God a Snowblower?

[partyman66]

Even if live in California or anyplace else that doesn't get snow... you'd probably love to have a snowblower like this:

http://www.gizmag.com/go/4889/

[dholly]

Yeah, saw that. A real Tim Allen or Rube Goldberg Special, take your pick. Just keep an eye on the dog.

Here's the story: http://www.v8snowblowers.com/id15.html

Guys got one hell of a blender too...



How about your very own V-8 Chainsaw?!

[partyman66]

People come up with some badass inventions.

Have you guys heard about the Dolmette Motorcycle? It's powered by 24 Dolmette 79CC Chainsaw engines.

http://www.dolmette.com/

[cmegobyu2]

I wonder how much one of those snowblowers is

[partyman66]

Probably would run you at least $12-15 grand.

You figure a complete Chevy 454 Crate motor is going to run you about $5500 bucks. Then you have to buy the differential that they used(probably another $1200 bucks). Radiator, starter, drive belts/chains are probably another $1000 bucks. Then you have to figure they probably spent another $2000-3000 on the chassis and probably a bunch more money on whatever transmission system they are using. On top of all that... whatever engineering effort was spent to plan and build this needs to be recouped if they want to make any kind of a profit on it... particularly since it is a custom product and not built on an assembly line.

So yeah.. I say at least $12K.