago. He still uses it as his daily driver.
I always loved this little car. There's a guy right near my house that has one parked for the last few years. I might try to buy it from him. The aluminum chassis makes this thing a diamond in the rough.
A little marvels mystery oil goes a long way on todays fuels...
So cool...project insite #2...sweet!
Love it!
OOH...cray cray idea...I wonder if the NiMH batteries could be swapped out for supercaps...have the first ever SUPER insite (with superman symbol on the hood too boot)
Keep em coming!!!!
I've taken 10 gallons worth of 5 yr old gasoline, added two bottles of $1 DG generic fuel system cleaner to it. Then mixed 1 old gallon of it with 2 fresh gallons & it ran fine in my carbureted motorcycle.
Im kinda impressed with the robust engineering in these. It actually works even when entire sections of the drive train sitting on the floor.
Also 400 hp with the battery pack stripped out has got to feel like a rocket.
My husband and I enjoy your videos!
and heck, having the mostly functional unmodded car gives a good FoR to get the gauge-panel in the diesel-powered car working via a custom adapter module
How certain are you that the hybrid battery is beyond hope?
After I let my first-gen Insight sit too long during the pandemic, the car wouldn't recognize the IMA battery. So I took it out and manually reconditioned each of the twenty 6-cell NiMH Battery sticks with a couple four-port RC car chargers. Discharge, charge, watch cell temps with an infrared camera, trickle-charge the ones that were imbalanced, couple more discharge-charge cycles, then charged the sticks to equal voltage and put them back in the pack. Once I had the pack back in the car, it was happy again! Seems to give as good or better capacity compared to when I got the car six years ago.
Digging the dialup modem, hilarious
Thank you for sharing your Insights.
I like that ending sequence w/ the twins. nice update too, excited to see more of the baby blower
Hi Robot. I should have said that long ago:
I had this silly challenge when I was younger of making as much distance as possible with a stock old 206 peugeot with a 1.4l HDI motor. I did 1300km with 45liters of fuel.
For conversion that's like 68 mpg, the car already had 125 000km on it at the time (or 77 700 miles) the tires were over inflated and it was a company car so no backseat. The car was from 2003 maybe
I was a bit reckless at times to brake as little as possible and accelerating slowly.
If you decide to ditch the high voltage battery, a first gen civic hybrid 5 speed will bolt up with very minor modification and the moderately shorter gearing does a great job of making up for the lack of ima torque without hurting economy too bad. I've been running around with mine set up that way for probably about 40k miles now and it still gets 55+ mpg at 70+ miles an hour in the summer.
400+hp into a such lightweight car OMFG 😮
Sleeper at the run what ya brung meets ..bet it makes it into the 9s
That seems to be exactly what my fuel pump problem is, but a year later after I put a hotwire on the relay plug, to cause the fuel pump to work continuously with the key on, I'm still not getting around to finding the fault in the wire, which I think is not very easy to reach, but I have a spare fuel pump in the glove box, and thank you kindly for sharing your great experiments and experiences.
Another great video and a nice car, always makes for a good Sunday morning. Thanks for sharing your videos. 👍
if all the hybrid system is doing is charging the 12V why not: a) use some diodes and a DC-DC to charge it, saving the weight? OR b) mount a 12V solar panel on the roof or something?
I chuckle every time the Lonewolf 2000 howls.
Jimbo has a new project car. Awesome 👍
Don’t get me started on parts store workers these days! We have a Napa in our tiny town that was ran for decades by a couple brothers and they knew their shit without even looking in a parts computer. Then sadly one brother died and the other retired now we got young kids looking up parts they’ve never heard of for vehicles they know nothing about. I buy a lot of stuff off eBay these days 🤣
Parts stores have gone to paying absolute garbage and that gets them hiring folks fhat couldnt unscrew a lightbulb much less work on a car.
For reference- autozone last i checked pays a buck over minimum here or something like that, and oreilly is only a buck or two more than that. Theres no investment in the knowledge of their people, cause theyll just hire another 20 year old Chad that cant even change his own oil, for 8 bucks an hour to stand behind a counter.
Our napa store is more like what yours WAS like, thankfully
As a mechanic, the first time I drove one of these cars in perfect working condition. I was just blown away that it was a manual transmission
Something that would be neat is using a rectifier like off a sxs or atv on the 3 ac lines like a stator, to charge the 12v battery. Would eliminate a lot of the electrical junk in the trunk.
Might even fit under the seat... rectumfrier?
It would blow up the rectifier/regulator pretty much instantly. Jimbo didn't measure the alternator output correctly, should be phase to phase, not phase to ground. It can put out up to 320V peak, and those motorcycle regulators work by shorting the phases together when the voltage gets too high, relying on the relatively high impedance of the small motorcycle alternator.
Another awesome installment! I think the headlights look great, the size is perfect. I do think they need to be set out from the grill, especially with the wider stance of the truck.
