                ZO Dodge RamJET   by ZO_BigDOGGe   
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What could be better than a jet engine?  ...How about 2 jet engines?

   ZO Dodge RamJET features a pair of Pratt & Whitney afterburning turbojets With 5,578 Lbs. of max. thrust each.  That makes 11,156 pounds of thrust pushing a 9,5oo pound truck!!  This thing could go straight up!!

  Air for the engines are fed thru a front-grill mounted intake and ducted thru the right side of the cab, curving around the driver's position (no passengers in this truck!). The cab's roof has been chopped (lowered) several inches for a more aerodynamic shape..

  Lightweight fiberglas body, lightweight steel-tubing space frame, single rear brake/tail-light mounted beneath a raised, aluminum rear wing,aluminum fuel tank, custom wheels and tires. Lowered for better handling.

  It even has a small electric motor attached to the now-useless driveshafts for maneuvering the truck around the pits, since the jet engines would incinerate everything and everone that was behind it. (Hey...less competition!)

   This is my 1st fiberglas truck build.  I usually don't make 'em because the extra detail slows my framerate considerably, ....But man...was it fun!
 
  The frame is a full-triangled space frame . The wing was found at a scrapyard and reworked with new, bigger endplates.  The body is Bearfoot I reworked to a fiberglas version. (hollow body).

 I borrowed the jet engine from my truck ZO BLUE ANGEL and resized it smaller, then made it into a pair.

 The wheels were made just for this truck from stock wheels modified in binedit to have deeper, larger-diameter rims and repainted.

 The ductwork actually connects to the engines. You can peer into the front intake and see them clearly! (dont get sucked in!). Look under the truck and you will see how the duct curves around the drivers position.
 I tried the afterburner-made-from-taillights idea I used on BLUE ANGEL .  It KINDA looks like its burning...kinda.....

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 BONUS!                ZO Dodge RamJET (BODY OFF)    
  I've included a drivable version of RamJET with the body removed. Sometimes monster trucks are driven without the body during tune-ups and testing, or when the body gets wasted in competion.  All the details are visible, including the rollcage, drivers cockpit,seat pedals steering wheel, seatbelts, gauges and ductwork! 

  Hope you like it... I sure do! This is my BABY!    aprox.80-90 hours building these two trucks!!    (rest time now... done at last!!  WHEW!!)
                                   ZO_BigDOGGe (pawprint)

(P.S.  I kept these trucks just under 1000 vertix's (vertix = polygon intersection) as recommended by Drive2Survive's excellent truck building tutorial. Apparently, some 3D cards can't handle more then 999 vertix's. For more information on this, visit his site and read the tutorial on building a fiberglas truck replica).
  http://members.fortunecity.com/drive2survive/