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Oct 20, 2014 21:38:47 GMT
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I'll do my best to try and set out some sort of (very)provisional steps...Now we're getting into the far future and the crystal ball is getting hazy By heck, there's more to this malarkey than meets the eye. Bookmarked from day one and now settled in comfy chair with inexhaustible supply of beer and fags to keep up with things!
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Frankenhealey
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Oct 20, 2014 22:30:46 GMT
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I Guess that could be a shop heater now when the Winter is almost here. Sadly if you look at the similar 150 bhp stationary engine specification you can see the 0.82/lb/bhp/hr fuel consumption. That equates to a 15.3 gallons of JET A1 Kerosene / £134 per hour shop heater. We would be warm though with the plus 600 degrees C output temperature
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I think you're going to have to get bastardised.... By putting a marine jet gearbox in it. Then you can have reverse.
Apparently the royal navy (one of the guys here used to be in it) used turbines for Gen sets 30 years ago... so you could adapt it to an electric motor with no batteries for insta-go.
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frodo
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Do you want a reverse purely for getting out of parking spaces etc? Use a car starter motor similar to most bike engined race cars...
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Bonneville + Healey (or similar)Classic pairing!......As we have come to expect Ian, this will prove to be another EPIC thread. You have obviously done a fair bit of research and watching this come together will be a real pleasure and education for myself and many others on here.
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village
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why don't you just stick the turbine in the Goddess, you might even improve the fuel economy....
Bookmarks BTW
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"The White Van is strong with this one...."
Chris "Chesney" Allen 1976-2005 RIP
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Frankenhealey
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Oct 21, 2014 16:03:58 GMT
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Do you want a reverse purely for getting out of parking spaces etc? Use a car starter motor similar to most bike engined race cars... It's now on the list. Thanks why don't you just stick the turbine in the Goddess, you might even improve the fuel economy.... During the agonizing over the fuel consumption and alternative motive sources I had a hunt round the web and found these Ford Turbine Truck Chevy Turbine Truck GM Bison Truck GM Bison Tractor Unit - very Space 1999 The turbine I was looking at Rolls Royce Artouste Type: Turboshaft Length: 1,440 mm (56.7 in) Diameter: 545 mm (21.5 in) - height, 390 mm (15.4 in) - width Dry weight: 115 kg (253.5 lb) - dry Fuel type: Aviation kerosene to AIR 3405 Oil system: Oil grade AIR 3512, pressure lubrication Performance Maximum power output: 500 hp (372.85 kW) at 34,000 rpm for take-off Fuel consumption: 153 kg (337.3 lb)/hour at maximum continuous power .... but look at the fuel consumption It could have pushed the Goddess along at ninety but would be using 40 gallons an hour to do it and never have stopped due to the cardboard brakes. Another one for the pile marked " Great Ideas that I'm too scared to try"
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Oct 21, 2014 17:22:37 GMT
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style. Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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Frankenhealey
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Oct 21, 2014 18:00:36 GMT
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Ian It is well packaged but it's got something like a 24 minute duration fill to fill at 90% power cruise rating which rather limits its utility. Turbines aren't much more economical at idle/self sustain than they are flat out. I think I'd need a fuel bowser following me on a ride-out. The site's interesting but I think they could have come up with better induction protection on a $150k bike than a bit of mesh and a very large jubilee clip. Dust and debris kills turbines and that doesn't look up to much. PS Any chance of making a second bonnet ornament for beer tokens? I know the turbine is not 'rocket science' but..... Ian
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Oct 21, 2014 21:30:31 GMT
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The headlight cluster on that Chevy truck is awesome!
...carry on..
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Oct 21, 2014 23:26:53 GMT
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I like those space trucks. Don't know how fuel efficient they'd be, but even the design is cool.
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Seth
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Only just catching up with this and, well basically, ZOMG!
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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Oct 22, 2014 12:13:12 GMT
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What are the odds the second trailer on the FoMoCo rig is a big fuel tank?
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XC70, VW split screen crew cab, Standard Ten
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MaxN
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Oct 22, 2014 13:31:35 GMT
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Ian The site's interesting but I think they could have come up with better induction protection on a $150k bike than a bit of mesh and a very large jubilee clip. Dust and debris kills turbines and that doesn't look up to much. Jay Leno has one of those bikes, the Y2K. True story: A few years ago I caught up with him as he rode it on Mullholland drive. Even wearing full leathers on my Speed Triple I could feel the heat-wash from his bike if I got too close. Obviously by too-close I mean about 30-40 yards - I could hear the 'wooshing noises' over my bike despite wearing a decent helmet and ear plugs ! He stopped at the Rock Store and was pretty much engulfed by bikers of every style. <-- not my video, but you can see the reaction and hear the crazy noise Utterly insane piece of hardware.....[/quote]
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Oct 22, 2014 14:43:27 GMT
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Frankenhealey
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Oct 22, 2014 15:28:04 GMT
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Jay Leno has one of those bikes, the Y2K. True story: A few years ago I caught up with him as he rode it on Mullholland drive. Even wearing full leathers on my Speed Triple I could feel the heat-wash from his bike if I got too close. Obviously by too-close I mean about 30-40 yards - I could hear the 'wooshing noises' over my bike despite wearing a decent helmet and ear plugs ! He stopped at the Rock Store and was pretty much engulfed by bikers of every style. <-- not my video, but you can see the reaction and hear the crazy noise Utterly insane piece of hardware..... From Wikipedia Greatest Ever: Motorcycles, a television program by Discovery Channel, ranked the Turbine Superbike the fourth greatest motorcycle, stating that it held a Guinness World Record for the world's fastest production motorcycle, and that it was also the most expensive. Paul Garson praised its audacity, while Jay Leno, who had owned a Turbine Superbike for almost four years at the time of the broadcast, said of it: "It really does scare you half to death, but it's great fun." [2] However, in the same program, author and former Classic Bike editor Hugo Wilson said the Turbine Superbike had "as much relevance to motorcycling as a fish." Racer and author Mat Oxley went further, calling the Turbine Superbike "an exercise in technological masturbation." Leno introduced the Turbine Superbike as "really a stupid motorcycle." [2]
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Frankenhealey
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Oct 22, 2014 15:34:43 GMT
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If they had two of them and someone had cracked the energy binder problem (plus where do you keep the fuel?) then I'd be building something like this
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camper damper
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Another car bites the dust
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Oct 22, 2014 21:37:38 GMT
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With that you can cut your way thought traffic
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Frankenhealey
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Oct 24, 2014 14:55:42 GMT
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Oct 24, 2014 15:14:54 GMT
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If you can find one, how about something sporty like an AC? And by AC I do mean the Invacar....
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