{"id":30530,"date":"2022-08-31T12:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T16:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=30530"},"modified":"2022-08-31T12:30:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T16:30:42","slug":"e30-m3-2jz-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=30530","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: E30 M3 With 2JZ Swap Looks Terrifying at the N\u00fcrburgring"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, we took a look at an E30 3 Series with a 2JZ<\/a> swap that was built specifically for drag racing. It wasn\u2019t pretty because it wasn\u2019t meant to be. It was a crude device meant for one purpose: straight-line speed. Today, we\u2019re taking a look at another E30, this time an M3, with a 2JZ swap but it\u2019s a very expensive build designed for lap times. And in the video it takes on the most difficult lap of them all, at the N\u00fcrburgring.<\/p>\n

This is one of the most impressive E30 M3 builds we\u2019ve ever seen. For starters, it has a fully built 2JZ, the iconic turbocharged inline-six from a Mk4 Toyota Supra. It\u2019s gorgeously built, features a monster turbocharger, and makes an absolutely mind-boggling 1,300 horsepower to the rear wheels. It sits on Ohlins dampers, has a sequential manual gearbox, Sparco racing seats, four-point harnesses, and a full cage. It\u2019s a comprehensively built track car designed to crush lap times.<\/p>\n

In the video, Misah Charoudin takes a passenger ride in the killer M3 and it looks both terrifying and also fantastically fun. It doesn\u2019t look scary because it\u2019s out of control; quite the contrary, it actually looks remarkably stable and planted; it\u2019s scary because it\u2019s a 1,300 horsepower, rear-wheel drive tin can that weighs about as much as the keyboard I\u2019m typing this on. So a crash is going to hurt. A lot.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s cool to see the stark differences between this 2JZ E30 and the previous one we saw. This one has all the latest and greatest toys, whereas the drag race car was not only intentionally crude, built only for drag racing, but was clearly done on a lower budget. This car likely cost a small fortune to build. But the two cars prove that there\u2019s no right or wrong way to have fun in cars and that you can use similar ingredients and end up with two very difference machines.<\/p>\n