Project GD Subaru STI, Building the Engine Part Two, Bottom End Bits With IAG Performance.
In part one of our series of building the motor for Project GD STI we talked about the IAG Performance engine cases we are using and all of the prep…
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Resurrecting Project FR-S: Greddy Oil Cooler
We had dusted off Project FR-S for an industry track day at Buttonwillow Raceway last month. While we had run the car in the winter on small courses like Streets…
Project Tundra Improving the Front Suspension with Camburg and Coach Builder Part 2
In the last edition of Project Tundra, we talked about our Icon Vehicle Dynamics Suspension and how it allowed us to go a lot faster in the dirt, so much…
Project GD Subaru STI, Building the Engine Part One, Prepping the Case With IAG Performance.
It had to happen eventually. Our Project STI was running great. We had plans to build the engine as our 400 whp was past the limit that a stock bottom…
Project Toyota Tundra: Improving the Suspension with Icon (again)
We have been off-roading in our Tundra much more frequently lately and with our new suspension, we discovered something interesting about high performance off road suspension. When going fast over…
The GT3 Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV Spaceship
Recently, we got a chance to see a very unique racecar under construction. Our subject car used to be a 1974 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000 GT Veloce. The GTV was…
Testing Red Line’s New SuperCool Coolant & CSF’s Tundra Radiator
Red Line has released a new high performance coolant that has its famous, and universally used in motorsports, Water Wetter surfactant additive pre blended in. Red Line Supercool comes in…
How to Measure Your Combustion Chamber Volume
It is very important to know your combustion chamber volume when building an engine so you can know your exact compression ratio or order the correct dome volume piston to…
Antigravity Battery saves weight for TAG Karts and other Powersports
So Christa Kojima is a retired Kart racer. She quit due to having to study a lot for college. During her winter break, she took out her old 125cc Jr…
KW Suspension Trackfest/Tech Expo 2020
With the 2020 SEMA show canceled due to the Covid pandemic, KW Suspension, in lieu of having their SEMA booth decided to bring a bit of a trade show to…
Pretty Simple EVO IX Totally Kicks Butt!
We took a break from isolation to make the trip out to Austin, Texas for Optima Batteries’ Hi-Performance Expo at the Circuit of the Americas last November. We’ll be featuring…
Increase Your Safety With Tilton’s Sliding Pedal Box
Having a rock-solid seat mount secured to your roll cage and proper harness angles are critical items to assure safety in your race car. As a person who has struggled…
Project Tundra, Keep the Transmission Cool with B&M
We use Project Tundra primarily as our shop hauler and race car tow vehicle even though it’s really capable in the corners and offroad. With its 500 plus hp TRD…
Project C7 Corvette Stingray, Gaining octane with Moroso’s Air Oil Separator
Getting oil in your intake tract is never a good thing. The worse thing is that an oil mist that gets sucked into your cylinders can cause the engine to…
Saving Weight with a Magnus Motorsports Evo Subframe
Evo’s have a pretty good cast aluminum rear subframe from the factory. So when an Evo IX was brought in to have its subframe changed out to a lightweight part…
OPTIMA Deep Cycle Power for the MotoIQ Trailer!
The MotoIQ shop trailer has an electric jack and winch that are powered by its own battery, and like any trailer it sits around for long periods of time. Not…
Project 987.2 Cayman S, Aero Install With Verus Engineering
In our last edition of Project 987.2 Porsche Cayman S, we discussed the components from Verus Engineering that we would be using to get an honest 1000 lbs of downforce at…
Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Getting Some Serious Power With M-Engineering!
So you have probably been following the progress of our R35 GT-R build over the past few articles. We had installed a full complement of bolt-on power parts from Greddy,…
Happy 10th Birthday for the BorgWarner EFR Family of Turbochargers!
The MotoIQ family would like to wish the BorgWarner EFR Turbo a happy tenth birthday! It seems like just a few years ago when we first set eyes on the…
Project 987.2 Porsche Cayman S, Getting 1000 lbs of Downforce with Verus Engineering!
If you have been following our Porsche Cayman project, you know we have meticulously built the car with some of the best parts to make a great track machine. The…
Project Toyota Tundra, Getting More Traction and Less Breakage with SDHQ Traction Bars!
When you combine big power, big tires and a limited slip differential with leaf springs you have a recipe for the enemy of traction and your driveline parts, wheel hop.…
The CSF Evo X: The Road to Global Time Attack 2020 – Part 8: The Finale
It all comes down to this. Global Time Attack Finals took place on November 14th-16th at the world famous Buttonwillow Raceway. From last year’s engine fire, to complete tear-down and…
The CSF Evo X: The Road to Global Time Attack Finals 2020 – Part 7: A Racecar is Always a Show Car
With the 2020 SEMA Show cancelled due to the pandemic, Toyo Tires took their version of the SEMA experience to Downtown LA. This year, Toyo selected a dozen world debut…
Project 987.2 Porsche Cayman S, More Butt Kicking Power than the GT4!
If you have been following Project Porsche 987 Cayman S, you have been seeing the engine power parts we have installed as well as the mods to improve cooling and…
Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Adding a Radium Coolant Tank
As we prepare our max effort bolt on GT-R engine for tuning we decided to use Radium Engineering’s Coolant tank as a final touch to clean up our engine compartment. …
The CSF Evo X: The Road to Global Time Attack 2020 – Part 6: All Systems Go
With two weeks left before Global Time Attack Finals 2020, the #CSFevoX makes its way to World Motorsports to get strapped onto their state-of-the-art wind tunnel dyno. Wayne Potts,…
The CSF Evo X: The Road to Global Time Attack 2020 – Part 4: The Rewire by Rywire
After building the engine in Part 3, the motor gets dropped back into the engine bay and things are starting to come together. We take the #CSFevoX over to Rywire…
Project 987.2 Cayman S: Cooling for the Track Part 2 with Bilt Racing Service
In our last segment of Project 987.2 Cayman, to prevent the dreaded on track overheating engine and transmission limp mode, we greatly increased our engine’s cooling capability by switching over…
Helping Out Rob Dahm, Then Double Driveshaft Explosion while Launching the AWD 4 Rotor!
We have been helping Rob Dahm get the suspension sorted on his amazing 1400 hp 4 rotor AWD FD RX7. Things were looking good and its seems like we got…
Project 987.2 Cayman S: Cooling for the Track Part I with CSF Radiators
The 987 Porsche is known to have heating problems when driven on the track hard, especially ones that have the PDK transmission. PDK equipped cars can go into limp mode…
The CSF Evo X: The Road to Global Time Attack 2020 – Part 3: Geeking Out With Mike From MotoIQ
Follow the CSF Team as we help them rebuild their Evo X Time Attack car! The MotoIQ Garage is leading up the effort with the assembly, suspension, brake, aero…
Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Helping the Breathing
The CBA R35 GT-R which was made from 2009 to 2011 was held back significantly by a restrictive air intake. This was improved in 2012 in the more powerful DBA…