Epic project! I think foams are the only tires that have halve a chance of holding up

This is so SICK! Thanks so much for bringing us this, James 🥳🥳🥳

I think PCBWay is one of the best sponsors the maker scene has ever seen, because it's actually useful.

We don't necessarily like to see the crash --> repair --> crash --> repair cycle. I think many of us appreciate the iterative process, the clever design(s) you come up with, and the reward of seeing the larger goal eventually accomplished. Keep up the good work.

Looks very cool. PLEASE make sure you have configured and tested your radio failsafe this time so if you lose radio signal it goes to zero throttle and brakes on!

Well done. I was a little nervous that your poly rope would melt on full power test. Looking forward to part 2 and a speed run record.

We come for the crazy builds, and stay because of your top tier storytelling James! Always a pleasure to be featured in these master pieces. One day we’ll have a race with my wheel driven car 🔥

I love how much this demonstrates communities coming together for the sake of creative science. Between the RC company the CNC company the jet engine company putting forward parts to make this happen is cool as hell

Hey dude. A lot of great engineering and time going into this. Its really cool. However …. please don’t use those printed plastic joiners to hold your ribs to the chassis plate. I would almost guarantee they won’t be strong enough. The threads are inserted from the same side as the piece they are secured to by the look of it, so they can pull out. You would be much better off getting some aluminium 90deg angle (it’s a stock extruded material). You could drill and tap the angle to bolt it together or drill right through and bolt through. Seriously, it would be a much stronger solution. At 200mph the pressure in the body will be huge. I wouldn’t be surprised if that alone ripped it apart. Good luck mate 👍 look forward to seeing it run.

I am always so blown away at what we can do at home now. I have maybe intermediate 3D modelling skills and I still feel like a mad inventor when I print what I designed. Love the videos James!

You can use tether car wheels (hard rubber with aluminum rims). They are easily good for 200mph+

This is actually so cool! I can definitely see the improvement in your design!!!

This project is absolutely mind-blowing! I believe foam tires could be the only ones with a fighting chance of handling the power. I'm curious to see how they hold up against the intense speed and force. Keep pushing the boundaries of RC innovation! 🚀🔥🏎

Love all your projects! Really can’t wait to see some more of this 1! 🔥🔥🔥

4k for a jet engine sounds like a solid price. I’d be shaking to have that thing roaring up while it’s still a loan. Great ongoing project, really looking forward to the next part.

I'm glad to see all these companies working with you to get this project on the road!

absolutely and delightfully mental! What you’re doing is just way too cool! Glad you got your dad to join in to help. And wow, a nice Jimny and a super clean Mini!! You have amazing taste in cars :).

I absolutely love your cool videos of things you design and build. I can't wait for the video of this going down the track.

ALWAYS a thrill when your next video comes out. I make sure I'm undisturbed to really enjoy it all. You and your projects are an inspiration young man.

Great „Bloodhound“ project! You probably can’t imagine how it rejuvenates me! Youngsters like you make me hope that not all is lost and your father can be proud of you! Good luck!!

Very cool project, can’t wait to see it perform on the runway 👍

Wow the confidence with which you're taking on the records of the RC world is relentless!

I think this channel is just so skillful and creative. Keep up the good work!

Please feel free to do longer videos if you're able, I'm sure people would like the idea as much as I would.

Your dad's comment it exactly the reason to keep watching this series! Looks ambitious - so many potential engineering challenges.

This is looking fantastic! Hoping great success. When it comes to highspeed RC getting enough grunt and making it strong always seem like the most fulfilling part of the design. It gets more tricky like you mention killing lift, and ensuring at whatever attitude these very fast cars don’t become very fast planes. Its interesting how Arma’s body design handles lift pretty well with its reflexed shape, I wonder if their guys could offer some data!

Fantastic work, James! It's looking crazy! 😃 Looking forward to the test run! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

This is an absolutely fantastic project. I'm really looking forward to seeing it run. Love the design and the workmanship. I think real life speed record Jet cars had their wheels made entirely out of aluminium. This could possibly be a path to follow. Perhaps you could get someone to dynamically balance whatever wheels you do end up using.

absolutely incredible!! love it

🔥🚀🏎 What an epic project! Building the world's most powerful jet RC car is truly mind-blowing. I can't even imagine the speed and power it will have. When it comes to tires, I agree that foams seem to be the best option for handling the intense forces and maintaining stability. It's fascinating to see how technology is pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the RC world. Can't wait to see this beast in action!

