[url=http://www.sportscarmarket.com/Profiles/2008/August/American/]Sports Car Market Magazine > Profiles > 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 Hard Top (with Turbonique Rocket Drag Axle)[/url]
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[url=http://www.sportscarmarket.com/Profiles/2008/August/American/]Sports Car Market Magazine > Profiles > 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 Hard Top (with Turbonique Rocket Drag Axle)[/url]
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is this one for 400 metres only?
the parachute indicates it was certainly a priority.
Is that just a turbine bolted to the rear differental? Would that cause any sort of conflit between the two power sources?
[QUOTE=henk4;821888]is this one for 400 metres only?[/QUOTE]
40[I]2[/I] meters.
And so what if it's a drag car. Some people just like to gun it for 12 seconds.
Others track - diff'rnt strokes for diff'rnt folks.
Great ride, can someone explain the turbine bit? is it moved by the transmission axle? i never saw this before.
[QUOTE=ruim20;821943]Great ride, can someone explain the turbine bit? is it moved by the transmission axle? i never saw this before.[/QUOTE]
1st time I've heard about that turbonique thing as well...
[QUOTE=mclaren_crazy;821908]Is that just a turbine bolted to the rear differental? Would that cause any sort of conflit between the two power sources?[/QUOTE]
You'd be surprised how little issue it presents. It's interesting, but twin engine dragsters ususally just use a rigid coupling, and there's no torque conflict. I used to think there would be as well, but aparently it's really simple.
That's insane. I hope someone brings one to the track I work at. Maybe I could do that to my galaxie. :D
[QUOTE=ruim20;821943]Great ride, can someone explain the turbine bit? is it moved by the transmission axle? i never saw this before.[/QUOTE]Talked to a guy that worked in a speedshop in USA. Apparently the jetengine drives thru the final drive gears to put power onto the road. Google tells nothing. A strange concept though
You'd think that a whole jetengine would be best up front, hehe. Not attached to the diff in mini-form, hehe.
But it certainly is wierd, I've never heard or seen of this before, this car would probably do wheelie's down the quarter all day long.
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ATTACHMENT SYSTEM!
Noob. :D
So it's a bit like a LSD crossed with N2O?
[quote=Matra et Alpine]Reason: rightly had my wrists slapped for not realising the embedded image was too big :([/quote]
It was a friendly slap :)