anyone have cool vehicle ideas that would be awesome to see?

[85_Ranger4x4]

Sorry, that makes no sense to me. Care to elaborate? Maybe pics?

Here is the one we use a lot at work, crazy handy thing to have on a truck. You can see how they look though...

Ok Sheldon, lets just agree to disagree. I understand perpetual motion and believe in a TEMPORARY perpetual motion. A video on youtube claims the wheel they made was spinning for a month before he physically stopped it. I'd say anything that can spin for a month with no help is perpetual. I understand that magnets wear (after a LONG time), bearings go bad (after a long time) and parts wear (after a long time as well). Everything breaks down with movement and time so that's a given. So I will stick with the temporary perpetual motion. There are a lot of good examples like Aldo Costa's wheel and the gravity powered generators and Gravia lamps. Check those out.

They need to be manually started and basically slowly dispense that energy over time. Kinda like a kid on a snow sled. Instead of lifting weights to slowly fall and power an LED light up you walk up a hill.

I am pretty sure they make flashlights you shake and something moves inside to charge a battery which is similar to your Gravia lamp theory.

The electric spare winch is a cool idea but...

What if after 20 years of non use you finally have a flat after a 12 hr shift, hit the button, and the motor dont work....

Simple mechanical objects are the most reliable, espicially the little bit a spare gets dropped.

Personally, i throw mine in the bed

They all screw up. The cables break, the winch part messes up... underslung spares always have been and always will be a PITA.

IMO ditch the cable altogether and come up with something better.

After 20 years of non use who wants to bet the spare is flat anyway?

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Here is the one we use a lot at work, crazy handy thing to have on a truck. You can see how they look though...







They need to be manually started and basically slowly dispense that energy over time. Kinda like a kid on a snow sled. Instead of lifting weights to slowly fall and power an LED light up you walk up a hill.

I am pretty sure they make flashlights you shake and something moves inside to charge a battery which is similar to your Gravia lamp theory.



They all screw up. The cables break, the winch part messes up... underslung spares always have been and always will be a PITA.

IMO ditch the cable altogether and come up with something better.

After 20 years of non use who wants to bet the spare is flat anyway?

Which is why mine is in the bed

But honestly the 77 has no spare and the 97s spare is in my little mower shop being used as a jackstand for a 78 MTD

 

[91stranger]

Something tried in the past but poorly excuted. Car based trucks.

30mpg 5 seaters with a bed large enough to hual a standard atv.
Option cap with 3rd row in the bed.

Subaru brat, dodge rampage, vw caddy, baja, sized. Kind of a shrunken 4cyl ridgeline if you will.

I have had a baja, beds useless.
Ive had vw, brat, and rampage too.
Lovee then but 2 seaters dont work.

Rampage got 35mpg and hualed my quad. Just not my kids.




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The explorer Sport Trak is capable of all that minus the gas mileage. I think they got around 18-20 mpg. Yeah I've been waiting for Chevy and Ford to redo the El Camino and the Ranchero. With today's styling they would look slick. I've seen concepts of them online but nothing in production. It would be nice to see more stock cantilever suspensions. I think those are pretty slick.

 

[bobbywalter]

I want to permanently close the hatch of my B2, extend the frame, and put a pickup bed on the back.

i see what you did there....

Yeah I get that. That's why it is temporary. Its just like Civil War. Those are antonyms too but its still a thing.

well, you will have shit like that i guess....so what was the excess energy...what kind of work can be done?.
























but uhhh.... yeah.... i think i have a better understanding of rusty ol ranger.


it all makes sense now.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

but uhhh.... yeah.... i think i have a better understanding of rusty ol ranger.


it all makes sense now.

Thats as impossible as perpitual motion

I know perpitual motion is impossible, but i didnt realize what i was describing, was, perpitual motion

 

[don4331]

Something tried in the past but poorly executed. Car based trucks.

30mpg 5 seater with a bed large enough to haul a standard ATV.
Option cap with 3rd row in the bed.

Empty nester that I am becoming says a Jetta to pickup might work too - if Smyth did a Focus to pickup, I'd have the kit already.

I told wife I was going to do something like that to her Escape - my sketches looked more Chevrolet Avalanche than the images below - 5" wheelbase stretch & more rear overhang in order to get usable box:

http://www.awrracing.com/images/esclg/esc_frtqtr.jpg
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-medi...ogressive,q_80,w_800/v8lpvrgs7mjhbbqxijvh.jpg
https://i2.wp.com/lacuocapasticcion...undai-santa-cruz-pickup.jpg?fit=728,410&ssl=1

With hybrid drivetrain - 1.5 Ecoboost + battery, battery 45mpg city or hiway shouldb be possible.

I've sketched a Gamma Goat solution to my Explorer Sport to add a pickup box. Widen the rear axle a bit to install something like the Chev Quadsteer and add stability too.

After watching the Melbourne GP, the delay in implementing a MGU-H system aka e-turbo. Pulling a little more energy out of the exhaust seems efficient. The 130k+ rpm turbine speed keeps me from doing it myself, best commercial electric motor-generators, in power region we are looking at, are limited to 15k rpms. I can't build a 10:1 gearbox capable of those speeds/electric motor to withstand those speeds. But another 20% improvement in fuel economy would be nice.