YACT: Hey car nuts! Jet powered street rod?

[LordRaiden]

Hey, friend of mine pointed me towards an engine that anyone can put into their car. It's called a "Henkle Rotory Turbine" engine. Not sure if I spelled the name right, but it sounds just like the Henkle knife brand name. Anyways, what this is, is it's a micro turbine engine, low thrust (which is a good thing, more torque, low thrust), high torque, and can apparently produce nearly 950horsepower at full power. Not bad. Off the block is apparently a little slow, but after you pass 30mph the acceloration just shoots right through the roof! It will fit in almost any car with room enough for at least a 4 cylinder engine vertically mounted to the body, not parallel with the wheels. So I'd say any car that can handle a full sized V6 or higher should be able to fit this.

The rest of the details are schetchy, but this sounds like the new street toy for the new millenium. Would any of you guys be interested in one if I could find the info on it? Or if you want to find the info yourself, go for it. Personally, I'd love to be able to brag to people that I had a jet engine under my hood, then go put their little ball buster hotrods in their place.

 

[LordRaiden]

Oh, and I forgot too. Apparently the henkle is small enough that it wouldn't burn tons of gas. It's apparently no less fuel efficient than a standard sedan or truck. So I'm guessing between 10-20mpg average. So that's not too bad either.

 

[Czar]

http://zzz.com.ru/166.html

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[Quixfire]

I personally haven't built a street rod to go like nuts after 30mph, I like tire burning front end lifting hard launches.

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: Czar
http://zzz.com.ru/166.html

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Here is a better link, Link

 

[LordRaiden]

Now that's just darned overkill! :Q

I'm thinking of a more practical use and something that's about a 1/4 that size. I don't need a hot street drag with a huge fart pipe sticking out of the back. I want something I can hide under the hood.

The one I'm thinking of doesn't have much thrust, but it's got lots and lots of torque. Which is what you need in a street drag.

 

[LordRaiden]

Originally posted by: Quixfire
I personally haven't built a street rod to go like nuts after 30mph, I like tire burning front end lifting hard launches.

Well, you can have your front lifting hard lanches, cause with the right engine, even if I didn't lift the nose off the ground coming out of the block, I could still catch you and pass you before you hit the quarter mile. The ability to hard launch, or having enough torque to do that is not a sign of true power.

 

[MrBond]

Someone already does this. Jay Leno has a sport bike with a jet engine in it from the company who makes them. I think they put them in trucks too, with big old exhaust pipes behind the cab like a semi truck. Leno said the exhaust out of his bike is HOT ("I feel bad for anyone tailgating me on that bike").

The name of the company slips my mind at the moment.

Edit, not a jet engine, a turbine engine normally used in helicopters.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: LordRaiden
Now that's just darned overkill! :Q

I'm thinking of a more practical use and something that's about a 1/4 that size. I don't need a hot street drag with a huge fart pipe sticking out of the back. I want something I can hide under the hood.

The one I'm thinking of doesn't have much thrust, but it's got lots and lots of torque. Which is what you need in a street drag.

Pardon my confusion...but how can a jet engine have torque? They're rated in lbs of thrust.

 

[desertdweller]

This is a link to a boat with a small turbine.

das boot

Thier results aren't to impressive. I had the same model boat a few
years ago and I got more speed out of a small block v8 at high altitude.


DD

 

[Marshallj]

Originally posted by: MrBond

Edit, not a jet engine, a turbine engine normally used in helicopters.

It's still a jet engine. It's just a jet engine converted to put its power out through a shaft. So instead of being a turbojet or turbofan engine, it's a turboshaft engine.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Czar
http://zzz.com.ru/166.html

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:Q

 

[Marshallj]

Originally posted by: CadetLee

Pardon my confusion...but how can a jet engine have torque? They're rated in lbs of thrust.

They have turbines in the exhaust stream which convert the jet thrust into motion on a shaft, and a gearbox to reduce the RPM to a more useful level.

Sometimes hobbyists get a hold of these turboshaft engines, take the gearbox off, and use it for its thrust.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: CadetLee

Originally posted by: LordRaiden
Now that's just darned overkill! :Q

I'm thinking of a more practical use and something that's about a 1/4 that size. I don't need a hot street drag with a huge fart pipe sticking out of the back. I want something I can hide under the hood.

The one I'm thinking of doesn't have much thrust, but it's got lots and lots of torque. Which is what you need in a street drag.

Pardon my confusion...but how can a jet engine have torque? They're rated in lbs of thrust.

Originally posted by: Marshallj

Originally posted by: MrBond

Edit, not a jet engine, a turbine engine normally used in helicopters.

It's still a jet engine. It's just a jet engine converted to put its power out through a shaft. So instead of being a turbojet or turbofan engine, it's a turboshaft engine.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: Marshallj

Originally posted by: CadetLee

Pardon my confusion...but how can a jet engine have torque? They're rated in lbs of thrust.

They have turbines in the exhaust stream which convert the jet thrust into motion on a shaft, and a gearbox to reduce the RPM to a more useful level.

Sometimes hobbyists get a hold of these turboshaft engines, take the gearbox off, and use it for its thrust.

Ah..so it's using it through the wheels, then...I thought it was using thrust. That makes sense, then.. =)

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Turbine and Jet are two different engines. Jets are for thrust, turbines are for rotational power. There is someone who makes cars and motorcycles based off of helicopter turbines that have outlived thier FCC allowed life.

 

[Marshallj]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Turbine and Jet are two different engines. Jets are for thrust, turbines are for rotational power. There is someone who makes cars and motorcycles based off of helicopter turbines that have outlived thier FCC allowed life.

They're the same type of engine. As I mentioned before, you can take the gearbox off a turboshaft engine and have a pure thrust jet engine.

Also, many people buy auxiliary power units (APU) from airliners (they're little jet engines that drive a shaft which power generators, etc) and they take off the gearbox and use them as small jet engines for their thrust. I even went to an airshow once and watched a small jet perform that was powered by what was once a APU. The APU used to drive a shaft to run generators and pumps, but after taking off the gearbox it propelled this little jet around.


As I stated before, one is just a turbojet engine, while the other is a turboshaft engine. But they are all turbine engines and fall under the general class of "turbine engines".


Linky

 

[Marshallj]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
There is someone who makes cars and motorcycles based off of helicopter turbines that have outlived thier FCC allowed life.

I think you mean the FAA

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: Marshallj

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
There is someone who makes cars and motorcycles based off of helicopter turbines that have outlived thier FCC allowed life.

I think you mean the FAA

I've been around an RF engineer too long...

 

[Marshallj]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
I think you mean the FAA

I've been around an RF engineer too long...[/quote]

Hahaha, yeah.

(Although that's not a bad place to be...)