Here at WTFuto building fast cars is our bread and butter
But at the end of every week, the door goes down, the pizza turns up and a collection
of characters called the Friday nighters discuss their fantasy project ideas.
Things like a hyabusa powered starlet Or a viper v10 lotus super seven!
You know, ideas of cars that we will never in our right mind build, but these cars are
so much fun to think about.
However, one Friday night something different happened.
An idea, a little different to all the rest.
Something we might just actually do And like CV grease in your hair, this idea
stuck.
And so it was decided.
We would build a road licensed, engineer approved, 1000 horsepower V12 Toyota Supra.
The mighty Mark 4 Toyota Supra.
This car requires no introduction.
It doesn't matter what kind of cars you're into from Ford F-Trucks to Volkswagen Beatles,
everyone knows the Toyota Supra.
And it's no co-incidence either.
The only thing better than this car's timeless appearance is the legendary 2JZ engine under
each and every hood.
Now, I'm not going to bore you with the specifications of the car cause lets face it, they just dont
matter.
Supras were made to be modified.
500 horsepower from the original engine with nothing but external upgrades has become commonplace
with more heavily modified engines reaching 1000 horsepower with remarkable reliability.
And that's why even 24 years after the model was released, the supra remains relevant and
sought after as a performance car today.
But when it comes to modifying supras, there's just one problem.
Turbocharger Lag.
See, waiting for a 1000 horsepower supra to come on boost makes them a little bit of a
one trick pony.
Unbelievably fast in controlled experiments but awfully useless on say, a motorkhana circuit
or around town at normal road speeds.
In fact, a stock 280 horsepower supra easily beats a 1000 horsepower supra on a tight course.
It's not even a competition.
And that is ****ing embarrassing!
But I, like millions of other people, love supras.
And we're going to use all of our skills and resources to solve the problem in what we
think is the best way possible.
So the goal of this project is very simple.
Super powerful for high speed and super responsive for tight circuits.
How?
This is Toyota's 1GZFE V12 and it's our cure for the big turbo 2JZ's case of the laggies.
Easy right?
Well, no.
See Toyota made this engine for smoothness and efficiency but not necessarily strength so if we go and cram all of
that boost in to it like we would with the 2JZ, all of the insides are going to fall
out all over the floor.
So, I guess we gotta pull this thing apart and make it stronger and better.
Ah but first, lets get that 2JZ out of the way.
So, this is the frame for the supra.
We need to see if the engines gonna fit in it.
So pretty immediately the engines nowhere near where we wanna put it and there's definitely
a problem.
Looks like the steering rack and the sump definitely do not want to live in the same
place.
So I'd say we're about 4 inches away from being where the engine needs to sit in the
engine bay and uh, we've already got a massive problem.
About this big.
So, I think I'll let it down and we'll take the sump off and we'll try again with no sump
on there hey?
So that's a lot different to what we had before.
The engines pretty much where it should be.
Just one problem, there's no sump.
I think what we need to do is make up some engine mounts and maybe sit this engine in
the car in this position and if we like what we see then um, I guess we can try make a
solution for this sump.
After playing around with the V12 and straight 6 engine mounts and brackets, it occurred
to us that we could make some effective engine mount adapters using Supra mounts, V12 brackets
and some plate which we got… for a steel.
Given it's highly likely this won't be our first attempt at positioning the engine, this
temporary mounting solution gives us some flexibility to modify the position.. and it
wont make us cry if we have to throw it all away and start again
And once we settle on a final design and position, our adapters can be used to jig up a final,
single piece mount bracket solution
Shane!
Tris.
I made a to do list.
The to do board!
So we know what... to do.
Couldn't have made it any clearer, could we?
So uh, this is literally all the things I could figure we needed to do.
I've written everything down that I think we need to do to get this car completely done
and driving and whatever.
So shall we go through?
I think we should
We've um..
Hey good idea!
I'll tick it off.
We've got a V12.
We have.
And removed the 2JZ. 2JZs gone, sorry!
Oh and we've made the engine mounts, the mockup engine mounts to fit it in there.
We did.
And we've um...
And...
Oh yeah we've...
No we, we haven't really
Is that all we've done?
Three things?
Three things.
That's all we've done.
Out of... at least seven hundred.
Yeah, yeah OK well that's...
This is gonna take a while.
Alright!
Um, what are we gonna do next?
Ah, gearbox.
Gearbox right.
We'll get a gearbox.
We want the motor sitting like, in the right position so we gotta get a gearbox and see
how it sits in the tunnel and all that nonsense so.
Gearbox and adapter because no one makes a manual gearbox for these motors.
No, good point
We need an adapter of some kind
And a mount.
Yes
We have a plan!
We have a plan.
Alright, well um...
I'm gonna go and find us a gearbox!
Good Idea.
I'm going to go make a coffee.
Hey I want a coffee!
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