This is some thing monstrous. I have never seen a car this big with a wheelbase of more than 15 ft. This is not some thing kept in museum but is driven by Leno the owner of this car. The car weighs 10,000 pounds and is powered by a 30-liter V12 — each of those 12 cylinders is bigger than a four-cylinder Toyota engine.
This is really big and I can’t just imagine how much power it could generate but still the greed of more never dies so Leno’s decided to up the performance and the fuel economy an handed the engine over to his friend a high-performance tuner Gale Banks .
Gale and his team spent 1500 hours to upgrade the engine and have now successfully turned it into a turbocharged engine using Bosch electronic fuel-injection control unit based on the company’s MS 2.9 system for Formula One race cars, two serious 91mm magnesium Garrett turbochargers, and some good looking metal caps to give the car a better appearance. All these modification doubled the fuel economy from 3 mpg to nearly 6.
This car has a top speed of 145mph, I am sure owning, and driving a tank car is enough to get noticed anywhere.
Via: popularmechanics
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