CruxGNZ Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 I always liked the idea of turbines in a car, boat, motorcycle, ect. If you want to see a bad@ss boat check this out here . If you like to see other turbines in action, check out this bike first, then look at the other stuff they have to offer here Just look at the power and wieght of these engines. !M! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug71zt Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 For the ultimate - get a General Electric CT-58 turbine engine from a Sea King (S-61) Sikorsky helicopter. Weighs about 400 lbs total - 2000 HORSEPOWER. That's my day job - helicopter engineer. But seriously, turbines are great for boats - not so great for cars. Huge fuel burn, and not so optimum torque characteristics are a bit of a problem. At 0 rpm, a turbine engine has 0 torque. Not too quick off the line! That's not to mention the huge heat problem. Ah well - reality sucks! Cheers - Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy 77zt Posted November 29, 2002 Share Posted November 29, 2002 i have a 18' mirage tunnel bottem with a 260hp merc out board.it will run 102 on radar but tbo time is not much.would like a dcb 22 tunnel with a allison c-18 and arneson drive.no maintenance and runs on cheap fuel-like ag diesel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spdsk8r Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 A few years ago, the local jet turbine tractor/truck pulling guru had a gentleman with too much money ask him to install two turbines into his 38' cigarette boat. He installed two British Lycoming (sp) jet turbines from Huey helicopters. A good friend of mine also tractor pulled and was good friends of the guru. We got asked to go on its maiden voyage. Once we were in open water (Lake Michigan) we opened it up to 110mph and the guru said we were only at 75% power. Needless to say, that was fast enough for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest John Adkins Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Chrysler did a lot of R&D on adapting the turbine engine to cars in the 60's and 70's They had turbine cars ready to go into production but for some reason they never did. Here's a link to one of the many sites devoted to the Chrysler turbine car (really interesting reading): http://www.autospeed.com.au/A_0764/P_1/article.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 yeah didn't Elvis Presely drive a turbine race car to victory in Viva Las Vegas. The king did it all in his movies.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay1970Z Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 they had a whole thing on the chrysler turbine on i think it was my classic car on speedvision or something. it was really different, they even took it for a ride, said it idled at like 20,000 rpms i think. too bad they werent more economical, pretty cool idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruxGNZ Posted December 4, 2002 Author Share Posted December 4, 2002 I always wanted to know how the exaust was run on that Chrysler Turbine Car. Thanks for the neat reading !M! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruxGNZ Posted December 21, 2002 Author Share Posted December 21, 2002 I found something else to put a turbine into... how 'bouts a GO KART ! Here's a picture of the turbine kart Here's the web site for this really fun looking thrill ya/kill ya machine. Enjoy! !M! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synlubes Posted December 21, 2002 Share Posted December 21, 2002 Kinda scary where the jet fuel was located!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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