With a huge heatwave hitting California, we found when doing a track day at Willow Springs raceway in over 100-degree heat that our car was starting to run a little…
This week we take a look at the new electronic wastegates from Turbosmart to see how they work and discuss all the different ways they could be used to…
For the E39 model, BMW made the mistake of making the antisway bar to frame brackets out of thin gauge aluminum to save a few grams per car. These break…
When it comes to weight reduction, it’s difficult to beat the cost-to-benefit ratio of a lithium battery. We replaced our NSX’s heavy AGM battery with Antigravity’s drop-in Group-35/Q85 lithium battery…
So our project S13 came with a Nismo 1.5 way clutch type limited slip differential that the previous owner had installed. From prior experience we know that clutch type LSD's…
For all of those wondering why I sold Project S2000 shortly after I FINALLY got the turbo installed and running well, this is it: a 2023 718 Cayman T. The…
In today's video we take a look at Mike's favorite engines of all time and one a lot of you have hopefully been waiting for--the 1JZ/2JZ engine class from…
3rd Gen Tacoma Taillight from Form Lighting In this article we review the 3rd Gen Tacoma Taillight from Form Lighting. I admit I never really have thought much about tail…
We decided to tear down a 2,000-mile brand-new Mazda crate engine to turn it into one of the most highly-modified 13B REW engines on the planet. We started by removing…
As of 2023, every single Cappuccino ever made is a quarter century old. In that time, rubber will harden, degrade, and fail. This includes the bushings in all of the…
Subaru STIs have a water intercooler sprayer as factory equipment. There is an intercooler spray button on the dash with a large water reservoir in the truck with a pump. …
Owning an RX-7 is like riding a motorcycle. It’s not a matter of “IF” (the car catches fire) but rather “WHEN, and how bad?”. A small engine fire changed the…
In our last segment, we talked about the lack of rear brake upgrades for the GD and why it was difficult to design one. We started out with a Stoptech…
In this week's video we're building another Toyota 4AG engine for a customer, this particular one has to rev to 11,000 RPM's and not blow up! If you liked…
We design a custom tone ring and hall-effect sensor mount for our Motec M150 to more accurately record the crankshaft position and control ignition timing at high RPM. We also…
In this third and final part of our "How to adjust your shocks like a pro" series we'll show you how to set up three-way, four-way and five-way adjustable…
To make a simpler and more reliable off-road (track-only) engine setup, we removed the factory Air Pump and Air Control Valve, then installed the Full Function Engineering Idler Pulley Full…
In our last article, we lowered the height of our S2000, which changed the suspension geometry leading to tweaked handling and irregular wear to the driveshaft inboard joints. In addition,…
One of our buddies was looking for a relatively inexpensive engine swap for his Jeep XJ and the LM7 truck variant of the LS engine from a junkyard made…
In our previous article, we had gotten a new Precision Turbo ball bearing center section drop in factory replacement turbo to replace our previous turbo that was choking our engine…
We have always been fans of Antigravity Micro-Start jump batteries, we not only carry them in our personal cars but we also have a few around the shop that we…
We upgrade the ECU in our 30-year-old NSX to the advanced Motec M150, and ditch the throttle cable in favor of a Drive-By-Wire setup to take full advantage of new…
In this video we dive into the sexy world of harmonic balancers with the help of special guest Ivan Snyder from Fluidampr! We explain what they do, why you…
We replace the NSX’s aging factory main relay and fan control modules with the ECU Master PMU16 Power Management Unit. This also gives us the ability to not only control…
