Why Youre Wrong About What Engine You Want For Your Drift Car. If you dream of building a drift car, so much of the joy is thinking up weird and wonderful high horsepower engine swaps to cram into the front of your old four cylinder car. An inline six. All these dreams are wrong. If youre just starting out in drifting, still learning and getting a hang of how much handbrake is too much handbrake, you dont want to go for a mad more cylinder swap on your car. What youre doing is adding weight, heat and cost where you dont need it, as three time Formula Drift champion Chris Forsberg and his fellow competitor Ryan Tuerck explain in the new series of Drift Garage Theyre keeping a little four cylinder turbo in the front of the budget Nissan 2. SX build for this season. Thats actually Drift Idiots S1. SR2. 0. Thats not the engine the car came with, but its also not a bigger six or eight. Plenty of car bros in search of more power go right to a Toyota 1. JZ or 2. JZ. These are 2. Thats bad for handling and, as Forsberg explains, bad for cooling. Most expensive zip code for renters in US revealed One region has been named the most expensive zip code in the country with an average rent of just under 6,000. Watch The Games Maker Online Full Movie more. Youre taking up valuable room for radiators and fans, and overheating is a common problem for these JZ powered cars, as Tuerck attests. The car that made him famous was a 1. JZ powered Nissan 2. SX, but its a pain if you want to run lots of laps. With great restraint and beautiful camerawork, Andrew Laputka and Ryan Tuerck of Drift Alliance. A lighter, cheaper, easier SR2. I myself want nothing more than a naturally aspirated Nissan RB2. DE straight six with a set of individual throttle bodies because I am a weirdo, but if I had to put my money down on a drift car, Id keep the engine as small and as simple as possible.