I work in service at an Acura dealership here in NY and we get to see some pretty cool sh!t from time to time but this was pretty cool. This CRX has been to our Honda store a couple times and one of the porters filmed this during one visit. The video explains most of it but let me just tell you the best part about it is how this guy actually got it to work, my man is a straight genius...



Honda CRX - Jet Engine

 

What kinda jet engine is that?

 

oh yea,

:movetocartalk:

 

From an airplane. I make a living out of fixing cars all day and the stuff this guy was talking about was a little over my head.

 

But.. but... its a jet...

 

haha, I'm gonna agree.


The top speed is only 90mph but he sad it gets there pretty fast

 

The engine looked small so just curious as to where it came from.

 

It appears to be a turboshaft engine so it is probably from a helicopter.

Does this guy have a web page?

Mike

 

So if you put that car on a conveyor???? oh nevermind.... :sigh:

 

Where are the run vids?

 

The power is being transmitted through the wheels, so it isn't going anywhere

If this is the type of engine I think it is that long tube underneath the thing that looks like a turbo charger is probably where the fuel is ignited. It then passes through the fan spinning it like the exhaust of a turbo. The fan is in turn connected to a compressor which compresses more air going into the burner. On the same shaft that goes to the compressor fan, power is bled off through some sort of coupling. I'd almost say it looks like he has hydraulic lines hooked up for a fluid coupling, which than would likely go down to the car transmission.

Mike

 

bingo, that's the new engine I'll swap into my CRX!

 

I was waiting for that..

 

The car is not jet propelled like normal applications with jet engines in them. The jet engine actually drives a hydraulic pump attached to the transmission.

I would love to see the car at track, very curious as to what it would run myself....

 

Same here that was a waste of 2 mins, might have well just looked at pictures

 

I'm sorry we could only capture the sound and fireball on video camera and not him ripping down the public streets...

 

Why not?

 

I wasn't willing to give up my first born, and hop on one leg for 3 three hours while tapping my head and rubbing my stomach...

 

Oh, ok. Well if you ever do get a video of it in action please share

 

Most definately will

 

Pretty cool. This would be Bond's next car if he were into .

 

I still don't understand how that would work. What kind of transmission is in there, and if it's the stocker, how can it handle/transmit all that power?

 

I was told that it is a Honda transmission in the car

 

Not the 5-spd auto!

 

Say good bye to turbo lag!

 

Badass!

 

First off, I called it before the OP, turboshaft engine with a fluid coupling

Anyway, here it goes.

The jet turbine spins, and there is a power take off from the shaft. The shaft is connected, likely through a fluid coupling, to the hydraulic pump. The pump in turn creates hydraulic pressure, which is connected to a hydraulic motor attached to the transmission.

Mike

 

That's a pretty good explanation, couldn't have put it better myself

 

Yeah, probably a turbine engine. In the 60's, there was an after-market company called Turbonique (spelling?) that manufactured turbine engines for cars.. especially Vokswagons.

Also, Chrysler made 200 gas turbine engined cars in the early 60's and sold them as experimental vehicles. There was one in Northern Virginia running around.

 

You can actually make a similar engine with an old turbo charger and some decent welding skills.

Just google Jet engine turbo charger homemade

There are even some videos of them on go karts, which use thrust for the most part, but I believe there is one turbo shaft video floating around.

The project I have been following is on www.badbros.net

Mike

 

The combustion chamber housing looks really wide compared to the size of the exhaust. It almost looks as though the compressor and turbine are centrifugal rather than axial flow, which would mean that it's probably a turboshaft from an APU or start cart.

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

 

Interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcSP22jf29I

Mike

 

That guy is awesome!

 

I wonder what his mpg is...

 

That is a pretty nice setup, more astonishing is the fact that he still drives it on the street.

Jens