BMW M3 E92 with 900HP single turbo setup and Toyota Supra 2JZ engine swap, captured drifting and revving on track.

There's an old Internet joke you may have come across where people doing 2JZ Toyota engine swaps post a picture of their car with two side-by-side images of the rapper Jay-Z standing in their car ...

If you’re a JDM fanatic then I can see the appeal of the JZ or RB, but remember that these engines ruled in the early/mid ’90s. Neither the 2JZ nor RB25/26 are especially cheap engines.

After we had Engine Of The Day Overload last weekend, I got the usual flurry of emails pointing out the really important stuff I'd overlooked. One engine kept coming up, though: the mighty Toyota JZ!

This piece explores the BMW B58 straight-six engine, and why it is the modern equivalent of the legendary Toyota 2JZ powerplant. All data used was sourced from trusted providers.

The 2JZ engine, especially the 2JZ-GTE, responds very well to tuning and modifications. It has strong internals, but it will still cost a pretty penny to coax its power outputs further.

The Toyota 2JZ engine, celebrated for its immense power potential, famously starred under the hood of the hero Supra in the first The Fast and the Furious movie back in 2001.

No, this Toyota 86 doesn't follow the let's-pack-a-monster-JZ-engine path that most drag racing Toyotas enjoy, sporting a Land Cruiser straight-six instead ...

When he started this swap, it was a fully functioning 456, V-12 and all. He decided to drop in a 2JZ engine because he wanted to drive the car to work every day—a 100 mile round trip.