Geezus. I wonder how it must've felt like back in 1969, when this car raced by with that noise. It sounds sooo ahead of its' time. Definitely one of the coolest racecars hands down.
Setright makes the same point in his book "Some Unusual Engines": As you increase the boost provided by a turbo you increase the energy available in the exhaust gasses til you reach the point when the exhaust turbine is producing more power that the pistons. At this point it becomes logical to swap their function and let the pistons drive the input compressor and the turbine power the wheels. The only danger being that at this point you are liable to lose the pistons altogether and invent the gas turbine which is maybe not what you intended.
@@donaldasayers That point was made with aircraft engine manufacturers experimenting with turbocharging. They barely missed the idea of just eliminating the pistons and creating a turboprop or just using gas generation to make a reaction jet engine.
I think they encouraged it. Toyota cheating with the Celica WRC car, the insane ground effect cars of the 70's and 80's in f1, the Chapparell 2c. All built to otherwise bend or break rules to win.
Back when roll bars weren't required to be higher than the pilot's head, or back when they made F1 cars in magnesium, or back when there were close to two fatal accident each season on average, back when drivers didn't wear any sort of protection, etc, etc. Oh noes, rules and stuff, so annoying
In all honesty this turbine engine has more redlines to worry about than a normal reciprocating engine, especially during startup (a hot start can wreck your turbine in seconds.) Check out a turbine helicopter startup video if you're interested. Modern FADEC systems have made things a lot more simple these days, but they're still far from the norm.
Saw this car at Le Mans Classic 2018. Really impressive and loud ! It was sometimes faster than some petrol cars and it's acceleration was incredible out of the Mulsanne corner. This is really an exemple of motorsport engineering success ! Love it for that. Great video guys :) Thank you very much !
@SRVstiger *Actually, the General Motors Diesel powered version of the XM1 Abrams won the Army trials... and outperformed the **_Lycoming AGT-1500_** Gas Turbine in every performance category... but Chrysler and the State of Ohio lobbied Congress to award the contract to Chrysler instead. The Army never wanted the gas turbine.*
Great video again. I saw this car about 7 or 8 years ago and have been wanting to see and hear it again ever since. It's just really special and awkward to hear that turbine noise from a racecar.
Andy Granatelli, 1967, lost Indy 500 near end of race after spanking rest of pack with his STP turbine car, due to the failure of a $6.00 ball bearing. A great driver with a great car, but bad luck.
@Shepard Yeah, I remember Jay Leno talking about riding his jet bike in traffic and when he stopped at a red light it melted the front bumper of the car behind him. These things get hot.
Just love these old crazy race cars, like the Chaparral 2, 2E, 2F, 2G, 2H and the awesome 2J vacuum-cleaner,. Theyre kind of mystical and from another timeline.
I saw this car run demo laps at Talladega in the early 70s. I believe it owned the closed course world speed record at the time. Cool to see it all these years later once again. Thanks Bozzy
@@THR33SIXX3MPYR Maybe the mic couldn't pick it up, but this seemed pretty silent. I know small jets are not too loud (My friends were making Superman poses with the air blasting them), but if you're standing 5 feet behind them all day, that's probably not that great either. Some jets are pretty silent, others, especially the old ones... Well those are LOUD! Building shaking loud... This one seemed eerily quiet, about like the smaller new ones.
@Jake Garrett *You clearly have no clue what you are talking about. Allison 250 series gas turbine sound levels are extremely high, registering 105 decibels (dB) at idle and 114 dB at P-100.*
@@doktorbimmer You could put the spike muffler cuttings on the engine nacelle if you're worried about the exhaust, or you can fan the exhaust. Or if its in the front, using a thrust tube for bypass flow will result in lower velocity at the edge of the flow (less abrupt change near the static air outside) as well as giving you a little more efficient thrust assuming low bypass ratio turbofan or turbojet. Most jets are not crazy loud, at least modern ones. The old ones are terribly loud (the ones with low bypass ratio below 1.7), the new high bypass engines like the Pratt&Whitney "Ultra high bypass" turbofans, which are much more efficient (over 12:1 bypass).
