after being stuck inside so long during this whole quarantine situation getting a 20 pound
turkey neck going up two pan sizes and going crazy because all i've been doing is engine episodes i'm
starting to feel like an engine guy it's time to break away get outside and have some fun
and do something else besides engines engines engines engines and i have just the thing in mind
ever since i smelled that sweet smell of diesel fuel it reminded me of jet fuel so i decided
to remove the diesel engine from the go-kart and mount the jet engine in its place and a few things
came together at the same time to motivate this build the first is i got my hands on this tiny
little action camera and i want to try it out and see if i could get some cool shots this is the
go 2 from insta360 and it's the smallest quad hd camera i have ever seen so i can't wait to put
this thing into action the second is my five gallons of hydro jet showed up which is 80 jet
fuel 20 water i want to see how it burns in the jet engine the third is i want tommy to drive the
go-kart with the jet engine so we could see what he says top speed is getting up there top speed's
up there top speed is getting up there i think it was about the same i didn't feel much difference
oh tommy you suck no actually you don't suck you painted the gas tank black oh it's fantastic
forgot to buy the new gas tank and it's there it's like finding a treasure let me get building
oh look where it landed nice
i think this is gonna feel kind of weird now that we don't have a chain bouncing around everywhere
i know exactly how i'm gonna get this jet engine mounted
acetone's on fire
all right i got everything all set up and this is not my ideal setup right here with this
controller but since the actual components that i need to set this up the way i want it set up
haven't arrived and i'm just out of time with this project i resorted to setting this controller up
this way there's the battery there's our ecu our receiver our telemetry right there
our gps with our speed battery power and last but not least the jet engine all set up
nice and quiet all right let me get this thing unloaded
and i have to say this is the lightest
that this go-kart this must weigh i don't know 40 pounds in the back 40 45 pounds this thing is
so light i feel like i should have angled those in the back made some sort of skids
sherlock said that he doesn't think this thing is going to go but i'll have to
tell you it has like no rolling resistance at all look at this man does this thing look fun
this is one of the first times that i've looked at this go-kart that i'm actually getting excited and
it's mostly due to the silence and the uh lack of any rolling resistance i just arrived at my
driving location this is the same spot that i filmed the turbo diesel go-kart
unfortunately tommy was unable to make it so i'm here all by myself don't expect any crazy
cinematography or anything like that but i do have my insta 360 go 2 which i'm going
to be using to capture all of the action shots i'm going to mount this to my helmet or my hat
capture all of the action inside the go-kart it only takes about two pounds of force for me to
physically move this go-kart the way it sits right now it's so light it's unbelievable this turbine
makes about 70 pounds of thrust that gets me excited and last but not least i got my gps taped
to the steering wheel which is going to give me my speed and my distance that's all i need so let me
get this going wish me luck let's see how it goes so i don't even know if i need to mess around with
going through different fuels i think i might just put the hydro jet a yep i'll go with uh hydro jet
it's about two gallons i think we should get a couple of minutes out of that i'm gonna mount
the go-to right to my helmet there's like a little hat clip that goes right on the lid of
a hat or a helmet like this which i thought was super cool it's such a cool little clip
and i forgot it because i was in a big hurry to get out of there ready to rock and roll
power for the receiver and the ecu you can see that heartbeat just turned on the remote on
okay there's the power for the engine and again this is gonna be my throttle
it says it's ready so let's see how it sounds out here in the open
put it down ignition all right and i think i'm gonna stand in front of this here comes the fuel
oh actually i should have did test pump i forgot to do test pump
i have air in there when this thing starts
it's got a bunch of air in the line
heres the hydro-jet
all right i got my helmet on
put it on my helmet
it's good?
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[Loud Music]
looks like looks like the actual um air from my fuel sloshing around got in my line and i'm almost
out of fuel believe it or not let me try to start this bad boy up again man that was pretty crazy
and it was really weird because because the uh let me get cooling mode it was really weird because
it's really weird so i i crashed into the curb a little bit because i saw this thing i wasn't
sure if it was water and mud or what but it feels weird simply because when you hit the brake it's
just like a hundred percent break there is no like momentum from the chain or anything else going on
that was but man this thing the top speed must be insane i'm totally gonna have to
come in a future video and see what the top speed is of this thing this thing is nuts
wow that thing got my adrenaline pumping all right let's try to get this started again
it's definitely nice and quiet with the helmet on that's for sure i'm glad i have this camera
right here this thing's pretty awesome i got to connect it to the case right now oh man
the possibilities for this thing oh man it's going to be crazy here we go all right starting it up
oh yeah we got air in the lines
there we go
i'm almost out of fuel that's the problem there we go
feels weird
Whoa it's light sliding
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[Applause]
Woo Hoo
that was crazier than i thought it was so smooth the first time i actually hit the curb i
just damaged the rim a little bit because that was the first corner i hit the brakes it's the
weirdest thing because there's no like momentum from any mechanics that are connected it was like
i had three times the amount of braking for the amount of pressure if that makes any sense and i
spun out and i hit the curb and thank god i didn't damage it because i was able to finish the run
that's all the uh hydro jet i had it's really fun the top speed on that thing the camera died
what else died something else died i think this little camera worked out pretty well i'll leave
a link in the description below uh this is the first day that this camera hits the market i was
able to get my hands on it a little bit earlier and i thought it would be such a good pair up for
the jet powered go-kart but i'm definitely coming back with this go-kart sherlock said that thing
is not going to move and uh he got he kind of got into my head because i was like well i don't know
70 80 pounds of thrust and as soon as i mounted the jet engine and i saw it had like no rolling
resistance at all i was convinced that this thing was gonna be fast so thanks for watching tell
me what you think in the comments below don't forget to check out this little action camera
the Insta360 Go 2 to you see the footage looks amazing and that's why i included i literally
saw the footage and said i totally have to show this camera to everybody it is amazing you're
gonna see it in some upcoming episodes i'm gonna do some cool stuff with it thanks for watching
see you next time adios cause this is the actual camera check this out oh my oh i get it crazy that
was like the remote for that no no it's the actual camera quad hd i've seen you here in the youtube
videos before but i really know that you're like here right now oh you'll be in my video now