sumo_Bob

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/..._Friendly.html

Roddimus Prime

turbine cars have been around for a while but none ever produced because they suck. His claim of pouring strained cooking grease into the engine is false. Yes you can make WVO fuel out of used cooking grease but you still need Methynol to ignite it and proper pH balance to make it work properly..

Turbine cars are great for drag racing and SUCK at rush hour traffic. How would you like to be behind the Hummer H3 that melts the front of your car off everytime he punches the pedal?

sumo_Bob

that'd be awesome. In the article he was referring to using the turbine in an upcoming project. He was saying however that the strained cooking grease was for a dual fuel Hummer. Using Hydrogen to aid biofuel(certain cooking oils included) combustion rather than oxygen. Hence the turbine is a work in progress, and not yet a fully functional idea. I personally think the turbine concept he is trying to actualize is great on paper, but will probably not be feasible for mass production. The whole article is basically showing what has been done by a tinkerer. I would do the whole Bio Diesel thing, but it would be an expensive undertaking for a car like a 3rd gen. But it would be great to cut emissions where we can with something so simple.

Roddimus Prime

all you'd need is a donor TDi vw and a ton of mig wire. Once you accept the fact that you'd have to do a full engine swap there's not a lot of stuff you couldn't fit in the protege. Once you gut the engine bay out entirely a whole new world opens up to you.

I always start every new project by removing everything that absolutely doesn't have to be there. Once I see what I have to work with THEN I start planning. You should see all the space I freed up for the supercharger (size of a soccer ball) between the engine block and radiator.