Chrysler's cruise missile

Design News ^ | 10/20/2003 | Staff

[RiflemanSharpe]

Noooo, I was looking for a guy like YOU to test it out.

There are three possible responses to this:

1. I am crazy not stupid!
2. I what have you been smoking, drinking, and/or popping?
3. There just ain't enough beer in Texas to get me on one of those widow makers.

Please pick the one that suits you best. Thank You.

[taxed2death]

It doesn't "handle" anything, as turning a corner is impossible at anything over about 35-40 miles an hour. Two wheels side by side makes this so. Not to rank on you, but anyone who knows anything about MC's knows this configuration is for looks only.

[longtermmemmory]

ok now that just look silly. It is like a reject NSU or old style british bike. It also looks like someone was not thinking the leg room.

[taxed2death]

Ben Spies wiped out at 186 MPH last week testing his superbike at Daytona. The rear tire ruptured at the start finish line. He suffered severe friction burns as his racing leathers wore through. His bike wound up as big as a suitcase in turn one, also smouldering. Hell of a get-off The tire manufactures are having a hell of a time finding a recipie for tire rubber able to sustain the extreme heat cycles that running at Daytona demands.

[tet68]

So they milled the transmission case out of a 10,000 lb block of aluminium eh. and the end product weighs what
200 lb.?

Hahah, sometin aint rat. Probably a 1000 lb block but even that seems too high too.

[JoeSixPack1]

Anything more than 2 cylinders is cheating.

[pabianice]

"Notice of Cancellation of Health and Liability Insurance"...

[R. Scott]

8.3 liters, the V-10 Viper engine?
Sure glad this didn't come out a dozen years ago, or I would have been tempted to rob a few banks to buy one.

[taxed2death]

$500,000 is actually cheap. Todays GP-1 bikes can be "rented" from their Japanese manufactures for between 2 million to 3 million dollars a year.

Last year Colin Edwards smashed his brand new Honda RC-51 superbike while testing it. Not unusual, except the bike was worth 2 million and he rode it for a total of 1/2 a lap.

When his crew chief came by in the truck to put the bike on the back, Colin was reported to tell him "don't bother to bring the truck....bring a shovel and a broom intstead".

Ouch.

[JoeSixPack1]

It does look a little short of 10K, but if that's only half the case and parts in the pic, and probably cut from the original block before machining it could be 10K.

7075 T-6 aluminum is pretty dense and that half case in the pic looks closer to 3000lbs before gutting.

[blackie]

I'll give it a go ~ where do I sign up ~ ya can't have too much speed. :)

[RightWhale]

I never have dumped a bike

Does wedging one under a porch count? :)

[11Bush]

Let me see, movie stars, rock stars, rich playboys, pro athletes, rappers...

A lot of money in no way means a lot of brains.

[HiTech RedNeck]

How does one arrange to get a stint at Bonneville? Maybe they won't let them....

[r9etb]

Way cool design/engineering problem.

To me, the most impressive part wast this:

He took the drawings to his workstation, "surfaced" the case, then provided a data CD to a vendor that milled the transmission case from a 10,000-lb, solid aluminum billet.

"Even though we were working in tolerances of a thousandth of an inch, the transmission worked right out of the box," Walters says.

A perfect marriage of brute force and precision -- LOL!!!!

[r9etb]

Let me see, movie stars, rock stars, rich playboys, pro athletes, rappers... A lot of money in no way means a lot of brains.

Sounds like an excellent way to cleanse the Hollywood gene pool, though....

[pt17]

Anything more than 2 cylinders is cheating

LOL, I just knew you were going to say that and came looking for your post.