Jet Go Kart - Built by John Wallis (Australia)

[Hogasofa]

I wonder what would happen if I started driving this thing in my neighborhood

[Quitenice2010]

how fast did he go?

[nikola803]

does it burns????



[msg2urudy]

top effort mate, that was grouse

[welder541]

I have to know, is it equipped with AIR brakes. If not, i think it's gonna need e'm. LOL

[caioghiotto]

the "no hand" at 0:25 is priceless

[1metiz]

a pulse-jet driver turboprop is possible but very impractical. you can't realy harness any usable shaft hp unless you have a way overpowered pj.

[atomiclumberjack]

Crap yeah! hahaha

[Runetatti]

well, you have room to test it.. nice video!

[rodrigopocoyo11]

make too much noice! and no runs

[vezac]

sounds like there's a plane landing to our house!!

[MRSketch09]

It doesn't say in the description.. but how fast was he going? A rough estimate of mph?

[awehmuth]

very cool!

[LOLDISNEYLAND]

Awesome jet cart!

Ive seen some turboshaft and electric carts around in south australia. One guy was testing his jet cart down a long straight and I swear this guy must have reached 200km/h+ lol. Completely insane.

[Davidvarlamov]

how fast does it go?

[jphdg]

It looks like he has built a secondary turbine which drives a reduction gearbox. (last frames in vid can see this) The turbojet feeds exhaust through the secondary turbine which generates drive via the reduction gearing, hence a home built turboshaft engine using secondary recovery turbine and reduction gearing to drive axles. The small exhaust would reduce flow to secondary when slowing and at idle keeping EGT's lower. Usable HP to be had with this setup. :(

Well done on an awesome project!

[yoshilove01]

WEEEEEEEEEEEEE! 8/10

[dbupp]

I'm looking at the last few frames, and I can't tell whether you're using just the thrust (I don't think so, no nozzle on the exhaust), or some kind of compressed-air motor or secondary turbine to deliver shaft horsepower. Care to comment on how you're developing forward motion from this engine?

[bluehachiroku]

btw what were the times on those runs??

[bluehachiroku]

What a little beaudy mate!! 8-)

It even looks well put together too!

The wave was a nice touch btw.. Please give us a run down on the tech would you?

[fsfer]

does john sell a kit or manual on how to make this setup i am more than interested, its an awesome looking bit of engineering,, sik

[werden777]

PUT SOME WINGS ON IT!! it would be like your own personal f-16!! you could fly anywhere.

[imn06c]

Thats awesome!

[nojodanny]

dude were did you get the engine from

[Pmx0015]

sounds like a jet plane mayne thats hard

[kylemonkey]

shoot tha camera man!! that thing is nifty though

[russcarljohnson]

This is what youTube was made for!

[donbruce54]

I'm impressed.

The acceleration of both the cart and the bike are awesome.

Nice to have met the man as well.

Don

[bmidgley]

John -

First heard of you in the yahoo DIY gas turbine builders group. (My member ID is TCGGrafix; although no post to date to the group.) You have been very much an inspiration to me. I have built my 3rd GT; this time a free power turbine design that I put on a kart. BTW love the turbine bike! Have a look at my video when you have the chance. Great job!

[racketmotorman]

Hi

Watched the video , excellent :-))

Certainly getting some speed with good acceleration .

If you'd like some "one on one" help at any time , email me direct ,

Cheers

John

[420zigzag420]

what if they saw the computer you are useng

[enriquejeanclaude]

to think, back in the 30's and early 40's jet propulsion was mad science, if someone from back then saw this damn go-kart, they'd shit themselves.

[kurtzy04]

You're doing the country proud mate, keep up the good work, and I hope to see your jet go kart in action

[wajk]

next time you should put this engine on a boat

[JUKIO01]

Hey, because it is a jet engine, does it need jet fuel? Like what commmercial aircrafts use?

[racketmotorman]

Yep , kerosine ...... or diesel

[stingaz001]

yeah go the aussies im also one and i love wot we can do

[askii]

I'm so proud to be Aussie!

[racketmotorman]

Hi Askii

Yeh , not everything happens on the other side of the world :-))

[cheesepleasefan]

amen

[bumbaclotmon1]

john wallis is iza cool motha fucka yo.