Clutch on turbine?

[andreirs]

I was thinking here. One of the problems of a small engine may be the torque to start moving from a stand... Has anyone ever put a clutch with a heavy spinning disc on a jet engine? I would try this on the future. Another turbine scroll on the exhaust of my engine and then some gears to reduce it to something like 10k rpm. A well balanced steel disc to give some inertia, a clutch and more gears to reduce to driveshaft speed.

[racket]

Hi Andrei

My two shaft kart jetandturbineowners.proboards.com/thread/40/2-shaft-turbine-kart-build simply had an ~8:1 karting gear ratio provided by the karting sprockets and provided reasonable performance , the addition of a karting centrifugal clutch would be all thats required for your engine

Cheers
John

[andreirs]

Your kart looks so well made. The idea with the flywheel and clutch was actually high torque availability. It would be cool to have a vehicle capable of some "squeaky tire noises" when speeding up.