Ricky_Flowers_

Christ, your brain must be a feral wasteland if you think swapping a 600 pound V12 from the most niche model Toyota has ever made into a 2800 pound sports car instead of, oh, I don't know, LITERALLY EVERY OTHER ENGINE EVER MADE. It makes more sense to swap in a ****ing Abrams tank engine than that old paperweight. By all means, you should try this and let us know how it goes. I'm sure it will be a painless swap for someone like you, as I'm sure your genius truly knows no bounds.

Deckoz

1g isnt even a Toyota engine.. the 1g and 1jz are yamaha engines... so is the 2jz, Toyota just stroked the 1jz to 3.0 and called it their own(2jz).


Why do you want a 1g lol its old and has funky engineering

also

​​​​​​​lol "end well" on the internet. what's he gonna do, caps lock you?

S2000fan1

Ricky_Flowers_

You should by all means do this, and take plenty of photos.

Chibo

There is plenty of room to mount it mid engine if you remove the center storage compartment and run a hard top, this would let you easily run a Porsche transaxle so you don't need to deal with a custom driveshaft

Hertz Donut

I thought you were using hyperbole, but then I looked it up. Holy crap it's a boat anchor.

1GZ: 600lb, 312hp, 355lb ft, full custom swap, very little aftermarket support
LS3: 418lb, 430hp, 425lb ft, swap kits available, practically unlimited support
(not even going into gearbox weight etc...)

OP: Just because it can be done, doesn't mean it should. The Instagram fanboys will find it awesome for about a week, and then they'll move on to the next big thing while you'll be stuck with the ongoing hassles a custom swap entails, until you give up and sell it to someone else for a fraction of what you spent on it, after listing it for about a year on Craigslist, continuously dropping the price and fending off 40 lowballers a day. I speak from (NZ equivalent) experience.

An LS swap isn't original, it's not cool, and there'll be plenty of haters, but it's been done a lot because it works, and it works well. If you want big NA power and torque, it just makes sense (relatively speaking).

Chuck S

I'm sure I've not seen this exact car but did see the same V10 engine in another S2000 a few years ago. V12 swap should be just as easy and just as useless but with great "look at me" street cred.


-- Chuck

Chibo

But does it have a bluetooth driveshaft?

Manga_Spawn

Yeah and Top secret put one into a supra ages ago (it was recently up for sale though not sure if it sold) . https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cul...-v12-for-sale/

Why don't you call up the shop that did the swap into the BRZ and ask what they would charge you? I would recommend getting an email or phone number that appears based in Dubai. The answer here is this sort of thing requires either a shop like top secret that has all the ability to do the work in house and can benefit from the publicity such a car would provide them or being so rich you could give a blank check to whatever shop could and would agree to do such a thing while also not worrying about ever getting anywhere close to the money you put into said project back. Like Ricky said please go ahead and try it.