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!
3,000 lb•ft That’s more than a modern semi-truck. Holy freakin’ crap.
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
Imagine the burnouts
this is anything but beautiful
You’re right. It’s gorgeous.
How about brutus? That thing can bake…
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
I would be so curious to put so seriously big slicks and see what it’s got
Most drive shafts would yield before 800 ft/lb. And snap before 1k
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
Imagine this with vtec xD
Sooo drop to 200ft/lb.
Insert Obligatory More Torque Than A Honda Joke
Like riding 1000 horses
Imagine if we built an engine that big with todays technology etc.
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With 3000lb ft Of Torque
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3,000 lb•ft
That’s more than a modern semi-truck. Holy freakin’ crap.
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
Imagine the burnouts
this is anything but beautiful
You’re right. It’s gorgeous.
How about brutus? That thing can bake…
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
I would be so curious to put so seriously big slicks and see what it’s got
Most drive shafts would yield before 800 ft/lb. And snap before 1k
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
Imagine this with vtec xD
Sooo drop to 200ft/lb.
Insert Obligatory More Torque Than A Honda Joke
Like riding 1000 horses
Imagine if we built an engine that big with todays technology etc.