Can't hear the turbine from the sidelines.... but can't get mad... as the noises you can hear are heavenly!! Ah, can't wait to be back at a circuit again!!
On growing up in the late 60,s seeing pictures of this car and know seeing it in action it's got to be one of the most iconic car's ever built superb design, being around at the time it's up their with the moon landings in car terms.
i just thought of an idea to kind of modernize that turbine-powered car. give it a cvt transmission that changes ratios depending on how hard you press the throttle pedal.
@@tobymciver1645 The torque curve is so flat that this car doesn't even need more than 1 ratio. If anything you're just adding more mechanical loss to the drivetrain and complexity.
Man, those were the days, they were really golden. Kids loved it, I cannot remember any other time when kids were really loving motor racing as much as this era. Howmet, and Chapparal were incredibly innovative with everything. These guys put big bucks into mad but often ingenious ideas. Even Ferrari, Porsche, Alfa, Matra feared what the crazy Americans were bringing into endurance racing.
@@M3Pilot The car isn't powered by thrust, it's connected to a transmission which sends the power to the wheels. Otherwise you'd have yourself a landspeed type car.
Gas turbine. Not a jet engine. Basic principle is the same though. There are even turbine motorbikes. Jet engine cars or bikes would be quite difficult on track.
From what I understand, theoretically you could indeed use an afterburner, at least of a sort since it wouldn't be an "after"burner but more like a "dump multiple times more fuel after the compressor to add some more power" system, but you'd have to make sure that both the free turbine that directly drives the wheels and the wastegate (aka gas redirector that serves as a wheel output power throttle controller) can handle the suddenly very high temperatures in excess of 1600 Celsius as opposed to the regular 600 Celsius, not to mention the copious amounts of waste heat and flames now shooting out of the exhaust (of which also suddenly generates a lot of thrust force as well). And if the engine has thermal regenerators similar to what the Chrysler Turbine used, those too would need to be built to handle the high temperatures.
They sound about the same since all you hear from either is the whirring of the motors/turbine and the air being pushed out of the way. Unless I'm r/woooosh-ing again...
@@forzaelite1248 Not exactly. The sound of an electric car is produced by the inverter. The air and the electric motors are almost silent (at least at low speed)
@@doktorbimmer lol you're either completely oblivious to the amount of comments you've left over the years, or just plain lonely. I know what you're leading in to. There's better ways to expose rotary engines than this method. I have the model that 90% of the world who's heard of a rotary engine, knows as a "rotary engine". Do you know which one that is, out of all of the different engines noted as "rotary"? Felix Wankel referred to it as a rotary piston. Whatever happened in history with the name after that is not my or anyone else's fault man. But I'm not going to define at a parts store that I need rotary-specific parts for my car and not an airplane. Maybe find a more constructive way to bring the engines to a better spotlight than just leading people into your overused conversation traps to explain what a "real" rotary is. You're not wrong man, just hopeless effort on TH-cam.
Without looking it up, I'm thinking it's a turboshaft engine the same type used in helicopters. It delivers power into a shaft instead of thrust in air movement like what we associate with jet engines.
Morten basically this it does not rely on thrust it uses a shaft that in turn is connected to a transmission or some sort of drive box then to the rear wheels. The concept is not that bad I am sure it never took off because of the amount maintenance and complicity of parts. Since this is running on what I assume is regular race gas the turbine does not make crazy amounts of power probably around 800ish my uncle has a jet car that runs on kerosene instead of jet fuel it loses about 30-40% of its power but it still does the 1/4 in 6 seconds :P
HI Bozzy. I certainly don't remember seeing a Howmet TX before your recent Instagram photos, but wow, this thing is incredible!🙌 I'm surprised how well it goes through the corners. You and your mates caught it from all angles, too... well done, guys!👍 I particularly appreciate the close-ups early in the video. Also thank you for providing more information of this amazing machine in the description. Very forward thinking engineering for its time, I'm sure. Have a great day, sir.
