Why the 1300 HP Turbo Axle Failed
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In 1962, a rocket engineer named Gene Middlebrooks applied what he’d learned designing ballistic missiles to build and sell turbine-based power-adding equipment for cars. And when we say “turbine-based”, we don’t mean turbochargers. His “turbo drag axle” was a revolutionary invention that used a turbine to drive the axle of a car, which let drivers toggle their car between comfortable street ride and absolutely mind-boggling power. So why aren't we all driving on turbo axles? Today on B2B we'll explore the brilliance and the pitfalls of this by-gone work of genius.
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Shoutout to the guy with the balls to run a 5 second 1/4 mile at 240mph in a rocket-powered go-cart....wow
You can bet he was told it would top out around 100mph. They just miscalculated a little.
How in the world did he stop?
@@DiscoR53 Jesus
The only reason he didn't go faster than that is because his gargantuan balls were dragging on the ground next to him the whole way. That's also how he stopped the go cart.
@@DiscoR53 exhausted its fuel supply, I imagine.
You can tell Jer Bear is a real engineer by his disdain for marketing departments. The pain is real.
As an accountant, I totally understand his disdain.
Remember when you could pump gas without ads SCREAMING IN YOUR FACE? I suspect “how to know when you’ve gone too far” isn’t in any marketing curriculum anywhere.
I wish I could enjoy the Donut media comments without all the spam replies to comments.
@@El-Burrito ignore them. It’s easy.
@@travishabursky4362 what do you mean I can't use all exotic alloys and composites on an economy car?
Jk engineering 101 was minimum viable.
"Died spectacularly on a rocket powered go kart" I'd have that on my tombstone any day.
In a great big fireball
I'd settle for:
"Here lies ******** who died in a massive fireball halfway up a tree"
How its achieved is irrelevant.
Mine's going to be "... and it was one too many."
@@deathraygonzo6339 that could end good or bad tbh
@@iterminator309 you want to burn to death?
The day I find one of these will be a good day
Fr
You got any 89 f350 steering wheels
Yea
How is the AMC eagle doing.
Back again I see!
EV: We can make 1000hp that is direct to your wheels!
Turbo Axle:.. Hold my Thermolene..
Yeah but EV takes thousands of pounds of batteries
Talking about instant power
@@guyod1 atleast it doesnt explode if you miss the launch
It kinda does
God these transitions are legendary. The rocket fuel with the guitar transition is some of the most powerful stuff I've ever seen. Keep living the dream editor, keep living the dream.
I don't understand these transitions..
@@jannie6605 ugh, bots
I read this and then that transition came up
I showed my gf that scene and was like wow this editor is a legend, glad to see people agree
I literally watched it like 4 times
I could see the turbo axle being a fantastic collaborative opportunity with a channel like Hacksmith or Colin Furze. They're insane and well-equipped enough to help with something like that.
No they aren’t. The forces involved are double or triple what they’re capable of working with. A turbunique axle goes under as much stress as top fuel parts. The displacement of a 1200hp turbuniqe is equivalent to a liter bike engine or smaller
@@THESLlCK they could make a smaller functioning prototype and pitch that to investors already in the car industry that probably have better access to that type of machinery. Couldn't do it alone but I think it could happen
@@NotMe-ej9yz Just remember this makes nitrous kits look like child's play. There's literally so much power in that thing that it can double if not triple the power of the engine it's eventually attached to
i could swear there where 3 replies here. why cant i see them?
colin would def get it done, dudes a genius
In 1999 I was contracted to build a web site for a couple of guys who started a business trying to resurrect the Turbonique name and technology. They were pretty serious. I think we got as far as the initial design phase and then it just kinda fizzled. I don't know if they ran out of money or what the issue was.
EDIT: I just dug through my old archives and found the site I built in 1999. If anyone wants to see it, I might be able to upload it somewhere.
Definitely post that.
Yes I'm very interested!
show me!
hell yes!
Yes mate I reckon that would be pretty dope if your able to get it up again.
"Who else would do that?" he asks, and I think Colin Furze...
Absolutely. I think he needs to see this.
He must be sheltered from this concept at all costs. For the sake of preservation.
