With its back-to-basics approach towards driving pleasure, the Toyota 86 has favoured involvement over outright performance, hence its employment of a naturally aspirated 2.0 litre, four-cylinder boxer engine.
Tuning options and packages for the 86 abound; however, in this crazy collaborative effort between Street FX and GT Auto Garage, a Nissan GT-R-sourced VR38DETT 3.8 litre twin-turbo V6 was installed in the two-seater Toyota, with an aimed output of over 1,000 hp.
It certainly wasn’t a mere engine transplant, as plenty of work was done to the powerplant. A 4.1 litre stroker kit and GT1000 symmetrical turbine kit were sourced from tuner company HKS, and a dry-sump lubrication system was employed, which helped lower the GT-R engine and clear the 86’s low-slung bonnet.
Putting the four-figure output to the road is a six-speed sequential gearbox by Albins, the same company that produces the spec transmission for the Australian V8 Supercars race series, while the builders also did away with the standard powertrain’s all-wheel-drive setup, further helping reduce weight and the engine’s height.
In addition the the Albins sequential gearbox, A Motec air-powered paddle-shifter kit was integrated into the transmission setup in order to allow even quicker gearshifts and a removal of the conventional gearlever. Manual clutch operation is required for setting off and stopping, but otherwise the ECU takes care of rev-matching once on the move.
Despite the highly extensive, performance-oriented work done on the car, the GT-R-engined GT86 remains a road-legal car, and it even has a sound system along with a sub-woofer, as well as a reverse camera.
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Ya..WTF toyota?
So GTR is awesome! Nothing else
Campro engine more reliable.
You see, many people also feel that 86 is a sportskura-kura, just like an MX-5.
As a minimum, it has to be a NA 2.5L, or a 2.0L turbo, if not more.
I like the look.
if they can maintain the balance and drivability then i would say it is a success, otherwise it’s the same as a 4 engined hot rod.
goes like stink but can’t turn, can’t stop, can’t go above idle.
Meh. If they install dinosar 1nzfe, this car can fly instead.
Dinosar 1nzfe > all race engines
Job well done. Next project, Proton in collaboration with Lotus to fit a supercharged Toyota v6 in an iriz!
Malaysian plate is it? haha
Everyone knows Toyota stands for reliability, fuel saving, compatibility and fun!
Then why they used a Nissan engine?
Because Toyota does not stand for powerful engine and fuel hunger. Understand now?
So Toyota stands for underpower engine and a quite fuel hunger?
LOL
No fun, kura-kura also got fun ah?
Vios, Altis, Camry, Fortuner, Alphard, which one got fun?
A Passat beat all of them.
And here we get cars with 2 digit horsepower at ridiculous prices…..
Apa daa pakai enjin Nissan. Why not use Lexus V8 instead?
I’m ditching my Proton. Wohoo…
Why Toyota become so pity now. Why must use ppl engine or share engine with Subaru and Nissan. Toyota where the hell your engineering go? If you keeping like this your supra will forever die only.
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ok
You were misled by the title….this car was done by famous mod shop….not by Toyota-Nissan
86′ is basically the new modern classic.
Source whatever engine / trans in that machine and everyone will still love it, just like the ferrari v8 engined 86.
Looking forward for that build logs aswell.
Toyota finally admitting that the Nissan GT-R engine is better than theirs.