Ciao Mick! I was astonished to see how well it behaved on track. We were aiming for some onboard footage but we noticed there weren't many places to put our GoPros.. Still a really special car! Wish you a great day too bro!
Imagine scooting along the ground with an angry hair dryer strapped to your back, with zero compression braking when you let off throttle! Must have been a wild ride.
That is one of the coolest race cars ever built. Very cool looking and turbine powered! That's an Allison/RR 250 derivative powering it. Those made anywhere from 250shp to around 700shp if memory serves me right.
There are two components to this thing's "engine" note. The high-pitched whine and the exhaust. Unfortunately for me most of the high-pitched noises hit the right frequencies to make my ears hurt, and the exhaust ain't much consolation. So while it's a cool car in concept, I think I'd much rather listen to the Porsches going by.
Uhh, no. That's more of bumbling comment as batmobile comparison. Look at the exhaust. Then look until you get it. Or put down the tech & go to a library tech reference shelf and read for a few days.
I DID. For a very long time. You will not grasp it until you see for yourself unless you want a lifetime millenials label. Or worse. LOL. Machinist here. Working at speed shops after fluid controls, heavy equipment machining, aerospace & so on since '94.
I remember watching Graham Hill discuss how a gas turbine drives so differently, like having to account for the lag you mentioned. Granted, he was driving the '68 STP "wedge", but he remarked how it takes such a skill set to operate a car with this type of engine, where you always have to hit the gas and brakes early, anticipating every movement a little before it is supposed to happen; it's predicting the future, essentially, and having enough faith in the car that it will time out right. I don't know how much the wastegates helped here, but that's gotta take one hell of a driver to get that car around the track. Props to him.
That's a Lotus 56 chassis with a wedge design for a better streamlined body for Indianapolis. The predecessor STP Turbocar in 67 was an original chassis. Also was sort of faster due to less restrictive airflow.
The heat haze coming off of the back is intense. Just a fan of blur above it. Must have been different experience for the drivers behind it, where they're used to exhaust coming out from behind and below the car, so they never see heathaze of that intensity.
Saw the Howmet in its first ever race at Oulton Park in 1968. Sadly it had technical issues but was absolutely fascinating. I prefer its original 1968 colour scheme to what it has now.
Geezus. I wonder how it must've felt like back in 1969, when this car raced by with that noise. It sounds sooo ahead of its' time. Definitely one of the coolest racecars hands down.
When you skip the engine and go straight to a turbo.
Setright makes the same point in his book "Some Unusual Engines": As you increase the boost provided by a turbo you increase the energy available in the exhaust gasses til you reach the point when the exhaust turbine is producing more power that the pistons. At this point it becomes logical to swap their function and let the pistons drive the input compressor and the turbine power the wheels. The only danger being that at this point you are liable to lose the pistons altogether and invent the gas turbine which is maybe not what you intended.
Racecar #1: I've got a turbocharged V-6.
Howmet: What? That little spinney thing there? This is MY spinney thing.
@@donaldasayers That point was made with aircraft engine manufacturers experimenting with turbocharging. They barely missed the idea of just eliminating the pistons and creating a turboprop or just using gas generation to make a reaction jet engine.
@@longshot7601 Napier Nomad.
@@donaldasayers The aircraft engine experiments were done at Pikes Peak in the 1920s.
Back when the rule book was about as thick as toilet paper and creative engineering was the norm
rules never stopped creativity
@@turke47 They did limit it though.
I think they encouraged it. Toyota cheating with the Celica WRC car, the insane ground effect cars of the 70's and 80's in f1, the Chapparell 2c. All built to otherwise bend or break rules to win.
