LS Fest West's Lucas Oil Drift Challenge has been a highlight for many drift competitors across the nation (and Canada) for the last few years. Making its debut in 2017,…
The Porsche Cayman has always had a dear spot in our hearts. In another life, I was an engineer at a large OEM and we were doing benchmarking testing for…
Episode 259 - At #GRIDLIFE TrackBattle Round 2 at Summit Point, Adam and Abe talk with Greg Amy and buddies late into the night. Among other things, Greg schools us…
Hello! Welcome to the 7th installment in our hardheaded adventure of SR swapping a BMW E30. As you may recall, in part 6, we finished up some plumbing and installed…
Episode 258 - Beau Brown is in the studio talking to Austin and Mike about tuning and tracking. Beau works as a full time engine tuner for a well known,…
Having addressed most of our cooling concerns in part 1 we continue with the transmission upgrade for our Infiniti G37S. Ten years ago it would have been a fringe case…
Adam and Derek yap about the recently debuted #GRIDLIFE Touring Cup (GLTC) and the trip to Mid-Ohio. Images provided by GRIDLIFE buddy and photographer Rob Wilkinson. Look for his galleries…
The Discount Tire/Falken S13 that Dai Yoshihara drove to many podiums and a Formula Drift championship now resides with Falken Tire where it does duty as a promotional demo car. …
From left to right; Rome Charpentier, Daryl Priyono, and RJ Contreras prepare in the cold pits. By Nick Weycker When one thinks of Southern California, they think of palm trees,…
West Virginia kinda looks like this. Episode 254 - Adam and Abe share beers with two of the fastest street car drivers in the country while at #GRIDLIFE Round…
Tremec FINALLY made it! The T-56 Magnum "F" made to directly fit 4th gen F-body cars and thousands of engine swapped vehicles of all makes that need that…
So we have rebuilt the engine and the transmission for Rathyna's Turd. Now came the job of putting the engine back in the car and undoing the clusterfuck of plumbing…
Austin and Mike hang out with Rathyna Gomer to talk 350Z drift cars, MotoIQ's The Drift League, and some stories about Mike that we've never heard before. Rathyna runs…
In our last story, we were redesigning the steering knuckle/upright for the 2019 season on Dai Yoshihara's Turn 14 Formula Drift BR-Z. Our design goals were to keep the tires…
In our last story, we were assembling the parts for Ian's long rod stroker EJ205. Now that we had rods and a crankshaft from Eagle and Pistons from JE, it…
Something spiritual about racing at Daytona. Adam and Abe talk about a long couple of weekends. Back to back was #GRIDLIFE TrackBattle Round 1 at Mid-Ohio, and the SuperTeam endurance…
Well, Rathyna's S13 not only had a roached engine, but her transmission had given up the ghost as well. It didn't shift well, third gear was broken and her clutch…
Mike and Austin sit down with Formula Drift Judge Andy Yen. We chat about his love of the 86 Chassis, Track Days, and of course....drifting. From the early days as…
Last week Eneos Oil officially announced that they would be backing the Evasive Motorsports Toyota 86 for an effort at 2019 running of the Pikes Peak hillclimb. With Formula Drift…
WPC Treatment is looking for potential employees. If you are a long time reader of MotoIQ you know that we use WPC treatment on a lot of our projects to…
Austin and Mike talk tunes with Mitch McKee. Mitch got his start at AMS Performance and then moved over to Cobb Tuning. He's a guy that's made a lot of…
Rathyna's S13 drift car's engine was thoroughly hammered with little compression. In our last article, we rebuilt her cylinder head with Portflow Design replacing her worn valve guides and eroded…
While the old radiator and intake on Project V8 RX-7 was indeed functional and served us well it needed shrouding and certainly lacked a certain amount of "form". …
The gang (minus Austin) enters the Cohn zone to talk about ChopTopChallenge and chopped AMGs. We chat with Derek about trailer brakes. Mike Taylor calls in and we see what's up with…
For my low-speed/max-response turbo S2000 project, I decided to go with an air-to-water setup. Auto-x is the environment I'm designing for where you're sitting idling for long periods of time…
We have been using King Bearings almost exclusively in our engine builds for the past several years and have been getting extremely good results with them. So we wanted to…
Austin and Mike sit down with JC Meynet to talk about time attack. JC Has been building and running the same STi since the late 2000s. Coming from a background…
Erin Sanford bought his first S13 in late 2003 after wanting to find something fun to daily drive. The S13 coupe was always visually appealing to him, and so he…
I have been working with Dai Yoshihara for 10 years now on an adventure that has taken me all over the world and has gotten me involved in winning stuff as…
