Turbo charger Jet Engines have long been considered one of the holy grails of backyard engineering. This is with good reason – they’re hard to build, and even harder to run. Many a turbo has ...

so why not modify a turbo into a jet engine? While [Mike]’s junkyard jet made the rounds on the Internet over a decade ago, the theory behind the homebrew turbojet is still sound. After pulling ...

The turbo you see here, a Cummins ST-50 taken ... Here's a quick summary of how jet engines work, and how to determine the size of combustion chamber — the power-producing bit — that your ...

Also: a Rolls-Royce Olympus Turbo-Jet 593-610 engine, for about a million bucks. Here's hoping somebody with a YouTube channel buys it so we can watch Everything Wrong With My Cheap Concorde Jet ...

To many, Chevrolet's Corvair will always be remembered as the focus of a book by a young lawyer named Ralph Nader. Unfortunately, the book's title was "Unsafe at Any Speed." In spite of a ...

General Motors is working on at least one turbocharged six-cylinder engine. As such, could it be that Turbo-Jet is the name The General plans on giving to its line of turbo’ed sixes? If so ...