I Broke The Jalopmeter

"Lemonhead" (lemonhead) 11/12/2013 at 17:05 • Filed to: None

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Apparently my Turbine-hybrid, 5 throttle bodied, 5 carbed, front engine, turbo and supercharged, body-on-frame with rear wheel drive, manual on the tree, twin-engined, 'murica-built, pre-ww2, with no cupholders, 10-ashtrays, 999 patches of bondo, truck-nutz (I live in Va so I get points for them), all-digital and working dash, with a hydropneumatic suspension pickup truck with a waterbed was just too much Jalop for it to handle.

I think it was the turbine-driven hybrid that did it. It went all scientific notation on me there.

Tekamul > Lemonhead 11/12/2013 at 17:08

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Definitely going to have to ask for the SR20 here....

pics or GTFAC

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Lemonhead 11/12/2013 at 17:38

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Hey, now, this is something we can actually build. We use a small turboshaft APU as a compressor stage for one engine (supercharger + turbine), providing a constant supply of makeup air under pressure so one engine can instantly start, while leaving the other engine to its own devices and turbo. That engine can have the 5 ITBs, as it should be a heavily modified Mercedes OM-617 diesel. The other engine (with supercharging), should be a Packard straight-eight flathead with the compressor air routed with a hand operated Y from a plenum drawing five single-barrels. Thus, when you close the Y, instead of feeding compressed air-fuel to the hood flame unit, you put it in the Packard.

Behind the two engines (side by side, in case you're wondering) would be a torque blender - possibly with an electric motor input as well. That torque blender/ transmission would have come off a multi-engine helicopter, as that way it'll handle the power. Basically single speed, but who the fuck cares? You can get any speed you want with combinations of revs from the powerplants. Any shifting required, by which I mean counter-engine modulation and engaging drive, you put on the column.

You need a frame big enough for this, of course, so I suggest a teens-20s American LaFrance or Mack fire engine frame. The hydropneumatic suspension you build out of doubling up Berliet truck units on the existing solid axles. The cab of the vehicle would of course be an El Camino, into which you fit a Buick's digital dash, and the waterbed goes behind that in a pod made out of a pickup bed (fire truck frame, remember?)

Your boy, BJR > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/12/2013 at 17:40

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Time to hit up kickstarter.

lepie > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/12/2013 at 17:40

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Marvelous.

Except ITB diesel is a no-go. No throttlebody in a diesel (except for creating artificial vacuum for EGR emissions crap).

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > lepie 11/12/2013 at 17:42

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Good point - that was me not thinking clearly at the end of the day.

I clearly should have said an OM617 with dished pistons, VVT, and reduced compression converted to run as a multi-fuel engine.

lepie > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/12/2013 at 17:45

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I say convert it to a two stroke diesel, so it can use your gas turbine engine as it's blower. Why not have five gas turbine engines? One per pot. IGTs

Aday91 > Lemonhead 11/12/2013 at 17:48

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Why did I not know this existed..?

Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull > lepie 11/12/2013 at 18:05

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Except, the gas turbine engine is already running as a blower for the Packard/a flame thrower.

Five ordinary turbos, though, and two-stroke: perfectly acceptable except not purely throttle bodies as such where the Jalopmeter is concerned.

The easy route, of course, would be an Audi gas five-cylinder, but that's just absurd.

desertdog5051 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/12/2013 at 18:35

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I really like it when people explain things in layman terms.

Lemonhead > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/12/2013 at 21:50

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I nominate Mr. McFisticuff as Automotive Madman Of The Year. You took my idiocy and spec'd a work of pure, crazy awesomeness.

Lemonhead > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/12/2013 at 21:51

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Oh, you forgot the truck nutz. Gotta have the truck nutz in Va.

lepie > Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull 11/13/2013 at 02:09

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I could compromise to this level, as long as all of them have some sort of not-invented-yet diesel anti lag system, which would end up looking more like an afterburner anyway. Of course, they should all be crank-assisted with freewheeling clutches, much like in diesel locomotives ... where the crank drives them at lower rpm, and they can freely spool at higher rpm. I'd say propane injection, but that's just too common, so let's go for champagne injection.