Cummins-swapped Supra is an off-road beast

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Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

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We have seen all manner of different engines swapped into Toyota's evergreen JZA80 Supra but this one is very different.

Starting with a super-desirable twin-turbo 6-speed manual RZ model Ashley Whitsey has transformed his Toyota muscle car into an off-road beast with a huge Cummins 12v diesel engine.

Running meaty 30in front and 32in rear off-road tyres the oil-burner currently has 250hp and 840Nm of torque, but plans are afoot to bring that up to 500hp and a monstrous 1360Nm.

Do you rate it, or hate it? Would you have started with a rough naturally aspirated car instead of a collectable JDM classic?

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Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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