Cobra Make, Engine: absolute pace chassis #50 L98 & 6 speed auto
Posts: 1,141
Not Ranked
got too love that turbine whine didn't someone have a turbine car at Indianapolis 500 once and it was banned i seem to recall reading something about it .
i love people who do things completely different to everyone else . i have a friend who stuck a 13 b rotary on it's end and mounted it too a outboard leg and he uses it on his skiboat motec injected with a turbo and dry sump system sounds like a jet ski on steroids that come about cause someone said it would never work ..
__________________
a cobra is a passion anything else is just a car
i dont care what the question is .. The answer is more power!!!
The thrust from the turbine drives a power take off turbine that drives a shaft. This feeds power to the diff via a clutch. Thats why they had to start the thing with the back wheels off the ground to let it spool up. Helicopters drive the rotors the same way.
He was saying it was direct drive but reckoned it would have been better with a 2 or 3 speed trans so the gas turbine could stay spooled up. They were keeping turbine speeds up by bleeding off pressure via a waste gate.
__________________
Mike Murphy
Melbourne Australia
Very cool Don. I wonder if the got a lot of downforce from the jet exhaust pointing up.
Well Mike if they did it would appear to be the only concession to downforce they made with the car, save for its inherent flying wedge design. How unsophisticated does it look compared to today's complicated F1 cars? Yet, how quick was it? Too quick for the entrenched Indy powerbrokers obviously. Can't have a Brit designer and driver upsetting the status quo, STP logos notwithstanding.
How unsophisticated does it look compared to today's complicated F1 cars?
I was going to say it looked like the F1 cars I drew as a kid with my crayons.
I reckon the turbine would be much more suited to Indy racing than a road circuit like LeMans. Constant High speeds running on the banked ovals would keep it operating in it's most efficient RPM without having to spool up and down too much.
It would have been cool to hear either of them go past from the grandstand.
thanks for that DON i knew there was one i never knew they build 4 of them. and as per usual something dominates so get rid of it gtr skylines for instance in touring cars bring back group c lol again thanks for the clip
__________________
a cobra is a passion anything else is just a car
i dont care what the question is .. The answer is more power!!!
Cobra Make, Engine: SAI FIA, 289HP (5-bolt), 48IDA Webers
Posts: 1,244
Not Ranked
We had this car at a shop I worked at, the turbine itself was missing parts so the car was not functional. The turbine that was used in this application was some sort of prototype for a helicopter application that never made it so spares are nonexistent.
13Likes
The Howmet TX
Linear Mode
