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The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling

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The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling – Bump Steer/Toe Steer

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The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling Part X: Bump Steer/Toe Steer by Mike Kojima It's time to think about suspension.  Some of the most common handling problems that you are…
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The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling: Part 9 It’s All in the Geometry – The Roll Center

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  In the first parts of our suspension series we have covered basic suspension stuff. Now it’s time to bury ourselves in tuning suspension geometry. Geometry tuning is a step…
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The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling: Part Seven – Tuning your Toe

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The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling: Part VII – Tuning your Toe By Mike Kojima Previously in our series we were talking about general tips for you to follow when…
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The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling: Part Six, Adding Negative Camber

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  The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling: Part VI, Adding Negative Camber By Mike Kojima In the first 5 parts of this series you learned some basic steps to improving…
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The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling Part 4: Reduce weight transfer

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The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling Part IV: Reduce Weight Transfer by Mike Kojima Now that we have reduced body motion and improved steering response, and tuned out under…
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The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling Part 3: Balance the chassis

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  The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling Part III: Balance the chassis by Mike Kojima Check out part one of the series here! Check out part two of the…
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The Ultimate guide to Suspension and Handling Part 2, Controlling Body Motion

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The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling: Part II – Controlling Body Motion by Mike Kojima Previously, we addressed the most important aspect of handling, the tires. The next important…
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The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling Part 1, Wheels and Tires

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The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling Part I: Wheels and Tires by Mike Kojima   Horsepower is sexy and chicks dig it, at least a lot of meatheads think…
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Project 718 Cayman T: Part 12 – E-Motion Suspension Components and Track Update

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The stock suspension of the 718 Cayman does not have enough adjustment range for serious road course track work. You can’t get enough negative camber in order to prevent destroying…
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S2000 Suspension Geometry Fix

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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,…
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The Car Lovers Guide to Japan, The Nissan Heritage Museum

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  Located in Kanagawa, a suburb of Yokohama on the grounds of Nissan’s Zama plant is the Nissan Heritage Museum.  The museum is a must see place if you are…
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Project Tundra, Installing the Ultimate Bolt On Off Road Suspension From Icon Vehicle Dynamics Part 2

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In our last article we explained how the different components of our Icon Vehicle Dynamics suspension system  that we would be installing on Project Tundra worked.  In this weeks story,…
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Project Acura RSX Sleeper, Buttoning Up the Project With Suspension!

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We left off in our last edition of Project DC5 RSX with some killer brakes by Stoptech that brought our cars stopping power in line with our fantastic 300 whp…
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How to Make Crappy Cars Handle Well!

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Handling is a difficult subject for many people to wrap their heads around.  Many cars, especially lower end sport compacts have a reputation for awful handling that can’t be fixed or for…
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AEM AQ1 – Installing and Setting Up the AQ1 Data Logger

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AEM AQ1 – Installing & Setting Up the AQ1 Data Logger by Ramitha Edirisinghe   In Article 1 we went over the features of the AQ1. In Article 2 we showed…
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Polystrand GT-Lite CRX: Part 3 – Simulating the Suspension

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Polystrand GT-Lite CRX: Part 3 – Simulating the Suspension by Jonathan Spiegel At the end of Part 2 of the Polystrand GT-Lite Project, we had finalized the preliminary design for…
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Polystrand GT-Lite CRX – Part 2

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Polystrand GT-Lite CRX: Part 2 – Designing an Independent Rear Suspension From Scratch & A Composites Primer by Jonathan Spiegel When we last left off, the GT-Lite Project CRX was…
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Driver Blog: Randy Pobst – PRI and the Track Drug

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photo: Jim Haughey, K-PAX Racing Driver Blog: Randy Pobst – PRI and the Track Drug by Randy Pobst   Ed: Randy Pobst is a ten-time road-racing champion with over 70 professional…
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Improving a Pony Car’s Handling

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Improving a Pony Car's Handling – Part 1: Suspension Adjustability on a Budget By Vince Illi Apparently I’m weird. (I just told you something you didn’t already know, right?) MotoIQ…
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The Ultimate Handling Guide Part 8: Understanding Your Caster, King Pin Inclination and Scrub

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The Ultimate Handling Guide Part VIII: Understanding Your Caster, King Pin Inclination and Scrub By Mike Kojima Understanding what caster does and how to use it is a powerful tool…
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Industry Insider: KW Suspension Factory Tour Part 2

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Industry Insider: KW Suspension Factory Tour Part 2 By Mike Kojima, photos by Jeff Naeyaert In our last installment we left you deep inside KW Suspension's wonder factory.  So far none of…
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The Ultimate Handling Guide Part V: The One Unforgivable Sin, Overlowering Your Car

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The Ultimate Handling Guide Part V: The One Unforgivable Sin, Overlowering Your Car by Mike Kojima   I am not Jesus so I don't have to forgive you if you…
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No Respect, Project Nissan Sentra Spec-V part 3, Building a Race Ready Suspension System

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No Respect, Project Nissan Sentra Spec-V part 3, Building a Race Ready Suspension System By Mike Kojima To see older editions of this series click here! There are 5 elements…
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Project STurdteen: Installing Progress Sway Bars

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Project STurdteen: Installing Progress Sway Bars by Rathyna Gomer   To run sway bars or to not run sway bars? That is the question. In the drift world, there's been a…
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Basic Drift Chassis Setup Part 3

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Basic Drift Chassis Setup Part 3 By Mike Kojima Alignment Alignment is one of the most important things in getting your drift car to handle correctly and a subject that…
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Basic Drift Chassis Setup Part 2

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Basic Drift Chassis Setup Part 2 By Mike Kojima In part one of our series we spoke about the importance of good suspension which is probably the first major step…
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Basic Drift Chassis Setup Part 1

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Basic Drift Chassis Setup Part 1 By Mike Kojima If you have been following my series, “The Ultimate Guide to Suspension and Handling” on MotoIQ you have been getting a…
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How to Adjust Your Shocks, Part Two- Double Adjustable Shocks

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In our first article of this series, I talked about the very basics of shock adjustment in general, basic shock damping technology, and how to adjust single adjustable shocks.  For…
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How to Adjust Your Shocks, Part One- Single Adjustable Shocks

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A lot of the art of shock adjustment is seemingly pretty basic, but as a Motorsports Engineer and someone who is hired frequently to sort out ill-handling cars, I have…
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DIY Alignment: The Basic Version

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  One day you have an alignment shop sponsoring you and your car gets set up and rides the track perfectly. The next day you move to the other side…
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Project STurdteen: Prepping SR20DET Heads with Portflow Design

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Project STurdteen: Prepping SR20DET Heads with Portflow Design by Rathyna Gomer   For those of you who have been keeping up with my Project STurdteen drift car, you will see that…
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Project EP3 Civic Si: Fixing EP3 Bumpsteer with Hardrace

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Project EP3 Civic Si: Fixing EP3 Bumpsteer with Hardrace by Mike Kojima   In prior editions of Project EP3 Civic Si, we went over the history of the car, the worst…

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