EcoJet: Definitive Edition - Jay Leno's Garage
Like all great feats of the imagination, the EcoJet began life on a napkin. As an auto enthusiast, Jay Leno had always wanted to design his own turbine-engined car, and when he conceived the notion for a high-performance, yet environmentally friendly, vehicle the pen and napkin came out. Eight months later the results were premiered at the 2006 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas.
The primary goal was to design and build a car that ran on environmentally friendly, renewable bio-diesel fuel and that didn't drive like a Prius. Of course, as Jay has quipped, that makes harvest time the only time of year when there'll be plenty of fuel available, but that's beside the point.
The heart of the EcoJet is a 650-horsepower Honeywell LT-101 turbine engine, which sits inside a modified Corvette Z06 hydroformed aluminum frame with aluminum and magnesium structural and chassis components. The vehicle's shell is an advanced construction of carbon fiber over Kevlar, and the body is painted with environmentally friendly paint from Glasurit's 9 Line Waterborne Technology lines, which is designed to dramatically reduce emissions during application.
Though the car was built almost entirely at Jay's Big Dog Garage, the design and engineering was actually overseen by GM under the leadership of Ed Welburn, GM Vice President of Global Design and Frank Saucedo, head of GM's Design Studio in North Hollywood, California.
But nobody said that designing and building an environmentally friendly supercar was quick and easy. It's been three long years since the inception of the EcoJet project, and there have been many bumps along a painstaking road. It didn't take long for its monster turbine engine to burn out clutch discs, brakes, and torque converter. Jay and the Big Dog crew always knew that the EcoJet would be a long term labor of love and a work in progress. Now that the EcoJet is finally on the road and clocking speeds in excess of 150 mph, the next step will be trying to come up with a system to muffle intake noise for a whisper quiet ride.
With aeronautical and jet-age influences, the EcoJet's design conveys power, capability, and even a hint of danger, but ultimately, the project is intended to inspire would-be automotive designers by showing that with a little creativity (and more money than brains), an environmentally friendly performance car is not only possible but also breathtaking.
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Sexy Dayanis Garcia takes ride in a 900hp Evo IX
During a DST Motorsports photoshoot we took a short break to take Dayanis for a few pulls in the 900hp Evo IX. Enjoy!
2.2 liter stroker billet crank
Force Performance GT3794 HTA
Custom built transmission from TRE with an HKS 4:11 final drive
Music : Sadik Beatz -- Rock (Dubstep Beat)
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All Races For 2011 Shelby VS Corvette ZO6
Note: First run was before Sunrise .
2011 Shelby GT500 " Intake,Headers,X-Pipe,Pulleys and Tune"
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2007 Corvette ZO6 " Intake,Headers and Tune " 490 RWHP
Red Nissan GTR Spit's Flames!!!!!
Red Nissan GTR Spit's flames in lowes parking lot!
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Rabigh Wings & Lamborghini Event - Saudi Arabia
Full photoshoot Coverage can be found here :
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"In the spirit of Matching G forces in the air Vs. G forces on the ground, Rabigh Wings Aviation Academy was delighted to host a one of kind event with roaring muscle Lamborghinis speeding on a 7,500 feet runway toping speeds of over 300 km/hour competing with single propeller planes, the outcome was one of a kind spectacle.
The Event took place in Rabigh Airport, Saudi Arabia at the aviation academy on 30th of March 2011, with 15 Lambo's roaring on the runway at times beating planes and/or matching their speed. The Master piece created pictures to die for and the blazing speed of the Lambo's assured car owners that really the sky is the limits of what you can do with a Lamborghini.
This event was the second to be hosted at the academy with Harley Davidson being the first in February 2011, assuring the public interest in joint activities between sky machines and ground machines.
The event was hosted by his Royal Highness Prince Turki Bin Miqren, CEO of Rabigh Aviation Academy and Mr. Ghassan Al Sulaiman President of Lamborghini motors in Saudi Arabia."
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Drag Race: 2012 Lexus LFA vs 2010 Nissan GT-R
We pit Lexus' first-ever supercar -- the $400,000 Lexus LFA -- against our long-term Nissan GT-R to find out which one is the king of the JDMs.
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700HP Ford GT Full-Throttle Acceleration w/ wheelspin
Amazing looking car with awesome engine sounds, enjoy
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Bugatti Veyron vs R35 GTR Drag Race NEVER before seen footage (GO-PRO +Timeslip)
Bugatti Veyron vs R35 GTR Drag Race NEVER before seen footage (GO-PRO +Timeslip)
We recently were able to spend some time with the owner of a 1001hp Bugatti Veyron. We filmed him at a local drag strip here in Florida (Palm Beach International Raceway) doing a couple of runs. It effortlessly went 10.1 @ 139mph.
