When Cooper Bogetti was building his fourth-generation Chevy Camaro drag car, he had a fairly run-of-the-mill plan for it: yank out the stock V6 engine, drop in a turbocharged LS of some sort and, hopefully, go quick in the quarter-mile. He eventually decided that he had been around enough turbocharged LS drag cars in his life, though, so he wanted to do something different.
With a turbocharged LS V8 out of the question, Bogetti opted for what is probably the next best drag racing engine for an amateur on a relatively small budget: a Toyota 2JZ. This turbocharged 3.0L inline-six engine was found in a variety of Toyota and Lexus products in the 1990s and early 2000s (most famously the Toyota Supra) and responds well to boost thanks to its cast-iron block, closed deck and various other design strengths.
With a massive 85mm precision Precision turbocharger bolted to it, Cooper’s home built, Toyota six-cylinder powered Chevy Camaro is good for a massive 1,100 horsepower. Power is sent to the rear wheels through a Powerglide automatic transmission, helping this “Trailer Park Supra”, as Bogetti calls it, put down consistent eight-second quarter-mile runs.
While we’re sure regular readers of this site would prefer Bogetti stuck with a GM lump for this car’s powerplant, it’s always nice to see a GM enthusiast doing something different. There’s no denying this setup is working well, too. His Camaro is probably the fastest six-cylinder fourth-gen in the world, and he thinks that with a little bit of suspension tuning, it will be able to go even faster in 1320.
Check out the video embedded below to see this just how fast this surprisingly quick six-cylinder Chevy Camaro can go in the quarter-mile.
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“…. the next best drag racing engine for an amateur on a relatively small budget: a Toyota 2JZ….”
How about, “NO.”
Ever heard of Chevrolet’s (gen 1) small block?
You can make big hp with a gen 1 350!
Amazing engine build… I give this guy props… Keep it up bro…
A Camaro with a Toyota engine is no longer a Chevy, don’t care how fast it goes. Might as well get a Supra, they are lighter!!!!!
It was originally supposed to go in a supra. He has a supra as well.
What a waste!
Chevy engine the best of all times why toyota
Cooper is doing cooper things. He owns plenty of other gm powered kit.
He likes to be a little different.
Been following this build for some time and I like it.
Those that are negative are just jelly.
You guys that do not like this have never been to Cuba, you would not believe what I had seen there!
“Home built”
Did you research this article beyond reading a 1320video YouTube title?
Lol
How much he put into that engine?, pretty sure it ain’t cheap, a few years ago a full street 4-gen 4LxE automatic with a 502 was waxing GTRs on the streets, I’m sure that setup cost less.
Yup. This was completely built by a induction performance. Sad but very expected from a bolt on boy.
So many bubba boys in these comments drinkin their PBR complainin about 1 of a million mullet mobile having something different.
I don’t see complaints just options. It appears you have an opinion also. A prejudged one at that!
Sorry to let the author down but the 3.8 and 4.1 liter turbo Buick engines (stage 1 and stage 2) hVe been running 8 second 1/4 mile times for over 20 years. Buddy Ingersoll ran a 6.9x time on a CHIP controlled buick back in the day. So that v-6 was making power like this riced out Camaro before the turbo supra ever day the drawing board. Sure, the supra is nice, rah rah, whatever but as I say it’s old news to folks over age 18.
Change is good …being different is also good ….