Now in my quest to build the best badass pulse-jet go-kart on the Internet, this is the progress,
looking pretty good! Now since the last video I've added some heat shields, and a rear break. What
we're gonna do now. Fuel system, controls, bits and bobs like that. I'm gonna try something new
with a fuelling on this jet, we're gonna do the idle on gas, so I'm gonna have two small bottles,
I think I'm going to need two because I know one is definitely not gonna be enough
to power a jet this size. maybe two isn't but you know, we can try. Pipe that all up.
Have a lever valve on it and I'm gonna have that kind of operate by a little lever down the side,
and then you'll set that, once that's idling you just leave it. And then throttle,
we're going to try and run it on diesel or kerosene
or something like that. But for the time being, let's get this bit set up.
So there we have our gas idling system, with a little lever here which I can set it for. Also
added a spark plug. I'll just press this little button here and hopefully that'll light the gas.
Now the next bit I'd normally do, is go around the back, stick a leaf blower in and it will fire
and jump into life, but I going to try another experiment, going to try system off another
control, where I can blow air into it and get it started, so I can do everything from
my seat. It's not quite turning a key, but for a pulse jet powered go-kart, that's pretty good!
I have a plan! Got my leaf blower mounted, and put this tube all the way along which tucks in
the end. So we're going to join the two together. I'm going to put like a butterfly valve with it,
like a carburetor in it, So I can alter how much air flow goes in there,
therefore I'm gonna be able to control everything from the seat;
the gas, the ignition, the air flow, and that should be enough to get started!
Exciting!
Lovely got the leaf blower set up now,
just got this little butterfly valve, so I'm gonna have that sat in there,
and have like a shaft go through it with another little arm on it, and that's going to
be controlled by lever down there near the seat. So you pull that, open and shut it, leaf blower
on, leaf blower off.... And it'll be beautiful! All right so I'd better get on with it haven't I!
Last bit, the main throttle, the secondary fuel system. So I've made this fuel tank out of a
stainless steel fire extinguisher. Got another pipe going up with another injector tube.
Come over here. So down here I've got myself a little Universal fuel pump off eBay, about £12.
Going to mount that, and it's going to be in a loop,
so it's pumping round in a circuit and then a lever valve attached to the throttle pedal,
so as you put the throttle down then it's going to close the loop off,
forcing it out of the loop, into the jet. Ultra-simple, surely cannot go wrong!
Pulse Jet Go-kart ✅ So then, got all the control systems going, everything sorted!
Is it going to work? I don't know but it looks cool! I'm in my jet go-kart yeah!
Will it work? We don't know! How fast will it go! We don't know! Steering wheel is dirty!