The benefit of using a BMW turbocharged powerplant is that it’s pretty easy to add 85 horsepower to your without swapping a single part. So easy, in fact, that somebody’s already done it.
In this case, Pistonheads reports that . They’ve got a stock Supra motor producing 420 horsepower, which should be more than enough power to blaze some tires.
There was a time in my life, starting in the late 1990s and lasting several years after that, where
Up next, Litchfield is developing a new titanium exhaust that ditches the factory particulate filter. By swapping out the exhaust with a less restrictive one, Litchfield expects to get around 450 horsepower out of the 3.0-liter engine.
Producing an extra 115 horsepower without touching any engine components is certainly a promising start to the A90 Supra tuning scene. BMW engines—specifically the turbocharged inline six in the E90 335i—are more than capable of handling massive power.
It should be noted, however, that .
BMW guts or not, I was adamant that the 2020 Toyota Supra felt like it had more than the reported…
Given how many MKIV builds produced four-digit horsepower numbers, we’d imagine that this is just the beginning. Once aftermarket companies start swapping turbos and beefing up internals, there’s really no limit to how much power they’ll be able to make.