A thing of beauty

Started by Monster Dave, May 06, 2009, 02:51:14 PM

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Monster Dave

Gotta drool a little at this beautiful 4000hp engine:



[thumbsup]

Now if they could only fit it inside of one of these:





numbskull

Very cool. What's it used for?

Porsche Monkey

Why would you waste such a beautiful engine on such an ugly car?
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Drjones

That'd make the car understeer a bit I'd think.
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Quote from: Drjones on May 06, 2009, 03:17:55 PM
That'd make the car understeer a bit I'd think.

What, you mean cause of the wheelies? [laugh]

Monster Dave

Quote from: DucAtomic on May 06, 2009, 03:12:42 PM
Very cool. What's it used for?

Primarily it's used in ships and heavy duty construction machines.

Duck-Stew

It could likely fit (Depending on scale), but you would have to sit on the intake manifolds and the steering linkage would use like 47 U-joints and some stuff.
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Quote from: Duck-Stew on May 06, 2009, 03:43:27 PM
It could likely fit (Depending on scale), but you would have to sit on the intake manifolds and the steering linkage would use like 47 U-joints and some stuff.

Only to end up something like this:




Duck-Stew

Yes!  That's exactly what I was picturing in my slightly deranged head.
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i saw an r8 last sunday....
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made me a little sad.
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Quote from: Duck-Stew on May 06, 2009, 03:43:27 PM
<snip> and the steering linkage would use like 47 U-joints and some stuff.

I could build that.

No probem.

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LA

Here's another pretty good size one.

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