Performance Racing Industry: What’s New and Cool 2024 Edition
Performance Racing Industry: What’s New and Cool 2024 Edition 2024 was the kind of year that really makes you dislike the fact that the yearly PRI show takes place in…
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Erik Jacobs
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Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 36 – I Can’t Stop (Enough)
Project SC300 ain’t dead. It’s just taking a bit of a vacation. Those who know me more personally understand that there was a rough few years of family-related issues of…
Performance Racing Industry: What’s New and Cool 2023 Edition
Performance Racing Industry: What’s New and Cool 2023 Edition by Erik Jacobs 2023 was not a good motorsports year for me. In fact, it wasn’t a motorsports year at all.…
Performance Racing Industry: What’s New and Cool 2022 Edition
Try as it might, COVID was not able to (completely) ruin the 2022 Performance Racing Industry trade show. This smorgasbord of automotive performance returned to Indianapolis again. Several vendors were…
Project 28′ Enclosed Trailer: Part 1 – Getting Strapped!
Project 28′ Enclosed Trailer: Part 1 – Getting Strapped! by Erik Jacobs If you remember our Winch2Go article or our ultimate open trailer series, you know we are serious about…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 35 – The Wang Gang is Splitting Up
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 35 – The Wang Gang is Splitting Up by Erik Jacobs It’s been a little while since I last penned (typed?) a Project SC300 update.…
PRI 2021: What’s New and Cool
The COVID pandemic put the kibosh on the 2020 Performance Racing Industry (PRI) show, but the auto racing gods managed to shine upon us and allow the 2021 show to…
TESTED: Antigravity Batteries XP-10 MICRO-START Jump Starter
It’s been quite a few years since we tested the DBPOWER jump box. Battery technology continues to advance, and Antigravity has come onto the scene strongly with their feature-packed lithium…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 34 – Cameras are rolling, copy that.
Life has gotten complicated, and, unfortunately, that has meant that Project SC300 has been sitting around for nearly a year. I reached a point, though, where I couldn’t take it…
Project Sim Racer: Part 5 – Triple the Threat with Advanced SimRacing
We last left Project Sim Racer quite some time ago. With time, though, things have a tendency to change. There’s been a global pandemic that put many car events on…
TESTED: Superwinch Winch2Go Portable Winch
TESTED: Superwinch Winch2Go Portable Winch by Erik Jacobs To a certain degree, when you are a one-person race team, it means you have to do everything yourself. Pack the vehicles.…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 33 – A quick, dry break with Radium Engineering
While you haven’t heard from Project SC300 in a minute, it hasn’t been entirely idle. We took the car out to Carolina Motorsports Park last November for some additional testing…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 32- Getting sequentially better with S1
The W58 transmission that comes behind the 2JZ in the Z30-chassis SC300 is not known for ruggedness. In the first outing with the new wiring, I grenaded 3rd gear quite…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 31 – ECM(easure all the things!)
COVID-19 has impacted everyone, and the motorsports community has been no exception. For a while there, everything was shut down. It didn’t matter if you drove in circles, or made…
TESTED: Husky 2-Shelf Utility Cart
You might be completely surprised to hear it, but I’ve actually been working on Project SC300 at home recently. Between the Ultimate DIY Alignment rig and various other small projects,…
The Ultimate DIY Alignment Rig
If you’ve been following MotoIQ for a while, you know that Project SC300 has been around for a long, long, long time. If you’ve been paying close attention, you may…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 30 – Sometimes You Finish Where You Should’ve Started
When we left Project SC300, we had gotten the suspension all back together, but that annoying caged nut had thrown us for a loop. Properly getting to it involves getting…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 29 – You’re in Figs Army now.
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 29 – You’re in Figs Army now. by Erik Jacobs Well, it’s been another few months, and I still haven’t driven the SC300. So, why…
Industry Insider: SimCraft
William “Skip” Dexter MacDonald started as an engineer at Kodak working on their disc camera but eventually found himself in a non-technical director position involving government contracts. Throughout his life,…
Project Infiniti G20 (P10) AWD Turbo: Part 1 – Project Day Drinking
by Ainsley Jacobs (and continuing coverage by Erik Jacobs) Hi, I’m Ainsley and I believe that bad decisions make great stories later, especially when it comes to cars. Since I…
Project Ford E350 Tow Rig: Part 4 – Calling for backup!
Project Ford E350 Tow Rig: Part 4 – Calling for backup! by Erik Jacobs It’s been a minute since we’ve last seen Project E350, but it’s still very much around,…
Project Ford E350 Tow Rig: Part 3 – Step into the light…
Thanks to our awesome Edge CTS dash we could see what was going on with our drivetrain. But what we couldn’t see was where we were going. Project E350 is…
PRI 2019: What’s New and Cool Edition
PRI 2019: What’s New and Cool Edition by Erik Jacobs As we do every year, the MotoIQ staffers gathered in frosty Indianapolis for the annual motorsports trade show, the Performance…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 28 – Getting Safer with Sabelt
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 28 – Getting Safer with Sabelt by Erik Jacobs Earlier in the year I had gotten all new safety equipment and detailed the journey to…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 27 – Joining a Wang Gang
It’s not every day that you get to join a gang. No, really, I mean, they usually have rituals and rites of passage or you have to commit heinous acts…
Project Ford E350 Tow Rig: Part 2 – You only need the Edge!
When you’re towing, keeping tabs on what’s going on is pretty important. Many of the older diesel trucks (or vans, in my case!) did not have great gauge packages from…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 26 – It’s Getting Hot in Here, so Chillout!
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 26 – It’s Getting Hot in Here, so Chillout! When we left the SC300 we had the body kit completely installed and then were off…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 25 – WIDEST IS BESTEST!
When we left the SC300 just about the entire KBD body kit was installed. Now we’re in the home stretch! Rear quarters, side skirts and done, right? I hope so.…
Project Ford E350 Tow Rig: Part 1 – Towtally Ready
All of my vehicles have nicknames. You’re likely very intimately acquainted with Damnit — MotoIQ’s Project SC300. Well, ladies and gentlemen and non-binary folks who may or may not even…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 24 – Wider-er is better-er!
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 24 – Wider-er is better-er! by Erik Jacobs When we left the SC300 I was throwing up in my mouth watching large chunks of the…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 23 – Wider is better! Getting Clearance with a Wide Body Kit.
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 23 – Wider is better! by Erik Jacobs We had brakes, we had suspension, we had refreshed hubs, and we had a scary, twitchy car…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 22 – I Missed Winter…
When we last left Project SC300 things had gone totally sideways and now the entire suspension of the car was all apart. With a box of Toyota/Lexus OEM replacement components…