I love your channel man, its a beautiful engineering based channel that does not even close to have enough recognition, your going to go far

this man has a serious dedication. I just discoverd your channel and your works are really good, keep up the good work gl with your next build :)

Very, very cool. I think you'll want to make wheels that are much much larger so that they can turn at far lower RPM.

Love the engineering on this and your aspirations to get this going! Good luck with the next phase 😎

Been in the rc world for years and the most helpful thing is always local advice. The guys out there running them where you are will be able to give you the most applicable advice for you, especially regarding wheel/tire choice and suspension settings.

This is awesome, can't wait to see a great series abt the jetcar. Smashing work young sir!

I think Making a progressively angled wing powered by the jet exhaust(more thrust=more angle) would be cool/interesting to see if it could be useful or not.

Definitely want to see the twin engine version of this one. I'm sure that's why they gave you 2.

This was so SICK! I loved the projet thanks for showing us, James.🎉

Great to see someone taking a different approach. Feels like all the electric guys have reached the limits of motors/batteries so perhaps jet is the way to go. Wishing all the best for future speed runs. Would love to be involved in the project.

I think it needs a cockpit containing a Race Rabbit. Will make it 15% faster for sure.

Years ago, I first saw one of JetCat's engines on a table being spooled and I immediately wanted someone to do this. Props for making it happen. For traction and straight line, consider 'fan car' downforce (a la Chaparrel 2J, BT46B). You'd need an esc/li-ion/FPV motor, or two.

You're almost certainly pulling a bunch of extra air into the thrust tube with the Venturi effect, I wonder how that changes the overall thrust and final exhaust gas velocity. Super cool project!

You should make a rc plane with 2 jet engines Awesome video! I hope to see more of these kinds of videos

For wheels, I'd be going with something like a solid polyurethane disk then maybe use active aero, well basically a rudder for steering. Or if you want to steer with the wheels, using solid blocks of rubber sandwiched between aluminium disks with screws going through like a beadlock.

Marvellous. I’m loving this!😈 Here’s to part two!👍🏻

Amazing build, can't wait to see what it can do. I think there are much better options for range instead of spektrum.

This is amazing! Would love to see an afterburner on this! How about adding one?

I find it fascinating how a jet engine can pretty easily be held back with a string until it has forward momentum. I suppose you could just use your brakes to start but would there be an advantage to actually having one tied off to allow you to go to max rpm before releasing so the vehicle would reach a faster top speed closer to where you are, helping you be able to control it easier? I have no idea what I’m talking about. Just thought I’d throw it out there.:) great video:)

So, you have a few options for wheels: something similar to the Bloodhound SSC, which are solid aluminium-zinc alloy disks, which can deal with 10 200 RPM. You could coat the rims with latex or something to give it something akin to tyres. You could also do foam based stuff (as some other people have suggested), which could deal with the heat really well due to the air pockets, but they might have too much give. Personally, if I was making this, I'd do aluminium disk for the main wheel, with layers of rubber and foam. But I don't know how that'd be made. But hey, experiment and have some fun! For all I know what I've just said is utterly useless and can't be done.

Pleased to see you haven't given up really looking forward to more, as far as heat protection around the nozzle in other projects I've used the materials out of hair dryers it's very resistant maybe you can get a piece and test with blowtorch you will be impressed. Great work maybe add fuel ring in the afterburner 🔥😎✔️

"As long as I don't damage them, I don't have to pay" - has crashed the car twice before 😂

Dude...I love this stuff 😛 I'm just an old-fart retired Air Force C-130 driver...that machine you built is just beautiful !! I Can't wait to see the beast going full throttle 😎

This is why U r the best of the best! Creating great projects about RC cars and other things!

Absolutely brilliant! At such high speeds it seems like the slightest turn of the steering wheels would result in a huge turn. How did you overcome that?

I have been watching these series since the beginning. Nice work James! Huge support to you and I hope you will break that speed record 💓

love to see people learning and progressing eventhough you have setbacks and that the companies want to help you is amazing and this is why i love engineering. love

another amazing project! I really loved the shots on 10:31 and 10:32 of the heat diffraction! As you pointed out, aluminum tape should help with the engine heat as it'll just reflect the heat away! For the wheels, maybe worth considering making them out of aluminium? Since RC car tires love to separate from wheels at high RPMs (much like the Thrust2 car or the new bloodhound SSC)

I've built a few projects with wheels at ~12krpm. supergluing standard RC tyres to their rims and adding kevlar thread between the treads has always worked for me. I'd have thought rubber-based RC car tyres would hold up better than foam wheels for your project. Something that should be easy for you to build and test

