This BNR32 Skyline GT-R pairs Toyota 2JZ-GTE power with Nissan's ATTESA E-TS all-wheel-drive system, according to a feature published on Motor Fan — the RB26DETT is gone, the Supra's engine sits in its place, and the R32's electronically controlled four-wheel drive still works.

The feature frames the choice as touching one of GT-R culture's taboos — and then explains the practical path that led there.

How the 2JZ swap retains ATTESA E-TS

Keeping ATTESA is what makes this swap genuinely hard. The R32's front differential is integrated with the RB26's oil pan, and to retain that factory arrangement the builder fabricated an adapter that mounts the RB26 oil pan — front diff provision and all — onto the 2JZ-GTE block. Custom engine mounts and a transmission adapter mate the Toyota engine to the GT-R's original five-speed gearbox; a six-speed conversion was considered and dropped on budget grounds.

The packaging problems cascade from there. The 2JZ's exhaust sits on the opposite side to the RB26's, so the swap required a custom exhaust routed to clear the propeller shaft, along with rerouted fuel lines. The spec on top is classic big-single street-build: an HKS high-lift camshaft, a Trust T78-33D turbocharger, 800 cc injectors and 90 mm custom intake piping — good for an estimated 700 PS, per the feature, at a peak boost of 1.8 kgf/cm² (roughly 25.6 psi).

Why the owner replaced the RB26

The motive was practical, not provocative: per the feature, the owner endured repeated RB26 failures — blown gaskets, piston damage — and chose a different engine over another rebuild. Swapping the rival flagship's engine into a GT-R is the kind of decision that starts arguments in any language, which is presumably why the feature itself frames it as touching a taboo.

The build's central achievement is retaining ATTESA E-TS while fitting an engine the R32 was never designed to use. Between this car and the manual-swapped Y31 Gloria, Japan's feature pages are currently a running seminar in how far owners will go to keep aging Nissans on the road — even when the answer involves a Toyota engine.