{"id":128781,"date":"2025-03-10T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T19:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=128781"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T22:48:32","slug":"1957-chevy-bel-air-with-a-duramax-v8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=128781","title":{"rendered":"1957 Chevy Bel Air with a Diesel V8"},"content":{"rendered":"

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American Legends Hot Rods<\/a> spent seven years building this 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air. The unique car called “Hellair<\/a>” achieved 30+ Best of Show awards and two Maguire awards. It will be auctioned at Mecum<\/a> in Glendale, Arizona.<\/p>\n

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Inside the engine bay is a swapped 6.6 L Duramax (LMM) turbodiesel V8 built by Hausmann’s Diesel Performance<\/a>. The motor features Diamond pistons, billet valvetrain, PPE exhaust manifolds, and Fleece Performance 68 mm turbocharger. Diesel is fed by a FASS 225 lift pump, Stroker CP3 pump, and a set of 45% over injectors. <\/p>\n

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Poor Boys Diesel<\/a> tuned the motor and made 634 hp (466 kW) and 1098 lb-ft (1488 Nm) of torque. Behind the Duramax is a South Bend Stage 3 clutch and ZF6 six-speed manual transmission. From there power is transferred to a custom rear end with Eaton Truetrac differential, 3.00 ratio, and 35-spline axles. <\/p>\n

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Hellair rides on a Roadster Shop REVO chassis<\/a> featuring AFCO adjustable coilovers, steering rack, and parallel 4-bar rear suspension. Behind the Schott Fuel wheels (19×8, 20×12) are Wilwood six-piston front brakes and four-piston rear brakes.<\/p>\n

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The removed the classic emblems, door handles, hood rockets, and fender louvers for a cleaner appearance. Hogie Shine’s<\/a> covered the smooth body in Cadillac Black Diamond paint accented by tucked chrome bumpers and polished stainless steel trim. Up front they added a set of Dapper Lightning LED headlights and in back are Dakota Digital LED taillights.<\/p>\n

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On the inside you find custom leather bucket seats surround by Crimson Red upholstery and 3d-printed door panels. They added power windows, Billet Specialties steering wheels, Vintage Air AC system, and custom Dakota Digital titanium gauges with “Hellair” logo.<\/p>\n

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Source: Mecum<\/a> and 1957 HellAir FB page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American Legends Hot Rods spent seven years building this 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air. The unique car called “Hellair” achieved 30+ Best of Show awards and two Maguire awards. It will be auctioned at Mecum in Glendale, Arizona. Inside the engine bay is a swapped 6.6 L Duramax (LMM) turbodiesel V8 built by Hausmann’s Diesel Performance.… Read More »1957 Chevy Bel Air with a Diesel V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":128818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bel-air"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1957-Chevy-Bel-Air-with-a-turbodiesel-Duramax-V8-01.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46051,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=46051","url_meta":{"origin":128781,"position":0},"title":"1957 Chevy Bel Air with a Supercharged LS7 V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"September 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air was built for Sonny and Debbie Freeman by Mike Goldman and his company Mike Goldman Customs in Meridian, Mississippi. 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