Oh, so when Ryan does it, it's cool, but when I do it, it's "Colin why did you think it was a good idea to downshift at redline from 5th to 2nd?"
Photograph Courtesy Ryan Smallwood/Facebook
Sure, this inline-six runs a bit hot–45,000 BTUs, to be exact. However, that’s just what the builder of this creation, Ryan Smallwood, intended. He turned a BMW M52 engine block into a fire pit.
The builder than added stainless steel and brass fittings, tempered fire glass and high-temperature-resistant paint. The fire pit uses propane, not unleaded gas, as its fuel source. Ryan adds that it’s “built to run for thousands of miles.”
If you’d rather have another engine as a fire pit–perhaps that dead engine in your shop’s corner–that’s no problem. Ryan will work with you on turning that money pit into a fire pit.
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Oh, so when Ryan does it, it's cool, but when I do it, it's "Colin why did you think it was a good idea to downshift at redline from 5th to 2nd?"
Then you add one of those V8 wine bottle racks to your living room.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
Don't forget the side table that's made with an old racing slick.
Colin Wood said:Oh, so when Ryan does it, it's cool, but when I do it, it's "Colin why did you think it was a good idea to downshift at redline from 5th to 2nd?"
thats just engine breaking instead of engine braking...
Should be an Italian v12 for an authentic experience.
Do you think Ryan could make a boxer engine work?
I'd also accept a VW VR5.
It's nice that he made a BMW engine where you can literally throw your dollars into it to burn instead of just figuratively doing it...
In reply to Colin Wood :
Oooh - money shift!
Colin Wood said:Oh, so when Ryan does it, it's cool, but when I do it, it's "Colin why did you think it was a good idea to downshift at redline from 5th to 2nd?"
But the E36 was great for those 3-2 redline upshifts.
Penned by an FD driver who borrowed a new M3 to drive at an HPDE:
"Around and around the Firebird track
The engine was really revvin'
Shifted to second when he wanted fourth
POP! Goes the engine"
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