Feature Magazine Coverage for Scrapyard Scamp

DaveBonds said

Aside from there being nothing wrong with a 2JZGTE, or lots of other engines outside of the Chrysler manufacturer, to me, it's not a matter of preference, it's ignorant, because it's disrespectful to PEOPLE. You know, the ones who worked hard at something they enjoy and share, to make other people happy like them?

I've always wondered how well one of those would fit in an A body. It looks like some radiator moving is necessary.
That has to be such a nice driving car.

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Part of my motivation in building the Scamp was to reach out to the 20 something "tuner" crowd who are driving imports. The 2JZ is certainly not on everyone's hit list of cool engines for their next Mopar build. But for 2 minutes please realize that I'm trying to lift our cars above "retro" just enough to get our cars into the minds of younger up and coming car crafters. Think of it this way. Why should all the Ford and Chevy guys be allowed to have cool and different swaps?

I get the feeling that if I don't boost this engine up to 700 RWHP I'll keep getting peanut gallery comments from those who refuse to read between the lines. Here I am twisting a Twin Turbo 6 to nearly 7K confidently every morning with our products on board. As a guy who built this car with his own money to help market his company's products I'm trying to rally customers as well as coworkers. Without the 2JZ underhood people would just pass the car up guys at the road shows. And that's ZERO slam to a kickbutt 340 or B/RB late model Hemi swap because stoplight to stoplight those are some damn fast combinations that I'm not sure I can beat.

Now, who wants to swap a modded 350 hp VW TDI into an A-Body next?