Excentric and amazing jet powered vehicles

In a world of global warming issues it comes as a surprise that jet powered vehicles have a reason to exist, except airplanes, as I don’t think anybody would like to give up the convenience of traveling miles away very fast. Given that I’ve seen many strange jet powered vehicles in the past weeks I’ve decided to make a list with the most strange ones, vehicles that often have no purpose to be, except their creator wish to make a statement, to shout out loud “I’m different”. Now let’s see what I’ve found.

Pulse Jet Dragster

There’s nothing extraordinary with jet powered dragsters, but those are professional built dragsters. When you take matters into your own hand here’s what you get: a cheap inexpensive dragster, powered by two pulse jet engines.

Each of the engines produces 150 lbs of thrust. The major issue is that those engines are not perfectly synchronized, so a metal separator prevents exhaust gases produced by one engine to be sucked into the other.

Valveless Pulse Jet Powered Gokart

If you want to go faster with a regular kart there’s no other best way that to use a pulse jet engine to speed things up a little. Using a GPS, the Valveless Pulse Jet Powered Gokart was tracked at 57 mph, which only took 300 whole yards to achive.

The owner decided not to push further because of the vibrations induced by the small wheels, but he’s sure that after a little tweaking he’ll go even faster.

Jet Powered Go-ped

Go-peds are usually used by children, but when you refuse to grow up you must modify things a little to remain childish. The Jet Powered Go-ped is one such example, as it’s capable of reaching speeds in excess of 70 mph, even more than the Valveless Pulse Jet Powered Gokart.

The Go-ped has many nicknames like being Jet-ped, Jet Go-ped and so on, but one thing remains the same: it’s crazy, but you’ll love it.

Jet Powered Honda Scooter

Now let’s move on to more down to earth modified vehicles, if we are allowed to call them like this, as they are jet powered. Ron Patrick, well known for its jet powered VW Beetle, which we will review later in this article, thought to make his wife happy, and fitted her Honda Scooter with two small JFS 100 jet engines, to boost the top speed from 40 to over 60 mph.

The main challenge is to reinforce the suspension, that has to deal now with the added weight of the two engines. This won’t stop Ron though.

Jet Powered Sinclair C5

This one shows that English people are excentric too. Again we have the JFS 100-13A gas turbine converted to a turbo jet and a top speed over 100 mph, enough to make for a very thrilling ride.

One of the features of the modified Sinclair C5 made me laugh: “Very noisy and very dangerous!”. Now that’s something to pay 3,999.99 pounds for.

Source says that the Sinclair C5 was customized by Ron too, but I haven’t found anything for sure.

Jet Powered Toyota MR2

If you plan on adding jet thrusters to your bicycle it shouldn’t take long to realize that your Toyota MR2 will probably need some sort of added muscles. This time it’s about two GE T-58 turbine engines fitted to the rear of the car.

Of course the dashboard has been heavily modified to incorporate custom gauges and indicators. A roll cage was also mounted for safety purposes, or so the owner claims. Too bad there’s not much luggage space left for a trip to the beach.

Ron Patrick’s Street Legal Jet Powered Beetle

This is the joy and pride of Ron Patrick, a Street Legal Jet Powered VW Beetle. I can’t imagine how did he managed to make it street legal, but he fitted a 1350 bhp afterburner engine. When driving around he uses the regular gasoline engine that is powering the front wheels, and when things get wild he engages the rear jet engine.

People can tell this is not a normal Beetle only from behind. And that’s usually too late for any racing, as Ron flies faster than a Bugatti Veyron, which only makes 1001 bhp. Even if Ron seems a little crazy he always mentions that he has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Jetbike

Now we’re really getting closer to strange jet powered vehicles. The owner and creator of the next crazy modification is Eric Hunter, which prowdly names itself a jetbiker, so you migh imagine what he did to it’s bike.

For 950 $ he purchased a 20-pound thrust engine and a gallon fuel tank. He fitted them to his bike, that now is capable of powering itself for three minutes.

Jet Powered Wheel-chair

That’s not really funny, or well thought, as after running at 60 mph with a wheel chair you might need one for yourself, but that didn’t stopped the concept becoming a reality. Giuseppe Cannella is the author, and he made it for its mother in law. Not a good will gesture, but who am I to judge.

Jet powered supermarket cart

Everybody finds itself sometimes in a rush for shopping, and time is always a pressing issue. Not for the Englishmen who built the fastest supermaket cart, which tops 50 mph. The engine get’s so hot that Andy Tyler has to sit behind a shield to protect himself from the burning 600 degrees metal.

Number One, the jet powered toilet

Now that what I call a crazy idea. It’s more an “I did it because I could” idea, but definitely is world’s fastest toilet, at 70+ mph. The toilet uses a Boeing Jet Engine and costed around 10.000 $, but Paul Stender, the inventor, says it’s worth every penny.