Want to know what it's like to drive a turbine race car?

Kinja'd!!! "Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street." (demon-xanth)
09/16/2013 at 15:51 • Filed to: None

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Ride along as a Howmet TX laps Spa.

Information and pictures:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howmet_TX


DISCUSSION (8)


Kinja'd!!! oddomatik > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
09/16/2013 at 16:05

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dat thrust.


Kinja'd!!! Jayhawk Jake > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
09/16/2013 at 16:13

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I hope turbine cars have a revival at some point. I want to drive a car that sounds like that


Kinja'd!!! Grindintosecond > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
09/16/2013 at 16:16

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2nd big gauge on the right center....RPM. the one on it's left is the output RPM...or it's speed in essence. Both represented in percent not thousands. I read a while back this turbine goes to about 55k rpm. They are not connected. it's a "free" turbine so the power section blows through the free section that's connected to the drive wheels. just like your engine blowing into a turbo but that turbo driving your wheels instead of a compressor. The trick here it appears is to 'lead' the exit of the turn and get on the gas so the engine has the power on exit...like huge turbo lag...about the biggest turbo lag you could get.

Pretty amazing watching it be driven. thank you for the post!


Kinja'd!!! Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > oddomatik
09/16/2013 at 16:17

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Turboshaft, bro.


Kinja'd!!! Blondude > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
09/16/2013 at 16:33

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This video never ever gets old.


Kinja'd!!! Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
09/16/2013 at 17:57

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Just incredible.


Kinja'd!!! Big Bubba Ray > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
09/16/2013 at 18:03

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It would be terrifying, yet awesome, to have something that is a fucking jet on wheels pass you going that fast.


Kinja'd!!! ///M3 Track Car > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
09/16/2013 at 23:31

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That is the highway to the danger zone.