(EDIT: For spelling fixes and such.)
As far as I knew, this Jetta had started out life as a regular vehicle for a regular man. He later sold it to his son. Apparently, that son had aspirations to make it into a tuner car because he had applied a cheap black spray paint job in an effort to give the Jetta a two-tone racing scheme. Of course, things hadn't worked out for him, and the paint job didn't hold up. He had sold it to my mom and dad for a song, and the paint had begun to peal away.
For a long time, it was a regular vehicle for my folks until it developed engine trouble. They told me that I could have it if I could get it working again.
Jettas, even the older ones, made for very good cars if you could get them in good condition and treated them right. They made for even better tuner cars if you knew what to do. Visions of racing against the other local tuners in an older, but well kept, deceptively stock-looking Jetta danced before my eyes. So, I tried to get the poor thing working again and I took to calling her Gina. Unfortunately, there was something wrong inside the engine itself. Coolant would show up in the oil and that was never a good sign.
And so, Gina sat, forlorn, in our driveway, awaiting a time when I could find a good performance engine to drop into her. Perhaps now I could give her something even better.
I started by making sure that I had a growing supply of handwavium on hand. It simply would not do to run out of this stuff in the middle of my grand project. Then, while that was percolating, I began collecting every single bit of Battletech RPG I could find concerning Valkyries I could get my hands on, as well as pictures of the Delorean from Back To The Future II in it's flight mode.
After about a month I felt that I finally had enough raw materials and got the Jetta onto jack stands. From there, I first coated the engine block and transaxle with handwavium and then literally began to paper mache the whole thing with the Battletech stuff, along with several printouts with specifications of vehicles used by character from EPU's Symphony of the Sword. If this didn't give me a fusion turbine power plant, then I don't know what would.
Leaving that to set, I then took off the wheels, coated the brake assemblies with Handwavium and paper mached those with the Flying Delorean footage, did the same with the wheels, and bolted them back on. If that didn't make this thing fly, I didn't know what would. I took it a couple of steps further, of course. I got an Autobot decal and stuck it on the hood, and then coated down the whole thing with Handwavium. Inside and out. Nothing was left untouched this time. I even went underneath on a creeper with a face shield and HAZMAT apron (available at many auto parts stores) and coated the underside as well.
And then, I waited.
The process had taken me a full day's worth of work, so I checked my usual stuff on the internet, and then spent some time playing Crazy Taxi on my computer using a Game Cube emulator, and then watched a couple of my favorite Anime Music Videos centered around Asuka. I began to does at that point, so I went and crashed out in my bed.
The next day, I went to work.
When I came home, I immediately went to the Jetta and noticed that it looked a lot cleaner and neater than before, and it was no small wonder, too. The Handwavium had neatened up the two-toned black and gold racing paint job someone had made a cheap attempt at. Even the bits of rust were gone, replaced with gleaming black and gold bodywork. The windows had become tinted silver and I could not see through them for the life of me. Opening the driver's door I saw no major difference at all in the interior. Very curious. With a mental shrug, I popped the hood. The mess of paper mached Battletech and Symphony of the Sword printouts were still there, so I began to tear it all off.
"Whoa," I breathed as I saw what was underneath. Whatever it was, it was a lot smoother and sleeker than the Jetta's original gas-burning four-cylinder engine.
I then went to the wheels and began to tear the paper mache off of those. Well, I guess I should have expected that the original VW Alloy rims would have been transformed into the same rims on the Delorean. I unbolted one and took a look inside. Whatever it was that was in there, it looked like some sort of combination of drive motor and thruster. The paper mache I had applied to the brake assemblies before was now gone.
Weird.
But I guess that was to be expected. Anxious, I bolted the wheel back on, got the remaining paper mache off the others, and packed into a garbage bag (Heaven only knew what this stuff could do the bird that lined it's nest with it!) and got the Jetta off of it's jack-stands.
I got into the driver's seat.
I shut the door.
I buckled myself in.
I inserted the key into the ignition.
And I started the engine.
It made a sound not unlike it had before when it was running, only it tone was deeper, throatier, hungrier, and with just a touch of the sort of whine that jet engines made.
It was only now that I discovered what few differences there were on the interior. For one thing, the instrumentation readouts were a bit different. The speedometer, for instance, read in increments of C from zero to zero-point-one. Even more odd was that where one needle for the tachometer would be was two - my tachometer now had a second needle that indicated...
I blinked and looked again.
Yep. Megawatts. The dial went from zero to just a touch past twelve, and underneath were it said RPMx1000, it also said Mwx100.
If this was to be believed, this thing could put out 1.21 Gigawatts. Coincidence? I think not.
Whew! That was fun!
Now, don't go all off in a huff. That just means that she's got some serious power output. Plenty extra for adding something usefull later on down the line. Something like, oh say, partical beam projectors maybe?
Black Aeronaut Technologies Group
Aerospace Solutions for the discerning spacer
"But first, let's test it on the penguin."
