Marine Turbine Technologies make the y2k bike you mentioned. I sat on the proto at a car show a while back. MTT is way down south here in LA. He has a few cars with the turbines in them, and does a ton of offshore race boats, fishing boats too. He uses demilled heli motors, IIRC, cheaper as they have maxed out their life expectancy in a heli, but are still good for ground use. I would love to ride that bike, 220mph min... My weak ass zx12r (only 154 hp at the back tire) can only do 195 (at least that is as fast as I have gone on it). I cannot imagine what a bike with 350+ ft/lbs or torque pulls like.

Actually Brian, you know what, a person could even built a home made turbine engine generator from a an ordinary turbo charger from a car. I've seen it been done, if you could only make it quiet, but i don't think you could have that because you need a high quality exhaust system with good metals I would think. Very high temperatures your dealing with. That would definitely be nice to use, maybe some company will come out with some?

zeropointbug,

I sent you some info and 2 of them should not be posted anywhere.

Hey Linc, I watched the video on the Y2K bike, crazy motha funkers who ride that bike, death on two wheels if you ask me.

I can't imagine what the exhaust gas temps are, must be no less than 2000F, I was visiting with my friend who has an rx-8, which has a rotary (wankel) engine, and the exhaust gases are extremely hot. aronnd... I held my hand almost 4 feet away and I literally thought my hand was under a flame thrower, I burnt all the hairs off my hand! My hand has minor 1st degree burns now, idiot I am. :lol:

Thanks for sharing the innerds. I just had to take apart one of my bike hub motors because a customer smoked it- and I was curious to the wind pattern.