the engine is a NOS crate 1942 Ranger V770, used in airplanes during WW2, 520-hp 12.7-liter V-12, which Micheal Leeds was working with back in 2010 to get it warmed up in the below video, which was once owned by Art Arfons
it was built by Dan Dechant, who engineered a better lube oil system for it
and since I've never met Micheal, but have met both the other Blastolene Brothers, Randy Grubb and Rodney Rucker, I figure I should add this following video so you and I both get to know him a little more. He was the creator of Big Bertha, and the term Blastolene is derived from a barbecue sauce Leeds created for a restaurant he once owned
to see the build webpage, which goes into some things like the cooling fins and headers fab: http://blastoland.com/blastoland/BLOWN_RANGER_BUILD.html
and I didn't know it, but Car and Driver did an article about the Blastolene Brothers
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