Newest project: Rocket powered car...

[Megaseth]

Well, not completely like the title makes it sound, but close. i bought a cheap little $2 car at the resale store and have a few rocket motors left over after a failed attempt to make a small explosives device that i was going to use to blow up a 5 gallon bag of rootbeer syurp for a coke machine. so, i decided to merge the two. this is the progress so far, but i have a long way to go.

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/492388/5

[Nathan]

Haha, we've launched radio controlled cars in the air that way, the aerodynamics on some of them suck You should try an aerotech G class motor, it's even rebuildable, too bad I lost mine, I'd be glad to have put it on your car, 30lbs. of thrust is just about right.

[Nathan]

^^^ worst run-on sentence EVER.

[Megaseth]

hahaha, 30lbs would be nice. im going to launch it first with 2 C class and 1 D class motor. then 3 C and 2 D class motors. and we're going to film it of course.

[sultan]

if this works out you could try this on roxanne. make some holes in the wangan drift wing to mount the rockets, it'll be just like nitrous.

[Megaseth]

i'll need two of the big ones though

[lessthanjakejohn]

Have fun making that work. Where are you going to launch this car ??

You should probaly add some weight, so it doesn't go all out crazy

[lessthanjakejohn]

i'll need two of the big ones though

Steal one of these from NASA, should work about perfect

[Megaseth]

you think some bondo would hold those on if i molded them to the car?

we're planning on an open parking lot, but i gotta be careful since i know im going to be breaking a few laws. and i have to add some weight to the front cause the back weighs a ton with the rockets.

[lessthanjakejohn]

YOu know how the model rockets have a metal rod for a few feet after the launch pad? You should probaly make one of those for your car.'

ALso, If that car fails miserably, make the next one longer

[GEO]

I tired it before. Make sure your wheels are free flowing

[BadMojo]

The show "Mythbusters" strapped a JATO to an old Impala (I think).

http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO_Rocket_Car

Also, tonight's episode of Monster Garage features a Toyota Celica jet car!

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansi....html

[Megaseth]

hehe, im sure it will be ok since its not one rocket on the end of a tube, but we'll see when we test it. i have ball bearings im using for the wheels, and some small model wheels from CO2 cars.

[lessthanjakejohn]

Are these the rockets that have the parachute charge at the end?

[Nathan]

LTJJ, that just makes it more exciting

[Megaseth]

nope, i made sure i got single stage rockets. one long burn and thats it. i was going to do two runs: 1st with a few rockets all at once, 2nd with a two stage setup. the Cs would fire first and then i'd fire the Ds at a later time.

[themadscientist]

I'd drive a rocket car, sounds fun. If I lived near Bonneville i would have died long ago on some bizarre contraption.

[BadMojo]

I'd drive a rocket car, sounds fun. If I lived near Bonneville i would have died long ago on some bizarre contraption.

Yeah, the KA-T and SR20DET are so last week. I'm saving up my money to swap a solid fuel rocket booster in to my S13.

Actually, I'm pretty interested in how the Monster Garage jet car is going to turn out.

The guys from Mythbusters found a former rocket scientist who just happened to own a large dry lake bed somewhere in Nevada. It kicked *** to see the gigantic cloud of dust that rocket powered Impala made.

[themadscientist]

The guys from Mythbusters found a former rocket scientist who just happened to own a large dry lake bed somewhere in Nevada.

I wish that guy would adopt me!

[Bandit240]

That car wasnt a Chevy. In the myth it was a 67 Impala, but they used an old busted *** Ford Thunderbird. That thing had hydros on it!

[BadMojo]

That car wasnt a Chevy. In the myth it was a 67 Impala, but they used an old busted *** Ford Thunderbird. That thing had hydros on it!

Ah, that's right. They couldn't find a suitable Impala.

I only half remember that episode. I saw it on New Years Day during the marathon, and I was sick as a dog with the stomach flu.

I *do* remember the old scientist guy being concerned that the rocket car would fly off course and tear up his lake bed.

The other Mythbusters automotive project that I can remember is stuffing a pig carcass in a Corvette and then leaving it in a shipping container for several weeks!

[Megaseth]

Good Lord that pig one was freakin' gross. my girlfriend and i were watching it and we were so disgusted. still cool though

[Twintip_yeti]

Dude just make sure that you surround the rockets with some type of flame resistant materitial. ive seen some T-maxx's get melted big time by this. lookin good