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It's all my fault! Nice looking build. Darts have more room up front and my only regret was not swapping to a Dart front clip.

Forced340 and I can help you with your swap questions. I'm on a government project this year so my response time might be slow unless it's time to deploy my firearm. ;)

Feathers Ruffled: The 2JZ Mopar - Speedhunters

Maybe triple it! ;)

Deemo, I'm the one who swapped the Scamp in 2013. There is some build progress/threads here on FABO. It's not a super hard swap but you will need to fab mounts/brackets/exhaust, etc. I've gotten tons of flack on the car and been called names, etc. But all in all the car works great as a...

Hard to see what we did on the Scamp seats. Basically welded plates to the floor and beefed up all the attachment points.

Excellent build and thread! I've done lots of swaps and they aren't easy or in the case of my Scamp aren't well received. ;) Keep up the great work!

I still live in Detroit. Jose Valle @ Kaizen Motorsports in LaHabra has custody of the Scamp at the moment. The goal for the Scamp was that after Fram, it needed to culturally build bridges for car crafters young and old. No better place than LA this year. Hopefully we can meet up when I...

For the haters! ;) http://www.speedhunters.com/2014/09/feathers-ruffled-2jz-mopar/

So glad that I could help these unethical folks engineer a proper fix for their torsion bars. They owe us a set but since we scratche d our defective ones on the way out they wouldn't make it right. So as cool as they are for getting what Firm Feel already has right, they didn't do the right...

Guys...update! The February, 2014 Grassroots Motorsports article is out and it's great to see a vintage Mopar in THAT book! I managed to get a better job than the last one so I didn't feel the panic of having to give the car away on EBAY to some fool. I will still tell you it's for sale but...

That will be interesting. Good luck. If I could suggest anything try to find the lightest diesel setup. I know that Cummings inline is super strong and has less parts but isn't it heavier than the Max?

I built it never planning on selling it, TX. Unexpected job change and me keeping the car would be irresponsible. I'm not sure what's more heartbreaking selling the car or how the deal went down. In any event I appreciate your kind words and let's see what happens.

True. I have it all over every forum. I just got back from Frank @ Cuzie's to get a quote to remove the Fram logos as required. I wish you guys could have felt the love on the freeway at modern car speeds. I had 2 Ford Engineers in "M" plates going haywire trying to take pictures of the car...

I'm leaving the sale to fate and a higher authority. I really don't want to sell it but given the circumstances it's hard to keep the car. I drive the car everyday unless it's flat out pouring rain and when people ask how the car is to drive I will usually say it feels a lot like my BMW 330i...

I agree. I love the slants so for me there really isn't too much of an arm twist. But Tim's Dart was beyond insane and a turbo small block might not cost much more! ;) Plus if you got an EFI Magnum starter engine you'd have PFI already. ;) All of my turbo stuff generally ends up with EFI...

Really.>> You do not do anything to these engines for up to 500hp except raise the boost pressure and remove the fuel cut in the ECU. For 600-700hp you are looking at turbocharger. injector and ecu swaps but you are still running stock internals without a cam change or cylinder head mods...

Not allowed to run it per Fram. It's an easy 13 second car at 11 psi. Swap to a single and ECU mods and it's an 11 second, SILENT, 27 mpg car! The whole car is amazing to drive.

Sort of a loaded question. ;) It's a 2JZGTE. Right now it's in stock form, meaning the shortblock is good for sick amounts of power with the right turbocharger and ECU mods. With 10secDSM as a screen name I'll assume you realize the Toyota's factory forged internals, piston squirters, 7 main...

The SADDEST car decision of my life is here. I cannot tell you what a tragedy it is to have to sell this car. This has been a huge investment of time, money and energy and there is plenty of room to make this car beyond its exceptional self as it is. I'm asking $29,500 but I am open to...

I SO wish things were different. All I can say is pass this info around I will let the car go for a very fair price.

It is on Ebay. I wish I could explain why it has to go right now but I can't. You guys will be mad when you find out. The car is absolutely wonderful gang and I wish things were better. My wife and I looked at each other and said life is in God's hands.

Let me say it this way. If this was a rare car I would have kept it bone stock. This is a car built to drive on tour to help establish dialog with a huge cross section of enthusiasts. We are doing just that. I appreciate all the kind words and I recognize those who have a hard time finding...

Not sure I can agree with crap engine. You may not like the engine in a Mopar but these are about as strong as engines get. The horsepower potential is amazing on one of these.

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"...

1994 Z28 Seats. Driver's side is power. They both are heated now too.

Very awesome. I wish I could have done that with my car but my budget forced me to work with what I had. Don't worry about the purists we have plenty of cars here for them. Build the car you want and enjoy it. That's PURE carcrafting!

Bill I will tell you as soon as the article is submitted. ;)