Tokyo Drift used nearly 200 cars in total ... old junk into an excellent race car so he can compete against the Drift King in the film. As a result, he used a V8 engine from a 2001 Nissan Skyline Rb26 ...

The initial ignition appears to have erupted underneath the hood of the V-8-swapped Feal Suspension GT Radial S15 Nissan Silvia, though the flames quickly engulfed the entire drift car.

Years before Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) saved the Vatican City in a computer-generated Dodge Charger, there was The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift ... a wrecked Nissan S15 drift car.