We’ve featured a lot of weird non-Mopar Hemi swaps. But this is the first time we’ve featured a Mopar with non-Mopar power. This 1971 Scamp was apparently rescued from an Arizona scrapyard. It then got the full pro touring treatment and then a twin turbo motor out of a Toyota Supra. What do you think? Sacrilegious? More pics after the jump! Via Pro-Touring.com
very dumb to waste a great car on a jap import motor. Only an idiot would do that.
That’s pretty closed minded. The 2JZ is a great engine.
Closed minded, yes, but Still very VERY wrong for that car. It is no better or worse than the NISMO engine in the Stang in Tokyo drift
The bigger sacrilege was that the amazing NISMO RB26 engine was wasted on a Mustang.
What a waste of an amazing 2JZ on a POS Yankee car.
Two can play that game wankstain.
i see nothing wrong with this, way better then having lsx motor in it
What a shame. Beautiful car, jap motor. This is not American muscle.
How can you possibly call this “pro touring”? Maybe if you were
“touring” in Japan….
The 2JZ makes 320hp@5600rpm and 315lbs@4000rpm Torque. It can reliably make 800HP on the stock bottom end by adding more fuel and air. It costs $1700!!!! with the overdrive automatic transmission complete. These take out engines typically have 50000 miles on them. In my mind this is true hot rodding. A Scamp is a nice car but it is not a particularly rare or valuable car, so I see no wrong in this. If it was a Hemi Cuda’ or whatever obviously sacrilege, but were talking about “1971 Scamp that was apparently rescued from an Arizona scrapyard”.
Japanese muscle into a small American car? Sounds backwards but oh so awesome.
The 2jz is a good motor but the sound of a ricer should never come out of an old school, especially not a mopar. Mopars sound the best in my opinion.