When the world first saw the new , the world wept that there was no Toyota-designed engine under the hood. Rather than some new 3JZ, . Well, everyone may dry their tears, as tuning legend Steph Papadakis got that stock Supra engine to the four-figure mark.

Let me begin by saying that the 2JZ was not the greatest engine ever made. When Toyota raced the Mk4 Supra, even, it .

The heart of a Toyota Supra is a straight-six engine. That was the whole reason for the very first…

Still, the whole reason for being for the Supra was that you could boost the to the moon and make six or seven hundred horsepower on stock components, double that with support from a healthy aftermarket. If you wanted a dyno queen, you got a Supra. If you wanted a highway racer, you got a Supra.

“Two-jay-zee engine, no shit... This will decimate all,” Jesse said in the original Fast and…

That’s been the fundamental crisis of the Mk5 Supra. Without the big-power capability of the 2JZ, wasn’t it just some other GT car? Where was the identity?

Well, the B58 can make big power, at least with the giant brain of behind the build and about 42 or 43 pounds of boost on an engine dyno. He thinks it even sounds like a 2JZ.

Before the Dodge Chargers were dragging safes through Rio in improbable bank heists, before the…