Cross Fire or Turbo
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Cross Fire or Turbo
KITT's Fuel Management system seems to be a mystery.Did KITT have
a Cross Fire or Turbo?He had both.When you looked a some screen
shots you could see the Cross Fire system which was on the screen
KITT and some screen shots you could see the Turbo system which
was on the stunt car KITT.The Knight Rider book supports the Cross
Fire while the 1/18 scale die cast model has a Turbo.Depends on what
a person prefers.I like the looks of the Cross Fire system better.
a Cross Fire or Turbo?He had both.When you looked a some screen
shots you could see the Cross Fire system which was on the screen
KITT and some screen shots you could see the Turbo system which
was on the stunt car KITT.The Knight Rider book supports the Cross
Fire while the 1/18 scale die cast model has a Turbo.Depends on what
a person prefers.I like the looks of the Cross Fire system better.
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For the story part, I think KITT had a Knight Industries Turbine Turbo with modified afterburners.
For the actual cars, there's some info on the Season 1 DVD set on it. I think they did have some cars with Crossfires and some had the Chevy 350. Some (I think the 350s, not sure) had the racing fuel cells in the back trunk/hatch area under the "floor" part.
I'd have to watch the "extras" again sometime to be sure.
For the actual cars, there's some info on the Season 1 DVD set on it. I think they did have some cars with Crossfires and some had the Chevy 350. Some (I think the 350s, not sure) had the racing fuel cells in the back trunk/hatch area under the "floor" part.
I'd have to watch the "extras" again sometime to be sure.
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True. Especially when they would do jumps and you see under the car. Yet, if you got the KITT Kit (or I think it's also at the Knight Rider Archive), you'd see that he had a not-so-stock underside, with rockets on the bottom, and a huge coil-thing for some kind of electromagentic thing I think. But in the show, when he jumped and you got to look at the underside, all that stuff isn't there.
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Army, that would make more sense because of the turbine, but in the series what little peeks there were under KITT's hood showed the engine in the front. For a T/A to have an engine in the rear, I don't know how that could be possible. I'd love to see a pic of the underside of the Kenner KITT. They must have done a great job on the detail and might be one of the most accurate replications ever. I wish the die-cast and other models were that accurate.
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Yeah, it's kind of strange that the Kenner K.I.T.T. of all cars seems to be one of the most accurate (except for the dashboard and "Knight 2000" logos). It's basically a stock Trans Am with a modified nose and a dashboard; why is it so hard for these companies to be accurate?
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Re: Cross Fire or Turbo
I think you mean Crossfire or Carborated.TransAmKITT2000 wrote:KITT's Fuel Management system seems to be a mystery.Did KITT have
a Cross Fire or Turbo?He had both.When you looked a some screen
shots you could see the Cross Fire system which was on the screen
KITT and some screen shots you could see the Turbo system which
was on the stunt car KITT.The Knight Rider book supports the Cross
Fire while the 1/18 scale die cast model has a Turbo.Depends on what
a person prefers.I like the looks of the Cross Fire system better.
they didn't have turbos back in 82 that I recall.
But yes, they had tend to show both on occasion.
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Let me help you out a bit, TikaFuzzieDice wrote:I'd love to see a pic of the underside of the Kenner KITT. They must have done a great job on the detail and might be one of the most accurate replications ever. I wish the die-cast and other models were that accurate.
P.S. Nothing is really missing from the rear part of the car. The deep slot on the right part is where you adjust KITT's voice with a slider switch (it can be made to speak fast or extremely slow). You need a small stick or a small pinky finger to get in there and do the adjusting.
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If that orb is his CPU,then that would explain his appearance in TKR...FuzzieDice wrote:Hmmm... not what I had first expected. No Electromagnetic distrupter, or rocket boosters in the back, that I could tell. BTW, that orb thing in the front underside... would that be KITT's CPU?
Cool underside nonetheless. I agree, kinda spaceship-like.
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