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Speedhunters has a great post showing off a bunch of engine swaps at the NA Nationals<\/a>, such as a twin turbo Lexus powered Mercedes and a 2JZ powered RX7.<\/p>\n

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Speedhunters has a great post showing off a bunch of engine swaps at the NA Nationals, such as a twin turbo Lexus powered Mercedes and a 2JZ powered RX7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":110245,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=110245","url_meta":{"origin":533,"position":0},"title":"BMW E46 M3 with a LS3 V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"January 16, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Ash Burrows enjoys driving his BMW E46 M3 at the track. 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