#LeMansDay at the Petersen Automotive Museum
#LeMansDay at the Petersen Automotive Museum by Khiem Dinh The Petersen Automotive Museum has started a tradition of holding a 24 Heures du Mans (that’s 24 Hours of Le Mans…
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Tested: Rally Ready Driving School!
Tested: Rally Ready Driving School! by Khiem Dinh I started watching WRC around fifteen years ago and more recently rally cross, but I had never learned the skills required…
A Tribute to Nicky Hayden: The Kentucky Kid, the Champion of Champions
Photo from racedepartment.com. A Tribute to Nicky Hayden: The Kentucky Kid, The Champion of Champions by Khiem Dinh It has been some number of days now since Nicky Hayden passed…
Nerd’s Eye View: 2016 Kawasaki ZX-10R
Nerd’s Eye View: 2016 Kawasaki ZX-10R by Khiem Dinh In the last decade and a half, the sport bike you buy from your local dealer has become the closest…
Turbo Tech: Calculating Turbocharger Compressor and Turbine Performance Advantage with the New Honeywell Garrett GTX Gen2
Turbo Tech: Calculating Turbocharger Compressor and Turbine Performance Advantage with the New Honeywell Garrett GTX Gen2 by Khiem Dinh Honeywell Garrett launched the GTX series about a decade ago…
Markos’ Snail Performance WRX: Attacking Time with a Message
Markos’ Snail Performance WRX: Attacking Time with a Message by Khiem Dinh Those of you following Time Attack in the US and also know Subarus know of Snail Performance. We…
Sneak Peek: Global Time Attack Cars Round 1
Sneak Peek: Global Time Attack Cars Round 1 by Khiem Dinh The crew from Snail Performance brought out their pair of Subarus. His and hers pairing (Markos and Sally) had…
Turbo Tech: Internal vs. External Wastegates
Turbo Tech: Internal vs. External Wastegates by Khiem Dinh Photos Courtesy of Bren Tuning and Killer B Motorsport Before we get into the numbers and reasons why a dumped external…
LA Auto Show 2016: Nerd’s Eye View – Cars, Engines, and Electrons
LA Auto Show 2016: Nerd’s Eye View – Cars, Engines, and Electrons by Khiem Dinh All of you have seen it- the change in the automotive powertrain landscape. The driving force…
LA Auto Show 2016: Nerd’s Eye View – Race Cars and Randoms
LA Auto Show 2016: Nerd’s Eye View – Race Cars and Randoms by Khiem Dinh There are always a handful of race cars at the LA Auto Show. The old…
LA Auto Show 2016: Nerd’s Eye View – Ford
LA Auto Show 2016: Nerd’s Eye View – Ford by Khiem Dinh Ford has been pushing a lot of performance within their product lineup. Much of that pushing has taken…
LA Auto Show 2016: Sneak Peek – Porsche 911 RSR
LA Auto Show 2016: Sneak Peek – Porsche 911 RSR by Khiem Dinh So what’s the huge sacrilegious change? This so-called 911 RSR is MID-ENGINE. Yup, no more engine hanging…
SEMA 2016: Nerd’s Eye View – Track Cars
SEMA 2016: Nerd’s Eye View – Track Cars by Khiem Dinh This BMW 3.0 CSL Group 4 race car won the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1975, assuming my Google…
SEMA 2016: Nerd’s Eye View – Tuner Cars and Parts
SEMA 2016: Nerd’s Eye View Tuner Cars and Parts by Khiem Dinh What’s one of the primary reasons we all enjoy SEMA? The display of all the tuner cars and…
SEMA 2016: Nerd’s Eye View – Revolution Mini Works Project Mini
SEMA 2016: Nerd’s Eye View – Revolution Mini Works Project Mini by Khiem Dinh Every once in a while, there’s a vehicle that really catches my eye at SEMA. A…
Motorcycle Track Day: Prep and Action
Motorcycle Track Day: Prep and Action by Khiem Dinh The last time I took the good ol' CBR to the track was somewhere around eight years ago. A group of…
The Life of Opy: The Nissan Juke Multi-Purpose Racer Part 4 – To Laguna Seca and Beyond!
