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| ckn Rating: N/A |
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_9339.html | ||
| CoryDaneRTS Rating: N/A |
thats interesting. Now I just recently read about CHRYSLERS turbine engine for cars. You can find the article by searching Chrysler Concept Cars. This unit had been tested for 20 years, with a price of about 150 million dollars invested. It had been tested on the street. Right about the time Chrysler was looking for money, this Turbine was going to go in to production, about 1978 or 1979. They were literally within days of making the decision and Lee Iococa was in favor of the Turbine car. When he went to the government for a loan, they told him if he put the turbine in production, no loan. The cool thing about this turbine was it would burn ANY fuel with no adjustments to the turbine. Just fill the tank. It would even burn alcohol. There were 55 cars built for testing, some exist today at museums as well as some of the turbine engines. The government felt turbines were only good for large vehicles like buses and trucks, and were already in some military vehicles. They also did not want a drain caused by the turbine on fossil fuels. Hmmm, if my mind serves me right, ALCOHOL does not come from fossil fuel. Chrysler had announced that the turbine was running at gasoline piston engines economies, but all this got shut up after the loan. IMAGINE, a turbine engine in the bus, that can burn ANY type fuel. cd | ||
| John that newguy Rating: N/A |
http://www.quasiturbine.com/ | ||
| niles steckbauer (Niles500)
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The Rotary Engine goes hummmmmmmm ..... | ||
| Jtng Rating: N/A |
So does Lola. | ||
| Vin (Billybonz)
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I remember years ago, on the Tom Synder late nite show, there was a turbine powered Corvette. I was thinking it the brain child of Mario Andretti but after searching around it appears it may have been Vince Granatelli. The spec were really impressive but never caught on. Chrysler spent big $$$ on research and had a turbine car program back in the 60's. There some great info at http://www.turbinecar.com/top.swf Bones | ||
| TWODOGS (Twodogs)
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want to hear something more interisting than that...filtered used motor oil and 50% alcohol SOUNDS LIKE BUS FUEL | ||
| TWODOGS (Twodogs)
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or maybe 25% alcohol.......OHHHHHHHH LOLA | ||
| CoryDaneRTS Rating: N/A |
Yea, What I said cd | ||
| Dave S Rating: N/A |
This link is to a picture of the Rover gas turbine engined car in the 1963 Le Mans 24 hour race. http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/1963/Le_Mans-1963-06-16-0000.jpg http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/Le_Mans-1963-06-16-photo.html M.I.R.A. The " Motor Industry Research Association" testing track in central England was at a remote and somewhat secretive location in central England if you attempted to go by road. As kids about 1948 to 58 we used to walk across fields and follow an abandoned rail bed to the back side of the banked high speed track to watch vehicle testing especially the " Midland Red " new highway buses at a supposed 130 mph. Sometime during these years we saw and heard the Rover turbo engined cars on many occasions. | ||
| Buswarrior (Buswarrior)
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One of those busnut books has a bit about Greyhound running an experiemntal turbine in an MC7. Fuel mileage was horrible, and that's before the oil crisis of '73. Anyone remember which book I read that in? My library is buried right now. happy coaching! buswarrior | ||
| Henry R. Bergman, Jr. (Henryofcj)
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Boeing and American LaFrance once put a turbine engine into a fire apparatus. I forgot if it was an engine or a ladder truck. The date was around the mid 1960's. Maybe earlier. If memory serves, the mill was fine..it was the Allision automatic tranny/torque convertor that caused the problems. Seems the turbine idled at 50% throttle or something. Anyway, I also think that it was Seattle (?) who tried this. The project was cancelled or finished and nothing else seemed to be done mating a gas turbine engine into a fire engine. | ||
| Johnny Rating: N/A |
Niles: Actually, a rotary usually sounds like a nitro-fuel weedeater.  Any gasoline engine can burn alky with a few tweaks. The turbine car would also burn K-1, #2 oil (probably best to dilute it with K-1 or gasoline), gasoline, or just about anything flammable. However, it was expensive to build (I saw someplace it would have needed a 50-60% premium over a top-of-the-line Imperial to make a profit), painfully slow, & threw off enough heat to broil pedestrians. |