FridgeFreezer Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Dodge Viper V10 engine in a bike, Sir? http://www.allpar.com/cars/concepts/tomahawk.html Now to find someone whose underpants are rated to 400mph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo Murphy Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Now, who remembers a film called Tron ... Mo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minivin Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 ahhh, like fitting a car engine into a motorbike hasn't been done in the past (Munch Mammot anyone?), how about something different, maybe, a JET ENGINE: MTT Y2K Even Jay Leno approves and brought one Also prevents people driving too close behind, as their bonnet paint starts to peal-off by the heat from the jet exhaust and here's a test on Jay's bike: Jay's Bike Test Like the comment on the Tomahawk: The motorcycles cannot be legally driven on public roads. A Chrysler spokesman told Reuters they were meant as rolling sculptures so it's a ponce-mobil then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted November 3, 2005 Author Share Posted November 3, 2005 Reading MTT's site it seems that turbines are about 10x more powerful than a piston engine of similar weight/size - so, forget portals, who's gonna be the first to run a gas-turbine in their truck? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Now, who remembers a film called Tron ...Mo Me great sci-fi film IIRC it was one of the first films with computer aided enchancements, i.e. the bike race, 90 degree corners at warp factor 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minivin Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Within easy reach as well, Don Vesco made the Turbinator with little trouble: The Turbinator Not sure about drive, torque converter I suppose but the jet engine is a bit inflexible for the range of work a off-road vehicle needs in speed and engine RPM. Put it this way, a jet aircraft coming into land on a aircraft carrier requires all it's air brakes, everything out and pretty much full power on the throttles, as if it was to come in to land "clean" with only flaps and moderate engine power, if it needed to clear the deck and abort the landing the engines would not spin up fast enough for it to clear the deck or the big pool of water at the other end of the deck ie big splat or splosh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Marshall Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Dodge Viper V10 engine in a bike, Sir? Now to find someone whose underpants are rated to 400mph I think it's just stonkingly gorgeous. Unfortunately my boxers cut out at 165 mph, the fastest I've ever been at the wheel. Has anyone read the spec? 0-60 mph estimated at 1.9 seconds! Top Speed: 400 mph theoretical. 500 bhp! Front brakes? Yes, a couple - in fact, 20-inch perimeter-mounted drilled machined stainless steel rotors, one per wheel and two four-piston fixed aluminum calipers (16 pistons total)....and, wait for it, hand-activated. At the rear, only 8 pistons. Lessons for Land Rover fans? Nick one and flog it - apparently worth $200,000. Would buy a couple of Volvo portals.....and change to buy the wife a bag of chips. Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted November 3, 2005 Author Share Posted November 3, 2005 Hell they built jet-engines on scrapheap challenge that worked although I'm not sure the neighbours would thank you for fitting the ramjet to your truck Years ago GM built a load of jet engined family cars that were pretty good, but due to the cost of production and lack of reliability they were scrapped - that was probably about the same time Buick came up with this new fangled all-aluminium V8... Makes you wonder why they don't have another go though, surely these days they could make a small turbine for not much money - just look how far turbos have come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollythelw Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Looks like it will corner as well as a hardly worthit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minivin Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Hell they built jet-engines on scrapheap challenge that worked although I'm not sure the neighbours would thank you for fitting the ramjet to your truck Years ago GM built a load of jet engined family cars that were pretty good, but due to the cost of production and lack of reliability they were scrapped - that was probably about the same time Buick came up with this new fangled all-aluminium V8... Makes you wonder why they don't have another go though, surely these days they could make a small turbine for not much money - just look how far turbos have come. Think they need to take a page out of the aero modellers book, they seem to be making little jet engines for not much money, and thats one-offs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
02GF74 Posted November 4, 2005 Share Posted November 4, 2005 Rover were investigating trubin engines in the 50s; made a few, raced and crashed them but low mpg killed them off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBMUD Posted November 4, 2005 Share Posted November 4, 2005 Don't blame me if you hurt yourselves... Home made jet engines B) Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cartman Posted November 4, 2005 Share Posted November 4, 2005 Well if their are a bunch of UK nutters already fitting them to go-karts..........Nutters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffbeaumont Posted November 4, 2005 Share Posted November 4, 2005 Reading MTT's site it seems that turbines are about 10x more powerful than a piston engine of similar weight/size - so, forget portals, who's gonna be the first to run a gas-turbine in their truck? I was discussing that one with my Dad a few months back - I figured it would be the way to go to make a really efficient LPG powered car. Dad disagreed (he's an engineer, I'm not...) - a simple gas turbine is actually quite inefficient, static installations like power stations use steam turbines driven from the exhaust gasses to make use of the waste heat, and also run at higher (more efficient) temperatures than compact aero-type ones. The size and weight of this type of setup would make it impractical to fit in a vehicle. Also, as someone else already pointed out, gas turbines are good for power but lousy for torque, so to go with your appalling fuel consumption you'd have naff all acceleration and no controllability off road. Nice idiot friendly introduction to turbines here for us non-engineers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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