what a breath of fresh air to find this forum! so after going down and taking a tour of the Marathon factory http://www.marathonengine.com/ and going into to a coma after they gave me the price.....i found this forum (after i woke up).
so my qust is has any one converted the guts of a Prius in to something useful like a co-gen unit? it looks like you can buy a good wrecked one for 5-7K strip out the required parts and maybe sell the rest to re-cop some $$ and you would have a good base to start from. and there seams to be LP kits out there for these also.
i would like to heat the house and shop and feed the grid to reduce my power bill which can be as high as 3K a yr. , power here cost over .20 a KWH.
i have a water to air system in the house now and in-floor heat in the shop so the system is ready to go. i would run this in the winter only and understand it will have to start and stop a lot but hey that's what it was built to do. and i also have access to a master Toyota mechanic through a friend so i would hope to enlist him for all of the "Prius work"
so i would hope to here from anyone that has plowed this ground before, don't need to reinvent the wheel
thanks rich
my background, was in the heating biz (but no A/C ) for 28 yrs. did mostly wood, gas, waste oil, and LP, that was 10 yrs ago, now manufacturing raceramps.com
so my qust is has any one converted the guts of a Prius in to something useful like a co-gen unit? it looks like you can buy a good wrecked one for 5-7K strip out the required parts and maybe sell the rest to re-cop some $$ and you would have a good base to start from. and there seams to be LP kits out there for these also.
i would like to heat the house and shop and feed the grid to reduce my power bill which can be as high as 3K a yr. , power here cost over .20 a KWH.
i have a water to air system in the house now and in-floor heat in the shop so the system is ready to go. i would run this in the winter only and understand it will have to start and stop a lot but hey that's what it was built to do. and i also have access to a master Toyota mechanic through a friend so i would hope to enlist him for all of the "Prius work"
so i would hope to here from anyone that has plowed this ground before, don't need to reinvent the wheel
thanks rich
my background, was in the heating biz (but no A/C ) for 28 yrs. did mostly wood, gas, waste oil, and LP, that was 10 yrs ago, now manufacturing raceramps.com