This guy was a traveling vacuum cleaner sales guy, buying car parts for the money. Please, do go sideways 1 foot from another car at 100 mph consistently over and over, then come back and say it is not a sport requiring real skill. If not, dragracing is not a sport. Comparing freshmen doing donuts in a roundabout with…

Chucky still lives. :)

A guy that has a bachelor in economics and used to sell vacuum cleaners to pay for car parts... yeah. Really rich. Nope.

Mike Kojima said they had enough grip in Dai’s car to bog down the V8 turbo which was at that time making just over 1.000 to the rear wheels..

Small tip. The carbs are empty after a rebuild and you say “you have to crank a while”...? Not so. If you have a regular on-off-reserve petcock you just put it to “on” or “res” and wait a minute before cranking. If the petcock has an “off”-setting there is no vacuum line to it in 99.9% of instances. If it has a vacuum…

You have to remember their camless valvetrain. If this one has that, the powerband would be massive from 1500 to 10.000 rpm...

Anything, really. Cars are so expensive here, so we make do with whatever engine in whatever car. People make 600+ hp Cosworth YB's, loads of 1000+ hp BMW turbos, 2JZ's all over the place, SR20's, RB26's, LS3/7/X, an occasional twin turbo BMW V12, Lexus V8's, Audi AAN 5-cyls, Audi 1.8T's (at 600+ hp), Audi V8's...…

Only downside I can think of is the strain per cylinder. 150 hp per hole times 6 is 900, but a V8 would be 1200 hp. Add to that the displacement and when the engine has 2x the 2JZ's displacement you can make the same cylinder pressure and double the potential hp. 1500 hp is then almost a grocery getter.. And it's…

He did several laps drifting the thing, and a couple fast ones where he just drifted if it could not be held in a proper line. Did a 8.26...

That's his "drift laps". The 8.26 lap he did, trust me, a fair bit of people in more expensive machinery got their self esteem smashed.. :)

Of a car like that, I can only say that Fredric Aasbø's 86-X, which has similar power, was driven on slicks in a test on the Rudskogen track in Norway and it was fairly fast, on par with Time Attack cars, even being set up for cornering sideways, just slicks and KRB added as the driver. It's not for nothing Rhys won…

Being Fredric Aasbø's engine builder for his European car I can tell you reliability is paramount. Not that easy with the extreme wideness of the powerband wanted and the rather serious power in demand. His 3-liter 2JZ has so far survived 2010 and 2011 (in his NFS Supra) and 2012 and 2013 in the 86-X... to say it's…

Seriously wrong, unless you have 3 legs. To drive it competively, you need a powerband so wide that you can tear the wheels loose at any gear at ANY rpm without clutchkicking, and preferably just change gears when you are not in a drift. Your left foot is braking, not clutching. I.e. you might have to increase your…

WOT trigger on the loud pedal. No button, it's linked to the rpm or turbo rpm sensor so it kicks in whenever you do not have boost. It's just big antilag... without the melted valves. The use of nitrous has just ONE use, that is to make your powerband silly wide even with a turbo too big to have big boost at nil rpm.…

Jalopnik, me worried. Sørlie have no hydraulic handbrake. It's a Mercedes ML, no Cayenne. Y U not know cars?

That's a real looker.. shame they did let it happen. :(

"14 parts oxygen to 1 part gas".. errr. No. It's not a volume ratio. It's a weight ratio. ...and to add to that... No V12? o.O No gentlemen left?

Tiny tires and no traction = lots of spins and barely controllable drifts over 30mph. To do what Fredric does, add 265-section top-of-the-shelf Hankooks and all the mechanical grip the car can muster, then add the hp and the range to overcome said grip and traction... if he had no grip, the tires would last ages. It…

Exactly. What people fail to realize is that the main bits (engine, turbo, ECU, diffs, gearbox, etc.) is just half the bits valuewise. There's SO many small things (hoseclamps, hoses, brackets, connectors, wiring, instruments, injectors, wastegate, cooling fans, et al ) that most people never calculate and that add…

30 kph over the limit in a Norwegian 80-limit road at you're looking at a fine of just over $3.000..