August 9th, 2005
Ultimate Barbeque - HEMI- Powered 345 horsepower, 5.7-Liter V8 Grill
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
No you are not dreaming - this is the ultimate Man’s grill. Short of adding in a jet engine, this has to be hands-down the most most Alpha, over the top grill there is. A sharp contrast to the “Man’s Purse” we featured here yesterday! And there’s still time to buld your own for prime grilling season this summer.
“Yes folks, this is a man’s barbecue. That’s Tim Kowalec firing up Chrysler Group’s one-of-a-kind HEMI-powered grill at an event to announce the top five finalists in the company’s “What Can You HEMI?” contest. Until the event, the HEMI engine was only found in Chrysler, Jeep or Dodge vehicles. With the power and torque of the 5.7-liter V-8 HEMI engine, the grill can cook 240 HEMI dogs in three minutes and is covered by more than 330 square feet of steel. The contest involved people sending in concepts for machines that could be powered by a 5.7-liter HEMI V-8 engine. Five of the best ideas became semi-finalists and Chrysler engineers then built working models of the concept machines.” Source: Gizmag
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch says:
Ultimate Barbeque: HEMI- Powered 345 horsepower, 5.7-Liter V8 Grill
No you are not dreaming - this is the ultimate Man’s grill. Short of adding in a jet engine, this has to be hands-down the most most Alpha, over the top grill there is. A sharp contrast to the “Man’s Purse” we featured here yesterday! And there’s …
August 9th, 2005 at 11:26 am
ramtrax_2k2 says:
now that is just plain sick …… but I like it…I like it
August 10th, 2005 at 4:14 am
Mike says:
I want one - POWER..lol
Mike
August 10th, 2005 at 4:32 am
Skip Tamm says:
What an awesome machine, I mean grill!! Thats living with power and food for thought!
August 10th, 2005 at 7:39 am
John says:
Well, I think it is lacking a critical componet. A beer cooler. I mean what with all that HP and cooking, you have to have something to cool you off.
August 10th, 2005 at 9:16 am
Alice says:
Can you drive it to the store for more beer?
August 10th, 2005 at 10:46 am
MAKE: Blog says:
345 horsepower, 5.7-liter HEMI V-8 engine powered Barbeque
Ultimate Barbeque - HEMI- Powered 345 horsepower, 5.7-Liter V8 Grill. This is the ultimate grill, short of adding in a jet engine. It can cook 240 hotdogs in 3 mins. This was all part of a “What can Hemi” contest. [via] Link.
August 10th, 2005 at 11:50 am
Zipperhead says:
I love the HEMI, too bad these new engines with the HEMI are not a real HEMI like the 426.
August 10th, 2005 at 6:42 pm
Nick Soper says:
Instantly turns any chef into a hairy beast with its immense power. yeah.
August 11th, 2005 at 1:12 am
Mentally Stable (sorta) says:
“That is the gayest #$%@ I’ve ever seen” comes to mind.
This is similar (but backwards) to taking a girble to the vet. There isn’t a point in either.
“Whupty do Basil”, you can cook 240 hotdogs in 3 minutes.
Odds are that if you think this is cool and have an “I want one of those” mentality, the odds are you dont have enough friends to eat even 1/8th of those hotdogs.
Then again, you might. People are attracted to stupid people with money.
Personally, I’ll stick with the 50 buck weber I can get at sams club.
August 15th, 2005 at 3:20 pm
Ronnie Whetstine says:
Can anyone tell me how to get in touch with the owner?
August 16th, 2005 at 9:22 am
Clockwerk says:
HEMIS SUCK
August 16th, 2005 at 12:41 pm
Bob Carli says:
There is an old saying; “A FOOL and his money are soon parted” This is one good example of that mentality.
August 19th, 2005 at 5:11 am
da flame says:
hataz dont know but da icy hot clique already been runnin’ 3 of deez stainless hemi grills. we get the mad honeys togetha for the platinum stuntathon each year yo.
August 22nd, 2005 at 6:53 pm
mike says:
I’ve got a supercharged 426 hemi… wanna race?
September 28th, 2005 at 4:16 pm
Sister says:
It’s a man thing.
December 1st, 2005 at 4:26 pm
jim says:
Regardless of the cu. in size of the engine, the head design is hemispherical, so it is a Hemi. Even the Mitsubishi 2.6 in the Dodge/Plymouth trucks, the Starion eqiuv from Plymouth - the Conquest, the Challenger of 1983 and the Arrow of 1980, all had a Hemi - a Mitsu made 4 cyl - the largest peoduction 4 cyl made. Turbo charged & intercooled and/or new side-draft carbs/cam/headers - it was one little beast, with nearly 200hp stock 20 years ago.
December 17th, 2005 at 10:11 am
dodge sucks says:
Thanks Dodge for ruining the name Hemi for marketing purposes. They created it and they killed it
January 16th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Grant says:
Whats the BTU rating?