Back when roll bars weren't required to be higher than the pilot's head, or back when they made F1 cars in magnesium, or back when there were close to two fatal accident each season on average, back when drivers didn't wear any sort of protection, etc, etc.
Oh noes, rules and stuff, so annoying
You mean back when American technology was relevant to auto racing.
*Engineer* : what would you like your redline to be at?
*You* : No
😂 ill take it %age
No would make more sense since the redline is nowhere to be found
Redline? What’s that? 😂
In all honesty this turbine engine has more redlines to worry about than a normal reciprocating engine, especially during startup (a hot start can wreck your turbine in seconds.) Check out a turbine helicopter startup video if you're interested. Modern FADEC systems have made things a lot more simple these days, but they're still far from the norm.
@@herbalchicken how do you roll your eyes on the internet? asking for a friend
0:32 Imagine thinking you're hot stuff on the track then you go back to the pits and hear a jet engine spooling up from the pit stall next to you
"😨"
I was expecting it to be a lot louder on track, but you can barely hear it over the other cars ... Beautiful machine!
Saw this car at Le Mans Classic 2018. Really impressive and loud ! It was sometimes faster than some petrol cars and it's acceleration was incredible out of the Mulsanne corner. This is really an exemple of motorsport engineering success ! Love it for that.
Great video guys :) Thank you very much !
You're welcome! Thanks a lot for watching!
Lucky devil
Tob-Racer The car made excellent torque. According to Wikipedia, it put out about 650 led-fr of torque
@SRVstiger As a general rule, gas turbines are more reliable than reciprocating engines anyway. The engine in the Abrams is a Lycoming.
@SRVstiger *Actually, the General Motors Diesel powered version of the XM1 Abrams won the Army trials... and outperformed the **_Lycoming AGT-1500_** Gas Turbine in every performance category... but Chrysler and the State of Ohio lobbied Congress to award the contract to Chrysler instead. The Army never wanted the gas turbine.*
Great video again.
I saw this car about 7 or 8 years ago and have been wanting to see and hear it again ever since. It's just really special and awkward to hear that turbine noise from a racecar.
Yep, saw your vvideo before heading to Imola just to understand how it was like to see it driving on track! Really cool indeed
Andy Granatelli, 1967, lost Indy 500 near end of race after spanking rest of pack with his STP turbine car, due to the failure of a $6.00 ball bearing. A great driver with a great car, but bad luck.
Yes, it was Andy Granatelli's car, but it was Parnelli Jones at the wheel.
And I read that after the race A J Foyt said "cheats don't prosper"
@@anthonyxuereb792 I believe that Foyt sent Parnelli Jones a T-shirt that read "Winner: 1967 Indianapolis 497.5"
wow...nearly forgotten Andy Granatelli ... AJ & Parnelli shhhhhhit man, I was just in the first double digits then 10,12 lol....wow
@@BarnDoorProductions I didn't know that, thank you
I particularly like the Cortina Mk1 rear lights ^-^
AndreiTupolev YES!!
I spotted them too! :)
Mk1 corty was the first thing I thought lol, before my time but still the good old days!
I spotted that straight away. There was one on a drive in the opening sequence on Brookside.
Someone always beats me to my comment. Ha ha ha. Well done sir.
Engineer: How big do you want your turbo boost for this engine to be?
Team Boss: What do you mean by the term "engine"?
Engineer: No boss I mean… hol’ up.
If the exhaust was angled down, the track would be dry in no time...
I expect the up-angled exhaust provides a bit of downforce?
@Shepard Yeah, I remember Jay Leno talking about riding his jet bike in traffic and when he stopped at a red light it melted the front bumper of the car behind him. These things get hot.
Haha that car is the new snow plow/track dryer for next F1 season! No more races cancelled due to weather.