I enjoy your channel! We have friends that moved to Inman, KS. We visited them this past summer, stayed in Hutch and went to eat at The Barn in Burrton. We visited for a while in Inman the next day and followed them to McPherson and had lunch at Braum's Ice Scream and Dairy Store. I think we passed pretty close to your area when we were in Hutch.
Cool deal bro ... n man that k24 swap insight was rad af n right uo my ally were I have a 400hp forged turbo miata 😅... but yeah cant weight for the stupercharger install jimbo.. peace and love all keep it rad stay safe and build on l8z famz and keep having fun
I know you said the hybrid stuff doesn't interest you, but the lithium battery swap would be a great upgrade.
Nice little car that didn’t take much to get it back on the road. It would be neat to swap it with a little bit bigger diesel that would make it a great daily driver, not that the other one couldn’t be a daily driver. Thanks for the Videos, Jimbo.
Great to see another insight. Much more expensive in my country.
i learned a lot with this video. normally, i enjoy seeing the problems you come across and what you do to get around them, but this episode watching you diagnose that fuel pump so efficiently was a treat for sure and i feel like definitely helped keep my own diagnosing skills sharp.
I have the granddaughter of this car (08 Civic Hybrid) and I love it.
I would love to have an old Insight.
The two door Honda insight is such a cool car. We only got them in four door version. The Audi A2 does also have some similar qualities.
I think getting the the hybrid system to work and combining it with diesel engine (any diesel maybe VAG 1.9tdi?) would be great project Possibly with even better MPG and power results than the original.
There were also 1.2 and 1.4 TDIs avalible but not sure if you guys got them in the US
Gotta say I enjoy your videos as well as the nods to VGG and the sticker in the other Insight.
Thanks for giving us "Insight" on your newest project! I'm looking forward to the new, and current projects!
Of course, just in case nobody else suggested it...... and you KNEW this was coming.... I see an Insight race in the future! 😁
Yes!
A gen 3 LS ECU can run a 90 degree V twin and an inline 4. Free software (Universal Patcher) and a $50 cable (OBDLink SX). Weld the $30 trigger wheel to the CVT driver pulley. A third party harness can be had for $80. Disable VTD, range switch, clutch switch, column lock. Set per cylinder volume, injector flow rate, disable MAF for speed density mode. Can disable all DTCs you don't care about. Goat Rope Garage's HPTuner videos are helpful; just take what he says and apply to same values/tables in Universal Patcher.
And even found one the same color! Great video, although felt like my head was dragged through mud in some of the technical bits. Fully expected to see Gnomes or Gremlins jump out of fuel tank or hybrid parts.
Nice to see that you have another cheap project car to play with. Sounds like it will make a great butt hauler.
Love the new project! One thing occurred to me, and maybe you’ve thought of this already. The Hybrid system continuously trying to charge a dead hybrid battery may put a large load on the engine, possibly affecting your gas mileage quite a lot. Love the content!
If the battery isn't there, it cant put any load on the generator.
Must have been just *crazy* amounts of power, heady I'm sure.. PLUS you got your hep'd-up personality all reel'd back in for the show, well done!
A bonus car! It gets even better!
I have a 2 stroke 540cc engine in a old snowmobile you can have. Just have to come pick it up in northern Michigan. It would be great to see your new Honda as an oil burner.
This is how it starts, "oh hey, what's better than one, but TWO OF COURSE!" Flash forward 3 years and you've changed your name to "The Insight Man" and people are reaching out wanting to sell or give you theirs. Your biggest decision of the day is what color Insight to drive, and your insurance agent has a monthly email with a tally of the number of Insights you want covered.
Just be careful
Well done Jimbo 😎
Spooky !! over here in blighty in my village in sussex , walking to get my m/cycle out of its garage , parked up next to the garages was a lime green one . the first i've ever seen !
Sweet!!
Can next project be to clone himself, so he can have multiple projects at same time for more videos each week (you know the community would support this project)
The Insight sounds like my Fit. The honda dealier adjusted the valves(for maximum noise for me. I'm not to happy with them
for sort boost may can repair the battery .. salvage the healthy cell and BMS need around 38 battery cell in series for 160 V...
Off camera, we repaired some wiring under the dashboard that had rodent damage. after the repairs, everything on the car worked including the IMA. At this point the battery pack is fully functional. I'm not sure how something that old can still work, but it does. One of the things I didn't mention in the video is this car is one of the first 50 that was produced in 1999. Perhaps this car has components that exceeded the normal manufacturing tolerances. Just a guess. Anyway we will release the update video soon.
@@robotcantina8957 ah .. nice.. NiMh cell can be drain to 0 V and no damage.. lithium will swell or leaking fast under operating voltage.
oh boy, jimbo! you got a winner there. dunno what your final plans are with this one but i always thought a neat thing would be gut all the outdated tech and get a megasquirt or other simple standalone ecu and go for light/simple as possible car using stock gas plant.