March 7th, 2006 at 8:10 am
grinner says:
thats dope as the pope on a rope
March 7th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Dummy says:
345 HP = 257KW
If one puts enough fuel in the engine to run for 1 hour, one will get 876,920 BTU from the cooker.
This is a no-brainer, guys!
March 8th, 2006 at 10:43 am
pure-hoodia says:
pure-hoodia
March 9th, 2006 at 2:50 am
Dodge Rulez All says:
This is the single coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Even if it is kind of useless and a waste of a really awesome engine. I did notice however, nobody makes anything cool out of Ford or Chevy crap.
March 9th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
bogdan bal says:
www.balbjgrill.com
March 26th, 2006 at 8:20 am
farva514 says:
Thats awesome….. Hey (the one that said this was useless) it was a fricken contest Dude!!! They were just seeing what kind of creative imagination could come out of people. Of course not many people would have a grill like this….. Its just something they were able to build that could run off a engine… Its not like its going to be put into production…
Oh yeah you know Hemi’s suck….. wtf are you talking about….. So a 6.1L Hemi pushing out 425HP is not impressive or would you rather hear about the 7.0 426 HEMI cranking out 560HP with 600lb trq. Thats really damn good… I bet you cant even tell me why the call it a HEMI……And dont go looking it up online to make it look like you know…
September 4th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
Imports rule says:
My 1988 Toyota MR2 had a BLOWN-INTERCOOLED HEMI…. and it ran past 200,000 miles with only routine maintenance…
and Toyota knows how to make transmissions too… snick snick snick…
September 5th, 2006 at 6:22 am
Opuim says:
Imagine if it came with NOS! You could cook a whole elephant in five minutes!
September 11th, 2006 at 4:55 am
Cool Dude says:
wtf does HEMI mean?
and omg its a freakin 6litre engine?? and all it makes is around 400bhp? American engine’s suck so much. The BMW M3 GTR has a 4litre engine and it produces a whopping 400bhp and its not even supercharged or turboed…its totally NA. Haha!! I wish america would get their heads outta their asses and actually realise that all the other countries out there have become way better than they think they still are.
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Cool Dude says:
I’m sure a lot of you will get really annoyed by my post but instead of getting angry at me, go and do some research and you’ll realise that American engines are so inefficient, especially since they’ve reached the year 2006 and still their engines guzzle fuel like a piece of shit. And they’re supercharged aswell and produce so little HP even though the engine is so freakin big. A 6 or 7litre engine these days are able to produce close to a 1000hp. Go and look it up on the net and you’ll realise that America is really falling behind in terms of technology…well technology that matters anyway, lol.
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:57 pm
farva514 says:
Hemi means that the combustion chambers are HEMI-spherical, which means that its like a half of a ball. thats where they get the name HEMI from.
COOLDUDE….. i dont know if you have read but the HEMI engines when all the cylinders are not in need they shut them down to 4 cylinders and when its needed its right their when you WHOMP on the gas and all 8 cylinders open back up again. Just the regular HEMI is pushing out 340bhp and its a Chrysler. the 6.1L HEMI is pushing out 425H.P. Both not supercharged. Then like i stated above. the 426 7.0L Hemi can push out 560HP with 600lbs of torque, thats PRETTY damn GOOD!! AND THEY ARE 4 DOOR SEDANS TYPICALLY!!! Now if you were to Turbo the 6.1L you can get over 600HP from what i hear and have seen in some video footage. Also take note that those 6 or 7 Litre engines that you are talking about come from the factory most of the time TURBOED. For example a Bentley can come from the Dealership Turboed already and you are paying 3-5 time more for that much more Horsepower.
December 2nd, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Shark Tooth John says:
The concept is fine as far as it went but with all that potential output, why, oh why, didn’t they just hook up the beer cooler to the electrical system, put a blade on the front to clear a space in the parking lot, and add a side fold down table and chair combination to take advantage of the heat during those Green Bay games?
Just sayin’ the concept ain’t complete.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:21 am
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January 23rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
overkillphil says:
Hey foreign car guy, American V-8 engines produce alot of torque. The OHC engines you guys love so much produce HP on a dyno, but in the real world and open space of the US, torque is king.
We just don’t see a need to wind an engine out to 8000rpms when the race is over at 5000rpms on the street.
Take a look at the typical European engine torque rating vs. American engine and you will learn something.
That’s what separates those who simple read about engines from those who actually build and race them.
February 4th, 2008 at 7:56 am
mopar or no car says:
i agree with overkillphil you stupid fuck
March 10th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
sikka says:
NO ONE MAKES ANY THING OUTTA FORDS CUZ PEOPLE WITH FORD ACTUALLY HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO WITH THEIR LIVES THAN FUCK AROUND WITH THEIR GAY HEMIS
April 9th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
MR MANLY says:
Come on now retards. Quit fighting about whose vehicles are the best. All machinery breaks. Especially General Motors . But just face the facts. The grill is cool. If you are manly you like it. If you are a gay pansy that drives shit like imports and miata’s you probably don’t.
June 29th, 2008 at 4:58 pm