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Not VW but fired up the home made jet engine tonight *SHORT VIDEO* 02/10/05
speedster356 - September 22nd, 2005 at 10:14 PM

You may have seen the low rider push bike I built some time ago, well after a few beers tonight we fired up the home made gas turbine. Had next door scratching their heads wondering why there was a jet aircraft over the fence.
I'm going to video it on Saturday and I'll post here for anyone that may be interested. Man it looks good at night with that jet flame out the arse end.
:beer:beer

http://www.petermcleod.com/jet2.jpg

[ Edited on 2-10-2005 by speedster356 ]


Dannyboy - September 22nd, 2005 at 10:20 PM

Pete you are a man with way too much time and money , talk about having toys!

Nice one!

Dan:P


jenz58 - September 22nd, 2005 at 10:34 PM

Cool....I'd like to see that Pete !!!!

Where you gunna test it out??

Are you insured that seat position looks mighty close to the engine? :jesus


Alex Holzl - September 22nd, 2005 at 10:37 PM

Obviously those handle bars will help out with the 200k death wobles! :no:

Top stuff though! :thumb:thumb

Alex


pyr0 - September 22nd, 2005 at 10:59 PM

now thast kool :yes: :thumb


pod - September 22nd, 2005 at 11:10 PM

one for next years drags:thumb


zac_smits - September 22nd, 2005 at 11:32 PM

does it come with training wheels?


penguin - September 23rd, 2005 at 06:50 AM

Niiicccceeeee:yes:


vw54 - September 23rd, 2005 at 07:57 AM

Its nice to cruise on as well


kroozzn63 - September 23rd, 2005 at 09:49 AM

any close ups of the motor? is it something we could get in kit form?"wishing!


Fossil - September 23rd, 2005 at 12:09 PM

:cool:


Che Castro - September 23rd, 2005 at 03:35 PM

now that is cool :)


Midlife crisis - September 23rd, 2005 at 03:39 PM

Thats KOOL, can't wait fir the video!

Marc


Stanley - September 23rd, 2005 at 06:13 PM

Let me know if you need some avtur...

Very cool...beats the low rider with airbags I saw at the jamboree


Robo - September 23rd, 2005 at 06:57 PM

Knew you would be onto that Kafer man!
Rob...


Stanley - September 23rd, 2005 at 07:08 PM

just let me know how many thousand pounds you want...:spin:


Sandy - September 23rd, 2005 at 07:15 PM

You are my new hero, bring on the video :thumb


crewcabconnection - September 25th, 2005 at 10:10 PM

where's the video-----where's the video-----everyone wants one!


ColumBUS - September 25th, 2005 at 10:15 PM

start the chant!

where's the vid... where's the vid...


Craig Torrens - September 25th, 2005 at 10:25 PM

you can't drive your car ! ...............let alone your bike!!!


vw54 - September 26th, 2005 at 07:22 AM

bring it over the work shop on Friday


speedster356 - September 26th, 2005 at 07:52 AM

Other things on Sat, so it never eventuated. I'm bringing it over to Vintage on Friday arvo for beers and burns.
:beer:beer:beer


speedster356 - October 2nd, 2005 at 08:17 PM

homemade jet video 1.26 Mb click here..
poor quality but you need to turn your sound up BIG.
Here we're running it on LPG, had to put the cylinder in a bucket of water as it was freezing the LPG and dropping fuel pressure (a bonus would be to have a bigger bucket and have your beer in there to cool off!)
The blower is to start the turbine, there's a 12Vdc ignition system running a coil and spark plug (Jacar Jacobs ladder kit). Once the turbine is up to speed it's self sustaining and no ignition is required. Next step is to hook up the Avtur afterburner (this will increase thrust by ......lot's:P), once that's all sorted I'll be converting over to jetfuel (avtur) as the primary fuel. Then mount it back on the cruiser and go for a burn....I mean cruise.

[ Edited on 10-10-2005 by speedster356 ]

[ Edited on 10-10-2005 by speedster356 ]


jenz58 - October 2nd, 2005 at 09:14 PM

Pete I was a bit disappointed that it was not on the bike!! It sounded mean and I guess I can understand the hesitation of having that so close to your seat area without testing it out first :thumb

How have you tested handlig the bike at speed??? :?:


vw54 - October 4th, 2005 at 08:19 AM

Mmmmmm Turbines


56astro - October 4th, 2005 at 08:25 AM

MANIAC

:dork: