Toyota Has Tuned The GR Supra Engine To 1000bhp
There will be a 1000bhp GR Supra engine on display at Toyota’s SEMA 2019 stand, the Japanese company has confirmed.
The B58 turbocharged straight-six, borrowed from yes-we-know-that-already -so-just-get-on-with-it, has been tweaked right up to four figures with an as-yet unspecified combination of induction and exhaust tweaks.
You can bet that exotic metals will feature among strengthened internals, a larger turbo and possibly even a higher rev ceiling. The standard B58 tops out at 7000rpm so there is some room to raise that.
Toyota slipped this nugget of information into a low-key press release outlining the date and time of its SEMA press conference. It’s 10:00 Pacific Standard Time today, if you’re wondering. The 1000bhp engine news was only on line six of the list of things the company is showing off, after a new 2020 GR Supra ‘Premium’ model, modified Supras from pro tuners, a GR Supra pace car, TRD-spec Camry and Avalon models and a couple of GR Supra race cars.
Suffice it to say we’re interested in all of those to a greater or lesser extent, but we know where we’ll be looking closest…
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10 y/o fanboys:
REEEEEEE, nOt A sUpRa
It blatantly is, isn’t it? Clearly the same kind of car with the same ethos and the same potential for tuning. Who cares where the greasy bits come from? Like the GT86, we’ll miss it when it’s gone.
“…a couple of GR Supra race cars.”
If one of them isn’t a top tier JGTC (sorry, Super GT) car in Castrol TOMs colours, I will be bitterly disappointed.
I am sexually excited
Papadakis Racing: attempt to be the first to a 1000hp supra a90
Toyota: beats them to it
Papadakis Racing:
Papadakis is sponsored by Toyota tho
Take that “fanboys”
B-but… Mah 2jz…
“that the Supra is aimed as much at tuners as it is at the regular Joe”
Who’s Joe?
JOEmery clarkson
When the words offered and warranty show up, I’m in.
NICE!
Japan origin with a german heart…what can wish more from life? Also, you can see that the supra can still dump 1k HP, from its german heart.