The Story
What you are looking at is an 1977 chevy camaro with an forged 1.5JZ putting down 759whp thru bmw 6-speed manual, there's really no quick way of telling the story about this car but I'll try. Back in 2011 I took a ride in my friends R32 gtr skyline with +600hp setup, it was the first fast 6-cylinder I had ever experienced and I was instantly hooked. Being 19 years old and just bought this camaro year before I had no money to buy actual skyline or supra. Being young and naive my understanding about car building was based solely (and falsely) on shows like MTVs Pimp my ride so I without any hesitation I thought I should just do an turbo inline 6 swap on my camaro, how hard or expensive could that be! I bought an 1jz-gte and r154 from a friend of a friend and thought I'll had it driving before the snow melts, turned out the reality wasn't anything like the pimp my ride had shown me..
It took me 5 years and lots of trial and error to actually get the car ""ready"" and driving for the first time and total of 12 years to get it in it's current version. I never had clear plans for it but I'm certain it was never supposed to end up this good. For me it's never been about the clout, fame or car show success, it's been about doing every possible thing the DIY way and learning as I go. I remember having like 5 different exhaust on the car before I actually drove it since I wanted to try out something different each time. Only outsourced things on this car are the Anvil auto rear spoiler, painting of the car and aluminum welding. Everything from metal work, body work, fiberglass parts, carbon fiber parts, electronics, stainless welding, ecu installation, roll cage, wiring etc is diy because the constant learning is the thing that drives my passion. With clear, thought out plans and more outsourced work/parts this car would have been way different way sooner but for me personally the process of building the car is far more important than having/driving a built car.