The Life of Opy: The Nissan Juke Multi-Purpose Racer Part 4 – To Laguna Seca and Beyond! by Khiem Dinh Opy is now set to venture away from the dirt…
Tested: Shoei X-Fourteen Helmet
Tested: Shoei X-Fourteen Helmet by Khiem Dinh A buddy of mine had a brand new Shoei X-Fourteen helmet that he was testing out. He wanted to get a second opinion…
The Life of Opy: The Nissan Juke Multi-Purpose Racer: Part 3
The Life of Opy: The Nissan Juke Multi-Purpose Racer: Part 3 by Khiem Dinh The last time we saw the Nissan Juke Multi-Purpose Racer Opy, Opy had some fun competing…
The Life of Opy: Part 2 – Building a Better Opy
The Life of Opy: Part 2 – Building a Better Opy by Khiem Dinh There aren’t a lot of off the shelf parts available for a Nissan Juke. In part…
Nerd’s Eye View: Ducati Panigale 959
Nerd’s Eye View: Ducati Panigale 959 by Khiem Dinh The bigger 1299 Panigale has a price close to $20k, so there are definitely cost cutting measures taken on the smaller…
The Life of Opy: Part 1 – Introduction
The Life of Opy: Part 1 – Introduction by Khiem Dinh Joining the 2011 model year lineup from Nissan was this funky little subcompact crossover SUV. It had polarizing looks,…
Nerd’s Eye View: Standing Mile Turbo ‘Busa
Nerd’s Eye View: Standing Mile Turbo ‘Busa by Khiem Dinh Many of us at MotoIQ ride on two wheels. I personally have a CBR 600RR. I rode an R1 once…
Project S2000: Part 24 – Bridgestone Potenza RE-71Rs and DIY Brake Ducts
Project S2000: Part 24 – Bridgestone Potenza RE-71Rs and DIY Brake Ducts by Khiem Dinh If we go way back to the very first episode (sorry, been listening to some…
Sneak Peek: Porsche’s New Turbo Engines
Sneak Peek: Porsche’s New Turbo Engines by Khiem Dinh The industry push towards smaller displacement turbo engines is in full-swing. Across every make and model, large displacement naturally aspirated engines…
Turbo Tech: Calculating Compressor Flow
Turbo Tech: Calculating Compressor Flow by Khiem Dinh Turbo Tech: Size Matters gave a quick and easy way to get in the ballpark for picking the right size turbo for…
Sneak Peek: The Engines of IMSA Weathertech GTLM
Sneak Peek: The Engines of IMSA Weathertech GTLM by Khiem Dinh The cars in the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship are particularly exciting this year due to very notable newcomers introducing…
Exotics Racing EXR Racing Series Cars
Nerd’s Eye View: Exotics Racing LV02 and LV03 by Khiem Dinh The car pictured up above is the higher spec LV03 car. With a Nissan VQ35DE V6 pumping out 330hp…
Nerd’s Eye View: LA Auto Show 2015 – The Engines, Electrons, and Extra Bits
Nerd’s Eye View: LA Auto Show 2015 – The Engines, Electrons, and Extra Bits by Khiem Dinh About all those batteries, the battery in my camera ran out of juice,…
Nerd’s Eye View: LA Auto Show 2015 – The Other Interesting Cars
Nerd’s Eye View: LA Auto Show 2015 – The Other Interesting Cars by Khiem Dinh Alfa Romeo came out of nowhere and had probably the sexiest booth for a number…
Exotics Racing: Christmas Vacation
Exotics Racing: Christmas Vacation by Khiem Dinh My dad, my girlfriend’s dad Joel, and my bro-in-law Clinton were all in town, so Christmas vacation was the perfect opportunity for a…
Nerd’s Eye View: LA Auto Show 2015 – Porsche
Nerd’s Eye View: LA Auto Show 2015 – Porsche by Khiem Dinh Before we get to the goodness under the rump of the new 911, we will have a glance…