airplane powered car, with the correct engine this time. (Page 4 of 6)

I do have one in my garage, but it isn't mine.

Family of a good friend that helps me work on the Lemons inherited it and it needs a bit of work to bring it up to snuff. new door catch, carb adjust and a bunch of other little things. working it in to have it ready for him by this spring. it's got a really nice 455 in there, probably puts out 500hp or so (dynoing it is on the list of things to do). it sounds awesome and drives great.

i gotta admit though, driving that thing around makes me want an old car. it's hard not to look classy in a 442 convertible

what do you mean by clone? rebadged cutlass?

as far as i know the one in the shop is an actual 442, but it's got a different motor, trans, rear end, hood, wheels, gauges, radio and interior door pulls. it'll never be a concourse car but it's a great driver.

back on topic, i should have the z-drive tonight. i've even got the weekend to work on it so my goal is to have a good part of the turbine to z-drive adapter made this weekend. if i get past that i'll also work on the motor mount bracketry. as it is, the motor is designed to only be mounted by the rear. the bottom and front has no motor mounts. I'll have to add some kind of cradle to support the oil tank at the bottom that runs the length of the engine and balance it at the two stock Nova motor mount locations. i have to be very careful not to use the turbine as a stressed member.

ahh, yes, the T58 turbine. that thing produces 1400hp or so (multiple trims are available but 1400hp is the popular one). it's the equivalent of the ford 302 of the turbine world. i kept tripping on it as i was searching for a turbine. they are just about everywhere and available for 10-15k but you can't expect to have 1400hp on tap and use the bottom 100-400hp safely

if all goes well with this build, i may have to build a T58 based street/strip car

as long as you're not in the plane of rotation you'll be fine. but yeah, right next to me would certainly get me to not push the throttle quite so far in. it's also odd that the exhaust comes out right next to the driver like that. sure the heat won't be going towards him, but the noise!

on a positive note with my engine, i just took the drive assembly apart to get the gear out so i can get a matching spline and it looks like i got lucky, there's still assembly lube everywhere. this turbine is new!

but the fuel control definitely is not. and i'm not 100% sure about the generator so there may be a few other parts that aren't original also. but the bulk of the rotating assembly and the turbine disks are new

I really need to check this section of the forums more often. Marc, I can not wait to see this thing in action, I hope its creation goes much smoother than the MR2 did for you.

lots of really good reading here about Chrysler's developments: http://www.turbinecar.com/misc/SAE-Turbine/777A.PDF

this is quite interesting:

this gives me pretty good hopes. sure, they had a regenerator, but when you look at the regenerator numbers, they aren't adding that much energy back in:

even better, when you compare the above chart to the turbine i'm using:

a turbine's efficiency is very directly related to the temperature going into the first stage turbine. and within a few degrees of each-other the numbers are almost all identical except for the regenerator.

so i'm expecting much better than the predicted 2MPG now, perhaps it'll even be close to an actual Lemons car while it's out there. i would just be beside myself if this thing was actually competitive!

why not a cheep turbo filter.....namely a couple stretches of high denier pantyhose on the inlet.

if it does get sucked in, it'll evaporate instantly

Use mufflers, less restriction than filters, and designed to reduce noise.

i may be able to make something like this: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6736238.html

i think the supersonic aspect of things really changes everything. air starts behaving really weird at those speeds.

but, 6131CFM is the intake of a 4000HP motor give or take a couple hundred. and that number checks out based on the mass flow rates given in the actual documents also.

that's asking for a muffler that can deal with 1/2 of this exhaust at full throttle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVXEGul0uRQ

26,000CFM is a metric shit ton of air. keep in mind, a turbine pumps it's cooling air also. not just it's combustion air. that's why it's so much air.

the big thing at the front of this engine bay is the intake: and that thing is less than half the horsepower of my turbine.

That, sir, is what we in the military refer to as a "parts bitch". As in "We turned that broke-ass drone in to supply for refurb, but the new motor never got installed. Supply took it without the motor. Guess we have a new parts bitch to pull from."

Check it good for missing and mis-installed parts.

*expletive* YEAH!

the shaft fits!