Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle

Re:Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle by cortesoft on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:24PM (#37783071)

In California, you have to register your car and have it pass a smog test. How would this pass that?

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Re:Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle by btilly on Thursday October 05, 2023 @04:14PM (#37783723)

Just drive on the gasoline engine.

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Re:Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle by lmm on Thursday October 05, 2023 @10:56PM (#37786707)

Doesn't the smog test require you to run your car at the peak power it can do, or something like that?

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Re:Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle by btilly on Friday October 06, 2023 @12:44AM (#37787179)

Floor the accelerator, yes.

Find a toggle for an unrelated afterburner? Not so much.

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Re:Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle by jamiek88 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @08:10PM (#37785810)

I’d hate to be the minimum wage tech tying to figure that out!

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Re:Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle by mhb on Friday October 06, 2023 @01:02AM (#37787258)

Aren't "inspections" nowadays done only by plugging into the OBD port? So, no problem?

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