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Faeflora 03-15-2012 07:05 PM
Steam Powered Miata
 
Can it be done?

Use water to cool the charge

Have steam in cylinders

Have steam in exhaust

Steam everywhere.

Is this a win?

Good project.

Joe Perez 03-15-2012 07:16 PM
Drugs are bad, mmkay?

Faeflora 03-15-2012 07:21 PM
Well no, serious, instead of ONLY using exhaust heat and flow to spin turbo, use it to make steam!

Which could then be used to do other things.


Things like

Steam powered insta-boost

Steam powered combustion chamber cooling

Steam powered hydraulics

Steam powered lighting

Steam adjustable suspension

Or just fill the radiator with it.

astroboy 03-15-2012 07:25 PM
You could even use it to purify water!

Also could be a good theft deterrent, like melt their skin off when they try to take off with the car.

If your pressurizing this steam system you could also use it for the horn. Nothing sounds more scary than when a steamline ruptures.

240_to_miata 03-15-2012 07:34 PM
A senior design project at Uconn used a smart car (or something similar) and a converted a motorcycle engine to run on steam. It moved... barely, But it was cool. A lot cooler than the senior design I got stuck doing.

BenR 03-15-2012 07:37 PM
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-six-stroke-engine/

gearhead_318 03-15-2012 07:40 PM
Somebody needs to stop hanging out with hippie environmentalists.

It an interesting cool idea though.

Faeflora 03-15-2012 08:13 PM
Originally Posted by astroboy (Post 848822)
You could even use it to purify water!

Also could be a good theft deterrent, like melt their skin off when they try to take off with the car.

If your pressurizing this steam system you could also use it for the horn. Nothing sounds more scary than when a steamline ruptures.

Yes the steam could be used for all sorts of things

and you can even

put the stored steam into your house


to heat your floors while you are home




Originally Posted by BenR (Post 848826)


YES

I was not being tard

Something like the this

even if you put the water in the turbo

POOSH

hustler 03-15-2012 08:13 PM
Why not just weld-up the spark plug holes and fill it with diesel?

gearhead_318 03-15-2012 08:14 PM
How would you heat the water to make steam?

y8s 03-15-2012 09:28 PM
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FaeFlyper you are a few years behind the times.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1331861290

MartinezA92 03-16-2012 12:03 AM
This sounds like a terrible idea.

blaen99 03-16-2012 12:08 AM
Originally Posted by MartinezA92 (Post 848891)
This sounds like a Faeflora idea.
ftfy

18psi 03-16-2012 12:17 AM
Originally Posted by Shearhead_3:16 (Post 848843)
How would you heat the water to make steam?
With the blunt he's huffing when making this thread

hustler 03-16-2012 12:44 AM
Originally Posted by 18psi (Post 848898)
With the blunt he's huffing when making this thread
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

triple88a 03-16-2012 12:55 AM
It will sound like the teal miata.

Faeflora 03-16-2012 01:27 AM
Dude all you have to do is make an exhaust pipe inside an exhaust pipe and fill it with the watets.


Presto. Full of steam.

You could also put some carrots in there

triple88a 03-16-2012 01:51 AM
I don't really dig carrots.

gearhead_318 03-16-2012 01:55 AM
Originally Posted by triple88a (Post 848915)
I don't really dig carrots.
Steamed weenies more your style?

NA6C-Guy 03-16-2012 02:09 AM
Wasn't Mercedes playing with using steam in a hybrid a few years ago? Not sure if it ever took off.


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