Porsche 828 with a turbine engine in it...

[beasly]

http://www.carlustblog.com/2010/07/asinine-or-awesome.html

From the comments:

Belching fire to belch fire is asinine. Belching fire because your car *literally* has a jet engine under the hood is absolutely gobsmackingly awesome.​

Now.

Combine that gobsmackingly awesome with this....

and now we are talking baby!




Needs a gun-rack though, and some jet-nuts.

 

[dasleben]

That's a 928.

 

[Jfk-Pilot]

That is freaking awesome. He must have done a ton work to do the transmission as well, so it can handle all that torque.

 

[Muff3n]

This is awesome! Wonder what kind of MPG it gets?

 

[crazyjaydawg]

This is awesome! Wonder what kind of MPG it gets?

The article says it gets 17mpg, thats better than my suv...

 

[stensonb]

wonder if he logs turbine PIC...

 

[Muff3n]

wonder if he logs turbine PIC...

Think it would be legal for him to drive down the interstate with my foggles on,and I could log some pic safety pilot time?

 

[Cessnaflyer]

Think it would be legal for him to drive down the interstate with my foggles on,and I could log some pic safety pilot time?

Well you are doing IFR (I Follow Roads) :cwm27:

 

[Roger, Roger]

How does he get the flames without torching the turbines?

 

[Baronpilot244]

http://www.carlustblog.com/2010/07/asinine-or-awesome.html

From the comments:

Belching fire to belch fire is asinine. Belching fire because your car *literally* has a jet engine under the hood is absolutely gobsmackingly awesome.
​

Now.

Combine that gobsmackingly awesome with this....

and now we are talking baby!




Needs a gun-rack though, and some jet-nuts.

Indeed - suitably gobsmacked, this thing is the dog's danglers.


Bp244

 

[jtrain609]

How does he get the flames without torching the turbines?

Afterburner. More importantly, how did he hook up the transmission? Reduction gearbox or as a free turbine?

EDIT: And I guess additionally, how does he make sure he doesn't over torque or over temp the thing while driving it? Startup is easy enough, but I'd be scared of putting my foot on the floor and blowing the thing up, unless he rigged the throttle cable so that you couldn't produce max power.

 

[drunkenbeagle]

this thing is the dog's danglers.

It's the cat's ass...

 

[Mad Doggy Dog]

You'll shoot your eye out, kid.

 

[darthpanda]

It's the cat's ass...

Negative. It's the Bee's Knees.

 

[Baronpilot244]

Negative. It's the Bee's Knees.

The muttz nutz, even!

Bp244

 

[Muff3n]

The muttz nutz, even!

Bp244

:rotfl::rotfl:

 

[SeanD]

My dad had a 928 S4 when I was a senior in HS. I was allowed to take a date out in within 5 miles from our house. That thing was bad ass and very very fast. My date said I looked like a kid driving his dads car
I miss that 928 body style.

 

[Table Two]

I remember a long time ago seeing an aircraft at Lake Tahoe airport that looked like a Mooney, but had a Porsche engine and a wacky looking throttle quadrant. I have a picture of it in an album on the other side of the country :cwm27:

 

[Cessnaflyer]

I remember a long time ago seeing an aircraft at Lake Tahoe airport that looked like a Mooney, but had a Porsche engine and a wacky looking throttle quadrant. I have a picture of it in an album on the other side of the country :cwm27:

Yeah that was because Porsche made an engine for Mooney

 

[KSCessnaDriver]

Yeah that was because Porsche made an engine for Mooney

Yup, Mooney basically convinced Porsche they'd sell a ton of them, but Porsche needed to fund stretching the fuselage to make it work. Turns out nobody wanted the Porsche engine, and they ended up putting a more normal aviation engine in the thing. Mooney basically got a new airframe on Porsche's dime, not a bad deal.