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    Living With a Gas Turbine Is Not For the Faint of Heart

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    Image of FrankGrimes FrankGrimes
    09/26/09

    In reply to Porsche Does Not Recommend Exceeding Any Speed Limits
    "Oh, no. This quartet of 80s-vintage 928 ads (well, one of them drags in some Audis) is notable for the lack of 80s cheepnis; no disco mustaches or feathered hair to be seen here."

    It's good to know the PR department was on board with the Dr. Porsche philosophy of timelessness.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    09/10/09

    In reply to Living With a Gas Turbine Is Not For the Faint of Heart
    Turbine cars, and particularly turbine engine swaps/additions, are cool. They're not necessarily cool in the supercar sense, nor in any automotive design convention. They're cool in the same way the Ekranoplan is cool. They're just so...odd. So beautiful. So awesome.
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    Image of JeepyJayhawk JeepyJayhawk
    09/10/09

    In reply to Living With a Gas Turbine Is Not For the Faint of Heart
    Ok, here's a thought... buy the car, separate the questionable engine choice and replace it with a normalish engine, 302, 350, or a Viper mill, sell the turbine and maybe have a good fun car with little or no outlay of cash?

    How much does a used turbine sell for?
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    Image of citroën67 citroën67
    09/10/09


    @JeepyJayhawk: about $16.00 if you really shop around :P
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    Image of JeepyJayhawk JeepyJayhawk
    09/10/09

    @citroën67: You sir win. Click.
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    09/10/09

    In reply to Living With a Gas Turbine Is Not For the Faint of Heart
    Does it have cruise control?
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    Image of Slowlane Slowlane
    09/10/09

    In reply to Living With a Gas Turbine Is Not For the Faint of Heart
    Finally, an aircooled engine in a 928. Awesome. Water doesn't belong in a Porsche...the only fluids should be oil in the engine, gas in the tank and scotch in the driver...maybe brake fluid.
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    discontinuuity is happy that everything has been set right in the Jalopverse. Now all we need is more of engineerd's Brefas Scotch! promoted this comment Slowlane was starred Slowlane was unstarred
    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/10/09

    In reply to Living With a Gas Turbine Is Not For the Faint of Heart
    You could probably use that pot to make a lovely stew. Enough to feed the whole family, in fact!
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    Image of CopterBob CopterBob
    09/10/09

    In reply to Living With a Gas Turbine Is Not For the Faint of Heart
    Pep Boys, may I help you? "Yeah, I'm lookin' for a compressor seal for an '83 Boeing 502-6..."
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    09/10/09

    In reply to Living With a Gas Turbine Is Not For the Faint of Heart
    There are 4 turbine powered cars in all of automotive history that I covet.
    1. Chrysler Turbine car
    2. STP Paxton special that ran @ Indy in 67
    3. The Howmet TX that ran @ Le Mans in 68
    4. The Lotus Pratt & Whitney F1 car that ran @ Monza in 71.

    This 928 isn't any of those 4.
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    Image of sixt5cuda sixt5cuda
    09/10/09

    @scroggs: How about Rover? [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    09/10/09

    @sixt5cuda: I remembered that Jackie Stewart and Graham Hill drove a turbine powered car at LeMans in the mid-60's, but blanked on the manufacturer.

    @TR3-A: Didn't really consider any of the LSR cars, as I like cars with predictable cornering characteristics.
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    Image of PowerTryp, Starless wonder. PowerTryp, Starless wonder.
    09/10/09

    In reply to Living With a Gas Turbine Is Not For the Faint of Heart
    DAMNIT!!! Will people stop doing engine swaps to the front engined Porsches! Please?! You'd never see someone doing this to a 911 why do it to a 924/944/968 or 928? I know they handle amazingly but the stock engines are nothing to scoff at and the cost to convert to something else may in the long run be similar to the cost of squeezing more power out of the stock block.
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    09/10/09

    @PowerTryp forever Minardi: This is the first argument I've heard AGAINST a 924 engine swap. I like it. Variety of opinions is the spice of life. Especially if I'm not the poor bastard driving around in a stock 924.
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    Image of PowerTryp, Starless wonder. PowerTryp, Starless wonder.
    09/10/09

