Prius Tuning - More HP (200-300 whp)

There’s this red bullet:

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also I thin someone looked into different cam shafts. Corolla?

 

I second the Red Bullet I have a track edition version.

I also say a lighter HV battery by Dr. Prius at ProjectLithium.com check the link below.

You can also try a K&N air filter and oil filter.

Better spark plugs, I am using some Plasma iridium ones from Pulstar.com



Also the item in the pic may do a little but it is pricey.


http://www.RedBullet.net

http://www.ProjectLithium.com/?ref=mG0GE

http://www.Pulstar.com

http://www.PlugOutPower.com
Use code 7373

 

Remove your Prius badges, buy the car you want, rebadge it as a Prius.

 

checkmate.

 

LOL, uh no, not with a "Prius." It's not possible! Well Ok short of the SRT 8, Prius.

Four cylinder Toyota's that made or can make big power, are old now. And the King of the hill was the Celica AWD with the 3SGTE 4, or the 2nd Gen MR2. 230 hp from the factory and 300 hp was nothing or if you wanted to starting spending bucks 400, 500 or 600+ hp at the wheels!

The little dog that could was the Toyota Starlet, Japan only but there are/were some of those here. It had a 1.3 liter 4efte engine in it rated at 130 hp stock. But they can make 300 hp with all stock internals. I have one of those motors for my 92 Tercel (cousin to Starlet) but most likely I'll build a 5efte same motor with a longer stroke for 400 hp because uh ... why not?

But you can do with those motors because you can replace the ECU and you can make the motors do Boost, Ignition and Timing ... whatever you program it to do.

And that right there is why the Prius can't make 200 hp. You have to Turbo or Supercharge it to make power. And so far that can't be done? There are threads on here from those that have tried and it does not work.

The ECU can't read boost. As soon as the ECU sees positive pressure 1 lb of boost? It shuts the motor down. Folks that know way more than I have tried and failed.

And on top of that from a dead stop, you'd not be able to use the power anyway from a dead stop. The traction control protects the MG1 and MG2 motors. Pull away from a dead stop and nail the throttle and see what happens.

 

Agree, there are plenty of threads on this topic already. This car is 11 years old, if there were ways to do this, it would be widely documented.

 

It's difficult to add power to a Prius because so much of the Prius is built around a specific balance between electric and gas power. Add one, you really need to add the other in a similar proportion.

That's hard to do, much harder than just adding power on a simple gas car or fully electric car.

Toyota themselves weren't interested in re-working the electric end of their race car. They put in a mildly hotter gas engine and called it good. (They probably also made sure the traction battery was fresh-fresh new)

You might crib their formula for handling though...

 

Gut the drivetrain and battery pack, then swap another engine... Nothing you can bolt-on will give you that kind of power. Adding 160 hp on a 4 cylinders engine with an hybrid management system... is really not worth the trouble and would require stupid amount of knowledge. Not to mention that the trans/MG might not take kindly to 300 hp... The springs in the torque damper fails on stock Prius after a while, so imagine with more power.

If anything happens to my engine or battery pack (once it's completely out of warranty in 50,000 km), I have a complete 2ZZ from my Matrix XRS that needs a teardown and rebuild and the Prius would be its new home. I mean, you either need to trade the Prius or get another car. I have my '15 Prius, but I also have my '05 Cooper S if I want something fun to drive (and it's currently in the low 200 hp). Adding power is as easy as replacing the pulley on the supercharger, the same can't be said about a Prius.

 

The Prius has a supercharger?????

 

turbo charger also!!!

 

Kind of sorta, it's on here somewhere? Most likely it was a Supercharger kit from another Super charged 4 cylinder, that was "modified," to fit on a Prius? But physically bolting a Supercharger to a Prius ... is the easy part. Making it work? Not so much apparently?

Superchargers are parasitic, they suck up hp, just to run themselves, they are a drag on the motor and can suck up 100 hp just to run
themselves.

Fiat/Chrysler corp knows. Supercharged Dodge Hell Cat's and Demons make up to 870hp from the factory but those motors suckup100 hp plus ... just at idle. But hey when you are talking 500 hp plus at the wheels, who gives a crap?

Turbos are a better choice, free hp from exhaust gas. But hey there are trade offs. Turbos tend to have lag, the motor does nothing until it builds boost. Superchargers have boost, the second the motor is started.

A supercharged car drives like a Normally Aspirated car. A turbo car not so much? But in either case the Car's ECU see's the operating conditions it expects to see? With normal car's you can Spoof, the ECU, with a Piggy Back, or Hard Core, you just replace the Car's ECU.

But with the Prius, apparently you can't do either? The ECU in the Prii thus far appears to be uncrackable? It can't be "Spoofed," if the car see's 1 pound of boost, it shuts the car down?

A regular 1.5 or 1.8 can make big power but with a Prius, thus far not so much?

 

I was joking...
I could think of better things to do with my money and time then putting a super/turbo charger on a PRIUS!

 

Sticking to Prii, you are indeed correct and counting the Gen 2 it's more like 18 years of failure?

But don't be "dissing," old cars. As the "Transformers song," goes ... there is more than meets the eye.

 

I better unwatch this lol.