Boomer & Voodoo Chilli

BOOMER and VOODOO CHILLI are almost identical cars and are designed for performance and superior crowd entertainment.

These dragsters use a military J-34 jet engine first developed by Westinghouse and used in experimental jet fighters. The modified afterburner almost doubles the engine power to about 6000 pounds of thrust. That means if it was aimed straight up it would be able to lift 6000 lbs (2700 kgs or 2.7 tonnes) by thrust alone.

The engine has an eleven stage axial compressor and two stage turbine. The compressor is like a supercharger and can suck in 12500 cubic feet of air every second (which is about the size of a large house). The air is compressed to about 50 psi before entering the flame-can where it is ignited with jet fuel. At idle speed the engine rotates at about 5000 RPM. At full power it is spinning at about 13000 RPM. The hot exhaust gas is ejected through the turbine which spins the compressor at the front of the engine to compress more air. The hot gas exhausts into the tail pipe where more fuel is ignited to give the afterburner effect and more thrust. The temperature in the tail pipe reaches 1000 degrees C.

On full afterburner, and with enough room to accelerate, the Metal Mickey Motorsport Jet Cars have the potential to reach speeds of 500 mph (800 kph). At this speed the engine makes about 10000 horsepower and demands almost 250 litres of fuel per kilometer!  

 

 

	One way to remove a bad paint job
		About to light up the day with fire
Coming down the straight

 

The J-34 turbojet as used in the Boomer and Voodoo Chilli  jet dragsters . . . . .

 

 

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