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Atom V8 .. 500 hp and 550kg ( dry ) give this a power to weight ratio very few vehicles can match which is why depending on conditions ( humidity , altitude , wind-speed etc ) one of these can rip from 0-60 in less than 2 and half sec's .. 

Note the quill shaft from the gearbox across the back of the engine to keep the drive shaft's of an equal length .. Done to tame the torque effect which can have cars with this much power and this little weight going sideways under hard acceleration not unlike powerful front wheel drive cars that tend to be affected by torque steer .. 

 

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Flaming heck .. Dragbike belching back out of the intake .. 

Homemade jet engine job .. 

Problem with gas turbines is they like to run at a fairly constant high speed .. even idle on a jet engine is in the 000's rpm's on bigger lumps and smaller ones often 10k+ ..the output is then controlled by the transmission so long as it is upto handling the high speed .. Mercedes Benz tested a gas-turbine city bus back in the 90's with the lump connected to an electro magnetic transmission .. The lump ran at a fairly constant 20,000 rpm + the pull away and speed of the bus were then controlled by the transmission but a draw back was pulling up at stops with huge exhaust hanging out the back blasting out gas with a temp of 1000c ..

Military grade jet in a go kart is about as mental as it gets .. 

 

 

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