Buntawee Service is a company in Samut Prakan Province, Thailand that specializes in swapping Toyota 1KD/2KD diesel inline-four and 1JZ/2JZ inline-six engines. Take for example this BMW E90 they installed a 3.0 L 1KD-FTV turbo diesel inline-four and automatic transmission. If they left the engine stock, it produces 170-188 hp (127-140 kW) and 260-310 lb-ft (352-420 Nm) of torque thanks to a variable nozzle turbocharger and common rail direct injection.
Source: Buntaweeservice FB album
The weird thing is, they also swap the same engine to cars like 7-series, older Rolls-Royce, or even a first generation CLS… it’s just, kinda weird… but then these little 4-cylinder diesel can make quite a lot of power after modified, and still economical to run normally.
Maybe it make sense afterall?
I assume it’s popular in Thailand because they are plentiful and cheap.
I live in Thailand from 2017 up to June of 2019, so Thailand has very advance ways to modify diesel engine. For street using, Isuzu or Toyota diesel engine is easy to tune somewhere 300 hp on wheel, for track, they modify around 400-500 hp, for drag is around 700 hp. All with original engine block
1kdftv 400-500HP ??? how is possible ???
This is 2jz of diesel 4 cylinder