A80 Toyota Supra followers—who largely reside and breathe the enduring 2JZ—will lose their marbles seeing a monster 7.0-liter Hellephant Hemi V-8 stuffed into the engine bay. In the meantime, the Hemi trustworthy are wincing on the considered God’s personal engine powering a Japanese sports activities automotive. If there was one construct to anger everybody, it is this machine.

This explicit model of the engine is a Hellcat on steroids, making 1,000 horsepower proper out of the field it was shipped in. The Hellephant crate engine is designed to be a turn-key supercharged V-8 for customized initiatives, although we suspect the Mopar engineers who created it envisioned Hellephant-powered Plymouth Highway Runner restomods. Dropping this engine right into a Nineteen Nineties Supra is not remotely near being a turn-key construct.

This venture, as chronicled within the above ScrapLifeLee video, takes us by means of what is probably going the toughest a part of the swap—merely getting the engine in there. The crew used a placeholder block to suss out all of the engine mounts, which required reducing up the inventory entrance subframe. Reality be advised, the preliminary fitment did not look that unhealthy. And with mounts welded into place, the Hellephant settled into place like butter. It even sat again far sufficient to steadiness weight out of the nostril.

The automated (sure, computerized) transmission additionally went in quite simply, however the customized headers had been a special story. There have been clearance points on the passenger facet, and the steering shaft on the motive force’s facet required some prybar motion to get every thing located. Nevertheless it labored. This A80 Toyota Supra formally has a Hellephant V-8 with all its equipment and a pair of humongous headers bolted up.

The video continues with the set up of a Supra-specific gas cell and the piping to the engine, however sadly, that is the place this portion of the story ends. It looks as if the onerous work is finished, however bonkers builds like this all the time handle to drop a shock or two earlier than the top. For what it is price, we will not wait to see what occurs subsequent.