>>21765
I always wanted to throw a busa engine into a Smart Roadster... that or maybe a Scoobie Boxer.

>>21765
>>21766
Update:

Bad news: Ended up putting the stock engine back in the MK1 I got for this project because someone offered me a great price for it if it was all stock. (It only had 39K on the odometer.)

Great news: Found another host for the swap, better yet almost as few miles as the previous host and factory new snowflake rims. Wasn't the holy grail turbo diesel model, but I didn't get it for the engine for a reason.

A ~1500lb pickup with a ~200+hp Formula Super Vee swap.

God willing Irma spares me...

>>21745
>>21736

Brothers!

Not a picture of mine, or even the color, but I'm in a 2015 Forester Limited I bought for a song from my father in law because my mother in law decided she didn't like it and wanted an Outback. I'm very interested in putting a modest couple-inch lift, bigger tires, skid plates and knobbier tires and stuff on it just to be weird. Doing a swap for an XT engine would be the cool, money-doesn't-matter thing to do but even if I could justify it, I'm still under warranty.

>>9297
holy fuck I was a ricer to the max 5 years ago

IL-76 front section.

Il-76 rear section.

Il-76 bottom cockpit

IL-76 tail gunner cabin

IL-76MD-90A - modernized

>>21597
This looks like a superior solution in every way compared to Valor, but it doesn't have a good enough name so I guess we'll take the Marine Widowmaker 2.0

Bell says the first flight of the V-280 is planned for September.
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=2481

Official Prototype Rollout http://www.bellhelicopter.com/news/press-release/2017/9/v-280-achieves-completion

Includes pictures of test stand. They even have it hanging from it's engine nacelles.

Judging from these pictures, it is being rolled out from the southernmost hangar.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/35%C2%B012'19.3%22N+101%C2%B043'19.5%22W/@35.205371,-101.7239784,589m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d35.2053708!4d-101.7220941

And the test stand is at https://www.google.com/maps/place/35%C2%B012'30.1%22N+101%C2%B043'13.7%22W/@35.2083611,-101.7214542,299m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m9!1m2!2m1!1sbell+amarillo+assembly+center!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d35.208356
9!4d-101.7204838

>they should instead use the front half of modified AH-1Z airframe, modified to carry a similar useful load to the Apache

The Japanese manga series "Venus Wars" written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, features a tilt-rotor attack VTOL of that very design concept.

JGSDF reconnaissance motorcycle (Kawasaki KLX250), 1st Airborne Brigade. In Camp Shimoshizu, Japan, 29-Apr-2012.

I like the idea of a motorcycle, but I am a bit paranoid about safety. Plus air conditioning. So my dream bike would be a Monotracer.

>>21810
I actually saw one of these on the road in the DC area once. Surreal as hell to watch in motion, but the sponson-mounted wheels for low-speed balance are apparently turbo-awkward.

Right now I'm resurrecting a Honda Cub from 35 years being stored in a barn, but once that project is done I'll probably get some small adventure or dual sport bike like the Versys X 300, CRF250L, or the CB500X

Not sure why.

Then again I REALLY want to have a workshop were I can build one of these with modern materials.

>>21795
I love it.

The following also makes my boner smack my jaw.

http://www.roadkill.com/keith-northrups-37-international-trophy-rat-is-every-kind-of-unexpected/

Guy turned a 1937 truck into a trophy truck.

Id love to do something like this some day.

>>21812

>chopping up an International

Ok, it looks like he did a good job though. That is neat.

Libellula, a tandem-winged and twin-engined British experimental plane which gives the pilot an excellent view for landing on aircraft carriers (1945).

  >>21671
The British also tried this for carrier landings: just coat the deck with rubber land without gear.

>>21672
Problem with making planes without landing gear to belly-land on carrier decks covered with soft rubber is that the plane...
- Would have to be winched and taken to the elevator, catapult or placed on a wheeled cradle because it has no wheels to move around on deck.
- The plane cannot land with any stores under the wings like fuel tanks, rockets, missiles, bombs, gun pods or, as with this EA-18G Growler, delicate electronic jamming pods. Because they would be smashed upon landing.

Even using stealth fighters that keep their stores in internal bomb bays, the rubber landing method would still be insane.

- The unmanned X-47B completes its first landing aboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), July 10, 2013, off the coast of Virginia. This event marks the first time the Navy landed an unmanned aircraft aboard an aircraft carrier.

>>21672
Reminds me of the Gear up F-111 landing video I saw the other day. Looked just the same except without the bouncy.

Did someone say truck thread?

>>21747
/o/ may mays.
There's a pretty active truckerfag community on /o/. It's a fun thread to lurk.

So, Kenworth's were out of the ballpark due to wanting 10k+ more for the same fucking truck as the next guy.....

So I got this.

>>21767
yeah it has some comical shit glued on, but the odd thing is... the rotors really stand out. A bit too thought out looking, as I can't imagine them bothering to make a swashplate, which makes me wonder if under all that crap is actually a helicopter they purchased. I would have guessed some sort of ultralight kit plane, but I think it would be too complicated for that.

  >>21768
Yeah it looks kinda similar to the hub on a Schweizer 300 series.

Apparently the guy making all this stuff is some preacher selling Chinese kit cars as locally made.
http://jalopnik.com/the-living-apostle-who-sold-the-media-on-the-myth-of-g-1784458558

>>21768
I figured it was the rotorhead off an Alouette. Just based on it having 3 blades and the French doing a lot in west Africa. Seems to be missing the wires?

>>21776
the way the rotors attach seems different and I doubt this guy had a budget for any French aircraft. I think it could be a Chinese knockoff of a Schweizer / Hughes family of light helicopters. Here is an image of one the Chinese call AC310, the way the rotors attach seems very similar, and this guy already works with the Chinese to "design and build" Chinese cars. If it is, then it is probably safe to assume it really is a jumble of spare parts and not a full aircraft being visually modified. Reason being I doubt he would go through the effort to modify the typical simplified tail on these helicopters. (tail rotor at the end of a straight drive shaft instead of a two part design required to have the rotor further up the tail.)

>>21778
further reference, here is a Schweizer S269C. Looks like the Chinese copied it down to the bolt. Still not sure if this is what was used, just thought the blatant copying was amusing.

Nevermind. Fuck the flood detection.