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Notice the bandwidth on his web page's photo hosting is already at maximum.]]>Mar 6th 2006 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/May 6th 2008 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
The tree will survive. :)]]>May 22nd 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
It appears you made the perhaps obvious mistake of posting these pictures backwards. He actually hooked a flamethrower to the front of his car so he could incinerate Sunday drivers.]]>Mar 6th 2006 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
Ron Patrick said "A police officer picking at his nose while trying to figure out what to charge me with. Notice the hopeful anticipation of us on the right. We're rooting for him and offer suggestions but unfortunately, the California Department of Motor Vehicles did not anticipate such a vehicle so he's out of luck."]]>Mar 6th 2006 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
Wonder how much it cost?]]>Mar 6th 2006 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Sep 20th 2006 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
i posted this news on my blog a few weeks ago. Ron, stopped by and posted some info as well.

He even has a page devoted to this project.

http://oneighturbo.com/?p=204]]>Mar 6th 2006 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/]]>Mar 6th 2006 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
Anyone have a mirror?]]>Mar 6th 2006 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
-daniel
>> http://formatc.co.nr]]>Mar 6th 2006 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/This car is stationary when the jet engine is firing.
There is obvious that no person is inside the car in the second and third pictures.
I believe person's ear drum will be seriously damaged due to high noise level and the jerk created by the rapid change of pressure during the ignition.]]>Mar 6th 2006 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Just a glorified flame thrower for looks. If looks could kill, this thing would smoke conventional engine anyday.]]>Mar 6th 2006 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/b: imagine how high your insurance rates would go
c: if it is terribly cold outside, wouldn't the large hole in one's vehicle prohibit heat retention?
d: didn't something like this win a Darwin Award?]]>Mar 6th 2006 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
Well...it is.]]>Mar 6th 2006 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
Since the Detroit Autorama last week, the website: www.freewebs.com/jet_beetle has had bandwidth issues. Late at night, you'll have less problems. I'll see what I can do about that.

P.S. The car will be at the Fresno Autorama on March 17 to 19th.
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I saw this car a few days ago at the Detroit autorama and it looks VERY unsafe. to answer the previous question the jet is inside the car and teh intake xomes up to right behind the front armrest with just a screen protecting the intake. There is no way that this gets enough air to get goin very fast and even if it did the noise would be deafening. But you car would be very clean afterwords (huge vaccuum cleaner in back seat)]]>Mar 6th 2006 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
"the power for this sleek beast was a C18 Allison Rolls Royce Jet Engine, the same type used in a Bell Jet Ranger Helicopter! Jay also explained that this was a shaft driven turbine engine and was capable of turning at 60,000 RPM. (...) this bad boy puts out 450 ft/lbs of torque—the same as a Dodge Viper! The jet engine (mounted upside down on an aluminum frame) also produces a temperature of about 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit out of the exhaust pipe, so be sure and stand back when this baby is fired up!"

More http://www.rideontv.com/episodes/CRN0005/leno.html]]>Mar 6th 2006 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Imagine: "Hey guys, I know my parents bought me this girly car for my 16th birthday.. but check it out, I put a jet engine on it!" (His friends then repeatedly punch him in the stomach for being so un-cool)

LAME. ]]>Mar 6th 2006 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 6th 2006 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
-eric]]>Mar 6th 2006 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
Blocking the air? Take a look at two T58s in a Sea King helicopter (www.naval-technology.com/projects/seaking/). What's that big plate doing in front of two engines blocking the air? Quick, warn the Navy!

So far we have had fluid dynamics, heat transfer, aerodynamic, acoustical, safety, styling, and legal "experts" step in and give their opinions. No analysis, no experiments, no data, just guesses based on zero experience.

As far as the choice of the car, that is the artistic element of the project and you are entitled to your taste - however, in terms of engineering, execution, and function, you could not dream to have produced a street-legal jet car as good as this one. But maybe I'm wrong. Let's see your street-legal jet car.]]>Mar 7th 2006 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
I don't care about the legal issus, but does he ship to Australia?

lol. :P ]]>Mar 7th 2006 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
Even though the air flow through the back is very fast, it's also very small, and of course, it's expanding, because that's the fundamental principle of internal combustion engines. The intake isn't sucking in air anywhere near as fast as the exaust is expelling it.

30: As for the lack of firewall, I'd be more worried about anyone standing besides or behind the car, not the driver inside, who is in front of it.

21: Jerk created by the rapid change of pressure during the ignition? It's a turbine, not a rocket engine. Turbines aren't exactly the fastest engines to start up.

I love armchair engineering :)]]>Mar 7th 2006 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/oh, wait, thats right, its because IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING!
This is just a weird flamethrower at best. It doesn't add any horsepower to the car, or do anything but get warm.]]>Mar 7th 2006 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Mar 7th 2006 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/Ever heard of the Darwin Awards?]]>Mar 7th 2006 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/06/jet-powered-vw-bug-takes-to-the-street/
I've seen this car (also road legal) at Santa Pod a couple of times:

http://www.santapod.co.uk/e_easter2005detail.php?PhotoID=45
http://www.santapod.co.uk/g_gallery_detail.php?PhotoID=37
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