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Sanddude · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:08 pm Size: 1024x768 Views: 455 Rating: Not rated

Sanddude
My Dad cutt this out of 1/8 aluminum plate (with a bosch jig saw). We had it broke by a sheet metal shop, to achieve the correct angle behind the head area.

Geezer · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:08 pm Size: 319x167 Views: 745 Rating: Not rated

Geezer

mr matt · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:36 pm Size: 800x600 Views: 1167 Rating: Not rated

mr matt
The car is licensed here in California. In California, new cars have bi-annual smog inspections so if you modify the engine, it is likely to fail the inspection and you won't be able to drive it on the street. There are some exempt engine modifications (ex. after-cat mufflers - big deal) but none that will allow you to add 1350 hp to a new car. The Beetle was chosen because it looks cool with the jet and it shows it off well. The production hatch release switch on the driver's door activates two new latches (one on each side) and the hatch pops open just like a production car. The "hatch not closed" warning light works too.

mr matt · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:36 pm Size: 600x800 Views: 1054 Rating: Not rated

mr matt
Here you can see the split in the tailpipe after a particularily rude burner pop. All fixed and reinforced now. The heat blanket keeps the plastic bumper from melting when the jet is operating.

mr matt · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:35 pm Size: 800x600 Views: 901 Rating: Not rated

mr matt
Lotsa stuff back here. The force from the jet is tied to the vehicle through sandwich plates inside the car bolted to contoured aluminum billets that were slid into the frame rails. You can see the billet on the left side with a hole in its center, welded to the plate with 4 bolts. Used helium as the inert gas and a lot of current to weld that chunk of aluminum. To return the car to its production height, adjustable spring perches were used. Same spring rate, just corrected the ride height. Drives and handles fine. Kerosene is stored in a custom 14 gallon, baffled, foam-filled kevlar fuel cell in the spare tire well.

mr matt · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:34 pm Size: 800x494 Views: 758 Rating: Not rated

mr matt
Street racing action. The other guy wimped out after a few "big-fire" demonstrations. What you see in the picture is about one-twentieth the full size of the fireball. Guy standing beside car had never seen it run before and was smiling ear-to-ear throughout the show. Had I launched, I would have burned him to a crisp. Well, live and learn.

mr matt · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:31 pm Size: 800x600 Views: 907 Rating: Not rated

mr matt
The engine is a General Electric Model T58-8F. This is a helicopter turboshaft engine that was converted to a jet with a custom tailpipe. The engine spins up to 26,000 RPM (idle is 13,000 RPM), draws air at 11,000 CFM, and is rated at 1350 hp. It weighs only 300 lbm. Due to heat, must limit starts to three in one hour. Big screen is to avoid FOD (foreign object damage). Jet keeps sucking the rose out of the bud vase on the dash!

mr matt · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:29 pm Size: 600x800 Views: 594 Rating: Not rated

mr matt
There are three gauges for the jet: %RPM, Oil Pressure, and Turbine Inlet Temperature. The most important is turbine inlet temperature. If you exceed about 650 degrees C for very long, you damage the engine. This is critical on start-up. You don't want a "hot-start". The throttle for the jet engine is located next to the gear selector. It is a lever and has three buttons: Cool, Big-Fire, and Afterburner. "Cool" leans out the engine and is used to lower the turbine inlet temperature if you get a hot-start. To light big-fire or the afterburner, you hold a button down and 1/2 second later, press the hot-streak button on the floor. Then things happen! Notice the kerosene level gauge in front of the gear selector (jet fuel is mostly kerosene) and the bud vase missing a rose. Where did it go?

mr matt · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:26 pm Size: 800x600 Views: 693 Rating: Not rated

mr matt
We get this a lot. A police officer picking at his nose while trying to figure out what to charge me with. Notice the hopeful anticipation of us on the right. We're rooting for him and offer suggestions but unfortunately, the California Department of Motor Vehicles did not anticipate such a vehicle so he's out of luck. Hmmm, the car has two engines making the car a hybrid so maybe we can drive in the commuter lanes along with the Toyota Priuses.

mr matt · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:25 pm Size: 800x600 Views: 995 Rating: Not rated

mr matt
This is a my street-legal jet car on full afterburner. The car has two engines: the production gasoline engine in the front driving the front wheels and the jet engine in the back. The idea is that you drive around legally on the gasoline engine and when you want to have some fun, you spin up the jet and get on the burner (you can start the jet while driving along on the gasoline engine). The car was built because I wanted the wildest street-legal ride possible. With this project, I was able to use my engineering skills (I have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University) to design the car without the distraction of how other people have done it in the past - because no one has. I don't know how fast the car will go and probably never will. The car was built to thrill me, not kill me. That doesn't stop me from the occasional blast on the highway though. (Car by Ron Patrick)

DannyZ · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:04 am Size: 640x480 Views: 552 Rating: Not rated

DannyZ
Lee Leighton kicking it. Check out the Economotors hat.

DannyZ · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:59 am Size: 640x480 Views: 674 Rating: Not rated

DannyZ
Lee checking out the center mount fan shroud on this 2275 CC engine.