We shall see
Many hybrid engines have some simulated atkinson-cycle built in ....this would make an excellent base for some supercharged miller-cycle operation .
Don’t ruin the car like that.
Autospeed Australia used a MoTeC M400 on their turbo Honda insight with no battery then programmed it to do lean cruise.
This is a crazy idea... After watch deboss garage and seeing Edison motors building a diesel electric hybrid conversion kit plans. I would LOVE to see you use a small diesel as a generator to turn an inverter and charge a battery. Think about how fast you could go with electric motors in the insight and using an engine to charge.. super range.. you have the hybrid and most of the parts..
If only "Entry of the Gladiators" was playing while both cars were driving in circles... lol
Hey Jimbo, congratulations on the new acquisition. I love the new insight. If you could maybe build just a small capacity ‘Hybrid battery’ replacement, just enough to get the ECU to feel happy (maybe with an Arduino hack too?) and enough juice for a few city traffic light launches too, then you might manage to get the Honda ECU to run the electric assist motor too. Hell, it might even let you start the engine with it. I do love the idea of updating an old Hybrid. I’m just trying to coax our year 2000!NHW 11 Prius into accepting its (4th time) rebuilt NiMH main traction battery pack (we’ve been using NHW20 cells up to now, although even those are getting a bit sketchy these days) anyway good luck with this 👍🏻
Derek from VGG would love the Lone Wolf 2000 🐺 😅
Look how big that battery pack is, you could fit so much fuel in that volume. Now that would give it long enough legs to stick a serious engine in that doesn’t belong in a Honda.
Thank you for the video. A cup of coffee, and a new episode of Robot Cantina. Great way to start my sunday.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Don't trust most parts store desk jockies, especially during the day. Go in with the part number you want!
The best are there after ~5:30pm, because that's when the technicians get to their second jobs, at parts stores. I know this because Advance Auto was my second job, for years! My 1st job was as a service tech (I'm an ASE Certified Pro ;) ) and I knew of many other technicians doing the same thing I was, but at other parts stores. We did that because we still got discounts as part time employees.
My "3rd job" was fixing other peoples cars, that's where the discount helped. I would pick up the parts to fix their cars, at a discount, install them, then charge them full price for the parts I installed (+flat rate labor).
I made more from that than Advance Auto paid me.
There was a good number of AA customers who would wait until I was at AA until they came in to get parts. They wanted the right stuff, and since I knew how it all worked, I gave them the right stuff.
All quite true.
I go to one specific store where I've been going for years, because I worked there about a decade ago. Not the same people or management, but I've maintained my relationship with every new manager and employee I could. I can walk in to my local leprechaun hangout, go to the end of the counter, look my own stuff up, find my parts (if they're on hand in the store) or build a cart full of crap to order and then tell someone to take my money.
I've been doing this for years, and it's the only way I can guarantee a higher accuracy on my parts. These folks swore there was no such thing as an "F-super duty" (with no numbers, literally named as in quotes) and then I said "look man, it's right there, one above F-150... Ya know what, nevermind I'll look it up myself" and walked to the back where there's other computers with catalogs, to find my own power steering pump after they sold me one for an F350 (not the same, close, but no cigar, F super duty has two return lines on it, F350 only had one) after that I no longer let them look up parts for that truck for me, I do it myself.
My favorite local O'Reilly leprechaun works at a tractor store during the day and O'Reilly in the evenings, like you said, for the discount. (which at O'Reilly is pretty decent, AutoZone is an insult, never worked for napa, also worked at dealerships)
@@goosenotmaverick1156 o'really desk jockies are "leprechauns"?
hahaha! ROFL!!
I have never heard that, & now I'm using it.
@@Iowa599 oh yeah! We've been using it for years in my house haha.
I have a reddish beard and worked there years back, I fit the bill perfectly, I've been called a leprechaun outside of there as well, so.... 🤣🤣🤣
I'm short too, so that helps/doesn't help, depending on who you ask lol
Our local store embraces it, we were talking and joking about leprechauns like two days ago. Those guys find it rather hilarious 🤣
Jimbo, long time fan first time commenter. I had a thought: given your electronics knowledge, could you 'spoof' the OE charging circuit to be friendly to LiPo battery chemistry? You could then build a small pack for a reasonable amount of money and allow the hybrid circuit to work. An alternate fun experiment would be to disable the regen/charging completely and charge the pack separately at home so you can have the boost from the hybrid system without the headaches / hazzard of having the car regen the battery pack.
These cars obviously get better milage overall, but it still impresses me I can manage to get 2.5/3.0 L per 100km in my 8500lb Diesel truck under good conditions.
Pretty darn cool, Jimbo
Great logical troubleshooting on this.
Thinking some type of immobilizer or alarm that is installed that is keeping the fuel pump from running.
Hybrid components coming out and jungle site alternator going in! 200 lbs savings should help the mpg :)