V-8 house bar

[Tigweldor]

Got an old blown up V-8 sitting in your back yard ?

Turn it into a house bar.

I welded bars into the bottom of the cylinder bores, turned down the pistons as bottom plugs over the welded in bars.

Timing chain, engine and cam sprockets are nickle plated.

The head plates are made from half inch aluminum plate and polished - then fastened with dome headed Allen head screws. You cam use an old head gasket for the bolt pattern and a jig saw to cut the holes - I had mine done by a bud with a machine shop - for some welding in return.

The glass plate is made from 10mm crystal glass - get the mounting holes drilled where you buy the glass.

The engine sits on the crank and can be turned 360°.

The engine block, crank and flywheel are powder coated black - make sure you have the block hot tanked thoroughly before that - else you will have bubbles in your powder coating - that happend to me, so back to sandblasting and start from scratch.

I call this "up-cycling"

 

Greetings

Hans  

Edited Wednesday at 02:21 PM by Tigweldor

[chuck123wapati]

Now that is cool !!!! i have a v6 lol. 

[Tigweldor]

Well - only 2 less bottles - you could afford to fill up with better Whisk(e)y then

The engine shown is a 350 small block bored out - but it cracked into the water jacket on one of the cylinders.

Used to hot rod V-8s for drag racing (bracket) on a small budget in the early 90s, when I got back from the States/Canada.

Edited Wednesday at 04:26 PM by Tigweldor

[Darren8306]

Beautiful work! Something about the photos though...it looks like a miniature.