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

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48 cylinder motorcycle engine

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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

Considering that IDF tank commanders like to stand with half their bodies out of the turret hatch, that barrel probably saved him from being hamburger....

LOL probably, but its for way up north in the snow! :crazy:

Sorry, the ERDT site is down or defunct, so no pics, but one guy did a RWD conversion on his Escort GT, dropped a new engine/tranny in, it gets 545 hp. He had slips to prove it.

I so want to see that :hmm: :crazy:

probably closer to 9

Rut Roh!

http://www.chameleon.net/ionotter/bomb.jpg

Okay, this *had* to hurt!

http://193.219.93.144/~watergate/sof...o%20blynas.jpg

WTF mate??? That looks almost impossible...

http://www.cardomain.com/member_page...84&cat=5&val=1

There it is. Holy shit. Time slip is hard to read, but with the photo evidence, it is hard to doubt his claims. Besides, the important part is that this guy should be everybody's hero. A RWD conversion to an Escort GT??? Funny thing is that there's a guy working on a AWD right now. They must have money and time generate magically in their ass or something...

Jesus that motorcycle had to be flying! And when he hit that car, the rider must've ended up a few hundred feet down the road as well! Damn!

Lets hope the bike rider bailed before impact!

somebody had to die in that

Thats the mpg of a normal one. When you put a truck or in this case a H2 on catipillars it lowers MPG. But on the other hand you can drive on snow like no one else probably could.

NOTHING is impossible with a Geo Metro...

http://www.toddfx.com/pics/vehicles/dumptruck1.jpg
http://www.toddfx.com/pics/vehicles/...n3wheeler3.jpg
http://www.toddfx.com/pics/vehicles/plane4.jpg

Ouch!

http://www.fun.from.hell.pl/2004-09-...l-motorek.mpeg

you may be right, but my neighbor said he got about 13-14in his H2, and that was around Houston. I read an article about a superduty that got about 11-12 with the treads on it, so i made a guess for the H2 with them on.

Skinned.

Who wants to bet those two are no longer a couple?

Holy shit.....teachs her to wear a leather jacket...

Her Injuries :eek:

http://img68.exs.cx/img68/558/girlfriend3.jpg

Images of her before the fall

http://www.imagevenue.com/host/web1/89196_1.jpg

http://www.imagevenue.com/host/web1/499fd_2.jpg

http://www.imagevenue.com/host/web1/b77c6_3.jpg

http://www.imagevenue.com/host/web1/e5dfe_4.jpg

http://www.imagevenue.com/host/web1/97bf9_5.jpg

Bloody hell!!! It's sad to see such a pretty girl get banged up like that...

Wicked wicked crash. Take that however you want to.

I guess shes not with that guy anymore!

i watched it over and over again. why does it look like she pushed herself off?.. did she think the bike was gonna flip over and shed be safer jumping off? someone know the real story?

I was going to say the same thing but ya beat me. Just wanted to say that more ambient comment had me cleaning my keyboard.

That intercooler ain't all that big really, especially considering the size of the guy's turbine housing. He's got to be running some pretty good boost.

A common mod for the 11-12 second turbo Dodge minivans is installation of an intercooler off a SuperDuty Ford deseil. Which takes up the entire front grill area of a 1st gen.

OMG turbo minivan!

Turbo? Minivan? That fucking rocks.

Check this out: http://www.turbominivan.com/cool0001.jpg

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<img src="http://www.ixtreme.com/pictures/fullsize/broadsride(1).jpg">

WTF?

I think that shoe-bike-thing is gonna be featured on that new show Monster Nation on Discovery, it looks similar to a commercial I saw for it.

toaster on wheels

Heh, I remember seeing one of these in person, at a mid-80s World of Wheels show. The term SUV hadn't even been invented yet.

I'd say that's 700hp easy with that turbo. That car is purpose built, not just some idiot with loads of money and no common sense. A friend took me for a ride in his T78 Supra only making 18psi or so because he didn't have enough fuel... It blew the tires off when it spooled and pulled like nothing I've ever felt in my life. 18psi may not even be in that turbos efficiency range, a smaller turbo might actually make more power at that pressure and yes, there was lag but the car length or two he gave up (primarily due to the auto tranny) would have been nothing compared to foot ball fields he'd put on the average modded street car. T78s run 9s through the 1/4 and the turbo on this BMW looks about the same size.

LMFAO


that must be a photoshop...still funny!

You guys might not want to completely discount everything you see. I'm going to assume by the obvious amount of time and money in the car that he knows a little something. To a certain degree, without getting uber technical, multiple small turbos will be an advantage with spool up. 8 may seem a bit crazy, but 4 should be very easy and 6 isn't exactly feasable with 8 cylinders. 4 turbos would be roughly the same displacement per turbo as a 3 liter with two turbos and that's not accounting for his built motor. What you may not realize about this car is that if he's only making 13.5 psi, neither the engine nor turbos are breaking a sweat. He'd get much longer life out of his motor than you would your Honda running 13.5 psi and he's already making 730hp.

A rather large picture of a very burned-up motorcycle.

I been slacking on my thread.

http://www.level.ro/poze/1099907733-0B.JPG

WTF??????

http://www.10eastern.com/images/Foun...8/P1010042.jpg

Apparently this was once a Corvette.

http://www.aros.net/~mstahnky/humor/...te%20Wreck.jpg

there was a monowheel cartoon in the late 80s... Spiral Zone I think...

there are a few of these that ride around Times Square... weird.

so THATS the punk who stole my my gutters!

Plane? Air show or air race? Can someone explain this one to me...

Here comes the pain!

http://img99.exs.cx/img99/5662/7265.jpg

Ouch! Have a hotdog.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...n/IMG_3608.jpg

Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan by any chance? They have alot of vehicles that make you say wtf?

I actually remember seeing that hotdog car (or similar) in parades and stuff when I was a kid.

I know, I know, I'm old.

They have a newer version becuase the one I saw on the back of a flat deck trailer looked more like a 90's

Correct, this WienerMobile is at the Henry Ford Museum. It's been there at least 20 years, ever since I've been going there.

saw that in california over the summer. may not have been the exact one, but it sure as hell was a Weiner Mobile