Although the 2JZ-GTE mill has a bedrock reputation for supporting stupid power levels, if you want any respect in the Supra community, just plain stupid doesn't cut it.
This is a jaded bunch. To gain notice, you have to challenge conventional wisdom, test assumptions and ignore the naysayers. But most of all, you have to spend a lot of time on the dyno. For Supra guys, the dyno measures more than just horsepower. The dyno measures men, shatters dreams and creates heroes.
That makes Peter Blach of Houston, Texas, the most jaded man alive. After trashing the engine in his first Supra back in '97 due to some ill-advised mods, he went on to own six more Supra Turbos, most of them boasting an ever-escalating horsepower rsum.
Five hundred wheel horsepower became lame. Six hundred wheel horsepower became duller than televised dog shows. One of them, a black '98, made 958-wheel hp on the stock bottom end, a record that stands to this day. Better, but not in the quadruple digits? A snoozer.
Along the way, Peter also owned an MR2, an M3, Corvette, Viper, Audi S4, a TT, a Legend; even, in a brief, misguided attempt to live the thug life, an Escalade. Three days after buying the 'Sclade, an EVO at a dealership caught his eye, so as penance for his sinning SUV ways, he bought that too.
The EVO was a brief fling, and like all flings it left him pining for past glories. As good as the EVO was, it simply could not sate Peter's horsepower obsession.
His indecision ultimately led him back home to the world of gonad-addled Supras, culminating with this car, a stock-looking, black '98. Lured back into the lair of Internet-fueled horsepower chest pounding, Peter secretly vowed to take on all comers at TX2K4.
In late December 2003, Peter summoned Chris Johnson of Performance Motorsport, Kean Wang of Boost Logic, and Justin Nenni of Tuning Concepts to build a 2JZ-GTE capable of withstanding 1,100-wheel hp. This was a number that would leave no man standing.
Although the Supra really only needed to make the number once, Peter made the tough decision to abandon the stock bottom-end approach that had served him so well in previous Supras and instead build a stronger 2JZ. This time, Carillo H-beam rods, Polydyn ceramic- and Teflon-coated 0.020-over CP pistons, and CP rings and wristpins found their way into the iron block of Toyota's most renowned straight-six.
Based on Peter's past success, he again contacted SHP Cylinder Heads to port and polish the head, which now flows 295 cfm at 0.400-inch lift. The valvetrain was fully worked over too, with HKS 272-degree cams, Ferrea 1mm oversize valves, titanium Crower springs and retainers, and ARP head studs. Topping the head is a Bullish velocity-stack intake manifold with a custom 90mm Accufab throttle body.
No ordinary turbo kit would suffice to reach such groundbreaking power levels, so Boost Logic devised a custom turbo system centered around a ball-bearing Garrett GT4202R turbo. A huge 5-inch inlet pipe and K&N filter feeds this beast, which in turn expels boosted air via 3.5-inch plumbing to a massive four-row GReddy intercooler and two HKS Racing blow-off valves.
After passing through a custom tubular header, some of the exhaust gases are bypassed to the atmosphere through a 50mm HKS wastegate, which is commanded by a Blitz Spec R boost controller. The rest of the exhaust spews into a 4-inch downpipe and midpipe and a 5-inch muffler. Plumbing of this magnitude skirts backpressure like George W. avoids WMD-related questions.
Boost Logic and Performance Motorsport continued their fabrication handiwork on the fuel system, where three Walbro in-tank fuel pumps supply Saudi Arabia's finest to a custom fuel rail, a Weldon regulator, six Delphi 1050cc/min injectors and a 90-shot Nitrous Express wet kit. Although a Weldon external pump would have been simpler, Peter didn't want the noise. This is a street car, after all.
The wheelspin is hopeless in most of the car's six forward gears (Yes, it still uses a stock Supra six-speed), despite the massive rubber at every corner; up front there are 265/30 Continental ContiSport Contact 2 tires on 19x10-inch CCW SP500 wheels. Out back, it's 295/30s on 19x11-inch wheels.