Boeing turbine-engined Porsche 928

[BenzBoy]

I found this. Isn't it cool?!

17 MPG

OVER 160 MPH

365 HP

700+ FOOT POUNDS OF TORQUE

eBay Link

The ad says it is / was a showcar but a brief Google brings up nothing

[BenzBoy]

I found videos!...

[joethefish]

Thats insane... and loud... I want!

[analogue_radio]

It doesn't seem real in that video, just looks like someone has taken audio footage of a boeing and dropped it over! surreal!

[popuptoaster]

Theres a few gas turbine cars and bikes floating around, most of em use helicopter engines as they have a gearbox already on them, also they are cheap to buy when they run out of hours although a lot of them get bought up for use in pumps and such like, they can run on biofuels as well.

[Team Blitz]

The Big Three played with experimental turbine-powered cars in the 50's and '60s. Several still survive. There was also the STP turbine Indy car and Howmet turbine car that Daytona and LeMans (it was just at the LM Classique a few weeks ago).

[BenzBoy]

I'd like to see someone put a gas turbine in a Rover P6, just as it was originally designed to take.

Watching those vids of the 928, it's frustrating that he doesn't really open her up to see what it can do. I'd be so tempted! ;D

[Team Blitz]

Side story, if you get ahold of a book called "Iron Eagle", about the life of US Air Force Chief General Curtis LeMay, there is an excellent story about him, his Allard J2, a USAF jet turbine, a SAC airbase in Oklahoma, a cigar, a perimeter fence, and a wheat field!

LeMay was from a time when men were men.

[arrocuda]

$12,000 is around £8000. Is cheap really.... when you look at what you're getting. 17mpg is better than a lot of V8's return. No mention of any transmission mods in the ebay ad, so maybe the guy didn't put the hammer down in the video cos he's scared of completely shredding the transmission. 700ft lb of torque is an enormous amount of torque for a standard transmission. You would think he would have a 1/4 mile figure if not a 0 - 60 to put in the ad'. Excellent windscreen demister though!

[arrocuda]

The same guy also built a bike after the Porsche but decided to go thrust drive with the bike. Sold on ebay for $7000.

[Team Blitz]

Leno has a turbine-powered motorcycle, which is actually used on the street regularly..... by him. Think it's shaft drive, but I'm fuzzy, haven't seen the video in a while.

[popuptoaster]

Leno's is a Y2K turbine bike, as in my post above, sweet bikes, anything that sounds like the batmobile starting up is WIN in my book.

[Deleted]

I want to see it go really fast

[Ads 19]

still don't know how the windscreen don't crack with the heat of the afterburners.
nice to see it again.