yea yea im a newbie bla bla...watevas..i just wanna know whats the a hybrid engine..i see a lot of peeps up in the bronx here in nyc with them engines on there honda's

 

Hybrid cars run on hamster power... as opposed to horse power..... :-)

Basically, it's an electrical engine, and a combustion engine rolled into one unholy union.. (Big mistake IMHO.. screw mother earth :-)... gets great mileage, but nowhere near the power of a 100% combustion engine of similar size/weight, and from what i understand, would be a maintenance cost nightmare once something breaks..!!!

-Tom

 

As said before they are a combination of the 2 types of engines. . . When the car comes to a stop, the combustion engine shuts down and the electric engine takes over and gets the car moving again, then (from what I understand) when the car is at speed the combustion engine takes over again leaving the batteries to recharge on the electric engine. . . I think I would prefer a Sentra California edition which puts out less emissions driving around town than a normal car sitting in the driveway all day, at least it runs on combustion only, and you don't have to rely on the batteries working all the time.

 

i think he's asking about a different type of Hybrid...

I think the type of hybrid he's asking about is like a CRX with B16A motor. Many people are starting to use the B20 block(CR-V) to build up cause it has more torque.

 

i think so too

 

I thought these hybrid's give out a lot of power and ish because they use them in streetraces.i never thought they were for mileage and they had "hampster power"