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Build Your Own Jet Engine

Posted by michael on from the burning-down-the-house dept.

jgarland79 writes "Have you ever wanted your very own jet engine? Build one at home in your own garage. The guys over at www.garagejet.com have done just that. Their jet engine is made from an automotive turbo, spark plugs, and some scrap metal. I have made a mirror site here." We've had a couple of previous stories about a guy building pulsejet engines - the type of engine described above is a turbojet.

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  1. Darwin Award in the making by cheinz · · Score: 5, Funny

    'Nuff said! ;)

  2. Oh great, by demonbug · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I'm going to have to start worrying about real rice rockets on the way home from work.

  3. Excellent! by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Combined with the Slashdot articles on Build Your Own Cruise Missle, I'm good to go!

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    1. Re:Excellent! by slickwillie · · Score: 5, Funny

      Let's see. Aurora-type cruise missile, homemade rail gun, webcam, and 802.11g with high power antenna. I think we've got something here.

      DId I leave anything out?

    2. Re:Excellent! by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny

      Combine it with the Wireless Beer Pitcher Monitoring System and Pizza ordering, and you've got a system that would make the Deliverator (Snow Crash) look pretty tame.

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  4. Re:Yeah... not tough. by The-Dalai-LLama · · Score: 5, Funny

    The FBI were right to go after you.

    I had a friend who knew this guy one time and his sister's cousin built a jet engine just like the one in the article and bolted it to the top of this old Nova that he had. He took it for a test run in the desert in, like, Arizona. He forgot that his normal brakes wouldn't be enough to stop it, and the accident investigators found the remains of the jet engine 80 feet up the side of a mesa.

    Dude, his teeth were still embedded in the melted steering wheel. That's how they identified him. Don't mess with home-brewed jet propulsion, it's a recipe for trouble. You could put someone's eye out.

    The Dalai LLama
    ...true story, I swear...

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  5. Mental note to self..... by j3ll0 · · Score: 4, Funny


    When building an engine that will potentially operate at over 1000 degrees Celsius, be sure to build frame out of wood.

  6. Re:No proprietary crap here by IamGarageGuy+2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm with you. I don't want to have to put real crap on a machine unless absolutely necessary, e.g. bomb threat, man with gun, summons from SCO...

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  7. Garuntee win on the strip! by CherniyVolk · · Score: 3, Funny



    Let's see, super chargers are ungodly expensive....
    Adding turbo or even replacing turbo, out of this world....

    But! Two 300 dollar jet engines welded to the side of your Ford Escort!?!?!?!? Francine Dee! Here I come!

  8. Pod race! by AtariAmarok · · Score: 3, Funny

    Once you'd built one of these, build another. Then tie a lawn chair in between, and start 'em up! Should be a real blast.

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  9. Re:Yeah... not tough. by pyrrhonist · · Score: 3, Funny
    I had a friend who knew this guy one time

    In the Bibical sense?

    and his sister's cousin

    Wouldn't it just be easier to say, "his cousin"?

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  10. Laserjet by Rhodnius · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pulsejets, turbojets... what's the big deal? They invented Laserjets years ago. Can get one of those for $400 or less, and the laser just runs on electricity, doesn't need fuel...