@@Madagon367 however you can make these thjngs a lot cooler if you do something like the chrysler turbine car
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Is there a better sound in the world than a jet engine starting up?! Fantastic engineering! Awesome video! Thanks :-)
The start is so smooth
5:38 you can see the torque of that turbine pick up
That’s gotta be some scary acceleration
@@chuckchuck4016 and insane downforce from the exhaust
@@chuckchuck4016 reminds me of a 2stroke
Just love these old crazy race cars, like the Chaparral 2, 2E, 2F, 2G, 2H and the awesome 2J vacuum-cleaner,. Theyre kind of mystical and from another timeline.
Normal car - brrummmmm brap brap brap
Jet boi - sssswwwiiisshhhhhhhh
Electric - eeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE**EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE**
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@@michaelbuckers EARGASM !
You can tell from the video this thing is quicker than anything else on the track, really awesome car there.
Howmet is still around, they make fan blades for jet engines
Howmet provided the money but the car itself was built by Ray Heppenstall
amazing car
Anything that sounds like the batmobile has my vote
any aircraft that uses turbines: *helo*
Or a Knight 2000.
This looked like a lot of fun for the drivers, not just this car but all of them. I love old racecars
“Now THIS is pod racing” - A. Skywalker
I saw this car run demo laps at Talladega in the early 70s. I believe it owned the closed course world speed record at the time. Cool to see it all these years later once again. Thanks Bozzy
No problem!
Whoa hang on....this thing held the _closed course speed record?_
Like, overall? That's nuts. This car is WAY cooler than I thought it was.
well, i have to say, comparing to piston engine cars this one is almost silent.
Turbine engines are definitely not. Standing around this without hearing protection will obliterate your ears.
The turbine engine sound excites me just a tiny level above Formula E. :-)
@@THR33SIXX3MPYR Maybe the mic couldn't pick it up, but this seemed pretty silent. I know small jets are not too loud (My friends were making Superman poses with the air blasting them), but if you're standing 5 feet behind them all day, that's probably not that great either. Some jets are pretty silent, others, especially the old ones... Well those are LOUD! Building shaking loud... This one seemed eerily quiet, about like the smaller new ones.
@Jake Garrett *You clearly have no clue what you are talking about. Allison 250 series gas turbine sound levels are extremely high, registering 105 decibels (dB) at idle and 114 dB at P-100.*
@@doktorbimmer You could put the spike muffler cuttings on the engine nacelle if you're worried about the exhaust, or you can fan the exhaust. Or if its in the front, using a thrust tube for bypass flow will result in lower velocity at the edge of the flow (less abrupt change near the static air outside) as well as giving you a little more efficient thrust assuming low bypass ratio turbofan or turbojet.
Most jets are not crazy loud, at least modern ones. The old ones are terribly loud (the ones with low bypass ratio below 1.7), the new high bypass engines like the Pratt&Whitney "Ultra high bypass" turbofans, which are much more efficient (over 12:1 bypass).
Damn I love that startup! The way it whirls up and then ignited sounds so powerful!
That instant torque is mind-blowing
So crazy they did this in 1968! Awesome footage Bozzy...Can't wait to see more from the event!
Thank man! More coming in the next days ;)
This thing is a bad ass work of art! How have I not heard of it until now?
50%: people talking about things i like
Other 50%: IT’S LIKE THE BATMOBILE
Can't hear the turbine from the sidelines.... but can't get mad... as the noises you can hear are heavenly!! Ah, can't wait to be back at a circuit again!!
When that thing starts up.....
Sweet mother of god.
I saw this car run at the 1968 Watkins Glen 6 hour endurance race... It was amazing. There was a two car team as I recall and they did quite well..
A turboelectric car would be interesting. An electric motor for each wheel and a gas turbine powering the generator...
Jaguar CX-75 prototype has that conception. Pretty interesting car.
What about jet engine powered gearbox and all wheels?
