Jimmy Built A-Steam Car – 2017
This steam car was built from almost nothing on a project initiated in 2017 in the state of Nevada.
Here are its technical specifications :
- Double cylinder. Marine style vertical steam engine.
- 3 holes x 3 blows
- Lubricating System “Total loss”
- Boiler 7 horses
- 300 lb / couple foot to 1 tr / me (446,44 m/kg)
- Maximum turns : 160 tours
- Boiler system : Design double steam dome Ofeldt-Belosic
- 28 copper steam generators
- More than 150 copper tubes used only in the boiler
- Operating pressure of 100 psi. 200 security psi
- Two propane burners from 250 000 BTU
- Boiler capacity: 3,5 gallons of water (13,25 Litres)
- 56 individual boiler safety fuse links
- The boiler is powered by a high pressure piston pump
- Reserve water tank 21 gallons (80 liters)
- Frame : Ford model A frame rails 1928
- axles 1928 Ford, Rear axle modified for chain drive
- Direct drive, no transmission required.
- Propane kerosene lighthouse
- Consumption 1 mile per gallon of water (236 Liters / 100 km)
- Body of Water Body of Water 24,14 km
- Fuel range: 90 minutes
- Highest speed recorded: 35,00 km/h
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