Fredric Aasbo today Instagrammed his Formula Drift Asia Australia round beast which happens to be a TRD NASCAR powered V8 engine shoved into a Scion FRS (Toyota 86). The car will do mixed duty between Max Orido and Fredric Aasbo in Formula Drift Asia. The NASCAR engine provides 700hp. Below are some additional views of the
Instagram Sources: Fredric Aasbo and Speedhunters Dino Dalle Carbonare
On his Facebook Fan Page this morning they posted up the 2JZ engine mocked inside the Toyota 86 (our Scion FR-S in America) which was announced will be debuted at Gatebil. The widebody Toyota 86 will have a Rocket Bunny kit and we published renders of it earlier in the “Toyota 86 Coming to Gatebil with 2JZ” post which you can revisit. The swap doesn’t look that tricky fitment wise so hopefully someone like Tech 2 Motorsports can come out with a 2JZ swap kit for this Toyota 86 just like the kits they have for cars like the Mazda Rx-7 right now. How do you think Fredric Aasbo will fair in this car AND could it possibly be a sneak peak of a new Formula Drift USA build or could they be planning to ship this thing over to America one day. So many questions but Gatebil is coming up so we cannot wait to see this 2JZ Toyota 86 in action.
Through Speedhunters Facebook tonight Fredric Aasbo has announced that he will be building a 2JZ powered Toyota 86 (Scion FR-S in America) for the big European event Gatebil this coming summer. The car will have great partners such as KW Suspension and ACT Clutch and according to FB a Rocket Bunny kit. Hopefully this car can make its way back to America and be his competition car in Formula Drift. One can at least hope, right? What do you think of this new build?
The guys at Car@Nifty caught the Hibino crash on film which was spotted by one of our commenters in the photo thread (thanks Steffan) which shows the big run into the turn one wall by Hibino in his Toyota 86. The contact and crash from this video angle doesn’t really look all that bad but his entire rear suspension came off the car in the process so it must of been a bigger impact than it appeared to be.
The D1 Grand Prix driver Tetsuya Hibino already has given his Toyota 86 one huge love smack on the wall at Odaiba today. We don’t have any more details outside of what we found hunting around the Internet but I am sure video will pop up soon. It looks like Hibino is running Cusco arms on the car. We will provide more reports from the first round of the D1GP as they come out!
Watch some in car footage of Max Orido manhandling his Toyota 86 powered by a Lexus IS-F V8 engine. The car almost seems a tad underpowered compared to the big HP boys of D1GP but perhaps they have some aftermarket ideas cooking for the V8 engine. Sit back virtually with Orido has he man handles this Toyota 86 all around Mobara.
The Scion FR-S has been the biggest buzz of the import car scene in quite some time. Formula Drift announcer Jarod DeAnda went behind the scenes of the commercial shoot and captured all the action from flat black Mercedes SUVS to helicopters with huge cameras on them. Follow the jump below to see a ton of photographs.
The two Toyota 86 (Scion FR-S in America) heading to the D1 Grand Prix series next year have already been seen doing tandem at the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon. The car is gaining more and more hype by the minute and it might even convert into car sales. I just love this old school HKS look that NOB will be driving in 2012. The Hibino car also marks the return of Falken Tire to the D1GP series. Check the link below to watch the videos of these two Toyota 86 cars doing tandem!
One of Patrick Mordaunt’s crew members John Jimison posted this up on Facebook this morning and we cannot manage to find this car anywhere else. From the best we can tell the car is for Nobuteru Taniguchi and the return of his awesome HKS style that we grew to love back in the days of D1GP. It looks like he will be joining Hibino in the 2012 D1GP season who was shown driving his Toyota 86 earlier this week.
While recently Tokyo Auto Salon has been somewhat of a snooze fest for drifting news in the Japanese world it looks like the 2012 show might have some hope. Already announced is Tesuya Hibino (legendary Toyota Corolla driver) will be driving a Toyota 86 this season in the D1 Grand Prix series. The video above shows him flinging it around in this lot. Hopefully some other big drifting news will come out from the Tokyo Auto Salon this year!
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