This is one of the most ironic drag races I’ve ever seen. That’s because the 2 cars don’t seem to be what they appear at first. First, you’ll take a glance at the BMW E46 M3 and directly image the S54 engine underneath the hood; that brilliant 3.2-liter straight six revving into oblivion. That’s not the case here though, as this explicit M3 features a surprise below the hood and it’s a giant one, too.
This M3 has had its engine taken out and replaced with the classic engine from Toyota. The long-lasting 2JZ straight-six was shoved underneath the hood of this M3 and tinkered with to deliver some 500 horses on the dyno alongside 430 lb-ft of torque. The automobile additionally received a sequential gearbox as far as we are able to tell, and a few other mods. What we’re most interested in here is that the engine, though, as the automobile it’s racing against features a surprise too.
So, on the one side of the drag strip, we’ve got a BMW with a Toyota engine. On the opposite side, we’ve got a Toyota supra MKV that’s claimed to be bone stock. However, that means it has a BMW engine underneath the hood because the current-generation supra truly comes stock with a BMW B58 engine from a Z4 M40i. The B58 straight-six underneath the hood of the 2020 supra is supposed to deliver simply 335 HP and 369 lb-ft of torque however we all know it’s making more, after having seen all of the famous videos of them being dyno tested.
The Toyota additionally comes with an automatic 8-speed gearbox and launch control, the latter of that is missing from the heavily changed BMW E46 M3. However, you still have to know how to use launch control, in order to make the most of it, which the driver of the supra painfully realizes during this video.
Cars like these will always turn heads on any street of the world, either it it’s a Supra or an M3, the sound and the looks of these iconic can never be changed, especially speaking of the Toyota Supra MKIV which is the predecessor of the one shown in the video, nonetheless the MKV was an unexpected surprise from Toyota but a good one as well as the fans kinda liked it while also being quite confused.