DannyZ · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:52 am Size: 640x480 Views: 1531 Rating: Not rated

DannyZ
Heres Lee Leighton hard at work. Some lucky guy named Kurt from San Bernardino owns this 2275 cc engine. Lee Leighton is an Old School Racer from the 1960's and worked for Empi. Lee drove the Empi Jouster Race car in the mid 1960s. Lee was Dean Lowery's right hand man back in the day's.

carl nolen · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:42 pm Size: 640x480 Views: 415 Rating: Not rated

carl nolen
soleniod mounting mockup

carl nolen · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:41 pm Size: 640x480 Views: 364 Rating: Not rated

carl nolen
motor upgrades for nawss

steel buggin · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:46 pm Size: 640x480 Views: 589 Rating: Not rated

steel buggin

Cesar Franco · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:29 pm Size: 320x256 Views: 478 Rating: Not rated

Cesar Franco
The engine its ready, just need to put some things on the car, and then to the track we go!!!!!!

arturo gutierrez · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:16 am Size: 986x774 Views: 985 Rating: Not rated

arturo gutierrez
more 400 hp

arturo gutierrez · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:09 am Size: 956x940 Views: 657 Rating: Not rated

arturo gutierrez
more 400 hp

arturo gutierrez · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:05 am Size: 1156x940 Views: 383 Rating: Not rated

arturo gutierrez
more 400 hp

arturo gutierrez · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:55 am Size: 1020x940 Views: 456 Rating: Not rated

arturo gutierrez
more 400 hp.

arturo gutierrez · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:33 am Size: 1058x930 Views: 668 Rating: Not rated

arturo gutierrez
2332cc, made 400 hp on 25 lbs of boost on the Jaycee dyno,owner Jose gutierrez Jr.

steven pocaro · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:09 pm Size: 600x450 Views: 392 Rating: Not rated

steven pocaro
Whats missing from this picture?

steven pocaro · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:09 pm Size: 600x450 Views: 411 Rating: Not rated

steven pocaro
new

steven pocaro · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:09 pm Size: 600x450 Views: 180 Rating: Not rated

steven pocaro
new

steven pocaro · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:08 pm Size: 600x450 Views: 215 Rating: Not rated

steven pocaro
new

steven pocaro · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:08 pm Size: 600x450 Views: 239 Rating: Not rated

steven pocaro
new

steven pocaro · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:07 pm Size: 600x450 Views: 223 Rating: Not rated

steven pocaro
New

steven pocaro · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:07 pm Size: 600x450 Views: 261 Rating: Not rated

steven pocaro
Just picked this up a month ago. New racecar

beetle from hell · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:15 pm Size: 1000x746 Views: 1041 Rating: Not rated

beetle from hell
Image from "How to Hot Rod Volkswagen engines".

Sanddude · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 7:07 pm Size: 1200x900 Views: 1542 Rating: Not rated

Sanddude
Has new narrow Summit 5" Tach w/ LED shift light & LED Dummy lights. They are easier to read @ 100+ mph.

jimmy1 · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:31 pm Size: 699x525 Views: 257 Rating: Not rated

jimmy1
My personal plates

H_Aich · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:19 am Size: 700x467 Views: 1773 Rating: Not rated

H_Aich
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73VWThing · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:42 pm Size: 640x480 Views: 601 Rating: Not rated

73VWThing

73VWThing · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:40 pm Size: 640x480 Views: 794 Rating: Not rated

73VWThing

73VWThing · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:38 pm Size: 640x480 Views: 689 Rating: Not rated

73VWThing

steel buggin · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:01 pm Size: 922x692 Views: 905 Rating: Not rated

steel buggin

aka pip · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:04 pm Size: 800x600 Views: 956 Rating: Not rated

aka pip

matt drayton · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:30 pm Size: 299x200 Views: 296 Rating: Not rated

matt drayton

matt drayton · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:51 pm Size: 262x209 Views: 155 Rating: Not rated

matt drayton

matt drayton · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:50 pm Size: 315x193 Views: 130 Rating: Not rated

matt drayton

the burnout king · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:14 pm Size: 800x392 Views: 765 Rating: Not rated

the burnout king
Still Fatal...

fast fiat · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:19 am Size: 640x480 Views: 747 Rating: Not rated

fast fiat

fast fiat · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:17 am Size: 640x480 Views: 640 Rating: Not rated

fast fiat
R.K.Smith photographing car at lake mission viejo.

fast fiat · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:11 am Size: 640x427 Views: 503 Rating: Not rated

fast fiat

fast fiat · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:09 am Size: 640x427 Views: 487 Rating: Not rated

fast fiat

fast fiat · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:02 am Size: 640x480 Views: 1272 Rating: Not rated

fast fiat
here is a shot of rolling chassis of the fiat

fast fiat · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:01 am Size: 640x480 Views: 475 Rating: Not rated

fast fiat

aka pip · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:15 pm Size: 800x600 Views: 472 Rating: Not rated

aka pip

aka pip · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:14 pm Size: 800x600 Views: 440 Rating: Not rated

aka pip


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