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Old 06-18-2009, 01:29 AM
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gas mileage...? Also, need jet fuel? Might be hard to always be filling up at airports.
Old 06-18-2009, 04:19 AM
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All right, I'll give it to Piginajeep. Just messin around, but we are looking into doing a Ls swap with working electronics.
Old 06-18-2009, 05:53 AM
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I would hate to be behind him when he takes off from a traffic light.
Old 06-18-2009, 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Screamin Lizard Customs
All right, I'll give it to Piginajeep. Just messin around, but we are looking into doing a Ls swap with working electronics.


I dont have the patients to figure out electronics, I'm glad the professionals will take the time to figure them out
Old 06-18-2009, 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Screamin Lizard Customs
we are looking into doing a Ls swap with working electronics.
i will say i am looking forward to seeing this to give a different avenue of motor swap for us... awesome!!
Old 06-18-2009, 06:49 AM
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Marvin did it to an 8N Ford tractor, so why not a JK?

http://www.marvinbaumann.com/typhoon2.html

Old 06-18-2009, 06:51 AM
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This makes as much sense as a front engined rail Jet dragster
Old 06-18-2009, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by sn4cktime
gas mileage...? Also, need jet fuel? Might be hard to always be filling up at airports.
The Army's M1 Abrams, UH-60, AH-64, OH-58 and CH-47 all have turbine engines and run off of JP-8 (JP could be for Jeep... hmmm) which is very, very similar to regular ol' diesel. In fact every vehicle in the Army inventory runs off JP-8 with or without a turbine engine.

On the rolling stock vehicles (at least the HMMWV) you can run it on diesel as well but you need to change out the fuel filters before running JP-8 again.

I wish my JK engine sounded like a turbine on startup... that would be effing sweet! The exhaust would be awful hot though... maybe keep the tailgaters off of you. Plus you could add one of those sweet fuel nozzles to dump gas on the exhaust manifold and create a smoke screen on the HWY for throwing off the fuzz (Just kidding to you police officers, I respect you guys a great deal).
Old 06-20-2009, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by cyruspura
Jay Leno had a turbine powered streetbike... why not throw that under the hood of a JK?
They make those bikes about two miles from my house... they make all kinds of shit with turbines Air boats, Race boats, Motorcycles, I think they wanted over 145K for their bike... which I personally wouldn't pay 10k for
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That is just insane.


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