Or 2 gas turbines?one in front and one in rear?:)
Like a diesel locomotive? Or a tank from last century?
That's literally what the LaFerrari and 918 Spyder have lol
Sounds very inefficient.
very nostargic racing car!! I heard for the first time that engine start sound. amazing sound!!!
0:50 Arm Vein popping
Adrenaline RUSH
.... 🚀
I love the Mk 1 Cortina tail light clusters. And what was not shown was the fuel flow or the rapidly emptying fuel tank. Great sound!
That's has to be the most expensive blow dryer ever made.
I think they have the exhaust pointing the wrong way on the track drier
On growing up in the late 60,s seeing pictures of this car and know seeing it in action it's got to be one of the most iconic car's ever built superb design, being around at the time it's up their with the moon landings in car terms.
0:31
"Gentleman.... Start your engine*
Daytona USA
for a turbine car, that thing can fly!
I would love to see ALL of these cars being “DRIVEN IN ANGER”.
Front end styling is gorgeous.
If this car is ever up for sale, i think Jay Leno will buy it : )
Holy hell, these guys are actually slinging these cars around pretty good and IN THE WET. Imagine stuffing this priceless thing into a wall.
"Number of cylinders : 0" great sense of humour haha
XD
Love it! Thanks so much for this! It is uncanny how quiet it it out on the track.
i just thought of an idea to kind of modernize that turbine-powered car. give it a cvt transmission that changes ratios depending on how hard you press the throttle pedal.
Basically a constant speed propeller.. i like it 👍
@spikedpsycho I wasnt referring to a modern car outfitted with a turbine engine. I meant a retrofit for *this* race car. And it was only an idea
@@tobymciver1645 The torque curve is so flat that this car doesn't even need more than 1 ratio. If anything you're just adding more mechanical loss to the drivetrain and complexity.
@spikedpsycho The retardation of part of what you said is awful.
50 years later and still looks beautiful.
Awkward moment when a jet powered car is quieter than combustion engine powered ones
A jet engine is a combustion engine..
@@MazdaRX7007 can't believe you've managed to ratio him.
@@MazdaRX7007 I had to say the same thing
I think the correct term is reciprocating engine
Well i don’t certainly think it’s quieter because the turbine sound is on a way higher frequency and can be mor unpleasant to your ears
Extremely elegant. Love it.
Well that's something unique
First time that I see this car. It looks great.
Those mirrors! 1:50
Man, those were the days, they were really golden. Kids loved it, I cannot remember any other time when kids were really loving motor racing as much as this era. Howmet, and Chapparal were incredibly innovative with everything. These guys put big bucks into mad but often ingenious ideas. Even Ferrari, Porsche, Alfa, Matra feared what the crazy Americans were bringing into endurance racing.
50 years later nobody looks back and says, "That turbine engine sounds as good as a Ferrari V-12." Interesting car anyway.
No...it sounds much better.
@@johnrickard8512 oh indeed
John Rickard amen!
@@johnrickard8512 it doesnt beat the 787B rotary
All of the old cars are so beautiful
Imagine this thing with afterburners
M3Pilot what would be the purpose of afterburners?
@@DinoAlberini supersonic corner exit speeds
@@M3Pilot The car isn't powered by thrust, it's connected to a transmission which sends the power to the wheels. Otherwise you'd have yourself a landspeed type car.
Gas turbine. Not a jet engine. Basic principle is the same though. There are even turbine motorbikes. Jet engine cars or bikes would be quite difficult on track.
From what I understand, theoretically you could indeed use an afterburner, at least of a sort since it wouldn't be an "after"burner but more like a "dump multiple times more fuel after the compressor to add some more power" system, but you'd have to make sure that both the free turbine that directly drives the wheels and the wastegate (aka gas redirector that serves as a wheel output power throttle controller) can handle the suddenly very high temperatures in excess of 1600 Celsius as opposed to the regular 600 Celsius, not to mention the copious amounts of waste heat and flames now shooting out of the exhaust (of which also suddenly generates a lot of thrust force as well). And if the engine has thermal regenerators similar to what the Chrysler Turbine used, those too would need to be built to handle the high temperatures.
