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Old 09-16-2004, 04:47 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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?

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Old 09-16-2004, 04:56 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Let's see...

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

Ready to race!

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Old 09-16-2004, 05:24 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Is that a radiator or an intercooler? or is that the same thing?
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Old 09-16-2004, 06:09 PM   #4 (permalink)
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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!
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Old 09-16-2004, 06:19 PM   #5 (permalink)
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LOL...yeah, but that's an expensive one.
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Old 09-16-2004, 06:35 PM   #6 (permalink)
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That motorcycle is everything I could evere want in a 24-ruined-chainsaw machine.
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Old 09-16-2004, 06:44 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I always liked this one:



Powered by ABC Stainless, y0.



Then of course there's the BurgerTrike



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

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Old 09-17-2004, 01:30 AM   #8 (permalink)
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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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Old 09-17-2004, 08:26 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Is that a radiator or an intercooler?
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).
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Old 09-17-2004, 10:07 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Let's see...

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

Ready to race!


Now that should keep the engine cool
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Old 09-17-2004, 12:20 PM   #11 (permalink)
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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).
And I'm sure by 'before' what you really mean is 'after' Before it gets compressed, it is at ambient temp--running it through an intercooler would just make it, er, more ambient?
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Old 09-17-2004, 01:08 PM   #12 (permalink)
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And I'm sure by 'before' what you really mean is 'after' 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.)
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Old 09-17-2004, 04:04 PM   #13 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 09-17-2004, 07:22 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Old 09-17-2004, 09:23 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Nomad, thanks alot for the links to the monowheels. Very interesting reading, and a design that appears to be worth looking into.
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Old 09-18-2004, 01:33 AM   #16 (permalink)
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8 Turbos... haha.

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Old 09-18-2004, 09:02 AM   #17 (permalink)
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WOW! 8 turbos's
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Old 09-18-2004, 03:28 PM   #18 (permalink)
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8 turbos = so much pressure that engin blows up like a grenade
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Old 09-18-2004, 08:58 PM   #19 (permalink)
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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)
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Old 09-19-2004, 08:33 AM   #20 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 09-20-2004, 02:12 AM   #21 (permalink)
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Oops! Someone's not getting their promotion this year.

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Old 09-20-2004, 02:19 AM   #22 (permalink)
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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!
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Old 09-20-2004, 08:29 AM   #23 (permalink)
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LOL body painter.. ive seen that before.. it cracks me up everytime..
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Old 09-20-2004, 08:54 AM   #24 (permalink)
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How did that person get out of there car without falling in the water?
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Old 09-20-2004, 08:56 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Those are all very good, I'm still wondering about the 8 turbos and the car boat thing...
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Old 09-20-2004, 03:28 PM   #26 (permalink)
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8 turbos = so much pressure that engin blows up like a grenade

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
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Old 09-20-2004, 04:22 PM   #27 (permalink)
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WTF?

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Old 09-20-2004, 05:02 PM   #28 (permalink)
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There are places where this would be legal?

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Old 09-20-2004, 05:53 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Sorry, but everytime I see one of these, I think, poor man's Hummer.





That or, big ass shoebox
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Old 09-21-2004, 04:56 PM   #30 (permalink)
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Apologies in advance to anyone who thinks this is cool. It made me say WTF?

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Old 09-21-2004, 05:34 PM   #31 (permalink)
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I do not understand why people think it's cool to make a perfectly good car look like a heap with a collapsed suspension
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Old 09-22-2004, 10:58 AM   #32 (permalink)
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What was Lamborghini thinking

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Old 09-22-2004, 11:42 AM   #33 (permalink)
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their NSX to F50 conversion is awesome but this????

WTF??
 
Old 09-22-2004, 10:27 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Apologies in advance to anyone who thinks this is cool. It made me say WTF?

awesome, I've seen that thing in person at Texas Heat Wave.
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Old 09-23-2004, 07:47 AM   #35 (permalink)
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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
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Old 09-23-2004, 10:09 AM   #36 (permalink)
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There is more then one out there, I have seen a Dark Green one in Toronto
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
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Old 09-23-2004, 10:21 AM   #37 (permalink)
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Apologies in advance to anyone who thinks this is cool. It made me say WTF?

for the person who always wanted an H2, but wasnt tall enough to get in...
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Old 09-23-2004, 10:32 AM   #38 (permalink)
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Ya its a big picture
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Old 09-23-2004, 11:04 AM   #39 (permalink)
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the the top hummer get 3 miles a gallon?
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Old 09-25-2004, 02:54 AM   #40 (permalink)
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This one isn't so much a WTF? as an OMG!

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