Fabio421

550 shaft HP? Now thats more like it. I can't imagine how fast the heads must turn when pulling that beast into a car show.

mark kibort

walk us through how the power is applied. is it like a fixed gear electric motor, or does it use gears like an automatic? the rpm on the turbine said 2800. was that just the starter portion, as I though that this type of centifugal turbine spun up over 60krpm.
its rated at 550hp, so what rpm and torque does it produce this at? too bad you dont have that exhaust pointing to the rear, to take advantage of the afterburner thrust, or do you just use that for downforce.

Brett Jenkins

I'm interested in the rear-mount turbine product myself.

Gretch

Man, that is some talent right there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very hansome install!

BIGMIKESOCAL

The funny thing is when I drive this car around, people always look up to the sky and never the car...then I go tight pass them and they look at the car monetarily...then when I pass...they look up again. It's only when I pull in to park the jet carn thats when they realize that all that noise is coming from my car. Very funny the first time I drove the car.

danglerb

Mike, what part of SoCal, can't wait til I see that car pull up in front of Rob Edwards house for one of our tech sessions.

BIGMIKESOCAL

Okay, the starter is also the charging system on the car (24 volts). The starter gear is always meshed with the turbine's center shaft. The starter has to spin the turbine 5,000rpm for the starter fuel valve to open. If the started fails to spin to 5,000rpm within 10-20 seconds, the starter would stop and a faulse start occurs. After a faulse start, the turbine cannot be restarted for 5-20 minutes until all the unburned fuel has drained form the engine (or it could go kaboom!). When the engine does start, it idles at 15,000rpm. There is some lag at take off, but if you do a power brake at take of, lag in non felt. Turbine builds up as it speeds up and stopping it takes some practice. First you could not just let go of the accelarator pedal when coming to a stop. You need to lightly release the throttle so that the turbine wound not "flame out" (stall). So you have to apply the brakes in anticipation before you really need to stop. There is a step down gear box that converts the counter clockwise rotation of the turbine to clockwise rotation to match the drive train, the step down gearing also lower the rpm output to the torque tube to around 2,800rpm, a custom torque converter with a stall speed of 3,000 rpm takes the power to the 3 speed A22/01 transmission..after that the transmission just goes through the gears like usual.

BIGMIKESOCAL

I'm in Montrose. I plan to take this to Bob's big boy in Burbank when Jay Leno brings his Eco Jet turbine car. I don't know when that would be....

antsmands

Mike that is insane. Hope I can see it live one day! Can you do afterburner pops like the jets at the drag strip. Would be neat to see at night! Thanks for posting. Great project!

BIGMIKESOCAL

I was wondering, Do we get any kind of discounts in parts and accessories from places like 928motorsports? I want to purchase their Race Roll Bar, wide Corbeau CR1 Seats.
Thanks for all the positive compliments on the jet car.

docmirror

Cool car. There's no 'discount' from belonging to rennlist that I know of.

The T50 comes in several flavors. There's one on ebay right now mated to a Chevy trans asking $5k if someone else wants to get in the Kerosene lane.

Iwanna928

What type of 1/4 mile times are you hoping for? I would love to see/hear that Bad Boy go down the track!

Stephen

BIGMIKESOCAL

It's not being set up for 1/4 mile. I'm looking into doing possibly the Silver State Classic Challenge (race from Ely to Las Vegas)

danglerb

Have you considered shifting the car into neutral when you want to slow down?

Maybe reworking the valve body?

150+ mph is that exhaust going to get pesky?

BTW here in SoCal we have at LEAST half a dozen guys named Mike with a 928.

VCat

Top stuff Mike. Also impressed with your airhorns; always went on sailing holidays as a child and was fascinated by the various foghorns of boats, buoys and lighthouses.