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Love it or hate it 26B TURBO GS300!!

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Old 01-12-13, 01:58 AM
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Default Love it or hate it 26B TURBO GS300!!

Only in New Zealand, personally i love it!!

Old 01-12-13, 02:21 AM
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Sounds pretty wild! What sort of engine is that? It appears to have 8 spark plug wires/ignitors. Is it a 6 or an 8? Also I was glad to see that child wearing hearing protectors!
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interesting, I would love to see it in action
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Originally Posted by jkeifer3
Sounds pretty wild! What sort of engine is that? It appears to have 8 spark plug wires/ignitors. Is it a 6 or an 8? Also I was glad to see that child wearing hearing protectors!
Neither a 6 nor an 8. It's a 4 rotor engine (think RX7)
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Wow now that is super duper sick!!! soooo unique!
Id love to see this in action!!!
Old 01-12-13, 05:21 AM
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WOW i am aroused. never heard no 2jz idle like that rofl. lets see some more vids of this beast sideways!
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Sounds too much like an American muscle car.

Its obvious a lot a engine works was done, but IMO the GS is the wrong platform for that.

I can respect it, but don't like it one bit
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Yeah, that's pretty slick! Especially with a 26B...that's a pretty mean sounding GS-and those wheels look pretty sick too! Hey thx for sharing!

steve
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like one big *** go kart. I want one
Old 01-12-13, 08:34 AM
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dang that thing Screams!
Old 01-12-13, 08:40 AM
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Very nice. Crazy swap
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That thing is pretty wild! What #'s does it put down on a dyno? I love RE's but that seems like waay too much work for replacing something such as a 2JZ. If I'm not mistaken, this engine is that of a 787B race car? $$$$
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It's cool and all, sounds mean, is probably a blast to drive.
But I still think it's the wrong platform to do this on...
But hey, props for doing something different and extreme.

There's just something ironic to me about gutting a 4Dr luxury car.
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its from new zealand, the owner is carl thompson.. and the car is at madmikes who is the redbull drifter
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I know there's a turbo but I feel that the engine is too small for this big body. Nevertheless, I like the looks of it.


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