Coming of age within the early 2000s, I am going to always remember stepping out of the theater after The Quick and the Livid set free. Even the minivans have been banging in opposition to redline.

Nor will I overlook the various problems with Tremendous Avenue journal that packed my bookshelf. So typically, Tremendous Avenue’s pages full of the 2JZ builds of this man: Steph Papadakis, the patron saint of high-horse inline-sixes. 

Whereas greatest identified within the early days for his gnarly Supra engine builds, Papadakis has change into a fixture in each the professional drifting scene and the BMW tuning scene, turning his appreciable skills to the B58 turbocharged inline-six which is shared by the Toyota Supra and an unlimited array of contemporary BMWs. 

Papadakis’s calling card has at all times been his consideration to element, professionalism, and a philosophy rooted in stable engineering. There is not any discussion board bro science rationalizing Papadakis’s B58 builds, only a wealth of earned information that this video illuminates completely. 

That is an enormous chunk of what makes this construct overview from the Motoiq Youtube channel so dang pleasant. It is simply two massively nerdy and clever engine-building specialists speaking store. Stick round for the entire video when you’re in any respect inquisitive about constructing dependable turbo engines, and particularly when you’re a fan of the B58 inline-six (just like the workers right here at Motor1). Papadakis drops information bombs each different minute, dissecting precisely why this turbo’d six has change into a contemporary traditional, arguably the very best BMW engine constructed up to now 20 years. 

And when you dig this video, stick round these digital pages within the coming weeks. Our very personal Chris Perkins has an interview with Papadakis that is sitting on my (metaphorical) edit desk, which’ll be revealed shortly. I am going to hyperlink that right here when it is out there, nevertheless it’s sure to be one other illuminating column from Perkins, filled with extra of Papadakis’s huge experience.