Check Out This Amazing Twin-Charged 2JZ-Swapped Rolls-Royce Phantom
This has to be one of the more outrageous engine swaps we’ve seen recently. After all, it’s not often that an owner of one of the world’s most luxurious cars decides to replace its legendary 6.75-litre V12 with a twin-charged 3.0-litre 2JZ.
After the original engine apparently ‘lost coolant and melted’ late last year, its Japanese owner decided against a like-for-like replacement. Instead, he or she asked J&K Products to try something a little… different.
The company sourced a 2JZ unit and rebuilt it with HKS forged internals, then added a GReddy T78 turbo and a HKS supercharger. We can’t imagine that getting all this to work together seamlessly was an easy task, but it’s done – and it makes close to 900bhp! That’s getting on for double what the original V12 had, but the character of the car must be, well, contrastive.
Naturally the gearbox has been upgraded, but the gear selector has had to be moved from the steering column to the centre console. Much worse, though, are the makeshift dials installed smack-bang in front of the originals. Perhaps the engineers had had enough after the amount of work demanded by the engine…
Source: Engine Swap Depot
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Oops, I didn’t read that the old engine had a meltdown
1GZ would be better
Yes. This meme is perfect.
“Alfred, why is this moving contraption making unpleasing noises and fairly much speed”
“It is emitting warlike projections from its posterior, stop it!!”
“I’m ghastly displeased about how you made my champagne spilling on my trousers, Alfred”
Sir. I believed that VVTI hath kicked in yo!
“Alfred, buy tons of 2jz and put it in batmobile immediately”
2-Step hath kick-ed in, Sir
I imagine this is one of the few times where a 900 horsepower 2JZ isn’t as insane as it sounds. I bet this thing as a pretty easy time finding traction.
I’d still want good quality rubber of at least 300mm in width
For when you want to drift in luxury
do you guys even surprised?
*are
I am officially more conflicted than these two
When Queen Elizabeth want to drift.
I love the car world THIS IS AMAZING
it even has canards, basically a race car
“Hello, and welcome to the show…. Today on Failrace Versus the Community we will be racing Toyota-engined Rolls-Royces….”
Actually, that sounds weird enough to be completely plausible