This 300bhp WRX-Engined BRZ Is The Car We Wish Subaru Would Make! :tup:
Talk to anyone about the Subaru BRZ/Toyota GT86 and the whole ‘it needs more power’ argument is almost certainly going to come up at some point. Since neither Subaru or Toyota seems willing to crank up the rear-wheel drive coupe’s grunt, aftermarket mods are the only answer. One option we’ve looked at before is forced induction, but what about an engine swap?
That’s exactly what the BRZ you see here is rocking, in the form of a 2.0-litre FA20DIT engine under the bonnet. Oh yes, this car - the work of an Austrian company called Speedheads, possibly part of Stohl Racing - is packing a WRX boxer engine.
It’s still relatively early days for the project, but the car is already kicking out 300bhp. Much more like it.
Talk to anyone about the Subaru BRZ/Toyota GT86 and the whole ‘it needs more power’ argument is almost certainly going to come up at some point. Since neither Subaru or Toyota seems willing to crank up the rear-wheel drive coupe’s grunt, aftermarket mods are the only answer. One option we’ve looked at before is forced induction, but what about an engine swap?
That’s exactly what the BRZ you see here is rocking, in the form of a 2.0-litre FA20DIT engine under the bonnet. Oh yes, this car - the work of an Austrian company called Speedheads, possibly part of Stohl Racing - is packing a WRX boxer engine.
It’s still relatively early days for the project, but the car is already kicking out 300bhp. Much more like it.
