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eBay Watch: Jet-Powered Go Kart

Posted February 14, 2007 7:28 AM

From TechEBlog:

That's right, a jet-powered go kart is selling for $799.00 ($999.00 Buy-it-Now) on eBay. Auction page. This is a custom made Turbine with afterburner which is mounted on a stretched Trick Go kart frame. Engine will turn approx. 60,000 rpm's. Motor is very easy to operate. Runs on gas or diesel fuel.

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02/15/2007 9:32 AM

It seems like it'd have a very strong tendency to turn left. It also seems that your right armpit would be unnaturally aspirated, and that you'd have problem with loose clothing.

No thanks. I think I'll just fix up my old Alfa Romeo instead.

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02/15/2007 11:07 AM

Let me see if my ensurance cover go cars :).

Could be great to drive it in high ways. An extra point to addrenaline.

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02/15/2007 11:28 AM

If you drove that on USA highways, you'd get your head stuck in the undercarriage of an SUV. ...Most uncomfortable.

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02/15/2007 10:58 PM

Andyhorning wrote: "If you drove that on USA highways, you'd get your head stuck in the undercarriage of an SUV. ...Most uncomfortable."

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And if the engine came loose at that point your posterior might also get liposuctioned meanwhile - also most uncomfortable.

Regardless, the thing that would worry me most is the part about the engine being a 60,000 RPM "homemade turbine." Those two particular words most assuredly don't belong in the same sentence.

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02/16/2007 10:53 AM

I was about 13 when I built a flapper-valved pulse-jet rocket. I acted about 6 years old, however, when I launched it, without any understanding of Barroman equations or anything relevant. It screamed like a banshee, with people coming out of their houses to look up and see this brass, steel, wood and rednecked contrivance heading toward St. Matthew's church at a zillion miles per hour.

It hit a building just above a window, cracking a couple of bricks and embedding a piece of brass as something of a plaque.

Local authorities, including Father Moriarty, watched me for years after that...

I actually drew up plans for a turbojet, but never built it. I have children, you know.

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02/15/2007 3:23 PM

Looks like a very fast way to get the Obituary page to me.

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02/16/2007 7:50 AM

Thar's a add on E bay that is a frod and we all need to know about this frod I was looking under pocket bikes and thare it was a list for dispution list this list does not exist for thare is no recall number for this list . ps this cart is fantastic I would like to know how he made this machine

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