Remember that ugly Arabian fake hypercar? Devel Sixteen?
Barely moving around, yet claiming V16 with quad
turbo and 5000HP? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgwuiWUrQHI
Well, they've commissioned an engine now.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 22 Feb 2017, 22:58,
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It looks like my dream of owning my own jet pack is one step closer.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Wed 22 Feb 2017, 23:17,
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It might be a bit heavy.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 22 Feb 2017, 23:32,
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I genuinely like it. Great conversation piece.
Typeface is ugly, but that's hardly his fault.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Thu 23 Feb 2017, 0:12,
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"My bank account has more millions than my dick has mm..."
Sidesteps
"...proof."
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 23 Feb 2017, 9:40,
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Oh the cardboard car, yes. I was speaking about the engine.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Thu 23 Feb 2017, 12:10,
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So how are they getting five times the output of a Veyron
with the same number of cylinders?
How big will the driveshaft have to be to deliver that ?
Ditto clutch?
Ditto gearbox?
Won't it just shred its tyres?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 23 Feb 2017, 6:08,
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That kind of power in aircraft usually requires contra rotating props.
So contra rotating tires obviously.
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Nah, the A400M gives 10,000hp per engine
That has a habit of mincing its gearbox though.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 23 Feb 2017, 8:21,
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I've got bigger brakes than that on my Qashqai.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 23 Feb 2017, 9:39,
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These apparently were stock on a C5 Corvette though, so you know they are serious.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Thu 23 Feb 2017, 12:00,
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Thu 23 Feb 2017, 13:05,
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By designing an engine that lasts 1/10th as long as a veyron
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 23 Feb 2017, 10:51,
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The sound of that engine...
Sounds like you could get around 250 miles from it before it fell apart.
The fact it`s still under constant development to gain power says to me that there has been almost zero development on longevity.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 23 Feb 2017, 10:06,
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You're looking at similar power output to high-end dragsters
And they typically run at full power 4-5 times for about 10 seconds before needing a strip-down and rebuild.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 23 Feb 2017, 11:16,
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So much wank
Yet still not even close to 50 year British tech (when Brtitain was still great):
youtube.com/watch?v=Nf6NkZHCyF8
I present you the Napier Sabre, 24 cylinders of goodness.
(Can't find a vid of the engine running, that's a Lion above)
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Spot on, yeah. I bet it can do a few good dyno runs, a couple of 1/4 miles and then need a rebuilt
sounded like a bag of spanners being thrown down a metal tube.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 23 Feb 2017, 16:50,
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Don't want to be too much of a nerd...
But if you put two V8's end to end, should'nt the crank of the second engine be rotated 45° to avoid too many explosions at the same time, but doing so would destroy the balance of the V8 by introducing a shitload of harmonics?
AKA, there is probably a good reason WW2 aero V and H engines were V12 or H24.
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