The WTF? Motor Vehicle Thread
 

I seem to be collecting a few pictures of cars and motorcycles that just make me go WTF? and need a thread to post them in. Feel free to post your own.

First up, a motorcycle powered by 24 chainsaw engines. WTF?

http://www.dolmette.com/html/bilder/...580x388_85.jpg

Let's see...

M-Power? Check!
Radiator stolen from nuclear power plant? Check!

Ready to race! :)

http://techquarium.com/tilted/9b4243...9f5075cc03.jpg

Is that a radiator or an intercooler? or is that the same thing?

I think it's a curb sensor, to tell you when you've pulled too far forward in your parking spot!

LOL...yeah, but that's an expensive one.

That motorcycle is everything I could evere want in a 24-ruined-chainsaw machine.

I always liked this one:

http://www.anti-rice.com/ricepics/CRAP!!!!.jpg

Powered by ABC Stainless, y0.



Then of course there's the BurgerTrike

http://www.mitchell.derbycounty.co.uk/hamburger.jpg

I believe this one was made for the Sultan of Brunei. He had a weird fetish for ferarris and station wagons:

http://www.mitchell.derbycounty.co.u...Estate%203.jpg

The MClean V8 Monowheel
 

The MClean V8 Monowheel

V8 Monowheel
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48 cylinder motorcycle engine

48 cylinder motorcycle
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Its an intercooler, and no, they are not the same thing. An intercooler is used to cool the incoming air before it get's compresed by the Turbo (you can see the turbo just to the left of the valve cover).

Now that should keep the engine cool :thumbsup:

And I'm sure by 'before' what you really mean is 'after' :p Before it gets compressed, it is at ambient temp--running it through an intercooler would just make it, er, more ambient?

We're getting closer. The intercooler does indeed come after the turbo. Although the air going into a turbo is already hot, by virtue of it being heated by the engine and expelled as exhaust, the intercooler is really meant to cool the air prior to going into the intake. As a byproduct of the turbo compressing the air, the air is also heated (I am not a biophysist, but think of a conferance room full of people being forced to squish into an elevator, except on a cellular level). Engines perform better when they take in cooler air (think of race cars looking for "clean air" in which to run) and thus the need for an intercooler. (Now someone will come along and correct me and thus the education begins.)

no, Ilow , your pretty much dead on. I do bet you that guy bitches about turbo lag all the time. Bigger is not alway better.

http://www.autoguide.ru/images/catal..._SW_J_00_B.jpg
barf!

Nomad, thanks alot for the links to the monowheels. Very interesting reading, and a design that appears to be worth looking into.

http://www.lateral-g.net/sandlin/incin9.jpg
8 Turbos... haha.

Linky

WOW! 8 turbos's:eek:

8 turbos = so much pressure that engin blows up like a grenade :)

That's what? 15, 20 minutes of turbo lag on that poor BMW?


I'm disappointed about the 8-turbo engine. I was hoping I'd be the first one to do that next summer :( (yes, I'm completely serious)

8 turbos = enormous waste of money. There is no reason that you should need more than two (even three is excessive ) carefully selected turbos to have an even powerband.

Oops! Someone's not getting their promotion this year.

http://www.4crete.gr/downloads/Images/merkava.jpg

This picture was a bit too big to in-line (and I'm too lazy to d/l it, crop it, and upload it to my server), but it gave me a chuckle.

Oops!

LOL body painter.. ive seen that before.. it cracks me up everytime..

How did that person get out of there car without falling in the water? :hmm:

Those are all very good, I'm still wondering about the 8 turbos and the car boat thing...

Well sort of, until you read his spec sheet. He says he's running 13.5 lbs of boost. 13.5? That's it? I'm getting that outa the single turbo on my Honda! I think he did it for the cool turbo noise ;)

At first I figured he meant 13.5lbs per turbo, until I whipped out my calculator and discovered that would be 108lbs of boost total. Unless his sleeves are the thickness of the engine block, I don't think so ;)

WTF?

http://www.lazarevac.co.yu/vic/Cigan...0konj%2002.jpg

There are places where this would be legal?

http://imagemdodia.no.sapo.pt/007.jpg

Sorry, but everytime I see one of these, I think, poor man's Hummer.


http://img79.exs.cx/img79/8338/honda.jpg


That or, big ass shoebox

Apologies in advance to anyone who thinks this is cool. It made me say WTF?

http://www.tuningfever.com/albums/userpics/10364/33.JPG

I do not understand why people think it's cool to make a perfectly good car look like a heap with a collapsed suspension ;)

What was Lamborghini thinking:hmm:

http://www.highresautoimages.com/lamborghini/lm002.jpg

their NSX to F50 conversion is awesome but this????
http://ahru.co.jp/usercar/001/Pc090002.jpg
WTF??

awesome, I've seen that thing in person at Texas Heat Wave.

There is more then one out there, I have seen a Dark Green one in Toronto :thumbsup:

I think this one was from xtensive, it's hard to read the banner.
http://hostultra.com/~confederate/THW/DSC02421.JPG


they also brought out their escalade.
http://hostultra.com/~confederate/THW/DSC02422.JPG

for the person who always wanted an H2, but wasnt tall enough to get in... :hmm:

http://www.hemitruckclub.com/hemih22.jpg
Ya its a big picture
http://www.elcova.com/h2/wuh2.jpg

the the top hummer get 3 miles a gallon?

This one isn't so much a WTF? as an OMG!

http://www.haute-voltige.com/inter/p...0Alexander.jpg