The 900HP Custom Burnout Truck

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BOASTING a twin-turbo engine with more than 900hp – ‘Filthy’ is the world’s first full custom-road registered burnout truck. Owner Michael Lake, from ‘Truckin Stainless’ in Brisbane, Australia, spent seven years working days and nights in his shed to perfect his latest burnout model. A ‘burnout’ is the practice of keeping a vehicle stationary whilst spinning its wheels, causing the tyres to heat up and smoke due to friction. Michael, 42, built ‘Filthy’ specifically for the entertainment of burning out to crowds across Australia, but he also made sure to produce a vehicle that was practical and street-legal for his own pleasure.

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00:01Owned trucks, lived trucks, breathed trucks, it's been my whole life so far.

00:06This is filthy, burnt out truck, heaps of smoke.

00:09Yep, I'm Michael Lake, owner of Truckin' Stainless here in Brisbane, Australia.

00:31This is my truck that I've built for burnouts.

00:39It's got a 28 litre Cummins, that's a white 4000, 75 model, it's got twin turbos, all custom made.

00:58Passion for trucks has been since a young boy, I was a truck driver most of my life.

01:04Yeah, just had enough of it, wanted to get out of it, try something different.

01:09So we started at home, built it up from home, gone from there.

01:14I drew pictures of it when I first started building it and just sort of went from there.

01:20It's pretty much what it looks like on the picture, it's one of a kind.

01:26I started with a set of diffs, started with a set of diffs, put the motor and box in place,

01:42string lined it on my concrete and we started building the truck from there.

01:47Yeah, it's pretty much all custom.

01:50The build's taken seven years.

01:52We go from starting with a cab that was russed out to putting it all together.

01:57Just every night, pretty much, yeah, after I'd finished work, I'd just go out there and just start working on that

02:03until I had enough and then go back up inside and then get up and do it all over again.

02:08It's a bit of old school look.

02:10I've done, we've got a lift up bumper.

02:13It all tilts out, lifts up so I can get over speed bumps and whatnot.

02:17It's a custom grill we've manufactured and all done here in the house.

02:22You see these gauges, they've all got our own custom truck and stainless logo in them.

02:27That's a pretty cool little feature we've got.

02:30It looks pretty good at night too, all light up.

02:33Up here we've got our front brakes.

02:35So we'll hold them down to do a burn out.

02:39We'll hold them down until we're done.

02:48The hardest part would be to...

02:53I was originally marrying the box and the motor up.

02:56Other than that, we ever just worked on it until we worked it out.

03:00The feature would be, I reckon it would be the gruel.

03:03I definitely like the front look of it.

03:05It's definitely in your face.

03:07A custom steering wheel here with a quick release.

03:10I've got the transformer logo over here because everyone reckons it's a bit of a bumblebee.

03:15The whole building process probably, I wouldn't have put a price to it, but yeah, probably $50,000.

03:22The engine is a V12 1710 Cummins, 28 litre.

03:27It's rated at 900 horsepower and 4,000 foot pound of torque.

03:31They can go to like 2,300 horsepower or four turbos.

03:36That's really cracking.

03:38Nah, I don't think I'd ever sell it.

03:40It's just part of the family now.

03:41My friends are a bit jealous of it or filthy.

03:44It's all good.

03:45I get to take them for a run around the block and they soon change their mind.

03:49This truck is outstanding.

03:52Like, I really think it's beyond words.

03:55It's the best truck in Australia for sure.

03:58Yeah, I'm proud of the truck we've built, all the work we've done to it and all the customisation.

04:04One of a kind kind of a truck.

04:07It's definitely different.

04:09Definitely proud of it.

04:10Thank you very much.

04:11Thank you very much.

04:24Thank you very much.

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