@@CrunchyMaggots he’ll find out one way or another…
@@CrunchyMaggots I mean, he already did it some years ago...
@@therobb5738 he already has done it
"I've made and engine modification that doubles your horsepower"
"WHAT HOW?"
"I attached a rocket engine to it"
Man that was a brain fuck to read
I'd just suggest you dont type in english anymore.
@@waffles5300 that's what I'm sayin'
@@3ch0_17 yall are actually brain dead. There was one extra word.
god i wish that was me
"This was 1960s: a time before safety even existed."
I was expecting an axle driven supercharger sending air back to the engine. I guess it would have to have it's own gearbox, maybe a continuously variable setup that changed ratios to the demand of the engine, with a bypass for when you're off the throttle.
That was my thinking too. Definitely not expecting a rocket turbo-pump. I guess his ballistic missile work came in handy.
That was my thinking too
Honestly they could do that, I believe on a jeep grand cherokee of sorts it has the turbo in the back not near the engine at all.. it's an interesting set up.
@@yuribrandi8212 I think he means that the rear diff is driving the charger. That wouldn’t work. What you’re suggesting is done all the time on z cars and others that have limited space in the engine bay for turbo and plumbing.
I can’t believe the “Tobacco King” wasn’t mentioned. A 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 with a 427 engine swapped in and equipped with a Turbonique rear axle. Want to talk about an absolute outrageous car, that was it. The owner was heir to Reynolds Tobacco Company so he had money to play with. He’d go cruising the streets with this car and use the rocket in street races! I live near the old haunts of this car and couldn’t imagine where he had a straight enough line to use the turbine. You guys should do a B2B on that bad boy.
That’s sick
That's how cleetus should have build the mullet elcamino
@@dookiebooger9967 cleetus is 100% talentfree and a total joke.
@@808bigisland damn, and still he's leagues more successful than you, makes you pretty pathetic.
Literally thought this what the video would be based on
"Apparatus predates safety." -AvE
The 60s were awesome.
Rose tinted glasses
@@holyravioli5795 it's an 18th century ship's surgeon's joke, that.
His word play is legend dairy.
Holeeeo fuck
@@holyravioli5795 baloney. There was so much more freedom back then where it COUNTED, not on a book or in a congressional movement. People said "if you wanna die in flames, that's your thing. Just don't kill me."
THAT is what people miss
I hope his go-kart record never gets broken, we need an eternal reminder of the sussy business that went on in the 60s
I remember hearing about these decades ago, but there was no internet to go search for information on them back then. These contraptions should definitely make a comeback!
If they actually build their own turbo axle that will be legendary. Literally they will become a vital part of car history
Either a piece of, or pieces of car history, yeah. ;)
Its dosent seem too hard tbh i feel like it belt driven like a supercharger now would work better but when i have anything money this will definitely pop back in my mind i would love to see it
I will donate my prius as a test car
@Ernesto Fierros Race cars will never be "all electric".
no traction wheels will just spin
“If only there was some kind of book that told us what words mean” Me, every day.
assumes people can read
@Case-Hard Nails books have been dissapearing off shelfs for the past decade. Its been weird.
especially when it comes to liberals. Hate to be that person that brings up politics, but of all things I notice, it is liberals that absolutely hate the definitions of words and want them all to change to suit them.
The hell's a book?
Hats off to the guy that said: “A 1300 hsprs rocket fuel powered axle intended for the drag strip? Wonder what it would do in a light weight car like a Beetle?”
#fuckinglegend.
There was a ad in hot VWs magazine many years ago selling one for the beetle.
i'd slap a big wing on the beetle if i decided to give it a turbo axle,it needs downforce
My buddy's got a late 50's Oval
Ford 289 mounted in front
All wheel drive Subaru componets
Pulls a low 8 @ 144mph
Bro, you basically explained us what happens inside some turbopumps with their gas generators. Except this turbopump thingy is linked to an axle, not a real impeller as we see in real rocket engines. That was a great video =)
Jeremiah is so underrated
He is the reason I want to do engineering
Bul really be knowing all that stuff
not even a minute in you got 3 bots XD
So true he inspires me
I don't think he's underrated though, everyone knows he's cool
Watching him is the exact reason I don’t want to be an engineer😂
"...a record for rocket-powered go-karts that remains to this day....who else would do that?"