    @theeastbaykid: Ok I'll give the stock 924 a bit of leeway on the whole swap thing but only cause that engine really needs to be massaged to get power, but the others don't need much to get some awesome power. A good flash on the 944 and you've got 300hp+. Sure the parts are more expensive when they break but you're still driving a true Porsche. Not a Porchev
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    Image of docrice docrice
    09/10/09

    In reply to Living With a Gas Turbine Is Not For the Faint of Heart
    It actually looks like a clean build, but for the love of god could they paint the exhaust? It wouldn't look so bad sticking out of the hood if it wasn't all rusted and nasty - it makes the car look like a crappy old steamboat.
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    09/10/09

    @docrice: So what paint would you recommend for 2000+ degrees of heat? He probably should have used something other than plain old steel, maybe stainless.
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    Image of BigHarv BigHarv
    09/10/09

    @P161911: I don't see many power turbines exhausting more than 1500 F, most aroudn 1300-does this little thing run that hot?

    But yeah, paint won't stick.
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    09/10/09

    @BigHarv: That figure was just from a quick Google search. I remember reading somewhere that one of the problems with the M-1 tank is the exhaust from the turbine engine setting the landscape on fire.
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    Image of oyumurtaci oyumurtaci
    09/10/09

    In reply to Living With a Gas Turbine Is Not For the Faint of Heart
    SAAB called. You'll be hearing from their lawyers.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    09/10/09

    @oyumurtaci: I guess the PO got bored from jets.
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    Image of .357 .357
    08/21/09

    In reply to Come to New York, Become Tony Montana, Try to Impress Michelle Pfeiffer
    It comes with machine guns and foglamps.
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    08/21/09

    In reply to Come to New York, Become Tony Montana, Try to Impress Michelle Pfeiffer
    This, for my personal taste, is the 2nd best-looking Porsche behind the Cayman - I like the color, too... I'm more into understated as opposed to "look-at-me-red", or something like that. I would take this car in a heartbeat, assuming good mechanical condition, nice price, etc.

    Of course, if you were to buy this car, you would then be obligated to annoy all your buddies whenever each of them saw it for the first time, by gesturing towards it & shouting: "Say HellOOO to my little friend!!!"
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    Edited by HoonThatFerrari at 08/21/09 10:56 PM HoonThatFerrari was starred HoonThatFerrari was unstarred
    Image of RuBBa_cHiKiN: The real question is can it fit in the Batmobile? RuBBa_cHiKiN: The real question is can it fit in the Batmobile?
    08/21/09

    In reply to Come to New York, Become Tony Montana, Try to Impress Michelle Pfeiffer
    One thing I could never figure out about the headlights. Is the bulb itself placed near the top of the back part of the lens? Or do they just point to the sky?
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    HoonThatFerrari promoted this comment RuBBa_cHiKiN: The real question is can it fit in the Batmobile? was starred RuBBa_cHiKiN: The real question is can it fit in the Batmobile? was unstarred
    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    08/21/09

    @RuBBa_cHiKiN: They pivot forward... admittedly not very aerodynamic, but then again, you're less likely to be going 160 at night (I would hope).
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    Image of RuBBa_cHiKiN: The real question is can it fit in the Batmobile? RuBBa_cHiKiN: The real question is can it fit in the Batmobile?
    08/22/09

    @HoonThatFerrari, Public Hotdog: Ahh, I see. I figured there had to be a catch. Thanks guys!
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    Edited by RuBBa_cHiKiN: The real question is can it fit in the Batmobile? at 08/22/09 6:01 AM RuBBa_cHiKiN: The real question is can it fit in the Batmobile? was starred RuBBa_cHiKiN: The real question is can it fit in the Batmobile? was unstarred
    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    08/22/09


    @RuBBa_cHiKiN: Here... in case you haven't already looked up any pics of them in the meanwhile, here's a shot of what they look like in the forward position...
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    08/22/09


    @HoonThatFerrari: Well, crapola - that shot didn't work too well... looks like Nibbles lived up to his name & did some cropping - let's try THIS one..
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    Image of dolo54 blows minds and blows engines! dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
    08/21/09

    In reply to Come to New York, Become Tony Montana, Try to Impress Michelle Pfeiffer
    If you're a soccer fan you can always watch the games at Gatsby's. They play soccer, err football, every day on their tvs. There's always a bunch of English guys there watching a game.
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