TOYOTA 2JZ SIX-CYLINDER

BEN Neal from Benny's Custom Works has run his seven-second, Barra-powered Toyota Cresta (SM, Jan '21) hard and fast at drag-and-drive events in both the USA and Australia. However, for his latest project, a JDM Toyota GX81 Mark II family cruiser, he's chosen a very different style of donk.

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> BENNY'S CUSTOM WORKS, MITTAGONG, NSW

"This project is pretty convoluted, because it started with two different cars and a plan to build a sister car to my Cresta, which was in the USA at the time doing drag-and-drive events," Benny says. "Originally, this was going to be a 1000hp turbo combo with an auto, but the costs and timelines were blowing out, so we changed plans to build a naturally aspirated combo. I was never really in love with the GBS12-series Crown platform, so when this super-clean Toyota GX81 Mark II came up for sale locally, I jumped on it."