Colin Furze: Challenge accepted.
Wile E Coyote enters the chat…
I think hardware like a turbo axle is exactly the kind of thing that gearheads in the future are going to need to rely on, in a world where we have electric vehicles.
Maybe, but there is a ton you can modify with electric vehicles. Upgrading the wiring in the motor itself to take higher heat and more current; equals making more power.
Hell. I want to add a central electric motor to the Willys CJ-3b *replica* chassis & drivetrain I have. Being able to double the HP & Torque in it and make it a perfect camping & nearly silent hunting vehicle.
@@cjwrench07 numbers people are producing nowadays, that might be amazing.
There was something about rockets and drag cars but I forgot all that with the flawless editing of James "playing" the trumpet. The cracked note when he misses his lips had me in stitches. Bravo.
This sounds like a good final mod for the Hi/Lo Tacomas. Plenty of room for ridiculous fuel+turbine stuff in the bed. Lo team has to build theirs from scratch.
Sounds like an accident waiting to happen lol
Lo team has to make their own highly volatile rocket fuel without getting caught by the government.
Great idea sir!
@@pieguy203 😂😂😂
@@pieguy203 I laughed so hard I shot my Starbucks cafe late out my nose!! Also people asked if I was ok.
I so want to see this happen!!! ♥️♥️♥️
i love Jeremiah, he’s such a fitting personality for this show. feels like we’re best friends and ive never even talked to him- just like James and Nolan
I agree
All these guys are very human
That's creepy dude. You cant be best friends with someone you've never met. That's called being a "nut swinger".
... yeah, no.
@@davelowets what the fuck
I was a teenager back in the 60s when they started advertising the Turbonic or what ever it was named. It was advertised with a photo showing it racing a top fuel dragster....it was in a go cart. The photo had the go kart doing a wheely. Supposedly it beat the dragster. Whether that was real or not was a big issue. Since in those days a top fuel dragster would just max out a bit over 200 mph at 7 seconds (Don Garlets was the first to go over 200 mph in a top fuel dragster in a NHRA sanctioned race). I don't believe they said it did a 5 second 240mph quarter. I also find int highly unlikely they would have allowed something like that on a sanctioned race track.
I always wondered if anyone actually put it on a car....or blew them and the car up with it.
everybody gangsta till someone showed up to a NHRA Top Fuel race in his parent's lawnmower
Just before jets took over some of the piston engines used in large airplane engines had power recovery turbines. The engine was supercharged for performance at altitude and a turbine in the exhaust was geared to the crankshaft to recover power that would otherwise have been lost out the exhaust.
Volvo trucks are doing that today too....
I thought it was just gonna be a power recovery turbine. A Jet powered axle is insane. In WWII some bombers used a power recovery turbine on the back of the engine, it used any energy left in the exhaust gases after spinning the turbo up to spin a turbine that was connected to the crank to get just that little bit more power.
Imagine a power recovery turbine bringing in an additional 1300 horsepower, after scavenging the leftovers from the engine AND the turbo lol
Detroit and Volvo both use that exact system on semi truck engines to this day. They now call it "turbo compounding" but the concept is the same, second turbine (after main turbo) coupled to the crankshaft via the gear train.
its it really any different to a turboshaft engine?
@@mycosys a turbo shaft engine is a Jet engine with a drive shaft. There are no pistons involved anywhere. A power recovery turbine is a turbine connected to a piston internal combustion engine.
@@Odin851 I thought it just helped to get the engine up to 1300
We can please take a moment to talk about how crazy the old days were? casual nuclear toys and FREAKING 240MPH ROCKET POWERED GO KARTS THAT WOULD MAKE A PLAID LOOK LIKE A CAMRY.
ikr when people say they don't build em like they used to they aren't kidding about that statement back in the day shit was nuts and sad i never got to grow up and experience some of the craziest stuff you will never see nowadays like Group B rally in person
Keep in mind that a lot of people didn't grow up back in the good old days 💀
@@dr.dylansgame5583 Group B created some badass cars, but thanks to Group B, we have some badass cars today.
