HELP! My Prius shrunk!!!!

It just takes practice. Find a big empty parking lot and get used to finding the friction point. After that it's all coordination.

 

Yeah, what Hyo said. Go practice out of the way of other people.

I learned to drive a stick at 14. If a 14-yr old girl can do it, so can you! :thumb:

 

i miss my stick shift New Beetle. i picked the color my wife picked the transmision, never drove stick until I was married.

 

You can also do this by letting up on the clutch, while parked, until you can feel it just starting to engage. With experience, you can also try rev matching the tranny and engine on shifts. Don't know how much it helps with efficiency, but it reduces clutch wear.
It may not be inline with what you want out of the car, but someone has put a turbo on an Insight. The donor parts came from one of those Chevy/Geo/Suzuki cars, the Sprint I think.

On another note, something I was wondering about. The Insight uses liquid cooling for the batteries, correct? If so, could the pack be replaced with a gen2 Prius pack, and remove the liquid system?

 

Isn't that a bit backwards? The wife always picks the color.
I learned to drive a stick on a farm tractor (maybe 12), but I haven't had a car with a stick since '99 when my wife became part of the car purchase decision-making (altho she almost never drove the car, so now I'd do it differently, but the Prius doesn't come with a stick shift version).

The battery pack is a different size and used differently. I think the computer would get confused at best, and it may not even communicate with the battery pack at worst.

 

Very cool. At first i wanted to yell at u for not getting a Leaf, but after all is said and done, u will probably have less than$ 15k into it (half the price of the Leaf) and u wont have to wait over a year to do it

 

Jay,

While you still have some days warmer than 60F, take a weekend drive to see what lean burn can do.

Find an uncongested road you can cruise at 45-50 without lots of stops or hills. After the catalytic converter is warmed up, 100mpg and better should be easy once you learn to use a light foot on the Insight...that is probably second nature on your Prius so it should be no problem.

Just want you to see a 100 mpg segment before the cold weather kicks in

 

I'm glad you have visited the lean burn zone.

A 100+mpg work commute is possible if it's mostly highway....if you have many stops, then FASing will give you a good chance to do it anyway....cutting the ignition 2-3 seconds and coasting at least 0.10 a mile. I usually bump start by shifting in 5th....going under 15 is too slow to bump start....going 50 or faster I change the bump start by letting the clutch halfway, then do it a second time so the engine and clutch is not stressed as much.

 

Ok. With the chemistry and cell size being the same, I figured the the voltage and amperage wouldn't be off enough to cause problems with the Insight ECU. Having entertained getting a manual Insight myself, I figured using cells from a salvaged Prius pack would be more economical than going through Honda. Of course, that would depend on me gaining the knowledge, or knowing somebody with it, on how go about doing so.