I believe that if you add some kind of device that increases the amount of mass of the car relative to the ground like a small turbine pointing to the ground, maybe you can increase the control of it and maybe the drag

Wicked project, i would def be more geeky on testing. I would be interested myself to know how much thrust it actually makes and what effect thrust tube has (as in theroy its sucking air too which can create cavitations and other weird ground effects + how much flex the steel struts to the chassis under power. SUre your having fun and i enjoyed watching it instead of working haha

I wish that your videos were little bit longer and more detailed. Great work, can't wait to see jet car in action :)

The only thing I'd say is make sure you have the rake of the car set correctly so you have a small amount of aero downforce and the thrust is pushing the car into the ground very slightly. All jet powered cars are set higher in the back to create downforce without creating drag. Good luck with the running of the car, it looks awesome. 😎👍

As a heat shield use a thin paper card on the plastic then put the metal shield on and that will give a barrier of insulator between hot metal heatshild and plastic. Or just wack some exhaust wrapping on the plastic bit. Hope this helps.

Cant wait for part two. im sure you will break the record twofold, the sound of the jet engine wirrring up to throttle is amazing!! 🤩

Such a dope project! I sincerely hope your car hits 200 miles! Honestly, like all past legends and absolute genius masterminds, the ideology lives on, Not Fast Enough :)

Could your augmentor tube be 'bleed' fed from under the floor pan to enhance downforce 'suction' at speed? - if nothing else, it might vacuum all the grit off the track! : )

Hi, have you considered using the Venturi principal as used in passenger airliner's escape chutes as a way of increasing the amount of air coming out of the thrust tube? I noticed the bell shape of the tube inlet and it made me think of how escape chutes inflate quickly and efficiently using small pressurised cannisters. Your prototype was probably already using the Venturi principal because the bodywork was not fitted. Provision for extra air intake over the engines needs will need to be included. Hope this helps and the best of British luck. Think BIG and go for 150mph.

Hi - nice project. I have a wind tunnel at home that I used to design my full-size Le Mans sportscar. The tunnel takes 1/10th scale models (10%) and runs at up to about 100mph or so, scale speed. Our camera shoots at 11 frames per second and, at the moment, I only measure drag and do flow visualisation tests - smoke and cotton tufts mainly. It's a fixed floor tunnel but I may upgrade to a moving floor next winter. The 'sting' and sensors could be also be upgraded to measure centre-of-pressure movement, downforce and general stability. You are welcome to use it. I live in the North Wiltshire area. You could also consider using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics). Once very expensive but, nowadays becoming more affordable....

Bro coulda integrated the shocktowers into the jet engine mount so he could mount the shocks and upper wishbones into that, and gotten that jet exhaust a LOT lower down. Still looks quite nice already.

I was definitely expecting that nylon rope to melt from the jet exhaust and send that thing flying into the side of the building lol slightly relieved and slightly disappointed that didn’t happen 😜

Good stuff! A lot of engineering & over engineering can go into this project. You could use turbine exhaust to create vacuum/low pressure under the car for "down-force"/control issue remedy or "car not go flying". Also, at a low angle look down your path of travel and try to sweep away any rocks/gravel (easier if you have a "street sweeper" and not wanting to literally broom a looooooong generous width path.) Not sure if typical on your controller but variable steering control with speed, would help not over correcting at speed. IIRC most speed record vehicles run on salt/mud flats/ice for a reason, very flat and/or cold. Typically no visible suspension travel or very very stiff setups and aluminum/titanium wheels. Rubber tires (sorry I'm American) are good but it need to be made out of the correct material. heavy solid heat resistant rubber non-laminated/non-layered. Heat of the speed will cause delamination and catastrophe usually follows shortly after. The big Aircraft(Heavies not fighters) tires are retreaded with a +1in(+2.5cm) solid rubber layer and has a whole process to ensure the retread 100% bonds, vacuum/pressure mold, can't remember. P.S. Please use double hearing protection, my tinnitus still has me hearing the whine of APU's of military aircraft I worked on.

Might be worth trying foam tyres. The ones from contact are very good and used widely in rc.

Amazing project!! I would suggest some heat resistant tile material at the back, covering the plastic, rather than foil. You can buy kiln bricks for about £10 uk, and cut them by hand, as they are very soft and light.

I would love to get a jet engine like your to make a RC rocket with it😊 I would suggest you use wheels made from solid resin coated in rubber.

