Introducing Project GR Corolla, Protecting the Car Completely With STEK USA and AeroWerkz
We have been wanting to get a GR Corolla as a project car for a while. We usually don’t want to be early adopters of a new model, and when…
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Validating AEM Electronics’ Improved Wideband AFR Sensor
For many years, the industry standard sensor for consumer-grade wide-band fuel/air ratio meters has been the Bosch LSU 4.9 Sensor. This was for a good reason, the LSU sensor is…
Project AE86 Restoring the Rear End
The rear end of our AE86 was showing its age. It was really rusty and crusted over from almost 40 years of neglect. We were really worried that the axle…
Project AE86, Repairing the Chassis
One of the pitfalls of buying a car sight unseen is that sometimes the car may be worse in areas than you were hoping. This was true with our project…
Visiting Japan 2025
A few weeks ago I decided to go to Japan to check out the car scene and to do some general exploring in the Tokyo area. The last time I…
Project AE86, Updating the Drivetrain with SQ Engineering and Battle Garage
The T50 transmission in our AE86 was making some whining noises and had stiff and crunchy shifting. Being 40 years old, it probably needed some rebuilding. The trouble is T50…
Project AE86 Upgrading the Brake with Techno Toy Tuning
For its time the AE86 had class-leading brakes. This meant it had 4-wheel disc, the front with ventilated disc brakes in an era where some cars still came with 4-wheel…
Project AE86, More Suspension with Techno Toy Tuning!
In this installment of Project AE86, we continue with our suspension mods brought to you by Techno Toy Tuning or T3. As we said in our first installment T3 makes…
Tired of Replacing Your Tundra’s Rear Brake Pads all the Time? We Install Fig’s Engineering’s Rear Big Brake Kit!
If you own a 2009 to 2021 Toyota Tundra, you are probably aware of the rapid rear brake pad wear, especially if you go offroad or have higher power like…
Introducing Project AE86 Starting on the Front Suspension With Techno Toy Tuning and Whiteline
Way back in 1985, I was in my last year of school. I was working at TRD (Toyota Racing Development) as my going through college job and I was going…
Fixing Mazda B6ZE Vibrations With Fluidampr
We have been wanting to test Fluidampr’s harmonic balancer that was released a few years back for Mazda’s popular B series engines for a while now and we are finally…
Team Plus Offers Game Changing F1 Telemetry Technology at a Price Anyone Can Afford!
If you are a serious Track Day, Road Racer, Time Attack, Drifter, or even autocross, Team Plus has come out with an incredible system that is in our opinion a…
Fixing FL5 Civic Type R Limp Mode with a CSF Radiator!
If you own an FL5 Civic Type R and do track days, you know of its tendency to run hot. On hot days it is relatively easy to get it…
MotoIQ Wants You! (for your podcast ideas)
Sorry, I could not find a picture of Jeff, Martin, and Myself all together and this was the only sorta recent picture of me I could find. Nevertheless, we are…
Project Evo IX, Fixing Battery Issues With AntiGravity and Mele Design
We had installed a lightweight Lithium battery in our Project Evo a couple of years ago and it bricked while we were storing the car during the rainy season, despite…
Evaluating Nitto Tires New Ultra High Performance All-Weather Motivo 365 Tire
The Nitto Motivo has always been one of our favorite all-season tires, we liked it for its great wet traction, and decent dry traction (for an all-season tire). We also…
Project Do It All S13, Assembling the Bulletproof SR20DET Cylinder Head!
In our last edition of Project Do it All S13, were covered the build of our 2.2 liter bottom end. Now we are going to turn our attention to the…
Project Do It All S13, Assembling the Bulletproof SR20DET Bottom End!
We are starting to put together the SR20DET for our car. Our goals are to have a wide powerband and lots of torque while limiting the revs to the stock…
Project Tundra, Modernizing the Front End and Improving Lighting
Our Tundra has been in service as our shop truck for 14 long years. We have been updating the truck’s looks over the past few years with Morimoto LED headlights…
Project Do It All S13, Chassis Fabrication part 3 With ZSM Customs
If you have been following the progress of our S13 project, we have been working with ZSM Customs to do our track-worthy chassis mods for both safety and chassis stiffness. …
Project Do It All S13, Chassis Fabrication part 2 With ZSM Customs
From our last article, we are continuing to build on the body structure of our S13 to both improve handling and safety. ZSM Customs cut out the spare tire well…
Project Do It All S13, Starting the Chassis Fabrication With ZSM Customs
The S13 is known to have a pretty weak body and we wanted to strethen things up to make it safer. We are going to send the car to ZSM…
45 Years With ST Suspensions!
Born in Southern California, ST Suspensions quickly rose to prominence as a foundational aftermarket supplier, paving the way for the performance aftermarket with its exceptional coilover suspension systems, anti-sway bars,…
Don’t Perish in Flames! Using Radium Engineering’s Fuel Cell for Project Do It All S13
We were planning to use our S13’s OEM fuel tank with a Radium Engineering pump hanger to supply fuel to our SR20DET but that plan ended when we opened up…
Fixing the Tundra’s (and any Toyota Truck) Brakes For Good With Figs Engineering.
Many years ago, we installed TRD’s big brake kit on our project Tundra, although this was quite a good upgrade from stock with more than adequate stopping power even when…
Sikky Lexus IS-F Swaybars
Since we last worked on the suspension of our IS-F project, we noted that Sikky Manufacturing, our rear sway bar manufacturer, had since come out with a new adjustable front…
Fixing Rapid Front Tire Wear on the Lexus IS with Figs Engineering
If you own a second or third-generation Lexus IS, RC, RC-F, or the IS-F, you are probably familiar with their problem of severe front tire wear. It is especially bad…
CSF Releases Porsche 911/930 Performance Retromod OEM Oil Cooler Replacement
If you have a classic air-cooled Porsche 911/930 made from 1965 to 1989, CSF Cooling has THE oil cooler for you! With the current popularity of restoring and modifying these…
Dry Ice Blasting Removes 30 Years of Grime With No Damage!
So the engine and engine bay of our Project S13 were really dirty after 30-plus years of use and we wanted to clean it off before we started our engine…
Don’t Die! Lifeline Increases the Safety of Project S13 Do It All!
We have been around several fire incidents lately that have given us a renewed focus on safety, particularly fire safety. We were at Gridlife Laguna Seca when an A91 Supra…
SDHQ Offroads Gen II Heavy Duty Battery Terminals
After shredding our OEM ones during hard off-road driving, we had previously evaluated SDHQ’s heavy-duty battery terminals. The newer terminals were a lot better than the super weak stock parts…
Introducing Project Phoenix, Round Two of our R35 GT-R Project.
With a crash, Project R35 came to an end. A careless driver ran a stop sign and t-boned our car totaling it. We were really upset that our wonderful, well-rounded…