I’m a sucker for a good “save the car” story, you all know this. Normally, I look for the the car that has been left alone for years, that nobody wanted to do anything with, that gets it’s second chance at life. But the same can be said about the car that’s been wrecked, the car that never got a chance to run a ton of miles, the car that died before it lived. Nothing makes me sicker than seeing a neat late-model siting in an insurance lot, and knowing that most people are simply going to part it out and send the shell to the shredder.
Trevor Jamison saw potential with an EcoBoost Mustang that had been tagged in the nose and purchased this Mustang a few years ago. But he didn’t do much with it up until a month before the 2020 DriftWeek trip earlier this year. That’s when he yanked the 2JZ out of his drift Nissan, dumped it into the S550 platform, and managed to get almost all of the electronics to talk to each other. That’s a pretty simplified statement for what has actually happened here…this Mustang is running a Toyota engine from the 1990s with the computer setup from a late-model Ford. Making those two systems work together is no small feat, and that’s before we even look at the drift car aspect of the Ford.
Get a closer look at the car with Larry Chen by clicking on the video below!
