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Tony Morphett from Creative Custom Cars unveiled his custom Holden FJ coupe utility at MotorEx 2016. Although the project was not finished it was still creating a lot of buzz. Their impressive metal fabrication was on display with a bare metal body which had been lengthened and widened. The entire powertrain comes from the BMW parts bin. The engine is a 5.0 L BMW M70 from a 750 that has two mirrored Nelson Racing turbochargers. Also taken from a BMW were the five-speed BMW automatic transmission, electric steering column, front and rear suspension. The project so far has taken 18 months.<\/p>\n

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Tony Morphett from Creative Custom Cars unveiled his custom Holden FJ coupe utility at MotorEx 2016. Although the project was not finished it was still creating a lot of buzz. Their impressive metal fabrication was on display with a bare metal body which had been lengthened and widened. The entire powertrain comes from the BMW… Read More »Holden FJ with a BMW V12<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fj"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Holden-FJ-with-a-BMW-V12-01.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":125242,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=125242","url_meta":{"origin":10934,"position":0},"title":"BMW E30 with a Turbo M50","author":"swaptastic","date":"December 18, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"MGarage Motorsport was tasked with rebuilding this BMW E30 into a DTM-inspired race car. 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