This Is What It's Like Driving An Airship-Powered Car With 3000lb ft Of Torque

Mike Vardy, the owner of this beautiful 1905 Fiat Isotta, describes what it's like driving an airship-powered car with a monstrous 3000lb ft of torque!
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chip300RR (inactive)

With 3000lb ft Of Torque
WAT.

01/27/2016 - 16:48 |
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Ben F. (Slowmaro)

3,000 lb•ft
That’s more than a modern semi-truck. Holy freakin’ crap.

01/27/2016 - 17:27 |
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Yeah most Semi’s run between 1500 and 2050 lb ft of torque so yeah this is a monster if you can keep it running

01/27/2016 - 18:36 |
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Anonymous

Imagine the burnouts

01/27/2016 - 18:27 |
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Anonymous

this is anything but beautiful

01/27/2016 - 19:24 |
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Dude

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You’re right. It’s gorgeous.

01/27/2016 - 21:25 |
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Anonymous

How about brutus? That thing can bake…

01/27/2016 - 21:18 |
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Erich Mohrmann

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the Brutus has a BMW VI engine in it which is 15 years newer (if not more)
i love when pepole take airplane engines and put them on cars so they could live on and not rust in a scrapyard

01/28/2016 - 16:21 |
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Anonymous

I would be so curious to put so seriously big slicks and see what it’s got

01/27/2016 - 21:41 |
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Anonymous

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Most drive shafts would yield before 800 ft/lb. And snap before 1k

01/27/2016 - 22:45 |
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Anonymous

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Just looked up, carbon fiber drive shafts are rated for 500ft/lb but in another study Texas A&M got theirs to fail at 5000ft/lb so 3000lb/ft would actually be possible by a specialized carbon fiber drive shaft. Sounds expensive haha

01/27/2016 - 23:00 |
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Anonymous

Imagine this with vtec xD

01/28/2016 - 00:21 |
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StefanWRX

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Sooo drop to 200ft/lb.

01/28/2016 - 14:47 |
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TheOtowngman

Insert Obligatory More Torque Than A Honda Joke

01/28/2016 - 01:04 |
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Anonymous

Like riding 1000 horses

01/28/2016 - 09:03 |
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Anonymous

Imagine if we built an engine that big with todays technology etc.

01/28/2016 - 12:54 |
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