From: Pete Gossett <PeteGossett@netscape.net>
>Has anyone ever built an auto-x car w/a gas-turbine engine? Are they legal?
Can't see a reason why it should not be legal in A-mod.
I think it would be a seriously bad idea. Gas-turbine race cars have been
famous for throttle-lag. I don't mean the namby-pamby little lag you see in
turbo-supercharged piston cars. I mean LAG. You may be good enough to get
around an autocross course with throttle-lag car, but I wouldn't want to try
it.
Maybe a car with an electric motor on each wheel with a gas-turbine to run
the generator would work. Might be tough getting down to the minimum weight.
Only other use I could see for a gas-turbine would be a more-conventional
prime engine and on of those gas-turbine-powered superchargers they sold in
the sixties.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/
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