Helicopter Turbine Powered Roadster (Not a turbo miata!)

[godzillus]

Chrysler made a turbine car back in the early 60's. I saw a show on the car, if I recall right the big problem was getting all of that power to the ground.

By the way, awesome build.

Yeah those are awesome. They had a crazy energy recouperation system that involved high heat capacity honeycomb material rotating at like 30rpm. think of the gear reduction to go from 30,000-40,000 rpm to 30!

More progress!

Stiffened the openings for the exhaust



Got the body back from paint. It was a free paint job thanks to Anderson Paint





Pressure tested the reservoir...



Started test fitting...



And final welded the exhaust

['70dim]

I would **** to see that in my rear view, looks like its ready to destroy something.

[cobrawannabe]

In the best way possible, I don't even understand how this is happening. I mean, I know and understand what you are doing, I just can't comprehend that people are actually doing this. Human beings are completing this project. To be honest, it has restored some of the faith in humanity I've lost over all the recent LS swaps.

[godzillus]

Building the dash...



Built a bracket to carry Oil filter and fuel shut off. Powder-coated chrome.



Had a laser shop whip up a brake rotor and caliper mount for the N2 brake...



Jon mounting the dash.....



Gotta use Jet Oil....





Almost ready to light this barbecue....



Verifying EGTs....





Lit this sucker and took IR photos to make sure everything is staying at normal operating temps...





Exhaust turned a beautiful shade of gold!



And finally a video...

http://s259.photobucket.com/user/god...59b83.mp4.html

[PoLonY]

this is the coolest thing I have ever seen

[Tedd81]

Holy crap, this thing sounds bad-ass!!!

[500]

Beats the hell out of a paper-mâché volcano as a school project...

[godzillus]

We should have the driveshaft in soon! should be driving it before the weekend is out.

[NathanHeeney]

Awesome/Crazy build! Slam it now!

[hinrichs]

jaw dropped after seeing the video, this build is just insane

[frink84]

dude with fingers = rpm x ???, so 9,000, 90,000?!?!?!

[CrackerTeg]

Fuck...

[TruTaing]

THAT is a ridiculously HUGE exhaust. hahah!

[loekaaz]

I would love to see this with the bonnet back on, and those huge exhausts scooping out

[deutschman]

Great stuff!