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We first wrote about Joe Holyfield<\/a>‘s amazing 1974 MGB GT called “Double Agent” back in August. Joe recently reached out to us to share photos of the build process. You get a some sense of the work RM Motorsports<\/a> did to fit a Roush Performance 5.0 L Coyote V8 into such a small car and everything needed to handle it’s 500 horsepower. You can view more photos and specs in our previous article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We first wrote about Joe Holyfield‘s amazing 1974 MGB GT called “Double Agent” back in August. Joe recently reached out to us to share photos of the build process. You get a some sense of the work RM Motorsports did to fit a Roush Performance 5.0 L Coyote V8 into such a small car and… Read More »Joe Holyfield’s Build Photos of his 1974 MGB GT with a Coyote V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29051,"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,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mgb"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26466,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=26466","url_meta":{"origin":29047,"position":0},"title":"1974 MGB GT with a Coyote V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"August 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This 1974 MGB GT called \"Double Agent\" was built by Joe Holyfield and RM Motorsports in Wixom, Michigan. 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