Anybody ever seen Armageddon?? The space shuttles in it are KB Supercharged, lol

[caseywan]

So Armageddon was on TV tonight and I was watching it for a few minutes, and there's a part while the guys are training or whatever and Ben Afleck and Owen Wilson were talking about Star Wars and Owen wilson is cleaning off a polished Kenne Bell Blowzilla that was sitting on end with the snout up in the air! Just kinda got a kick out of that! Seen it a dozen times but never noticed it

 

[grey5.0beast]

Are you sure?? I might need to watch it real quick. Thats cool though if it really is.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Wasn't the space ship..but the drilling rig.


I won't even get into the technicalities of supercharging in a vacuum....

 

[caseywan]

Yep, I'm sure, and there's a shorty header there and Ben Afleck is taking screws out of a billet crank

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[Mustang5L5]

Yup, those were for their drilling rig in space. It even had a manual transmission with a hurst shifter. It was the machine that had the machine gun on it...the one they had to replace 3 transmissions on?? Must have been a T-5

 

[hemi_fan]

thats pretty ballsy for the americans to rely on a Ford to save the planet...

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Wasn't the space ship..but the drilling rig.


I won't even get into the technicalities of supercharging in a vacuum....

Yeah how exactly do you compress air when there isn't any?

 

[Mustang5L5]

Yeah how exactly do you compress air when there isn't any?

Exactly


Any air will have to be bottle fed air stored in liquid state.

It's very unpracticale. Lunar rovers were fueled by fuel cells, solar power, and China has developed a nuclear powered rover.

A KB equipped 5.0 in space sounds great for movies, but the guys at NASA would laugh at you.

 

[88_GT_5_oh]

It was the machine that had the machine gun on it...the one they had to replace 3 transmissions on?? Must have been a T-5

haha i said the same thing. no one else got it though

 

[2Tone5.0]

Yup, those were for their drilling rig in space. It even had a manual transmission with a hurst shifter. It was the machine that had the machine gun on it...the one they had to replace 3 transmissions on?? Must have been a T-5

LOL'd at the T-5 comment. so true

 

[PUNISHER RACING]

there is even a mustang header and 302 header gasket on the bench I never paid attention to that before

 

[caseywan]

I'll betcha the bought that stuff for the movie and then either threw it away or pawned it off for next to nothing after filming.

 

[ill advised]

The way those afterburners kicked in, that is vtec all the way.

 

[Gearbanger 101]

Thank god they didn't have any problems with the unit itself. I can imagine what Kenne Bells customer service is like in Space when you consider how bad it is here on earth.

"Sorry.....we really tried to save the earth, but those SOB's at Kenne Bell just wouldn't answer their phones! When they finally did get off their lazy asses and pick up, they wouldn't help me with my problem because I was using their product on a custom application....even though it shared the exact same drive train as a Mustang!"