Monday 21st July 2008
1040bhp Rolls
This is what happens when Jeeves goes drag racing...
These days we are used to huge luxury barges packing in excess of 500bhp but double that in a Rolls Royce seems slightly excessive. Of course this is not a new uber-powerful Phantom but rather a cross between a Silver Shadow and an old American hot rod.
This may not be to your taste but there is incredible attention to detail and it would be fun to take it around the block. The custom-made Roller has just been finished and comes with a 592 Hemi V8 that with the help of a dual stage nitrous system pumps out around 1040bhp.
It may be best to ignore the bling steering wheel and concentrate instead on the built in roll cage covered in leather…
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DaveL485
Original Poster
828 posts
27 months
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Bit bling for me, but still, I wouldnt say no!
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CampDavid
1,166 posts
28 months
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I have no idea why, but I really love that.
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OJ
5,228 posts
58 months
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Is that a Boyd Coddington?
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chris_w666
6,322 posts
29 months
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 wrong and right help
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scubadude
138 posts
27 months
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HA HA! You shouldn't like this... but its hard not to.
I particularly like the lack of wings or body add-ones, at a glance its just lowered and blowered!
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sniff petrol
12,662 posts
42 months
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Kind of a classy Shed of the week. Like it.
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SS HSV
6,792 posts
88 months
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Disgrateful act ditching the original Rolls V8. They are predominently used in top fuel events as a drag motor due to the strength of its over-engineered block. Other than the excesssive bling I love it and had even thought about doing one myself but to make it look right you are going to need very deep pockets. Peter Knight is the right guy to build the engine 
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Fatboy
6,750 posts
102 months
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SS HSV said: Disgrateful act ditching the original Rolls V8. They are predominently used in top fuel events as a drag motor due to the strength of its over-engineered block. Other than the excesssive bling I love it and had even thought about doing one myself but to make it look right you are going to need very deep pockets. Peter Knight is the right guy to build the engine Is the Roller V8 very tuneable then? I didn't realise it was widely used! I'd love to put a Roller V8 in a Mini Van, just so I could have 'Powered by RR' on the front wings, Spifire style 
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Mike Roberts
48 posts
28 months
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ha ha - all it needs now is the Sheik from The Cannonball Run!
I'd have run it on banded steelies and whitewalls personally...
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SS HSV
6,792 posts
88 months
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Yes the Rolls V8 is renowned for its bottom end strength. O/T I would love to do a classic Mini Van too after seeing my mates V12 5.3 Jag conversion. It was rear mounted with no propshaft, the eng of the gearbox joined straight onto the diff and it had Jag IRS on custom fabricated mounts. It also featured a perspex rear window behind the front seats where you could see the pulleys and they were about an inch from your head Sadly it was stolen and then written off before it was completely finished 
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bigbadbikercats
430 posts
38 months
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Fatboy said: Is the Roller V8 very tuneable then? Bentley get 530 BHP in production, fully homologated, euro-legal, factory warrantied trim in the Brooklands so I'd say it was pretty tuneable :-) -- JG
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havoc
15,131 posts
65 months
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SS HSV said: Disgrateful act ditching the original Rolls V8. They are predominently used in top fuel events as a drag motor due to the strength of its over-engineered block.
Other than the excesssive bling I love it and had even thought about doing one myself but to make it look right you are going to need very deep pockets. Agree with all of that. Shame about the un-subtle intake out of the bonnet, and the chrome wheels. Those aside it'd be the ultimate sleeper - Veyron pace and RR grace!!!
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john_r
7,068 posts
101 months
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Errr, are there any larger scale pictures available? Oli?
Probably totally off whack here and might be because they are so small, but the pics look photo-shopped...
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kieronj
266 posts
76 months
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Haha that's great. Much as I love the blower ditch that and I'd happily drive it.  Would have benefited from a mild roof chop I think. Does anyone remember than early Channel 4 series with Jools Holland and Roland Rivron as the naked alien? They travelled around Great Britain showing the alien was it was to be British in a gold(?) roof chopped Rolls. Or did I imagine that? Was around the time I was clubbing 
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Insight
348 posts
28 months
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cool - love it! might need some headrests if your going to drive it that fast though!
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stackmonkey
3,929 posts
79 months
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 Balmoral Green!
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lockup
299 posts
72 months
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kieronj said: Haha that's great. Much as I love the blower ditch that and I'd happily drive it. Would have benefited from a mild roof chop I think. Does anyone remember than early Channel 4 series with Jools Holland and Roland Rivron as the naked alien? They travelled around Great Britain showing the alien was it was to be British in a gold(?) roof chopped Rolls. Or did I imagine that? Was around the time I was clubbing Yes! Yes! Rivron was the Martian in "The Groovy Fellas". I remember the Martian being shown Buckingham Palace and being told the Queen lived there. After a pause he asked, "Is she a very big lady?"
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suffolkpaul
37 posts
20 months
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I know its been done before BUT if ever a rolls deserved the merlin engine then this was the one.
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J111
3,354 posts
45 months
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Bungleaio
1,426 posts
32 months
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Are they silver spoons on the back shelf?
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