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Why do the Europeans build more Hot Rods than us?, Talking about killer Euro Hot hods |
Mueller |
Apr 22 2003, 10:30 AM
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914 Freak! Group: Members Posts: 17,146 Joined: 4-January 03 From: Antioch, CA Member No.: 87 Region Association: None |
Hopefully this will not turn into a bad topic...be civil !!!!!
I've noticed that when it comes to building Hot Rod or super customized badass European cars, none of them seem to come from America. I've seen Volvo T5 and T6 motors stuffed into early 240 series Volvos...not a small feat, both of these turbo motors are originally installed tranversly and for the 240, the motors must be turned 90° to drive the rear wheels instead of the fronts. The have killer Mercedes and of course the dopest Porsches ever made come from overseas. I guess seeing the supposedly Boxster powered 914 got me thinking that we lag behind when it comes to cool or different conversions.. Just a thought........... |
TonyAKAVW |
Apr 22 2003, 01:49 PM
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That's my ride. Group: Members Posts: 2,151 Joined: 17-January 03 From: Redondo Beach, CA Member No.: 166 Region Association: None |
QUOTE So, what the bling blink is that? New form of OP art? Don't shine me on, now... tell me "what it is"! bruce Its a 'jet-pack.' Some guy named Andreas who I believe is from Germany is building it. Its a home built jet propelled flying machine to hold a single person. If you take a look at this web page http://www.technologie-entwicklung.de/Gast...s__project.html it outlines the project up to this point. Its really amazing what this guy has done to build this thing. The materials he's using and the techniques are really sophisticated and expensive. For instance he's made turbine blades himself by laminating carbon fiber in molds that he made on a CNC wire electrical discharge machine. The guy who hosts the web page has a lot of crazy projects of his own. For instance, he built his own turbine shaft balancing tool that uses piezo-electric sensors which interface to a computer for sensing imbalance. And he did this on his CNC milling machine at home. I am jealous. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) -Tony |
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