I would love to see an afterburner added to it. Amazing.

This is looking great, what a nice project indeed! 👍💪✌

Have you thought about making this autonomously controlled instead of controlling it by hand? Might be easier at these high speeds and as it moves further from where you're standing.

That looks great! Can't wait for part 2!

The exhaust going into the thrust tube like that will draw air from under the body into the thrust tube. Could you use that effect to your advantage for eg. creating downforce/avoiding blow-over crashes, and forced-air-cooling of anything that might get too toasty?

I’m so glad I watched your first try. This is insane now. Keep going.

I had a horrible feeling that rope was going to get cooked on the full throttle test 😅 glad I was wrong! Epic project! Can't wait to see where it goes

Regarding the lift created on bumps via the body, wouldn't it help to add cuts to the front floor so that any air rushing under it could escape through the chassis, if any creating pressure at the backside and therefore planting the car back on the ground? Interested in anybody with actual experience responding if this could work! Anyway, cool to see you follow up on the landspeed-RC-car, will watch closely! :)

What are you 3D printing with? Is it PLA? I was wondering if PA-CF (Carbon Fibre Impregnated Nylon) Filament would be better for the engine mount as it has a higher melting point. Although this is an awesome project, can't wait to see what's next!

There was a period when land speed record jet cars used spun aluminium wheels (ie no tires, just aluminium), as they were the only things that would hold together at those revs. As they aren't driven , and don't need to grip in eg turns, they provided enough grip. Needed replacement pretty often though, I recall.

Great project! I look forward to the next steps....I guess you could add rocket boosters too ;)

Next time incorporate the thrust tube extension onto the engine not a separate item just use the same shape & taper of the original, you could also incorporate a simple after burner into this tube by injecting raw fuel through a ring with tiny holes spraying into the exhaust just before it exits the pipe you could do this with a simple valve radio activated from 1 of the fuel tanks, can't wait to see the runs

nice project! about the engine mount melting: if you build an airduct around the engine and conncet it to the thrust tube, there should be enough air getting sucked around the engine to cool the mount

Love it. I've got no idea about wheels, but is it possible to make a decently fast wind tunnel using an EDF inspired fan plus Bernoullis principle in the upstream side? I know NASA uses essentially this for hypersonic test tunnels but I imagine 200mph is doable with enough back yard brains

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that thrust tube is probably doing more bad than good. If your concern is CG, you could always just add some extra weight to the very front to keep the wheels down, or maybe a front spoiler? You can make an adjustable front spoiler that would use a servo to pitch to add more drag depending on your current speed.

I was thinking that some ground effect would help with the floor stability, then I thought about bottoming out and porpoising or bouncing at high loads at speed, some stiffer suspension would help this and I think would help the car without ground effect. Some C cups on the springs is a simple way of doing that (I think you know about this anyway with your experience). Drag is also a concern with ground effect too but would be less than traditional wings. This is quite interesting to me to get thinking about this, I'm an engineering student and one of my projects was building an rc f1 car with aerodynamics incorporated so I can't wait to see this progress.

fingers crossed! Love to see these improvements, im pretty sure it will brake the record!

Pretty sure those tyres will not take 200mph-maybe contact Scorched RC and have a chat about what they used (they have the current record at 219mph) Great project and really interesting video-good luck😁

wow. this is realy cool, and yes, as kev said, foam tyers are the only thing that will hold. good luck!

The wheels will be a concern, but more importantly, the Track. A smoother, more level, flawless track is going to be clutch. Matching the wheels to the track is a good idea. Inline skaters use wheels that may be perfect for this. Also look at what their tracks are made of.

For heat shielding you can buy kiln bricks or of available use some stone wool (commonly used for insulation) to stop that melting

The way you set that engine in the tube, is actually smart, not only will it bring in cool outside to cool that pipe, but said cool air will provide further thrust allowing you to gain more output than the engine alone, In the US in the mid to late 1990's they did a similar thing to the exhaust zoomies to drag outside air to make even more downforce than the typical exhaust pipes wound. it was even shown to pull something through the pipe (A rag I think) and shoot it like 50 ft. into the air at one race. Not sure if this was the intention by you, but very smart

Cover the plastic mounts in Starlite, it's pretty easy to make and is extremely heat resistant.

I have an 8s ARRMA Limitless Roller that goes about 125mph. Attaching a jet engine, brilliant idea! It's a great chassis!

For heatshielding, try aluminum tape. Basically thicker aluminum foil with heat resistant glue already attached.