This is a 1928 Willys Whippet Tudor Sedan that has been chopped, channeled, and shortened into a 5-window extended cab truck. The bodywork alone took four years to complete. The body modifications include suicide shaved doors, a five inch chop top, roof section filled in with the hood from a 1966 Chevelle and smoothed firewall and cowl panel. By far the toughest part was making the back wall look like it came from the factory as a truck.
The engine is a BMW M70 V12 sourced from a 1992 BMW 850I. On top of the engine are two Holley 390 four-barrel carbs and a supercharger from a Detroit Diesel 8V92 V8. You cannot find an intake for this combo. So the builder made a custom one. The engine was converted from computer controlled to analog controlled via two Chevy straight-eight HEI distributors mounted directly to the camshaft. This turns the V12 into two separate straight-six engines running 30-degrees apart. The engine still has vacuum advance and a dash mounted retard controller. The motor delivers close to 700 horsepower. The truck runs the stock BMW automatic transmission with a COMPUSHIFT controller and paddle shifters to select gears.
The truck is currently down waiting for new bearing in the blower but I can’t wait to see and hear that V12 running in a video. You can view the previous progress in the build thread.
Source: Builder/Owner
Wow cool rad rod and thank you for posting this, it has been a huge help. I’m designing a 1930 GMC crew cab long bed rat rod. It has a a similar engine to yours but has four Precision turbo GEN2 PT118 CEA and four Precision turbo PT106 CEA in compound turbo format.
Hi Forrest. Sounds like a great project. Do you have a build thread or anywhere to follow the build progress?