Hydraulic Launch Assist.....

[F150]

Anyone seen this? I wonder how well it will work on a nice sub-zero morning in February...


http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/1...w-2009-ford-f-150-could-add-hydraulic-launch/

 

[mrfixit]

You know, it's amazing. I have always tried to get the point across to students and my family that "Braking is wasted energy". One time I had thought about how a rubber-band airplane is powered and wondered if that could ever apply to cars and trucks... and this is a really GOOD way of doing just that!
Kudos to Ford

 

[O'Rattlecan]

I'm not trying to sound like a smart... alec or anything, but I read about this a couple years ago and thought, "Why the heck didn't they try this till now?" Batteries go bad and are a terrible mess.

Ryan

 

[mrfixit]

" Batteries go bad and are a terrible mess.

Ryan

Not to mention the HASSLE of flipping the car OVER to change them!

 

[F150]

Not to mention the HASSLE of flipping the car OVER to change them!

Yeah, and then you put them in upside down, and the car runs backwards!!

 

[mrfixit]

Yeah, and then you put them in upside down, and the car runs backwards!!

 

[6L PWR]

Hmmmm, wonder it that'd help my 1/4mile at all??

 

[mrfixit]

Running backwards? Couldn't HURT....

 

[6L PWR]

Running backwards? Couldn't HURT....

WOW!! If I could run a low 12 sec in reverse, well, just, WOW!! That'd be too kewel! ROFL

 

[6L PWR]

So what do you think this kind of system will do to the balancing of the drivetrain. I've read about complaints of driveshaft vibration without a bunch of other crap hooked up to the driveshaft underneath the truck. It kinda makes sense, but yet it'll add quite a bit of weight and just a bunch more crap to go bad. What happens if the clutch fails and sticks. Is it going to overpressurize the high-pressure tank? Talk about a blowout. Sheesh.