The unique “The Quick And The Livid” (not the new Folgers-themed movie) tried its finest to be a really correct film about tuner tradition, and typically it did a satisfactory job. The remainder of the time the film did considerably worse — all of us keep in mind Brian’s flooring falling off in that first huge race — however one second has all the time caught out as notably egregious. Brian rolls as much as Dom’s store with a Supra on a trailer, and everyone seems to be surprised that this A80 has a 2JZ-GE engine underneath its hood: the one engine we received in that automobile, and the boring non-turbo model besides. Because it seems, although, there was an earlier draft of the film the place this scene made excellent sense.
The orange Supra was famously a private automobile of Craig Lieberman, credited because the “import automobile marketing consultant” for “The Quick And The Livid,” however the unique script for the movie by no means known as for a Supra. The truth is, it by no means known as for something 2J-powered in any respect. Again within the script’s “Blue draft” of Could 2000, Brian’s hero automobile was a Nissan 240SX pulled from an LAPD impound lot — a 240SX with a six-cylinder Skyline engine swapped in. No sh*t certainly.
‘Omigod. A Skyline motor.’
Had Brian rolled as much as Dom’s store in an already-swapped automobile — an concept ultimately reused for “Tokyo Drift,” the place Sean Boswell crashes Han’s RB26-swapped S15 Silvia and ultimately reuses its engine in his Mustang — the road would make sense. Nobody expects to pop the hood on a 240SX and see a Skyline’s RB sitting there. A KA24, positive; an SR20 is neat however anticipated. An I6 out of a Skyline is neat, no matter which mill from the road it finally ends up being.
By the point of the script’s subsequent revision simply two weeks later, in accordance with Lieberman, Brian’s remaining hero automobile modified to a Mitsubishi Eclipse. Neither the Eclipse nor the 240SX had sufficient open area within the roof to make Brian’s rescue of Vince actually work, although, so Lieberman’s Supra and its targa roof ended up getting the hero function as an alternative. For some motive, the engine-surprise line was left in, and we received the nonsensical scene that is still within the remaining film. However in some unspecified time in the future, early on, that line did truly make sense.