The Real Turbo Beetle
As many of you know I drive a Silver VW New Beetle. It's a turbo, and it's a 5-speed, not the lovely newer 6-speed model. It's a pretty fitting car for Mister Shape to drive considering the form of the vehicle but sometimes I wish I had a bit more velocity. Here's a nice Beetle modification that might do the trick..
Wired News has a great story about Ron Patrick and his $270,000, 26,000-rpm, 1,350-horsepower, Navy-surplus helicopter jet turbine in the trunk. Of course it shoots an 8-foot-long flame out the back.
As Patrick puts it "it feels like the finger of God is pushing the car”, I think I could get used to that. Have a great 4th of July Weekend.
Tags: volkswagen, beetle, design, engine, turbo, cars
Wired News has a great story about Ron Patrick and his $270,000, 26,000-rpm, 1,350-horsepower, Navy-surplus helicopter jet turbine in the trunk. Of course it shoots an 8-foot-long flame out the back.
As Patrick puts it "it feels like the finger of God is pushing the car”, I think I could get used to that. Have a great 4th of July Weekend.
Tags: volkswagen, beetle, design, engine, turbo, cars
posted by Ward at 6:44 AM
2 Comments:
WOW! That is really awesome! I can't imagine how hard it would be to control. Talk about speed though. I never knew they were using jets in helecopters these days.
Yeah! In the Wired article they talked about how he keeps it under 160 for fear of the back of the bug lifting off the ground :)
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