I legitimately thought it was a jetliner powering up before looking back at my phone. What a beast of a machine
sounds better than electric vehicles :D woooooosh
They sound about the same since all you hear from either is the whirring of the motors/turbine and the air being pushed out of the way. Unless I'm r/woooosh-ing again...
@@forzaelite1248 Not exactly. The sound of an electric car is produced by the inverter. The air and the electric motors are almost silent (at least at low speed)
Imagine this in a street car. That look on peoples faces when you start it up.
@@forzaelite1248
Well, no. People tend to say that e motors sound like turbines but it is as true as VWs Euro 6 Diesel emissions ;D.
r/wooooshers unite!
I think this car is one of the coolest ever raced.
Imagine thrust vectors.
I love these. Really helps to feel more rational when you own a rotary-powered vehicle.
*You collect antique biplanes too?*
@doktorbimmer uhh....yeah? Of course?
*What Rotary types do you own?*
@@doktorbimmer lol you're either completely oblivious to the amount of comments you've left over the years, or just plain lonely. I know what you're leading in to. There's better ways to expose rotary engines than this method. I have the model that 90% of the world who's heard of a rotary engine, knows as a "rotary engine". Do you know which one that is, out of all of the different engines noted as "rotary"?
Felix Wankel referred to it as a rotary piston. Whatever happened in history with the name after that is not my or anyone else's fault man. But I'm not going to define at a parts store that I need rotary-specific parts for my car and not an airplane.
Maybe find a more constructive way to bring the engines to a better spotlight than just leading people into your overused conversation traps to explain what a "real" rotary is. You're not wrong man, just hopeless effort on TH-cam.
*So you don't actually own a Rotary engine at all do you?*
How does it works?
Changes Petrol into movement.
science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/turbine.htm
Magnets
Without looking it up, I'm thinking it's a turboshaft engine the same type used in helicopters. It delivers power into a shaft instead of thrust in air movement like what we associate with jet engines.
Morten basically this it does not rely on thrust it uses a shaft that in turn is connected to a transmission or some sort of drive box then to the rear wheels.
The concept is not that bad I am sure it never took off because of the amount maintenance and complicity of parts.
Since this is running on what I assume is regular race gas the turbine does not make crazy amounts of power probably around 800ish my uncle has a jet car that runs on kerosene instead of jet fuel it loses about 30-40% of its power but it still does the 1/4 in 6 seconds :P
I live near Imola, in my garage I'm building a DIY Gas Turbine, but I NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEAUTY!!
How many horsepower has this car ??
300
But the interesting part is 880Nm of torque. So much torque that it only needed a single-speed gearbox.
Although turbines like the same rpm.
@@aircooledgaming Found that value as well on Wikipedia, but it can't be correct. With the high RPM of the turbine, the torque must be much lower.
@@aircooledgaming how can a turbine generate that torque wtf dude
HI Bozzy. I certainly don't remember seeing a Howmet TX before your recent Instagram photos, but wow, this thing is incredible!🙌 I'm surprised how well it goes through the corners. You and your mates caught it from all angles, too... well done, guys!👍 I particularly appreciate the close-ups early in the video. Also thank you for providing more information of this amazing machine in the description. Very forward thinking engineering for its time, I'm sure. Have a great day, sir.
Ciao Mick! I was astonished to see how well it behaved on track. We were aiming for some onboard footage but we noticed there weren't many places to put our GoPros.. Still a really special car! Wish you a great day too bro!
THX 1138! Thumbs up if you know what I’m talking about 😉
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Oh shit bitch, I was just watching that on Blu-ray a couple months ago. Lots of good used race cars in that movie lol
You misfit
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Che auto straordinaria!
