Feature Magazine Coverage for Scrapyard Scamp

bigblock68 said
i argee with the guy that says nice car but crap engine.

Hey, if you wanna pitch hit for the other hater, answer my questions, beyond that you dislike the 2JZ for BS patriotic reasons. Reasons, I might add, that no longer exist in this country. The manufacturer of that engine makes more cars in the US than your precious Chrysler, these days. So you can all drop the patriot act. It doesn't fly anymore. You don't have to take my word for it. Bone up on Google and DIY, if you don't want to believe me.

Throw your hate at the politicians, lobbyists and American manus for deserting Detroit and leave small business owners and hobbyists alone.

superdve said
Part of my motivation in building the Scamp was to reach out to the 20 something "tuner" crowd who are driving imports. The 2JZ is certainly not on everyone's hit list of cool engines for their next Mopar build. But for 2 minutes please realize that I'm trying to lift our cars above "retro" just enough to get our cars into the minds of younger up and coming car crafters. Think of it this way. Why should all the Ford and Chevy guys be allowed to have cool and different swaps?

I get the feeling that if I don't boost this engine up to 700 RWHP I'll keep getting peanut gallery comments from those who refuse to read between the lines. Here I am twisting a Twin Turbo 6 to nearly 7K confidently every morning with our products on board. As a guy who built this car with his own money to help market his company's products I'm trying to rally customers as well as coworkers. Without the 2JZ underhood people would just pass the car up guys at the road shows. And that's ZERO slam to a kickbutt 340 or B/RB late model Hemi swap because stoplight to stoplight those are some damn fast combinations that I'm not sure I can beat.

Now, who wants to swap a modded 350 hp VW TDI into an A-Body next?

I think the engine is amazing. I've had plenty of experience with Supras and I know what they are capable of doing.

I have the ability and have every intention to dropping an import I6 into my '68 Charger.

I'd love to get it into a magazine. Starting a trend is never a bad thing, Dave.
Again, excellent work and awesome choice on the powerplant.