I can clearly remember having a chemistry set that didn’t have warnings on anything. And we had lawn darts. You could kill someone with a lawn dart.😂. 240 mph go cart that would give a Pro Stock car a run for it’s money.😂
@@michaelhite1433 true I just wish every rally car didnt look the same nowadays unpopular opinion I'm all for fair restrictions but standardization like that ruined both the sport driving aspect and car industry in general with starting trends like fake vents and plastic engine covers that make you just wish 90 percent of new cars never existed and it's not that I hate all new cars I just hate in the US we have all the same looking sedans only difference is slight body variation based on home country origin why cant more companies create fun and practical cars without fake bullshit like the toyota gr yaris or just the hatchback yaris in general or the gt/gr 86 is another good answer
I remember hearing if you add too many fuel pellets that it will randomly ignite a second time. That old magazine with a guy that had one
Now we're all craving for the "bumper to bumper" EPs on the 180mph Beetle and 240mph Go-Kart
Every time I don’t see a manscaped add, I remember how far we’ve come together boys. Keep up the great work.
Turbonique: almost sends your car to space
Them a couple days later in a magazine: "Sorry about that"
The owner of this company is such a sigma
That was so funny ae. 😂 him just standing becide the car in the middle of a seem too look like desert? Odd add. But fair. 🇳🇿
I might just have build one now!!. like my grandpa told me, we're all snowflakes now, all the crazy s*** happened in the 60s...lol.
Like the go kart 5 sec at 240mph thats crazy shit
Well, why the f*** not?
You already have the go kart 👍
You could also try making a power turbine for that little jet you have, but I'd strongly recommend beefing up the brakes 1st
McMurtry Speirling fans goo BBBRRRRRRRRR
at 23,000rpm.
I remember reading a hotrod article about this back almost 20 years ago. When they questioned the inventor on what ever happened, he said they were accusing him of mail fraud. Whether the government, oil companies or whoever, someone didn't want it made. I for one think its a great idea, what could go wrong....?
Apparently your VW Beetle can take flight. You'd get cited by the FAA for not having your pilot's license.
”now that we know that marketers are liars”
i- i think we already knew…
At first I thought this had to do with a turbo being driven directly off the diff but this was way cooler.
me too
That's exactly what I thought. I think it would be a good idea although the parasitic drag will be similar to a supercharger so it might be pointless but still cool.
Great video, man. Informative and entertaining is a good combo.
JPL engineer watches too many Road Runner cartoons and thinks to himself: "Hey, that Coyote is on to something..."
Yeah, that Beetle looked like something Wile E Coyote had driven, when ol' Mr. Pitiful (the Black Widow's driver's nickname) was done with it!
So ACME is really a JPL spinoff? 😃
Now I want a tattoo of him as a tuner!
Just in case you want to get into drag racing, remember you’ll never be as great as 5 second rocket cart great.
What about a 10,000 hp top fuel dragster
Na man the 34000 HP Toyota Prius from Elanip
@@igeal3567 thirty four thousand hp? U sure?
na man that's the ultimate evolution of the Toyota Prius
Sammy Miller in his rocket car 3.41 second 1/4 mile
Actually I have a turbonique supercharger complete with documents of test runs and correspondence between my father in law and turbonique discussing being a franchise owner.
The record run in the gocart was done at Beeline Dragway in Arizona, doesn't exist anymore. My father in law holds the speed record to this day. He's not with us anymore but his stories are hilarious on how they did testing. Another is when they raced the jet powered Green Monster and the track forced him to wear a fire suit because he was sitting on a gocart next to an after burner.
Anyway, great story and you didn't even scratch the surface of the insanity, like federal agents busting down doors confiscating equipment.
Love to hear old racing history. Great job.
These videos are always pretty funny...and it can be quite hard to be genuinely funny and not just cringe.
They also have alot of awsome educational value and history of automation.
To sum it up, they are well researched and well written.
The next Hi-lo should be building muscle cars cheap vs expensive
Eh.. They should do drift cars and learn how to drift. Would make for wayyyyyy better episodes.
