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That is beyond description..

"the jet sucks the flower from the vase... LOL

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“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” -- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Those who cannot accept the past are condemned to revise it." -- Geo. Mathias

Why?
He can't run it on a dragstrip, it has no rollcage (No, those supports around the engine are the engine mounts, not a rollcage), and no firewall between the engine and the driver.

Also it is illegal to drive on public roads in California with the nozzle sticking out so far.
Oh, despite what he writes in his blog about the vehicle being "Street Legal", it isn't.

What a waste of money.

BGnR

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That is so stupid.

And oh my God, do I want one!

outcast

Boy rusty, you sure are a stodgy old spoilsport. You're in no position to deem this fellow's choice of how to spend HIS money "a waste."

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if you have to ask why, then you don't understand customizing.

but, all said, that is totally INSANE and not street legal by a longshot.

Don Kiyoti Wrote:
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> Boy rusty, you sure are a stodgy old spoilsport.
> You're in no position to deem this fellow's choice
> of how to spend HIS money "a waste."

Not really calling it a waste of money, just if he really spent $1.5 Million, why didn't he spend $1,000 to at least make it dragstrip legal, and it isn't even close to street legal, so I wish that he would stop saying that to everyone who interviews him.

Stodgy? Cars I have owned.:
T-Bucket with a 426 Hemi, Roots blown, about 1400 pounds, 1200HP. A wild ride!
1973 Firebird Formula 455HO Nitrous, 800HP, daily driver.
1969 Camaro RS/SS Convertible 454 Aluminum heads, Nitrous, 780HP, another daily driver.

My favorite.:
1998.5 Contour SVT, was stock for two weeks.
Now.:
3L HO motor. Pulls 300HP and 271 ftlbs of torque out of 183 Cubic Inches!
Vortech Supercharger
Quaife Differential
Focus SVT Six-Speed.
17 Focus SVT Wheels
Baer Brakes, 14" Front, 12" Rear.
The car is completely street legal and idles like velvet, handles like it is on rails.
Air conditioning, leather, full power everything. Before the Mods, this car was rated by Ford to do 147MPH, Car and Driver did 152MPH when they tested a stocker.

I still talk to the new owner, he loves killing Vettes and Porsches.

BGnR

He is just blowing smoke out his ...

If you are going to the trouble of making something jet powered, THIS is the way to go!!!! A jet powered beer cooler! Below are excerpts from the linked site.

[www.asciimation.co.nz]

I knew from some long forgotten physics lecture that when a liquid expands into a gas it will draw heat from its surroundings. And I happened to have a source of a suitable liquid right in my shed in the form of a LPG cylinder (liquid petroleum gas). Obviously it would not do to evaporate vast quantities of a flammable gas into the closed confines of my garage. That would probably be dangerous. What I needed was a way to remove the dangerous gas. The solution was obvious. The gas is flammable so why not burn it. Burning the gas with a normal burner would not use up the gas fast enough to give me any serious cooling. What I needed was a way to use up a lot of fuel very, very quickly.

What I needed was a jet engine!

As everyone knows jet engines use a lot of fuel. And a smallish one running in my shed would use up enough fuel from my gas bottle to sufficiently cool my beer.

I went to work. A jet engine in its simplest form consists of a COMBUSTOR where fuel is burnt to heat air, a TURBINE extracting energy from the heated air and a COMPRESSOR which is turned by the turbine to provide air to the combustor. I knew that a common turbocharger from a car engine has two of these three things, the compressor and the turbine. All I needed to add was the third, the combustor. After much investigating and designing and building and dodgy welding I built my engine.





And here is the final result after running the engine for about 5 minutes. The engine itself will run at up to 100000 rpm with exhaust temperatures of around 500 C and noise levels in excess of 125 dBA. The beer is successfully chilled to a nice cool 2 C.




Dennis R

Or Jet powered wheelchair!

[news.bbc.co.uk]

Jet-powered wheelchair surprise

Giuseppe Cannella can reach speeds of more than 60mph
Giuseppe Cannella had a big surprise for his mother-in-law when he put a jet engine on the back of her wheelchair.
Mr Cannella says the chair can now do top speeds of more than 60mph and has proved the star of a model plane championship during the Bank Holiday.

A model plane enthusiast himself, Mr Cannella has been putting on shows at Barkston Heath near Grantham, Lincs.

"It is just the wheelchair with the engine bolted on the back and steering on the front," he said.

Or go here [www.aardvark.co.nz]

to see jet powered car, scooter, go-kart, and a Toyota MR2 equipped with three home-built turbo-based gas turbine engines



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Wouldn't be cool if someone was really tailgating you could
just make that thing blow out about 2-3ft flame, not enough to damage
anything but you get my drift.

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Grateful11

Doesn't Jay Leno own a jet-powered motorcycle?

Burn his uni-brow at the least ;)

Kap

Grateful11 Wrote:
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> Wouldn't be cool if someone was really tailgating
> you could
> just make that thing blow out about 2-3ft flame,
> not enough to damage
> anything but you get my drift.
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> Grateful11
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SoCal for now.

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> Doesn't Jay Leno own a jet-powered motorcycle?


Yes, but turbine powered shaft drive, helicopter engine, hot exhaust, no flame.

BGnR

It's just cool in a guy kind of way. Reminds me of the time my company made a jet powered machine. First time we fired it up in the lab, people came from all around the plant just to stand around, listen to the whoosh, and make that ooh-ooh-ooh Tim Taylor sound.

Then again, the day someone drove a NASCAR stock car down the main aisle in the plant sticks in my mind too- pretty much everyone came to gawk at it.

that is pretty cool, but can't be street legal.

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I can't believe I watched 5 minutes of video of a car with a jet engine and didn't get to see it go anywhere! Why not take it to the desert or something and show us how fast it can really go? But just firing it up while parked in a parking lot? That's more wasteful than those 120 db car stereo contests. And the story didn't say a thing about why he was doing it, or if he was a speed demon, or anything really interesting. Just, "Oo. he put a jet engine in a car."