In a secret project carried out at a premier 914 rebuilder's shop, a 1964 Chrysler turbine car’s A-832 turbine engine was acquired to install into a Porsche 914 chassis. After more than a years planning and design work, the project was put into motion. The source of the Chrysler turbine engine cannot be disclosed because so few of the turbines remain in existence. The supplier did not want to risk future business and relationships if it became known that he/she sold the turbine engine to the 914 rebuilder's shop.
The 914’s suspension and brakes were modified to allow for the installation of the turbine engine in the rear and the increased stopping power needed to handle the anticipated extra speed capability of the car. The rear fenders were flared to allow for wider tires to handle the massive thrust of the turbine. The air intake plumbing for the turbine was routed up through the center tunnel, since the original transmission and shift rods were no longer needed in this location. The turbine’s actual air inlet itself was located inside the front trunk area to allow for clean airflow into the engine.
The specifications of this turbine engine are remarkable. The A-831's compressor has a pressure ratio of 4:1, an efficiency of 80 percent and its combustor operates at 95 percent efficiency. The brakes work off of air pressure since there’s no vacuum on a turbine engine. The car is not propelled by thrust, rather the turbine engine rotates an impeller which spins another fan, which finally turns the driveshaft.
The 914 dash gauges have also been altered. The tachometer goes to 60,000 rpm. You read that right, 60,000 rpm! The engine temperature gauge does not measure coolant temperature, instead it measures turbine inlet temperature, reading up to 2,000 degrees! Insane!
The engine can run on almost any fuel except for leaded fuel. Lead would leave a residue on the fan inside the engine and could create an imbalance at the high turbine speeds. The engine will run on jet fuel, kerosene, peanut oil, diesel, hairspray, perfume, home heating oil, just about anything except leaded fuel. In 1963, Mexican president Adolfo López Mateos ran one of the original turbine cars on tequila after Chrysler engineers confirmed that it would do so!
The project car was finally taken out to a secret location at an abandoned military air base for initial testing. The sound was incredible when the turbine was fired up! There was only one significant technical problem that occurred that has not been resolved yet. When the throttle was first applied, the negative air pressure created by the turbine's inlet under the front hood immediately sucked both of the 914’s pop up headlights into the front trunk compartment!
Engineers are working on a solution…….

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In an undisclosed location, the revealing of the special exhaust area.

April Fools?!?!?

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Gas Turbines
For inertia wheel generators and electrically driven automobiles.
70% efficient.

With its 4:1 compression ratio, this engine made the equivalent of 130hp at 3,600 rpm, as measured at the output shaft, as well as 425-lbs.ft. of torque at stall speed. The turbine's idle speed was roughly 8,000 rpm, and full throttle was a dramatic 50,000 rpm.
Matt

Does anyone know how to reinforce the headlight hinges to stop this from happening again?

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Keep going, don't listen to the Porsche purists and the Chrysler purists.

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Hey Carbon!
I bet the turbine would suck the front grill in if it couldn't get air from the headlights being sucked in...

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Porsche 928 conversion, using the smaller T50.
The whereabouts of the first jet-engined 914 is still, to this day, unknown.
' Zuletzt gesehen in westlicher Richtung auf der ersten Autobahn in der Nähe von Wildeshausen um 1988 '
sagte die autobahnpolizei so schnell wie ein messerschmitt.