@@smac919 that’s not as cool and they already did tuner style cars with locking & but welded difs for drifting
@@smac919 I disagree, the 350z hi-low was similar enough for me, but I would not say no to your recommendation
1970s Camaros are cheap which would be a good idea
They should do volvos xD
That rocket fuel powered turbocharger is super cool, just imagine the sound of a V8 that sounds like NA but is not NA
theres at least one hillclimb car in the UK that uses a helicopter APU to provide, always-on-instant boost. so do-able with modern tech.
Very interesting topic, thanks!
Also funny!😄
Some of the inventions in this video reminded me of the "booster engine" concept on later built steam locomotives. The rear axle (normally unpowered) had an auxiliary two piston steam engine for extra torque when starting and at low speed, powered by the steam pressure from the main boiler through flexible pipes! They actually proved to be effective in many locomotives worldwide but the invention came too little too late as diesel and electric locomotives took the market, still interesting!
Contrary to popular belief steam didn't die because it was inefficient or not as powerful. Quite the opposite.
Steam died because a diesel only needed one crewmember
@@Demonslayer20111 Theres a guy in the u k with a steam powered motor bike......
@@MrDragpics ok? And steam cars existed too. How does that relate to steam locomotives, which are much bigger and go a lot farther?
@@Demonslayer20111 The Guys name is Graham Sykes it is a rocket bike that uses steam under pressure,so using water instead of using rocket fuel its kinder safer than rocket fuel.
Can we all spend a minute considering the fact that there is a motorcycle on the market that actually works pretty similar to that turbo AXLE, and runs on jet fuel ?
All praise the Y2K 450R.
What was that God awful motorcycle movie that was like a bootleg fast and furious and the protagonist had a jet bike and a Carpe Diem jacket... That is literally all I remember. What kind of bike was that?
@@lukeyarasheski5510 torque.
@@lukeyarasheski5510 it was indeed an helicopter turbine powered bike, the MTT y2k
@@lukeyarasheski5510 never seen the movie I believe, but now that I know it exists, I might lose 2 hrs of my life investigating this :D
The Y2K is indeed a bike with a helicopter turbine, which makes absolutely no f***ING sense out of a drag strip as those engines are made to work at a fixed RPM, meaning it has to have absolute crap throttle response!
@@valentinsignargout4744 it got an automatic gearbox, so you just build the revs, then let off the brakes
hearing the /14 mile time on the gokart gave me chills
I would love to give it a shot, I’m willing to die to experience that
Wow! This video was a blast down memory lane. Back in 1962 or 63 my brother and I were looking into putting a Turbonique into out 1956 Ford. We would have done it if we had the money. If we became a dealer, we could have gotten the Turbonique for less, but it was still too much money for us.
I remember reading about this company on a jalopnik article back in the early 2000s. it was hilarious how the products just got crazier and crazier and ending with the rocket drag axle. they didnt show the tobacco king car but it looked completely insane
I always wondered when/if you’d cover historic automotive parts like the rocket axle. It’d be much safer today. But would Tech let it fly after the initial pass using this? 🤔🤔🤔
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Man, the 60s were crazy, I reckon the turboaxle guy would've been good buddies with dr John Strap
Who is Dr John Strap?
But I do agree, the 60s and 70s were crazy with all the “innovations” and development.
(Innovations in quotation marks because they weren’t all good)
That was the golden age. So much more creativity back then and people actually had to use they're brain. Not many bolt on parts like today you had to fab it
was always curious on this. great vid. lowkey a good advertisment for n02 and electric vehicles.
The basic concept seems similar to the "cruise range extender" direct drive turbo added to the P-47 fighter of WWII. The P-47 used waste exhaust to power it vs chemical fuel, but it was directly coupled to the crankshaft. The idea was to turn wasted energy into increased range, but if they would have thought to add a combustion chamber they might have been able to use it to increase power (P-47 with an afterburner boost ?! )
US metallurgy wasn't up to it then. After we captured the german jets they started working on immediatly. But we didn't have metal that could handle the heat until the F86 and the star fighter of the korean war
Legitimately the best channel on UA-cam by a mile. Top knotch engineering comedy journalism. True innovation.
