Someone's Already Working On A 2JZ-Powered A90 Toyota Supra
It was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? Hopefully silencing all those keyboard warriors who - for some reason - thought it was feasible for Toyota to design, engineer and sell a brand-new powered by a near-30-year-old engine, a 2JZ-powered A90 Supra is actually happening.
The car is being built at D1 GP drifter Daigo Saito’s Fat Five Racing in the Greater Tokyo Area. You might remember a rear-while drive, drift-spec Lamborghini Murcielago from the same brilliantly mad people.
The 2JZ straight-six in question displaces 3352cc and will be good for around 800bhp. Other modifications will include a widebody kit, and inevitably, all the usual drift car accouterments like a hydraulic handbrake and a big increase in steering angle. We’re expecting HKS to have some involvement with the car, the Japanese firm having supplied suspension components and other parts for some of Saito’s previous projects.
We won’t have to wait that long until we see the finished article, either: the car - thought to be the world’s first drift-spec A90 GR Supra - will make its debut at the D1GP All Star Shootout on 23 March in Odaiba, Tokyo.
We’ve no doubt how much it’ll cost to build, but whatever the figure, it’s going to work out better value than a $173,600 A80 Supra.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Commented at 50 seconds within posting this lol
That’s rly cool
Well that was fast lol
“It was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? Hopefully silencing all those keyboard warriors who - for some reason - thought it was feasible for Toyota to design, engineer and sell a brand-new powered by a near-30-year-old engine, a 2JZ-powered A90 Supra is actually happening.”
That’s one of the most passive aggressive things I’ve ever read
9 year olds who’ve never driven a car running to his Instagram page:
Imagine sinking your life savings into your 2JZ A90 with Garrett turbos just to get f*ing merked by Aaron and his B58 Supra with an eBay chip, and blaming it on the fact that you forgot to pray to your Paul Walker shrine this morning
Well it’s about time!
Judging from the amount of chassis modification, only the outer shell was left from the original car thus undermining work of thousands of engineers, IMHO looks to me like a publicity stunt, should’ve just tuned the original engine to see how much it would make.
Rear while drive drift spec lamborghini murcielago?
This should shut up the fanboys