Lexus LFA Gets NASCAR V8 for D1GP
The Lexus LFA is one of the best sounding cars on the planet.
With a small displacement V-10 and an exhaust tuned by Yamaha, how could it not be? Seriously, of all the supercars that have been built in the past decade, the LFA may just be the best sounding of them all.
But that didn’t stop OTG Motor Sports from swapping it for a pushrod TRD V-8 yanked from a NASCAR.
Only 500 LFAs were ever built, and of those 500, a few already have been crashed—although that’s not how this one started out. Here we have an LFA that was actually killed in a flood, and rather than rebuilding the glorious V-10, the owner famously sold it off to a the drift team who ran it in Japan’s D1GP.
As you can hear in the video below, we don’t get the wail of that amazing V-10 anymore. But we are treated to the brutal noise from the NASCAR-derived mill as the LFA slips and slides up a mountain pass.
The only way to make this better would be for the stock LFA to come with a hydraulic handbrake. Enjoy.