Missed an opportunity to say, "He went from developing killer weapons systems, to killer car mods."
One of the craziest things I've heard. Brilliant
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO COVER THIS!!
I remember ads for the Turbonique. They had a 500 and a 1000hp unit. I almost bought one but was told it burned hydrazine, which was extremely difficult to get, not to mention dangerous.
Worked just as well on nitromethane and gasoline. Tommy Ivo tried running a AA dragster on hydrazine and it was unreliable.
I'm pretty sure the 'safe version' of this is called a turboshaft. I really feel like monopropellant rocket fuels represent the biggest item of concern for any improvement of the original design. Yeah, a throttle might improve things a bit, but the real problem is the fuel that wants to explode.
So your saying the next version should switch to a hypergolic propellant? I like the way you think.
@@butterdubs2267
If you really wanna live out Me 163 pilot fantasies you can try that version.
I'll stick with an air-breathing kerosene powered version if I'm driving.
@@butterdubs2267 how u make that? 🇳🇿
"If it makes noise, goes fast, or blows up ..." was all the inspiration we needed back then,
A turboshaft is a style of jet engine, like those found in helicopters.
Similar concept though, both work by thrust being applied to a turbine. Difference is just how that thrust is generated
Wow, my buddy lived across the Street from Turbonique in Orlando , Florida on Kent Street, we would dig through the dumpster all the time and pull out all kinds of cool stuff, we were in the 6th through 9th grade back then.........so we had an interest in cars too...we got to see all kinds of fast cars they were building for others....a Teenager's dream come true, I only lived a few blocks away, so we thought nothing of it.....so cool for you to do an episode on these guys......cheers from Orlando, Paul , now a 70 year old car guy..........
What a trip to stumble across this video. I still have from as a kid, a magazine called Hot Rotor that chronicles all this stuff from Turbonique. The made several models of turbines and rockets of varying power. The model you highlight is an axil design but thy had several others that were radial. They were essentially the hot turbine of a turbocharger with one of their rocket engines combustion chambers plumbed onto the inlet. There is no reason why you couldn't run any of these units on other fuels. You'd just have to get your injectors and pressures right. Go for it!
talking about tech we'd like to see with a modern twist; I'd like to see 2 strokes engines coming back with direct injection. 12v71 anyone?
Hell yeah
2 stroke diesels 💕💕
A 12v71 is direct injected
@@jlowe5944 They are not direct injection in the CONTEMPORARY meaning which was the point here. If you call injecting in the cylinder modern direct injection then you could call antechamber injection direct as well, and thus all diesels. 71 series are purely mechanical unit injection running off a camshaft. Far from common rail injection we call direct injection now. Less precise. Removing reliance on camshaft, high injection pressure and multiple injections per cycle could quiet the 2 stroke, lower emission and increase power.
@@Veikra Modern fuel injection on a 2 stroke you say? Let me introduce you to the EMD 710 series built and designed by detroit diesel and electro motive division of GM for use in locomotive and marine applications.
But for real, just look up EMD 710 ua-cam.com/video/Tm67AFaGlo8/v-deo.html
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Am i the only one who skips through Donut's ads? I'm here to see the content of whatever the video is about, not the testicle discoloration cream or whatever other funky product Pumphrey is trying to sell for someone else that week.
Try Samcrac or Rich's Rebuilds, hilarious and smooth
Jerries B2B intro is the best on Donut Media!
Didn't know i needed this but now i do
11:01 reminds me of the story about an RV owner that flat towed their new jeep but it was in 4-low. At highway speeds they figured the engine probably reached 50k RPM.
Ypu would tjink they had dome research if jeeps can be flat towed and if aldo they disconnected the drive shafts
Yeah I saw that , that's pretty sweet.
If I recall,the trans or transfer case was basically a melted blob of aluminum.
50k rpms haha that's badass
Could you imagine sitting in that Jeep while everything was spinning up like that? It had to have seized at some point before 50k lol
@@Eric2300jeep it was estimated the engine let go at 11k, the crazy number was a theoretical
James and Jeremiah both successfully reviving the 80's moustache.
