The list of cars that, according to the masses, should be built one way and one way only grows bigger and bigger. And the hilarious knee-jerk reactions to someone who bucks the trend and builds what they want, or builds to achieve a goal that doesn’t involve a formatted recipe, keeps getting more and more ridiculous. Hot rodding in general started out with people kit-bashing unwanted vehicles together to make something that was more than the sum of it’s parts. That’s why you would find flathead Ford V8s and Cadillac V8s swapped into just about anything under the sun in the early days.
Behold, the Mark IV Toyota Supra. Thanks to one movie series, the build program for one of these cars is straightforward and simple enough: boost a 2JZ inline six to within an inch of it’s life, make it sound like a Dyson vacuum is trying to snort a lava flow and add nitrous just to make sure that you can wipe the floor with the local supercar kids. It’s not a bad program…there’s plenty of four-digit six-cylinder Supras that can stomp a mudhole through just about anything they roll up against. But there is one engine that historically can do better…
That’s right, the mother of all motors, Chrysler’s Hemi. 526 cubic inches of bellowing anger on it’s own would leave many backing away slowly. Add in one Precision 118mm turbocharger to force-feed an elephant, and you end up with enough grunt to wrinkle an interstate with. Ten-second ride, huh? How about going one better…and getting rid of those funky graphics off of the doors while we’re at it?
Beats an LS any time!
We can hope the Mopar that donated its HEMI engine received the 2JZ in return for its sacrifice!