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Daigo Saito's Most Extreme Toyota Engine Swap Is Real And It Works

Daigo Saito has blessed us with yet another 2JZ swap, and we can’t look away from what the madman has wrought. This…

José Rodríguez Jr.

11/11/20 6:00PM

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Dyno-Testing A Le Mans Racing V10 Engine Is Hardcore

I’m sure you’ve watched a dyno video or two. The car thuds through the gears, slowly roars up, rising to a rev limit…

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Everything Is Wrong With This Audi

The defining traits of an Audi: stealth speed, boutique engines, all-wheel drive. The defining traits of this Audi…

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The Toyota Supra Is Getting A Le Mans V10 Engine Swap Because 2JZs Are For The Weak

We’ve seen a great variety of engine swaps for the new Toyota Supra. Wait, no we haven’t! We’ve pretty much seen…

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This Guy Is Trying To Turn A Wrecked C8 Corvette Into A Four-Rotor Rotary Monster

If you’re in to Wankel-powered Mazdas (and other things), you might have heard the name Rob Dahm before. Yeah, he’s…

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Someone Needs To Put Ford's Massive New Godzilla 7.3-Liter V8 In A De Tomaso Pantera

Ford’s new massive 7.3-liter V8 is going to be a slow-revving but durable engine for large pickups, but recently…

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All Of GM's LS Engines, Explained

Among the go-to engines for affordable, reliable V8 swaps, you can’t really beat General Motors’ LS small-block…

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Sick of LS V8s? The Barra Straight-Six Is The Swap For You

If your build is wanting for power and has to room for an upgrade (and sometimes even if it doesn’t), an LS V8 is…

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You Don't Need To Engine Swap Your Toyota To Make 1,000 HP

When the world first saw the new Toyota Supra, the world wept that there was no Toyota-designed engine under the…

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What Kind Of Fuel Mileage Would A Brick Wall Get?

We’ve all heard the phrase “As aerodynamic as a brick wall.” I certainly have, due in part to the fact that I drive…

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This 2020 Toyota Supra Got LS V8-Swapped But Not With The Engine You Think

One of the very first two 2020 Toyota Supras to get engine swapped just got its engine changed again, this time from…

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This Soviet Dump Truck Has A Bavarian Secret Under The Hood

I love Soviet things. I love surprises. This truck? This truck is both. It’s a ZIL-130 truck with the 600 horsepower…

Max Finkel

10/05/19 5:02PM

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What Engine Would You Swap To Tell A Story?

Engine swaps get us excited here at Jalopnik. There’s something wild and frankly transgressive about putting an…

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Comment Of The Day: Engine Swap Edition

A Corvette makes for a great sports car. The formula is as old as the day is long, a big engine in a lightweight…

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Here's a Tiny Terror: a First-Gen Toyota RAV4 with a Turbo Swap

It’s only a specific group of nerds that will quickly read a collection of letters and numbers and instantly…

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This GT-R Engine-Swapped Ferrari 550 Drift Car Is Pure Sacrilege and I Love It

Yoichi Imamura may be a familiar name to you. He was a champion in the early days of D1GP in Japan, and it was he who…

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This Wrenching Genius Installed Lawnmower Engines Into His Military Jeeps

The Willys M38A1s that powered U.S. troops through Korea and Vietnam came from the factory with torquey “Hurricane”…

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Show Us the F1 Engine, Porsche

Porsche stands as one of the winningest producers of Formula 1 engines in the history of the sport from its…

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It’s 4/26, so take some time to consider Hemi-swapping your dog this weekend.

Bradley Brownell

4/26/19 9:30PM

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The Best-Sounding Drift Car in the Country Is For Sale

Anyone who has heard the howling wail of Geoff Stoneback’s V8-swapped Nissan 240SX knows that this is no…

Raphael Orlove

4/04/19 2:45PM

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