Dude your totally right. You can't argue with the results, it worked. If someone nowadays figured out a way to do this safely and cheap they'd be on to something.
HOLY CRAP MAN!
THATS NUCKIN FUCTS! Huge fan of all you guys, and everything you guys do! 🤟
I love when a channel strokes my engineering ego and dooks on marketing.
Marketing brings engineering to life. Good engineering is the soul behind
(My opinion only)
The next hi-low should be trying to get as many MPG as possible out of like a subcompact or something
I would so watch that
Mild Hybrid conversion!
That would be cool
Would be very interesting
The low would have to start with like a prius and the high would start with a tesla and then that'd be it
Loving that mouse pointer @ 4:00 lol
I'm 35 and been into cars since I was otn my teens. I'm JUST now realizing "Turbo" and "Turbine" are intertwined.. you really do learn something new everyday
1300 hrsprs just insane
Supra has 1300 stock
@@samsungfridge1895 Um no
@@RandomGuy37 if you think dude was serious, I'd like to welcome you to the internet. It must be your first day on here
Exactly
Can't wait for the official Donut rocket powered go kart... You know they thought about it.
I was told that these rocket turbo axles were advertised in the JCWhitney catalogs during the 1960's and I already wanted one sight unseen.Finally I got to see this pictorial for the first time.During the 1980's while I was modifying big block mopars to go faster down the dragstrip(the street) a rocket scientist (my father) told me of these axles.Thankyou for the presentation that satisfied my curiosity finally that has lasted half my lifetime.
That does sound like a fun addition to any vehicle.
Lol @ 4:05 the editor was just screen capping an old video off UA-cam you can see the mouse.
Ok... and...? The editors work super hard on these videos and yeah that’s a screen cap but it’s Jobe in the Miata.
@@fitkid1163 its just kinda funny
I just love how you deliver the information! Exactly the way I like 😎
I mean Porsche calls cayennes with sloped rooflines as coupes for some reason. They're very great at giving pointless names
Not just Porsche, both bmw and Mercedes have an SUV with a sloped roofline that arr also called "coupes" im like excuse me what???
The volkswagon beetle is shaped just like an airplane wing! But they didn't expect it to take off fly at 200+mph? I would have! LOL
Wings are flat. Bugs are round
I think this should be revisited. More options are available for fuel sources now that are less volatile. Better steel available and so on. Love the videos you all do
I honestly thought at first u where talking about turbos mounted at the rear axle. Like Cleetus Marauder. But now I see this is wild 😂
"Now that we know marketers are liars." 🤣🤣🤣
I worked with an old mechanic who told me about a pinto with this setup. Thanks for the actual low-down on it.
must say fellas, this one impressed the hell out of me. Good Job!
Looking forward to the Wiley Coyote episode
Can I just say that I appreciate the way y'all do your sponsored segments?
It's entertaining, it's fully distinct from the rest of the video so I don't have to worry if the whole thing is paid, and it's generally on-topic stuff too. (Tho i won the genetic lottery and don't need Keeps yet lol)
Anyway yeah, good shit team, thanks for kickin' ass.
"the Beatle decided it was actually a rocket and went airborne" - epic
It took a trajectory towards London
I'm still shaking my head about the go kart guy!
@@jzxtrd337 I think I'm the only one who understood your joke. It was a good one though.
That subtle humor about the rocket go kart was very funny.
I totally wanna see you guys engineering a turbo axle!
Man Jeremiah was great in this one, probably my favorite episode to date! The explanations were great and the jokes were 🔥🔥
This reminds me of the movie IRobot when will smith character is diving off on a motorcycle and the scientist on back asks “please tell me this doesn’t run on gasoline. Gasoline explodes you know?” People look at past technology and realize how dangerous it was or could have been. Who knew sending rocket fuel in the mail was dangerous. lol
My older brother was messing with this on his go kart .In 1967 or 68 but just stuff crazy back then in So Cal.
Absolutely make one!
These videos is the thing we need in our lives
soooooooooooo whens the "we add a turbo axel to the miata" or " we build our own turbo axel" episode?
I like how UA-cam put an ad in the middle of your zebra ad.
First off.. that ZEBRA AD… is basically what actual meditation feels like.