This is not a jet engine - just look a the exhaust nozzle. It's not variable (it should be, regarding the afterburner), in fact it's just a piece of cheaply bent sheet metal featuring a gap.

By the way, a jet engine running in reheat mode (i.e. at maximum thrust + whatever the AB delivers, but usually 50% on top) would simply propel that little car off the road.

 

i still dont get why this has to do with the topic title...

 

You didn't actually read anything did you in the link did you?

 

Uhm, no, to be honest.

 

Ive seen this guy before he created an MR2 as well a eclipse, both with jet engines. He sold them on ebay.

http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10679/

Somebody does something different and the people paying $2000 for 5 hp are talking ****?

 

^^^
I didn't pay $2000 dollars for my 5hp, I was smart and bought the Turbonator and the Tornado. I was the first to have a custom RX-8 TT.

 

Here's more "rotaries"

http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/turbinenuts.shtml

Hymee & co. have more models to instrument!

cc

 

haha! That's great! I want to build one!

 

For all those that videos to believe.....here you go:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl....DTL&type=cars

 

That is pretty sweet, but I want to see some fotage of him driving it and accelerating with the thruster. How stable could a VW bug be?

 

to all the doubters

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/...ketbeetle.html

 

here is a nice video of a go kart with a jet engine.

VIDEO


Imagine somehow installing one in a car and have a pipe that leads out from the back of the jet to the rear bumper looking like an exhaust pipe. You would pass someone on the street and they would here that sound as you passed them!

 

Here's a direct link to the jet beetle video (the one from the page said the video could not load for me but this one worked...) Meh, I wouldn't be able to decide whether I fully believe it or not unless I knew about turbine mechanics.

http://www.sfgate.com//g/av/movies/2.../jetbug_m4.mov