The American 2JZ? Big Turbo Chevy Trailblazer ATLAS Motor Review!

When you go to walmart to buy a Barra engine...

As a trailblazer owner and driver its a fun vehicle to drive as a daily, being N/A and having a built transmission brings it to life, especially with just a muffler it sounds so good

Base model trailblazers are absolutely incredibly good vehicles, from the engine, to the chassis, its an awsome vehicle

Great now these are all gonna be expensive as hell...thanks man🙄

Bro yall need to stop making prices go up on every cheap tunner or base motor

What exaust do dos he have

500hp on a stock 4l60e? That is very brave decision

Have you ever driven a manual swapped version of a REAL TBSS and turbo to

Love it!

I use to have a GMC envoy with that engine and I loved it I always felt like it was a platform that so much potential with it outside of the ss

Sorta Seems like a waste of $$$ & time pending on the damage. Inline 6's are fantastic. Imo should've put the motor in something lighter. But who am I to S%$! on your parade!

still need you to come review my tbss man.

The TBSS runs a 13.9 not a 14.8 but ok

Just buy and SS and turbo it ? Probably would be cheaper too

This isn’t a sleeper, it’s a coma

I own one with a 4.2 L Champagne color never would have thought of doing that lol mine has exhaust and wheels that’s it

please showcase a nasty time attack car PLEASEEEEEE

Love this video

🔥🔥🔥

Doesn’t a hellcat run 12?

Yep. The american barra

That poor fuckin 4l60

God my mom had one of these when I was growing up like 10-12 years ago and I always dreamt of doing exactly this

The GMT360 has been hot rodded for years. Trailblazers and Saab 9-7x's especially. Crazy 1/4 mile times. Check out more of them.

I watch you on my smoke breaks at work, and the drone is going through my speakers and rattling my teeth. So I can't imagine what you're going through

That poor 4l60.. lol jk, super cool build. Had no idea these engines were this rugged

Secret sauce

People needa stop making these videos... you used to get these for $2k or cheaper all day long. Now they're going up in price

Raining every video lately

My favorite series on this channel are the Ultimate tuner troll and Makes no sense cars.

Buick rainier baby😈😈😈

its a Vortech engine and yes you can move the seat you have to be in park to move it

It got “10 best engines award” more than 4 times.
That engine is nice as hell tbh lol
My buddy and my dad had one. I’ve always wanted an SS

I love this thing wth

thanks for bringing the atlas to light. cant wait for these things to soar above 8k with 245k miles

I had to turb my sub down because I literally couldn't heard you over the drone 🤣

I inherited one of these from my grandpa, and I spent weeks learning how to tune it. With heavier injectors, a TB spacer, a gigantic pod filter, and some major ECU mods, I got 300 at the wheels and was able (after a lot of work) to run e85 and push it to 305. Fuel economy stayed really flat at 14 even after tuning. Not amazing but it was super fun!

I also had nearly zero exhaust on it, it was a pipe and a muffler. And it's NECESSARY to tune these, I don't know why but you just cannot get easy power on an atlas 6 without either short exhaust, or an expensive high flow system. They really struggle to breathe. Well at least my early model atlas did, I hear the head was way more optimized in later versions.

The early ones are also super susceptible to blowby, piston slap, and bad piston rings. Cylinder 4 is blown on mine.

What would be cool is if they built more manual transmission cars, but people would rather hold their phones and expensive coffees than actually drive a vehicle

Technically it is a 4L65e. A little bit stronger, but still not a 500hp trans without a bit of work... I think the TBs were actually the first vehicles to use them.

“Ultimate tuner troll” “worst nightmare” - good videos bro, just use different names

Cool build but good lawd that 4L60’s days are numbered listen to that thing 😳

That was cool never new much about that engine but that’s awesome

4200 prices about to go crazy smh

This makes me want to boost my trailblazer!!!!

Me: I have a Corolla

David: COROLLA IS THE ULTIMATE TUNER TROLL

Me: I have a blender

David: BLENDER IS THE ULTIMATE KITCHEN TROLL

Me: I have an itch

David: RASH IS THE ULTIMATE DERMATOLOGICAL TROLL

Been talking to calvin nelson quite a bit, these engines are nuts. Not to mention there is also the I5 and I4 variations of this motor. The bottom end is good for 700whp you can oush further but that is where you find that forged rods will get you much further. But these are stupid reliable and easily swappable engines.

Very cool car! i'd love see another Barra swap car.

Atlas 4200 engine blocks are lost foam castings. They shouldn't be being modified. In fact, they should all be melted and used to cast something useful.

Yo I got a 04 4.2l for sale for $50 it's 100% perfect (for sitting in a field or scrap yard)

The secret is out!! Trail blazer are gonna be expensive