thats awesome! im liking the temp gauge where the thermostat would go.

 

That's one of the best ideas I've ever seen. It's gotta be pretty heavy lifting the "lid" though. Does it have a carb?

 

Yeah thats gotta be the coolest thing i've seen all day

 

Pretty cool, those look like special castings though.
No way your going to hollow out an actual block like that even if it were aluminum. Some guy at a foundry or some rich guy with foundry connections probably had those castings poured all out of aluminum. Wouldn't really be very hard after making a couple patterns.
Still cool as hell, watch the net for marketing of these, looks like the originator has a winner on his hands.

Guess they were crazy enough to hog out an actual block!!
Found this link:
http://www.v8-grill.com/

 

lol thats sweet

heres one my buddy built that just hooks on to his hitch