A&Q about 350Z
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Owner sent me videos I can resend if someone wants to post them
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WOW...........................I thought my Z was fast.
I imagine it would be slow off the line but half way through, it would be like "Back to the future" time!
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I'm getting a headache looking at that car!
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THAT IS REALLY FUCKKING GAY! OMFG! If your name is McFly, you should buy it.
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Solidus: How is that more gay than your glue abused Z? You have no idea how a regular internal combustion engine works, let alone the subtleties of a jet engine, let alone 2 like this car has.
I’m not saying it’s my cup of tea, but it’s not gay, it took someone a lot of knowledge to put that together, it’s not like your hot glue gun and plastic kit pieces now...why don't you glue some rhinestones to your car to give it that Miami bling bling you think you'll need to pick up girls.
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Holy god that thing is insane. He says that its street legal except for the noise issue?? What about the jet burners shooting out the rear end? You could roast some serious soccer mom ass.
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awesome.
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pocket rocket(s) anyone?
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This is totally ridiculous (in a very good way)!
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How do you stop then? I know for a fact on the bikes there IS a clutch mechanism. Jet turbines take a while to wind down, there has to be.
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You stop by simply laying off the thrust (just like letting off the gas), then you stop like you normally do in a regular car, with brakes, but the only difference with a jet powered vehicle you're usually going a lot faster than a regular powered car, so sometimes they set up the car with parachutes or as in this case, simply run the car in the salt lakes so you have LOTS of room to slow down on your own.
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Is that the APS twin turbo kit that More Power keeps talking about?
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LOL! 350zRulz...
on the Y2K... (BTW i admit i don't know a whole lot about it) but there appears to be no outlet like the ones in this car... am i right... unless the exhaust is channeled through ducting of some sort i would have to agree with karioth... i work in the airport... directly with Boeing 747-400 air freighters... I know what you mean MAG... because we have to bring them in and stop the front tires on a line... and when the slow down too much they have to rev it up to move a little forward... and there is NO connection to the tire from the engines... but in turbine engines, the is, obviously a turbine which (properly set up) will act the same as a crankshaft of our internal comb. engines... and connect through a clutch to the tranny... enabling our disengagement... y'know?
(it's also pretty cool to see them overdo it in the 747 too because when we suddenly tell them to stop the Capt. will mash the brakes and the entire front end of the plane will bounce down about 3 feet...)
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Karioth and staticivi03:
If you read his first line of the description he clearly wrote "it is thrust powered by 2 GE t-58 turbines". Now take it from me guys, I have a degree in Aerospace Engineering and can design you an entire plane if you want, the engines produce the thrust for the car.
Let me give you a better example, take a hover craft or better yet a swamp boat (the kind with the huge fans on the back pointing toward the rear of the boat), well the fans produce the thrust to propel the boats forward and in order for them to stop, they simply lay off the engines, just like planes do and just like this car has to. The guy even mentioned it has beefed up brakes, obviously to aid in the stopping when it gets into triple digit speeds.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean staticivi03 about the exhaust, the engines exhaust are what you see on the back of the MR2's trunk, the engine's exhaust IS what produces the thrust. If anything in this car that is hard to see is the INLET ducts for the engines to get the HUGE amounts of air to gulp down. There is a picture of it with some sort of cover on it, but I for one can't see how it allows that much air in. Just like a big engine on an airplane, it has nothing blocking the front of it that would disrupt the air flow, granted the engines on regular commercial airplanes are turbofans which is why the casings are so damn large, and a true jet turbine engine is so much smaller in diameter, so as to fit in cars. Jet turbine engines are not as fuel efficient or as quiet but are faster than turbofan engines...that's why on private planes you see the smaller engines because they're built for speed and drag reducing reasons....anyway I don't want to bore anyone with more of my nerdyness.
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the T-58 is a helicoptor jet engine. beleave it or not they dont use as much air as you think
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Staticivi03:
Now you're talking about a whole other car? Dude, unless I can see some pictures, I can't answer anything. If it was a helicopter engine and it had regular exhaust pipes, then yes there has to be some sort of drivetrain to run the wheels via a trasmission of some sort, but that's not what this thread was about. It sounds like they were using a regualr gas powered engine from a helicopter. Not all helicopters use jet engines, so more likely than not you saw a truck with a helicopter engine...nothing jet powered there, so no need for the complicated inlet and exhaust ports.
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No it WAS a jet engine... i remember b/c i specifically asked... i only bring this up to suggest possible means of torque transfers... nothing more... quite frankly, i find the transplant of jet engines into cars quite intriguing... i'll see if i can get the pics... i let a friend use the phone because i have like 2 more... so i hope he didn't delete the pics...
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Guys,
You can do it either way. M1 Abrams tank is also powered by a heli jet engine the transmission is at least as large as the engine itself...actually a bit larger. Speaking of the engine....there are some grates on top of the chassis for air induction....not a great way to get air to a jet but it does work well enough to get 60 some tons going about 70 mph ungoverned...and that's just one engine not two! The tank is governed for much slower top speed as the rotating mass at 70 mph of the tread is just incredible!
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Anyone see that movie: Torque?
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yes... a TFATF movie on motorcycles...great...
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how gay! **** that.
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Looks like a riot!!
The sad thing is that there are at least three types of turbine arrangements.
1. Direct Thrust. Turbine exhaust is used directly to power vehicle. Power coming out of these types is gerenally measured in Pounds of thrust. (like a Jet airliner of a F-14. Also how this MR2 is setup)
2. In-Direct Thrust. Turbine exhaust drives an impeller that drives a transmission. These vehicles will have a sort of blow-off or Thrust Redirection setup to let the thrust bypass the impeller and work like a clutch. Can be measured in either pounds of thrust or HP(turbine powered wheel driven vehicles, mostly land speed record cars, however many are powered by direct thrust)
3. Mechanical Drive. The Turbin Shaft (crankshaft) is connected to a drive assembly through a clutch of some sort. (often a torque converter or stall device) This setup allows for the drive assembly to be dissengaged and thus allow a turbine to idle down slowly but still allow the vehicle to stop quickly. Almost always measured in HP (The Y2K is set up this way, and most choppers are as well.)
I imagine there are more ways in use, but these would be the most common. Hope that helps clear up any confusion.