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DATE OF ARTICLE:  June 27, 1982
SOURCE OF ARTICLE:  Los Alamos Monitor
LOCATION:  Los Alamos, New Mexico
BYLINE:  Terry England
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Lazar:  Jet Car Coverage in Los Alamos Monitor

Los  Alamos  Monitor, Los Alamos, New  Mexico,  Sunday,  6/27/82,
Front Page "LA [Los Alamos] Man Joins the Jet Set -- at 200 Miles
an Hour" By Terry England, Monitor staff writer
4 photos by Al Gibes

The custom California license plate says "JET-U-BET."  This isn't
an  idle  boast, unlike so many other California  license  plates
that proclaim a car a jet.

This  car,  a Honda, has a real jet engine in it.   And  the  jet
engine can move that car:  up to 200 mph.

The  car already was in the family, and it had room to  hold  the
engine.   So,  with a little modification and  a  little  outside
help, a Honda became a jet car.

Why?

"There's no real reason, except for going fast," said Bob  Lazar,
builder of the engine.  "It's going through various  transitions,
and it's always half-done."

It's not the car so much that's important.  To Lazar, a physicist
at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility, the important thing  is
the  jet engine.  It's something he's been working on for  years.
It  started "awhile ago" when working with another researcher  in
NASA on the technology.  Lazar modified the original design  "and
put out more power."

His  first jet-powered device was a bicycle, on which he hit  100
mph.   "The  cops  saw  that and put a stop to  it  for  fear  of
safety," he said.

The engine, the second for the Honda, is made of stainless  steel
and  titanium  and burns liquid propane.  The jet is  capable  of
putting out 1,600 pounds of thrust (although it has been cut back
to  800  pounds for various reasons).  The first jet  engine  was
smaller,  and  the  exhaust was right behind  the  license  plate
holder.   When the jet was to be fired, the holder was moved  out
of  the way.  One time, someone forgot, and the metal  plate  was
shattered by the force.  The Lazars keep a piece as a souvenir.

The waste products are water vapor and carbon dioxide.  An after-
burner  that  uses  kerosene increases the  jet's  efficiency  50
percent, he said.

In tests at a dry lake bed near Los Angeles, the car hit over 200
mph,  he said.  The standard gasoline engine still works  and  is
used  to get the car going to about 90 mph.  The engine  then  is
put into neutral, and the jet engine is kicked in for 30 to 60
seconds.

When  the  car hit 200 mph, the driver, a friend of  the  Lazars,
came back "as white as a sheet."

The  Honda isn't made for high-speed driving.  Indeed, the  total
thrust, slightly above 1,600 pounds, is about the same as the car
weighs.

"Theoretically,  the  car should become airborne  if  the  thrust
exceeds  the  weight," he said.  "If you hit a  rock,  you're  in
trouble.  That's one reason he cut down the thrust."

Besides the rear-area modifications, Lazar said he had to put  in
two  steel  beams in the floor of the car because Hondas  do  not
have  frames.   Fiberglass  was used to remold the  body  so  air
scoops could be added to the roof and sides.

A firewall protects the driver and passenger from the heat of the
engine.   The temperature in the engine compartment  reaches  200
degrees, the limit because of the air flow.  Parts of the  engine
will glow white hot.

At  one point, the Lazars were almost out of money, and  the  car
was unfinished.

"That's when the commercial firms helped out," he said.  Word was
getting around California about the car, and offers began to come
in.

"I  went to a tire dealer and asked for some tires for the  car,"
he  said.   "The  man asked, 'Is that your  jet  car  parked  out
there?'  I said yes and he said, 'Goodrich has been trying to get
ahold  of you.  I've got four tires here they want to give  you.'
They cost $100 apiece," he said.

So it went:  the car received a custom paint job, new tires,  new
seats  and new tire rims (which Lazar never picked up), all  free
"as long as we put their names on the car."

The jet cannot get the car going from a dead stop, which  enables
Lazar  and  his  wife,  Carol,  to  demonstrate  the  engine   to
reporters.   The  car  was driven (in the usual  manner)  to  the
Pueblo  High School parking lot Saturday where Lazar started  the
engine about four times.

One of the oddest sights is this little foreign car sitting in an
empty  lot making noise like a jet plane.  Lazar  explained  that
the  sound  waves in the intake are synchronized with  the  sound
waves from the exhaust, adding to the din.  The waves travel in a
V  from  the  exhaust,  and moving around the  rear  of  the  car
subjects one's ears to a real cacophonous assault.

The noise level in the passenger compartment isn't as bad,  Lazar
said.   That  may  be,  but the sound carries  far  and  wide;  a
gentleman  later told Lazar he heard the noise from the  "topmost
street" above Urban Park.

The  police  are  familiar with the  vehicle,  too.   During  the
demonstration,  a county policeman drove up and asked, "Have  you
been  firing  that thing?"  He didn't ask what was going  on,  he
seemed  to know.  When Lazar said yes, the policeman said not  to
do  it  any more because complaints had been received  about  the
noise.

"The  police have been cooperative," Lazar said.   "They've  been
interested in the car, and sometimes we've seen them come by  and
look at it."

Unlike  most jet engines, Lazar's design does not need  the  huge
bulky   compressors.   This  is  because  the  fuel  already   is
compressed,  he  said, making it the most  efficient  jet  engine
available.   A  standard jet uses six pounds of  fuel  for  every
pound  of  thrust; Lazar said he uses 1.3 pounds of  fuel  for  a
pound of thrust.

New projects for the jet include an ultra-light aircraft  powered
by  a  smaller version, then possibly a race car  with  a  larger
version.

"This  will be strictly a race car," he said.  "The car  will  be
designed  around  the engine, instead of one being placed  in  an
existing car."

The jet-powered Honda attracts a lot of attention for the Lazars,
who  moved  to  Los Alamos about a  month  ago  from  California.
Neighbors  will  gather around and look at it, sometimes  in  the
middle of the night.

Most of the local people are interested in the technology,  which
is a change from California, said Mrs. Lazar.

"People looked at it and said 'a jet powered car,' then tried  to
damage it," she said.  "A lot of people are frightened by it.   I
was at first."

She has driven the car to 135 mph because, she said, "I like  the
speed."

Photo captions:
Bob Lazar (above) attempts to examine the jet exhaust while  it's
running, and as a result he is buffeted by the warm air.  At that
distance, he said, the heat isn't that great.  While he wears ear
muffs,  his  wife  Carol holds her hands over  her  ears  in  the
background.   A  tiny button near the rim of the  steering  wheel
(top  right) starts the jet.  Two gauges on the control panel  in
the  background  give  the pressure and  fuel  amount.   The  jet
(bottom  right)  is  the horizontal tube; the dark  tank  in  the
corner holds the liquid propane fuel.  The vertical portion is an
air scoop.  The car itself is a Honda, modified only slightly  to
accept the jet engine, including installing a firewall behind the
front  seats and air scoops on the top and sides of the  vehicle.
The  standard gasoline engine still works; the car can be  driven
normally.
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