"Meep?" O.o
As far as I knew, this Jetta had started out life as a regular vehicle for a regular man. He later sold it to his son. Apparently, that son had aspirations to make it into a tuner car because he had applied a cheap black spray paint job in an effort to give the Jetta a two-tone racing scheme. Of course, things hadn't worked out for him, and the paint job didn't hold up. He had sold it to my mom and dad for a song, and the paint had begun to peal away.
For a long time, it was a regular vehicle for my folks until it developed engine trouble. They told me that I could have it if I could get it working again.
Jettas, even the older ones, made for very good cars if you could get them in good condition and treated them right. They made for even better tuner cars if you knew what to do. Visions of racing against the other local tuners in an older, but well kept, deceptively stock-looking Jetta danced before my eyes. So, I tried to get the poor thing working again and I took to calling her Gina. Unfortunately, there was something wrong inside the engine itself. Coolant would show up in the oil and that was never a good sign.
And so, Gina sat, forlorn, in our driveway, awaiting a time when I could find a good performance engine to drop into her. Perhaps now I could give her something even better.
I started by making sure that I had a growing supply of handwavium on hand. It simply would not do to run out of this stuff in the middle of my grand project. Then, while that was percolating, I began collecting every single bit of Battletech RPG I could find concerning Valkyries I could get my hands on, as well as pictures of the Delorean from Back To The Future II in it's flight mode.
After about a month I felt that I finally had enough raw materials and got the Jetta onto jack stands. From there, I first coated the engine block and transaxle with handwavium and then literally began to paper mache the whole thing with the Battletech stuff, along with several printouts with specifications of vehicles used by character from EPU's Symphony of the Sword. If this didn't give me a fusion turbine power plant, then I don't know what would.
Leaving that to set, I then took off the wheels, coated the brake assemblies with Handwavium and paper mached those with the Flying Delorean footage, did the same with the wheels, and bolted them back on. If that didn't make this thing fly, I didn't know what would. I took it a couple of steps further, of course. I got an Autobot decal and stuck it on the hood, and then coated down the whole thing with Handwavium. Inside and out. Nothing was left untouched this time. I even went underneath on a creeper with a face shield and HAZMAT apron (available at many auto parts stores) and coated the underside as well.
And then, I waited.
The process had taken me a full day's worth of work, so I checked my usual stuff on the internet, and then spent some time playing Crazy Taxi on my computer using a Game Cube emulator, and then watched a couple of my favorite Anime Music Videos centered around Asuka. I began to does at that point, so I went and crashed out in my bed.
The next day, I went to work.
When I came home, I immediately went to the Jetta and noticed that it looked a lot cleaner and neater than before, and it was no small wonder, too. The Handwavium had neatened up the two-toned black and gold racing paint job someone had made a cheap attempt at. Even the bits of rust were gone, replaced with gleaming black and gold bodywork. The windows had become tinted silver and I could not see through them for the life of me. Opening the driver's door I saw no major difference at all in the interior. Very curious. With a mental shrug, I popped the hood. The mess of paper mached Battletech and Symphony of the Sword printouts were still there, so I began to tear it all off.
"Whoa," I breathed as I saw what was underneath. Whatever it was, it was a lot smoother and sleeker than the Jetta's original gas-burning four-cylinder engine.
I then went to the wheels and began to tear the paper mache off of those. Well, I guess I should have expected that the original VW Alloy rims would have been transformed into the same rims on the Delorean. I unbolted one and took a look inside. Whatever it was that was in there, it looked like some sort of combination of drive motor and thruster. The paper mache I had applied to the brake assemblies before was now gone.
Weird.
But I guess that was to be expected. Anxious, I bolted the wheel back on, got the remaining paper mache off the others, and packed into a garbage bag (Heaven only knew what this stuff could do the bird that lined it's nest with it!) and got the Jetta off of it's jack-stands.
I got into the driver's seat.
I shut the door.
I buckled myself in.
I inserted the key into the ignition.
And I started the engine.
It made a sound not unlike it had before when it was running, only it tone was deeper, throatier, hungrier, and with just a touch of the sort of whine that jet engines made.
It was only now that I discovered what few differences there were on the interior. For one thing, the instrumentation readouts were a bit different. The speedometer, for instance, read in increments of C from zero to zero-point-one. Even more odd was that where one needle for the tachometer would be was two - my tachometer now had a second needle that indicated...
I blinked and looked again.
Yep. Megawatts. The dial went from zero to just a touch past twelve, and underneath were it said RPMx1000, it also said Mwx100.
If this was to be believed, this thing could put out 1.21 Gigawatts. Coincidence? I think not.
Whew! That was fun!
Now, don't go all off in a huff. That just means that she's got some serious power output. Plenty extra for adding something usefull later on down the line. Something like, oh say, partical beam projectors maybe?
Black Aeronaut Technologies Group
Aerospace Solutions for the discerning spacer
"But first, let's test it on the penguin."
"Meep?" O.o