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- When you build a totally crazy, straight outta left field
front engine Ferrari powered Toyota,
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how do you follow it up?
How do you piss off even more people?
Well, you take a car from the most sacred American form
of racing, you stick the most sacred
Japanese engine in it,
2JZ.
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Why?
How?
Well, we're about to find out.
We're going tube frame to boom tube, bumper to bumper
on this 2JZ
powered NASCAR.
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A few years ago, our buddy,
Ryan Tuerck, built a car
with a weird motor swap, maybe you've heard of it,
we've made a couple videos about it.
It's called the GT-4586 and it's a Toyota 86,
with a Farrari-458 engine.
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People either love it, because they're cool,
or they hate it, because they're not cool.
Well, some time last year, friends of donut,
Chris Forsberg,
Dylan Hughes and Ryan Tuerck, who'd been featured in
a ton of videos on this channel, got the opportunity
to snap up an old stock car, in particular,
this outdated 2010 Toyota NASCAR cup car,
that nobody needed anymore.
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Now, when the boys first picked it up, it had a NASCAR
Truck Series V8 inside of it.
After they changed the oil, the guys took it straight
to the drag strip.
Forsberg took to first pass and put down a respectable
seven point four, six seconds in the eight mile
and 94 miles per.
When it was Tuerck's turn to drive, he noticed there
was no oil preassure.
A look at the in-car footage from the first run
showed that there hadn't been any the entire time.
So, he got behind the wheel, just to see what would happen
what happened was, he Tuercked it.
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- Oh, she--
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- She's dead.
- Yeah.
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- Thank you, boys.
Now, here's the motor that came in the car
and this is the oil pan.
I think I found the problem.
I think that's part of a connecting rod.
Should probably run a magnet over this
before we use it again.
In his defense though, the engine was probably tired
and ready to explode anyway.
Just like me on a Friday.
So, the guys, they were standing around in front of the car
looking at dead motor and someone said, we should just like,
2J this thing, everyone laughed
and then they stopped laughing
and they looked at each other seriously,
with deep desire in their eyes and that was that.
I know why you're watching this video, you wanna see
the heart of this beast,
but before we check out the transplant,
let's take a look at the patient, clear.
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It's big, it's red, it's black.
♪ It's been one week ♪
- It's a Camry?
Well, it's a Camry in as much as any NASCAR, cup car
looks like it's name say, which is also to say,
it doesn't really look like a Camry at all.
What it does look, is sick.
This car is from 2010 and that was a very exiting time
in NASCAR.
The front end is super aggressive and check this out,
(knocking on bonnet)
It's mostly made out of metal.
The series rules in NASCAR are super strict,
so the cars aren't allowed to look very different
from each other and they can't look like street cars either.
Literally, they take a jig and they put it on top of a car.
Now, the steal tube frame chassis is covered by hand molded
sheet metal, which is covered by sponsor stickers
and Camry headlights and tail light stickers.
Like, why do they even bother?
You know?
And everyone knows it's made out of Lexan, because,
you know, race car.
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Now, these big boy NASCAR V8s run hot, just like me.
It's Summer in Los Angeles
and it's 150 degrees in this building,
I need to get some cooling vents installed.
Speaking of cooling vents, there's some serious ones,
several of 'em, in the front bumper of this car,
because, race car.
You can never have too many functional vents.
That is something I always say, ask any of my friends,
they'll back me up.
(bells and chimes)
- Yes, James says that all the time.
To the point where it's almost exhausting
and I wish he would stop.
- Beyond the vents, the body is super streamlined.
(mumbles)
Does it even have freaking doors?
What do you need doors for when you're racing?
All right.
However, doors are very convenient for working
on the inside of your project car.
Let me show you why.
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(grunting loudly)
(laughing)
GoPro taste like laundry.
(laughing)
Okay,
so, I'm in.
When they were working on the car, the lack of doors
was a huge pain in the ass.
Every time Chris, or Dylan climbed in and realized,
I need another tool.
They had to climb out, get it, and then climb back in.
That gets old real quick.
Not that having doors would have helped,
because this thing has crazy tall door bars anyway.
It was worth it though, because it's very nice in here.
