I bought the basis of the kart and engine off of Ebay and have done substantial modifications to it to make it as it is today.
These modifications include splitting the rear axle so to make steering easier as a standard go kart has a solid back axle and unless this axle is driven, can cause difficulty in steering. Splitting the axle creates a sort of differential and it steers around corners much easier especially at low speed.
The jet turbine runs on liquid Propane gas (LPG) and the afterburner runs on a petrol and diesel mix (40 x 60%). Looking from the front, the left hand black tank holds the LPG and the right hand the Afterburner fuel.
Speeds of around 80mph (and maybe higher?) should be possible with the calculated thrust.
As you can possibly imagine, it is extremely noisy and hearing protection has to be worn at all times !
Unfortunately, to date, I have not yet actually sat and ran in it - mainly because finding somewhere to take it is like looking for the proverbial needle in a large heap of straw! The UK is littered with old WW2 runways but getting permission to go on any of them is prooving very difficult. Insurance is also a big problem with everywhere I have contacted requiring some sort of cover.
5 comments:
you are mad!!
where do mad people like you go to try and blow yourself up?
What type of turbo is that?? - Can you give me any helpful hints for making a combustion chamber??
Hi,
How much would it cost to build one of these???
In reality if you can just pilfer all the bits from a scrapyard or something, it should cost next to nothing.
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