Build Your Own Jet Engine 148
jgarland79 writes "Have you ever wanted your very own jet engine? Build one at home in your own garage. The guys over at www.garagejet.com have done just that. Their jet engine is made from an automotive turbo, spark plugs, and some scrap metal. I have made a mirror site here." We've had a couple of previous stories about a guy building pulsejet engines - the type of engine described above is a turbojet.
Darwin Award in the making (Score:5, Funny)
Oh great, (Score:5, Funny)
now i can... (Score:2, Funny)
Excellent! (Score:5, Funny)
Mirror Site?!?!?! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yeah... not tough. (Score:5, Funny)
The FBI were right to go after you.
I had a friend who knew this guy one time and his sister's cousin built a jet engine just like the one in the article and bolted it to the top of this old Nova that he had. He took it for a test run in the desert in, like, Arizona. He forgot that his normal brakes wouldn't be enough to stop it, and the accident investigators found the remains of the jet engine 80 feet up the side of a mesa.
Dude, his teeth were still embedded in the melted steering wheel. That's how they identified him. Don't mess with home-brewed jet propulsion, it's a recipe for trouble. You could put someone's eye out.
The Dalai LLama
...true story, I swear...
Re:turbojet and turboprop homebuilt engines (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Excellent! (Score:5, Funny)
DId I leave anything out?
Mental note to self..... (Score:4, Funny)
When building an engine that will potentially operate at over 1000 degrees Celsius, be sure to build frame out of wood.
Re:No proprietary crap here (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Excellent! (Score:1, Funny)
6. ???
7. Profit, etc.
Garuntee win on the strip! (Score:3, Funny)
Let's see, super chargers are ungodly expensive....
Adding turbo or even replacing turbo, out of this world....
But! Two 300 dollar jet engines welded to the side of your Ford Escort!?!?!?!? Francine Dee! Here I come!
Turbojets, pulsejets, and... (Score:3, Funny)
We just invented a new one...serverjet! That is where fire shoots out of the drive bays of a server so fast that the whole thing flies across the room!!
Sometimes I just think yall pick random servers to destroy. Kinda like that guy from the Jerk who flips through the newspaper and then just pops his finger down on a person and then he kills them. Likewise, you probably put in a topic to Google and hit "I'm feeling lucky!" Whoever the unlucky site is gets the slashdotting!
I can feel you laughing from here.
Pod race! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yeah... not tough. (Score:4, Funny)
In the Bibical sense?
and his sister's cousin
Wouldn't it just be easier to say, "his cousin"?
For pete's sake (Score:2, Funny)
Laserjet (Score:3, Funny)
This is great! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Excellent! (Score:3, Funny)