Updated - Rod Bods Downunder v12 702cin 32 Coupe

hey IAN...looking for one of those 33/34 salt flat cars you guys built..any complete cars or bodies left??
[email protected] marshall

 

Any changes made, like Groucho said?
Did Elvis keep this car?

 

Last thing we saw of it was in Fury Road last summer... It didn't go to well
Edit; more info here; http://madmax.wikia.com/wiki/Ford_3_Window_Coupe_1932_"Elvis"

 

I saw a 702 in a car museum and it took me a half hour to walk around it.....LOL

 

Just because you do it it doesn't make it right. There's another 32 3W that was built down here recently with a W12 Bentley in it. Entire body was widened 8", FUGLY. I appreciate the work involved however. ...

 

That engine may be rare, but it's the wrong kind of rare. I personally do not like it at all. Good for him for doing what he wanted to do though. Hope he never wants to sell it.

 

From that linked Wiki:

The massive engine on "Elvis" car was originally a V12 Twin Six GMC 702 Cubic Inch (11.5 liter) Petrol Motor usually found in trucks and often mistaken for two V6s welded together.[4] It is its own separate engine design, however, based on a single casting. It used four separate exhaust manifolds, two separate carburetors, two separate distributor caps driven by a single distributor drive and other parts from the 351.[5] 56 major parts are interchangeable between the Twin-Six and the other GMC V-6 engines to provide greater parts availability and standardization. It produced 250 net SAE horsepower (190 kW). Torque was 585 lb·ft (793 N·m).

Ian Davis completely rebuilt the engine in order to increase its power. The engine originally had an oil governor to restrict revs to 2400rpm. Ian replaced the stock oil pump with Moroso external pump.

"It’s still a wet sump but we modified a Holden red motor pick-up that bolts on where the pump used to go. I used the holes where the external cartridge oil filter went and it was quite easy to make a plate with fittings on it. It was a simple thing to do but nutting it out took some time." - Ian "Elvis" Davis

With the lack of oil governor the revs increased to 4500rpm with an estimated 630lb-ft of torque. The fuel economy was very poor, however. The engine being fueled by petrol would get only a couple of kilometers per liter. The engine itself weighed 1485lb [675kg], while the finished car weighed 1740kg - about as much as a Ford Falcon. The engine sucked air in through two 350 Holley two-barrel carburetors with hot rod style intake manifolds.

The engine had two radiators cooling it down. The weight of the water itself forced Ian to install additional spring leafs to keep the car from dropping to the ground.

Shortly after the original hot rod was built in 2009 the production company for Mad Max: Fury Road purchased the vehicle. Ian "Elvis" Davis wouldn't let the production to ruin such a perfect car in the sands of Namibia, so instead he stripped the vehicle of its body, interior, wheels, the grille, the headlights and all the valuable parts. He replaced the body of the car with a fiberglass body, which was later painted to look rusty since fiberglass does not rust. New basic wheels were fitted along with a bucket seat and after additional modifications by the movie's production team - most notably a heavy duty machine gun mounted on the roof, the vehicle was ready to perform in front of the camera. The original parts were used for building a new hot rod fitted with a small block Chevrolet engine.

Three quarters into the filming, during the sound recording stage the sound effects crew demanded the engine of "Elvis" to be pushed to the limit which caused the V12 to break the crank, which rendered the engine useless. The production crew used a fiberglass engine mould and hid a 350/290hp Chevrolet Small Block V8 engine under the 'fake' fiberglass cover. The original V12 was bought back by Ian Davis.

 

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.... what a waste of money and talent IMHO

 

Now if Jay Leno owned it... It would be on the cover of next months HOT ROD magazine! LOL

 

That is one engine.

Why not?

Is that not what Hot Rodding is all about?