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With 7 jet engines. | ||
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My kiddo and I literally just got done watching this. Dude has some legit manufacturing skills.   | |||
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Complete success? He didn't even come close to clearing the buses. Thumbs down. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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^^^ Kind of a spoiler, but I agree. And why didn't they get the car to 100MPH? Though I don't think it would have been enough. SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | |||
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^^^Apparently it was 'Underpowered'...  ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 47....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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That was dumb... and now a word from our sponsor. Thinking that building a better (any?) air intake system for the individual jet engines would be a good start. Having the transmission shift into neutral at higher speeds would reduce mechanical drag? Started the jet engines too late? Guess I have a different idea of a 'complete sucksess'. | |||
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Sounds like a v6 firebird, could have done that with a 150 or 200 shot of NOS an made the MPH up. | |||
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Perfect outcome, really? Foster's, Australian for Bud | |||
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Yeah, they should have aborted the attempt if the car was not up to speed at a certain point. Instead, they smashed the car well short of the ramp. At least Evel Knievel made this jump over 14 buses. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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The last time I looked at Jet engines like those they were about $4k a piece. | |||
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And they are for RC planes and don't produce anywhere near the thrust to have much effect on a 3000 lb car. | |||
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He makes his jet engines and puts them on stuff from a Tesla to a scooter. The see through one he built is pretty cool. Pretty sure that was just a test run to see if it would work as there is another car that will be in the next one. The bus that the car hit had X's on it, not sure if that was intentional. | |||
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He shoulda had a V8 NRA Benefactor Member | |||
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I was at Kings Island that day and saw Evil jump the buses. I was 15 years old, still remember it very well. | |||
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Should have had an LS-1 under the hood, then it would have hit the ramp at 100 mph. I'll also note that they should have done some acceleration trials before doing any setup, that would have revealed they are under powered and avoided wasting 2-3 buses and 1 car. I've stopped counting. | |||
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