Car Spotlight>> Sema 09: The Rig Rod

This giant scaled up Hot Rod is the latest creation from the Southern Oregon based Blastolene shop. These are the same crazy minds responsible for Jay Leno's tank car…. It's a connection which immediately makes a lot of sense!

Designed by Randy Grubb, the Blastolene design philosophy is based around finding unusual large displacement engines and building up drivable "sculptures" around them.

The 12v71 Detroit Diesel with twin 671 superchargers is an industrial application engine normally found in generators. Each of the twelve cylinders displace a whopping 71 cubic inches!

It's completely stock but still manages to generate 500 bhp and a staggering 1000 foot pound of torque.

The truck/car/rod initially featured zoomie exhausts but perhaps the diesel fumes were entering the cab. The headers now collect into vertical exhaust stacks.

The look of the car is based on vintage Altered drag cars and features many one-off scaled up drag inspired features like these one-off giant spoked rims.

The official name of the car is "Piss'd Off Pete" which refers to the Peterbuilt semi trailer/lorry cab and its aggressive looks. The back of the roof has been chopped five inches with eight being taken out of the front to get a strong rake effect.

The bare aluminum look is carried through to the interior of the car and features leatherwork from a local Oregon saddle maker. The four speed automatic gearbox has been lifted out of a Greyhound bus!

Here's a shot of the back of Rig Rod. You can see many semi trailer-like details here.

The rear diff is nickel plated.

The brakes are stock big rig items.

The sculpted gas tank holds a mere 35 gallons. You wouldn't get very far on that!

Ok next up I'll be looking at JR's new toy in more detail: the all carbon fiber RTR-C.

:Rod

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1

It looks like a litte peterbilt truck, it's great!!!

2

My god.



I mean.



Seriously.



MY GOD.

3

Thankyou! That thing is AMAZING! I wonder how it drives....looks like it gets quite hot inside the cab.

4

CORRECTION, it's a little pettebilt!! That's so cool, never seen one of those before...

5

I bet it's like a oven in the cab.

6

MORE PICTURES OF THE INTERIOR PLEASE!! AWESOME TRUCK LOVE THOSE PIPES

7

mega. thats the inly word i can think of to describe it. And the craftmanship is excellent as well,

8

Sickest leaf springs in the world.

9

MOAR!!! I never thought that leave springs could look so good! Now this is a work of art! My only complaint would be that the front wheels need to be wider!!

10

I want to see that thing smoke the tires. It's just begging to do it.

11

this is so cool!

12

If I'm not mistaken, Jay Leno drove this on his online show. If anyone would like to watch go to http://www.jaylenosgarage.com , and look under videos.

13

now that's crazy... would be interesting how fast it is...

14

Blastolene - enough said! It's epic!

15

industrial application engines? WAOH!!!

16

Wow just WOW, looks viscous !

17

Needs bigger gas tank. Besides that, this little truck rod is amazing.

18

I wanna have a ride, should be one of the best experiences in life!

19

This is easily one of the coolest custom rods I've ever seen. Very nice!

20

thats badass peterbuilt ftw

21

"The 12v71 Detroit Diesel with twin 671 superchargers is an industrial application engine normally found in generators."



Sorry but that is a 671 detroit with twin 12v71 blowers! Learn your american muscle!

22

Mike I'm sorry but you have your facts wrong the 12V71 is a Detroit Diesel engine. Just google it and see.



: http://www.dieselenginemotor.com/diesel/engines/3686,1.html

23

That is one piece of art! Amazing.... I wonder how it handles :))

24

Ron you are absolutely right sorry and thank you. I have always associated the 8v71, 12v71, 16v71, designation for the blowers we used on boats and the 16v on a flow bench for heads.

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