4:23 wow
TOO COOL ! What a collection of cars as well !
This sound remember me of batman and 90s fiction movies about car and bike of future 🤣🤣🤣
Imagine scooting along the ground with an angry hair dryer strapped to your back, with zero compression braking when you let off throttle! Must have been a wild ride.
finally, something to overpower your microphones :P
That is one of the coolest race cars ever built. Very cool looking and turbine powered! That's an Allison/RR 250 derivative powering it. Those made anywhere from 250shp to around 700shp if memory serves me right.
would be intrasting with mechanical regeneration as turboshaft basicly full speed al the time, wasts are immence
Now all it needs is the sound of rotor blades cutting against the air!! That sounds very like a helicopter engine!!
There are two components to this thing's "engine" note. The high-pitched whine and the exhaust. Unfortunately for me most of the high-pitched noises hit the right frequencies to make my ears hurt, and the exhaust ain't much consolation. So while it's a cool car in concept, I think I'd much rather listen to the Porsches going by.
Sounded like the Batmobile when it started up...awesome!! 👍
Assistenti di volo prepararsi al decollo.....
Those Porsche flat sixes sound perfection. The turbine car is cool also
Well,thats loud
Untill you're close to it, yes, then on track you barely hear that sound
The sound of that Continental gas turbine at start up is a thing of beauty.
This car is actually powered by an Allison 250C18 these days - the original (1960s) engines were only leased from Continental, not bought.
@@craigykart Nice. I still think it's a beautiful sound when it starts up.
plot twist: editor just put sound fx from a jet onto video
Uhh, no. That's more of bumbling comment as batmobile comparison. Look at the exhaust. Then look until you get it. Or put down the tech & go to a library tech reference shelf and read for a few days.
@@MattsRanger no u
I DID. For a very long time. You will not grasp it until you see for yourself unless you want a lifetime millenials label. Or worse. LOL. Machinist here. Working at speed shops after fluid controls, heavy equipment machining, aerospace & so on since '94.
I remember watching Graham Hill discuss how a gas turbine drives so differently, like having to account for the lag you mentioned. Granted, he was driving the '68 STP "wedge", but he remarked how it takes such a skill set to operate a car with this type of engine, where you always have to hit the gas and brakes early, anticipating every movement a little before it is supposed to happen; it's predicting the future, essentially, and having enough faith in the car that it will time out right. I don't know how much the wastegates helped here, but that's gotta take one hell of a driver to get that car around the track. Props to him.
That's a Lotus 56 chassis with a wedge design for a better streamlined body for Indianapolis. The predecessor STP Turbocar in 67 was an original chassis. Also was sort of faster due to less restrictive airflow.
Jet engine want want want 😏
The heat haze coming off of the back is intense. Just a fan of blur above it. Must have been different experience for the drivers behind it, where they're used to exhaust coming out from behind and below the car, so they never see heathaze of that intensity.
You can’t draught this car, your front end will melt.
...Do you mean Draft, or Slipstream behind?
Wow. It's absolutely gorgeous
You did it again Bozzy, wow ! Best vids on the internet !!!!
Oh my word what a beauty.
Saw the Howmet in its first ever race at Oulton Park in 1968. Sadly it had technical issues but was absolutely fascinating. I prefer its original 1968 colour scheme to what it has now.
This video best watched with headphones on full blast! I could smell the race fuel exhaust and cooking brakes!
Love the design. So unique!
very interesting to see a turbine powered car being driven at speed.
What a sound! That's epic!
This is hilarious, and like most other vehicles in existence or even any mobile entity, it sounds better than 2019 F1 cars.
I just remembered the Batmobile from the 70’s. Nice!
That sound is a sound of a JET FIGHTER.WHAT AN EPIC SOUND
Imagine this thing at the old Hockenheimring, the old Ostereichring or Monza...wow!
This thing sounds AWESOME