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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Forget the simulator, what about the real thing! You would have to settle for a Chevy 427 though like this one Or, for about $245,000 more you can drop a
Viper V10 into it. (Gosh, that's more than a whole real Viper).
Now all we have to do is get air on Mars so we can run engines like these.
Note: In case you were wondering, both of those are fully functioning engines. Cool huh? |
OK, time for the gloves to come off..
Those model engines are cool, but if we really wanted to
go, then we need to talk either a
Ford GT 5.4 liter 520-HP V-8 (for the thrift minded among us), or go all-out with the
Bugatti Veyron 1001 HP W-16 cylinder monster.
In either case, with the given mass-to-power ratio, I think that we could reach orbital velocities pretty easily.
Of course, there is still that nasty little matter of not enough oxygen to sustain an internal combustion engine, but we can take care of that problem when we get there...
-dave