WOW an Allison 250 on a motorcycle…..

[Sewing Machine Man]

Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ejRkBimDD8
But how can the average person operate this. Don’t they need training on managing and running a turbine engine. The company behind this say they can engineer this engine any vehicle. My son made some enquiries and found they could install one in a Mini Cooper by taking out the back seats. Don’t know I’d want to be so close to that fireball.
Mike.

[wishtobflying]

How about a guy who puts a helicopter engine into a VW Beetle? http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/
The engine is a General Electric Model T58-8F. This is a helicopter turboshaft engine that was converted to a jet engine by some internal modifications and a custom tailpipe.
:ooh: :ooh: :ooh: :D :D :D :D
http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/images/AB12_15_05copy.jpg

[Power Up]

If memory serves, it is an alison C18 engine that they put into the Y2K motorcycle. They have managed to make so it is pretty much just a push button start. Has a complete glass dash.
Two gears only used, one to get it rolling, then click up.
They are also known for leaking oil at the end of a trip.

[rotorrookie]

Jay Leno rides Y2k and once I heard him tell a story about when he melted a front bumber on a japanese sports car who pulled up behind him on a red light:}

[What Traffic]

Project 1221 anyone?

http://www.project1221.com/Introduction.html

[Langball]

Reminds me of one of the better 'Darwin Awards' :

The Arizona Highway Patrol were mystified when they came upon a pile of smoldering wreckage embedded in the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of a curve. The metal debris resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it turned out to be the vaporized remains of an automobile. The make of the vehicle was unidentifiable at the scene.

The folks in the lab finally figured out what it was, and pieced together the events that led up to its demise.

It seems that a former Air Force sergeant had somehow got hold of a JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) unit. JATO units are solid fuel rockets used to give heavy military transport airplanes an extra push for take-off from short airfields.

Dried desert lakebeds are the location of choice for breaking the world ground vehicle speed record. The sergeant took the JATO unit into the Arizona desert and found a long, straight stretch of road. He attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, accelerated to a high speed, and fired off the rocket.

The facts, as best as could be determined, are as follows:

The operator was driving a 1967 Chevy Impala. He ignited the JATO unit approximately 3.9 miles from the crash site. This was established by the location of a prominently scorched and melted strip of asphalt. The vehicle quickly reached a speed of between 250 and 300 mph and continued at that speed, under full power, for an additional 20-25 seconds. The soon-to-be pilot experienced G-forces usually reserved for dog-fighting F-14 jocks under full afterburners.

The Chevy remained on the straight highway for approximately 2.6 miles (15-20 seconds) before the driver applied the brakes, completely melting them, blowing the tires, and leaving thick rubber marks on the road surface. The vehicle then became airborne for an additional 1.3 miles, impacted the cliff face at a height of 125 feet, and left a blackened crater 3 feet deep in the rock.

Most of the driver's remains were not recovered; however, small fragments of bone, teeth, and hair were extracted from the crater, and fingernail and bone shards were removed from a piece of debris believed to be a portion of the steering wheel.

Ironically a still-legible bumper sticker was found, reading
"How do you like my driving? Dial 1-800-EAT-****."

[Revolutionary]

Or how about a radial engine fitted to a bike? Sweeeet!

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/05/10/radial-engine-powered-motorcycle/

[blave]

Reminds me of one of the better 'Darwin Awards'


Sorry, that's yet another urban myth. http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/jato.asp


Dave Blevins

[bladepitch]

originally posted by machine man.

"But how can the average person operate this."


trick is , he was not.

mate i think that video was a clever piece of editing.
im not saying someone has not done it , but i hardly think that video is proof of it in that bike he was on.

still fun to watch though.

if you can get more conclusive proof it would be great to see it. :ok:

and lastly if that V DUB cant pull pussy i dont know what would.:E

[Sewing Machine Man]

originally posted by machine man.
"But how can the average person operate this."
trick is , he was not.
mate i think that video was a clever piece of editing.
im not saying someone has not done it , but i hardly think that video is proof of it in that bike he was on.
still fun to watch though.
if you can get more conclusive proof it would be great to see it. :ok:
and lastly if that V DUB cant pull pussy i dont know what would.:E
I don’t want to do an advert for anyone on this forum, but how about this for proof : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui5kf6q3GRk&mode=related&search=
Fact is that any Joe with the money can have this delivered. As I previously stated, My son made some loose enquiries about a Mini Cooper conversion.
Same question how can Joe Average drive this away without specialised training on the principals of Turbine Engines? I’m thinking of Hot Start issues for example. Unless its computer managed.

[Agaricus bisporus]

But as turbines are designed to operate at 100% speed and nothing else they have no "throttleability" whatsoever and would be virtually undriveable on the road. The whole idea is a non-starter as far as transport is concerned, so strictly for theatricals and poseurs.

And no (shaft)turbine ever makes flame out of the tailpipe as you all know full well, so the tosser in that VW was just showboating for the gullible public. You'd think mounting a paraffin blowtorch in the boot would be easier and cheaper, and would do the same job.

[bladewashout]

You can buy tailpipe flame kits: a small gass bottle in the boot or just re-igniting exhaust gas and igniters by the exhaust, activated by a switch on the dash. :uhoh:

How sad is the driver who needs that.....

http://www.eatmyflames.com/

BW