YouTuber Builds Wild Junkyard Yenko Camaro With A Japanese Widebody

If you thought stuffing an 1,150-horsepower Yenko Camaro engine into a beat-up third-generation Camaro was completely unnecessary, you may be right. Bit we live in a digital world where everyone wants attention, so, buckle up, because we just found yet another ridiciuous muscle car build.

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After somehow surviving this insane engine swap, taking the Frankenstein build racing, and even winning Throtl’s Throwdown event, the mad scientist creators have decided the car still isn’t ridiculous enough. Their solution? Bolt a Japanese-inspired widebody onto it, because apparently 1,000 hp wasn’t enough to get your attention.

From Wrecked Third-Gen To 1,150-HP Track Winner

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What started as a tired, bruised third-generation Camaro has quickly become one of YouTube’s craziest home-built muscle cars. The team transplanted a supercharged 6.8-liter LT V8 from a modern Yenko Camaro, instantly turning the forgotten F-body into a fire-breathing 1,150-horsepower monster.

And unlike plenty of internet builds that spend their lives doing smoky burnouts in parking lots, this Camaro was actually put to work. The team entered it in Throtl Throwdown, where the unlikely creation shocked everyone by taking home the win.

Of course, making over a thousand horsepower and repeatedly launching the car at full throttle tends to have consequences.

Now that the victory lap is over, the builders are pulling the supercharged LT back apart to see exactly what survived—and more importantly, what didn’t. It’s basically an automotive autopsy, except the patient somehow drove itself into the operating room.

A Japanese Widebody Is Coming Next

Instead of simply fixing whatever they broke, the team has chosen chaos. The next chapter of the project, appropriately named “Double Wide,” will see the Camaro receive a full Japanese-inspired widebody kit, giving the old-school American muscle car the kind of aggressive stance usually reserved for Liberty Walk exotics and time-attack monsters.

Before the oversized fenders go on, though, the supercharged LT needs a full inspection. The teardown will reveal whether the engine shrugged off the abuse from Throtl Throwdown or if it quietly sacrificed a few expensive internals in the name of victory.

If everything goes according to plan, the finished product will be unlike anything else on the road—a 1,150-horsepower Yenko-powered third-gen Camaro wearing Japanese tuner styling. It’s equal parts muscle car, JDM fever dream, and a car-build middle finger to anyone who says you have to pick one automotive culture over the other.