I don't know, I think at the end of the day it's called hot rodding. How would you feel if I put a Viper engine in this? There are plenty of Lexus V-8 swaps already but I would want to be different.
As for the "car fix" guys there's no such thing as bad publicity which is why there's this thread.

I think I saw that episode and the statement was made, IIRC, that the Toyota engine used was the "small block Chevy of Japan". I look at that like I look at Proposition 65, only causes cancer in California. If you aren't in California it doesn't really matter.

I've solved all those problems. I don't watch any car shows on TV.

What those idiots do doesn't bother me in the least.

I used to put Mopar power into everything I build here (including a 60s Chevy truck, a Pontiac, and a 62 Chevy II) but finding Mopar stuff other then the modern Hemi these days is getting to be a real challenge. Not everything has room for a Hemi, and not everything needs a Hemi. Good thing my building days are winding down.

Lou Santiago is a great guy, met him at Mopars at the Strip almost 20 years ago and we kept in touch. He quit a couple of TV shows because they wanted to move him and his family to New York and LA to tape them and he would not leave North Carolina for those "progressive" cities. I am sure he doesn't like doing some of this crap either, but still a knowledgeable and straight-up guy...

People with no brand loyalty(mopar) will put X engine in any brand car just because they can and think nothing of it.

I think Lou left before this swap occurred.

Not real sure why some are upset about it though, it's not their car.

Doesn't matter if it is their car or not, wrong is just wrong! Like said above, it is all about brand loyalty, and people who own Japanese cars have never known brand loyalty, To me it is all about legacy American brands, but I still cannot stand Chivvy engines in other legacy brands, and most people are just not stupid enough to put a Ferd in anything else...

"I wouldn't have a Toyota in my driveway even if I got it for free."


a neighbor kid gave me one that didn't run. i got it going, "chromed" the wheels with dollar store "chrome in a can", added a glasspack i had laying around because the thing needed a muffler, and painted it with a bunch of leftover "reds" the body shop had in a bunch of cans on the shelf.
got $750.00 for it.

You don't get to decide what is wrong here.

Why yes, yes I do, just like you can write what you just did, opinions are like a-holes, everyone has one and in a free country we can damn sure say what the he11 we want too...

Not Lou. Bryan Fuller (who I have never liked on any sort of these shows he's been on, ) and some guy named Jeremy bumpus

Lou hasn't been on that show in like 3-4 years.

This just in Germans bomb Pearl Harbor.

Never seen it or heard of it.

You apparently don't understand the difference between an opinion and a judgement.

Let me ask you this, what alternator is under the hood of your truck. Bet it's a POS Japanese one (an opinion) and that would make you a hypocrite, (a judgement).

Dont pound on me but I think it's called Hot Rodding? it is what it is. the owner has the money he can hot rod as he pleases. just my opinion.

I was thinking the same thing.

This is true, but I don't have to like it or agree with it and I don't!

it's cool by me. It's just different. I agree with you 100% you are correct.