There’s a new king of the hill in import drag racing: EKanoo Racing’s 2JZ-powered Supra. All hail!
The record-breaking run was a screaming 6.05-second quarter mile that tripped the lights at 241 mph (387.69 kph). According to the EKanoo Racing website, all that power comes from the venerable 2JZ inline-six that powered the last generation of Toyota Supras, albeit one that’s breathing through a gargantuan 98-mm turbo. Output is shuttled through a Liberty five-speed drag-racing gearbox. EKanoo is playing it hush-hush when it comes to details like horsepower, engine internals, or boost pressure, but we assume it’s safe to quantify those things as “freaking a lot,” “super beefy,” and “a metric ass-ton.”
The record-breaking run was set by American driver Gary White at the 2014/2015 Bahrain National Drag Racing Championship at Bahrain International Circuit in the Persian Gulf. EKanoo Racing’s Facebook page has plenty of videos from alternate angle—the Supra actually moved side-to-side a good bit during the run—as well as stuff covering the team’s other dragsters, including a bonkers Toyota 86 (which we know as the Scion FR-S) and a nine-second 997 Porsche 911.
And yes, for all you pedants out there: This is about as far from a street car as a vehicle can get and still look somewhat like a Toyota Supra. There is nothing even remotely streetable about a car that has stickers for headlights. This is a purpose-built drag racer built for the top tier of import drag-racing competition—essentially the import world’s Funny Car class. And it just deposed the old record holder.
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