Ok, so it has not been shaping up like a great summer for news regarding the blue oval brigade. Many of you Ford fans out there expressed your disappointment with the company bailing on the NHRA after next season and we also brought you the news about the company’s decision to cease production in Australia over the next few years. Unfortunately this video may end up being another gasoline soaked log on the already seething fire of Ford lovers in BangShift land.
To start with, this thing is fast. It goes through the traps on the brakes at 9.51/109. The car makes enough power to essentially black track the small rear slicks the entire way down the drag strip, getting pretty sideways while under power and the driver doing a good job to keep the thing from really getting unhappy. The engine making all of this fun happen? A turbocharged Toyota 2JZ inline six. This was the engine found in the hard running Supra sports car that Toyota made so many years ago and the engines can be had out of Japan for reasonable prices still. You probably remember the first generation Camaro that Hot Rod featured with one of these stuck into it. Boy did that cause a firestorm.
There’s no denying that they make big power. There’s also no denying that fans of domestic cars hate to see them stuck in the front of their iron. Call us crazy, but as we’re writing this we can already see the angry comments from Ford fans. Hey, at least it isn’t a Chevy, right? Ok, this could be worse than a Chevy, but we’re trying to help. The car does haul ass though, this is a fact that cannot be denied! The video is from 2011, so the thing may be even faster now. Anyone know the car?
Feel free to express your opinions below….we’ll be hiding under the desk.
Thanks to Scott Brown for the tip!
PRESS PLAY BELOW TO WATCH A 2JZ POWERED THUNDERBIRD BLACK TRACK SIDEWAYS THROUGH A QUARTER MILE PASS!
Awesome!!!!
I dunno, you got to really bleed Ford blue to get worked up about anyone cutting up a Fox body Thunderbird. Well, maybe a Turbo Coupe might get some outrage; I couldn’t tell if it was a TC from that video or not.
It’s not liveried as a Turbo Coupe. It has the silver rub strip inserts and narrow front bumper cover of a regular ’87-’88 Thunderbird.
The ’87-’88 Turbo Coupes have a more aggressive wraparound front bumper cover that extends all the way back to the front wheel arches and covers the lower portion of the front fenders. They also have rub strips with red inserts . . . and “Turbo Coupe” lettering inserts on the door portion of the rub strip ( which fall off after about 15-18 years of weather exposure ($$$ to replace)).
Is that Mission raceway up in BC?
I don’t know the car but I know the track , it’s Mission Raceway Park , here in Mission , B.C. .
Grippo , you must have been typing when I was . Mission is an awesome track , it sits right at sea level .
I am a huge fan of Larry Pfister’s videos……
I am as well , how are you aware of Larry and Mission Raceway ?
Short answer…’4 Days in May’
of course !
Larry put out some great work before he left the drag racing scene but this was not one of his.
Takin’ the bait . . . .
Sure, it’s an apocalyptically hideous idea (albeit not an awful as a LESS-Bird) . . . But sadly it’s been done before (See e.g. “The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift”(2006)).
And the great thing about engine swaps of that nature is they usually can be undone.
Why undo something that works to make it once more like the other thousands of vehicles just like it?
im not a ford guy, but a toyota engine should not be going anything besides a toyota
Meh…
Seems like a lot of work and a lot of money to shove a jap motor in an american car…must be some wacky Canuk drunk on Molson or something…
Dig that amazing blonde mullet!
The car is out of a shop here in the Abbotsford BC area (not far from mission raceway) called Forcefed Performance (google them). I don’t know any of the guys personally, but have seen the car at the track on a couple of occasions while running my street/strip bike. They also specialize in rotary mazdas and have a real rocket of an rx7
At least it wasnt a smallblock chevy!! Oh well, fast is fast so its pretty sweet nontheless, but it does hurt. . . . . .
non turbo coupe is okay but lets toss a 2.3 badge on the side to make it more of a sleeper on the streets
sad….i mean yeah great car and great timing but its a ford and in the v8 class keep it that way dont put no toyota motor in it so it can loose its man card i mean honestly way to end that cars dignity but it made it down the track with good time so i guess thats good i guess u can tell im a ford guy
I dunno, it is kinda good for me to see. For all you Ford fans feeling sad and blue about this, this is what rotor heads feel every time someone rams a V8 where a 13B once resided.
I wonder if anybody has used the Toyota v8-engines or the Toyota powerplants they use in oval tracks, Nascar & other track series. I´ve seen many a Toyota inline fours produce well over 600 hp with a single turbo on Finnish quartermile strips. Quite a lot of them used in smaller dragsters a s well….
As a ’88 T-bird owner I’m amazed at the amount of fox body t-bird hate in here!
GUYS I DON’T CARE WHAT PEOPLE SAY THIS ONE BAD MOTHER!!!! I’D TAKE IT IN A MINUET AND RUN THE CRAP OUT OF IT!!!!
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