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NASCAR drivers sit very close to the steering wheel,
so a lot of work needed to be done
to the transmission tunnel, seat mounts and dash,
to make it more drifter friendly.
First, they had to cut out the petty bar,
which is a big old bar that comes straight through
the middle of the interior to the right front corner.
Then, the guys put in a new pair of Takata race seats
with Trof harnesses.
Making it one of the rarer NASCARs, with two seats.
The steering wheel was repositioned and then the shifter
had to be moved back to be reachable from the new
driving position.
That shifter is attached to the original four speed,
H patter dog box transmission, for fast A-F gear changes.
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A Link ECU is installed to run the new engine and a Link
digital dashboard displays all the necessary informansion.
It's pretty much all race car things,
for race car business in here.
You guys know what's under here.
The moment you've all been waiting for.
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Here it is, Toyota 2JZ GTE, powering this 100 percent
American built micro altered racing NASCAR Xfinity
cup car.
Why?
Because, why not.
The 2J's reliable.
It sounds freaking awesome
and makes about the same amount of power as the previous
NASCAR engine that came in it.
It's also gonna turn more than a few heads
and make some of them purest mad
and you know what we love to do,
we love making those purest mad.
What started off as an off the cuff joke at the race track,
quickly turned into a full scale, custom fab,
crazy engine--
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Once it was out, you'd think that virtually anything
could fit where the big V8 used to be, this huge
tube frame race car and when the guys dropped the
2J in for a test fit, everything looked pretty good,
but the frame rails running through the egine bay,
were a problem.
You see, the guys wanted to use this
beautiful four thousand dollar
Hypertune intake manifold and she just wouldn't fit.
In fact, almost everything around the engine had to be
touched, but Dylan's beautiful welding and custom
fabrication skills.
He made all the mounts for the engine.
Radiator, oil cooler, inner cooler, fuel pressure regulator,
crank case breathers, and power steering reservoir.
He also fabbed the lines to all those parts.
That's a ton of work.
On top of that, Dylan had to cut up the crazy expensive
intake manifold and re-weld it.
You can buy entire running cars for less than this
single Hypertune manifold.
A drive by wire throttle body was added, so they can run
anti-lag and shoot huge flames outta the exhausts.
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the engine itself was fitted with a Brian Crower
three point four liter
Stroker kit and cams.
JE Pistons, a Garrett GTX4088R turbo
and Turbosmart 45 millimeter waste gate.
Dylan also made custom waste gate tubes.
Aluminum charge pipes and a three and a half inch exhaust.
He cut up the original V8 boom tube exhaust
and adapted it to the straight six.
So, the 2JZ NASCAR, sounds like nothing else in the
entire freaking universe.
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It sounds pretty good.
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Weird.
(turbo whistling)
(laughing)
(clapping hands)
Well, that was something entirely different.
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The guys got this 2JZ NASCAR running literally a few
freaking days ago.
Jesse was here, he sent me a video.
Now, it just needs a proper tune to maximize the new
JDM buff horses.
Then, Dylan, Chris and Ryan are gonna do a huge
big old burnie and take it straight back to the drag strip
for redemption.
Tuerck will probably be driving last.
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the guys have plans to hit an oval track and a road course
at some point soon.
And eventually, get this bad boy super side ways
and blow some drift fans minds.
Personally, I'm hoping for the ultimate, in sick engine
swap match ups.
The 2JZ NASCAR verse the GT-4586.
Tandem, Irwindale.
The guys covered this build from start to finish
in way more detail on their Blackout series,
if you wanna check it out and follow along for all the
2JZ NASCAR updates and shenanigans, I'll put a link
in the description below.
I really wanna give big thanks to the guys.
Dylan Hughes,
Chris Forsberg, and Ryan Tuerch,
for making this
crazy idea a reality, as well as a ton
of other crazy ideas.
They're really fun guys and very cool.
You should welcome them into your life.
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In Enzo's first race with Alpha, he finished second,
a result so devastating to Enzo, that he apparently
sat in his car after the race
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and cried.
Vowing to never race again.
- I didn't even get the first place.
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- A vow he would immediately for--
- Just kidding. (laughing)