Mike Kojima, Author at MotoIQ

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…

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The CSF Evo X: The Road to Global Time Attack Finals 2020 – Part 7: A Racecar is Always a Show Car

Posted on November 24, 2020
byMike Kojima

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…

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Project 987.2 Porsche Cayman S, More Butt Kicking Power than the GT4!

Posted on November 22, 2020November 24, 2020
byMike Kojima

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…

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Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Adding a Radium Coolant Tank

Posted on November 18, 2020
byMike Kojima

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. …

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The CSF Evo X: The Road to Global Time Attack 2020 – Part 6: All Systems Go

Posted on November 15, 2020
byMike Kojima

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,…

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The CSF Evo X: The Road to Global Time Attack 2020 – Part 4: The Rewire by Rywire

Posted on November 9, 2020November 4, 2020
byMike Kojima

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…

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Project 987.2 Cayman S: Cooling for the Track Part 2 with Bilt Racing Service

Posted on November 8, 2020October 30, 2020
byMike Kojima

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…

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Helping Out Rob Dahm, Then Double Driveshaft Explosion while Launching the AWD 4 Rotor!

Posted on November 3, 2020October 30, 2020
byMike Kojima

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…

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Project 987.2 Cayman S: Cooling for the Track Part I with CSF Radiators

Posted on November 1, 2020October 29, 2020
byMike Kojima

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…

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The CSF Evo X: The Road to Global Time Attack 2020 – Part 3: Geeking Out With Mike From MotoIQ

Posted on October 27, 2020October 29, 2020
byMike Kojima

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…

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Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Helping the Breathing

Posted on October 25, 2020
byMike Kojima

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…

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Giving a Hand to Rob Dahm and His Monster AWD 4 Rotor FD

Posted on October 21, 2020
byMike Kojima

We were honored to give a small hand to Rob Dahm in setting up the chassis of his awesome AWD, 1400 HP Garrett boosted 4 rotor FD RX-7. Right now…

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Project 987.2 Cayman S: Getting More Out of the Engine to Chase the GT4 Part 3

Posted on October 18, 2020October 19, 2020
byMike Kojima

In our last article we focused on freeing up the exhaust side of our 9A1 engine. Now we are working on freeing up the intake side of the engine for…

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Dai Yoshihara Wins Pikes Peak’s Unlimited Class!

Posted on October 15, 2020
byMike Kojima

Dai Yoshihara won this years Pike Peak Hill Climb for the Evasive Motorsports, EVS Tuning, Turn 14 Team in the Unlimited Class. Dai overcame problems in practice which prevented…

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Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R Bolt On Power Mods Part 2, Fueling for 1000 Hp

Posted on October 14, 2020
byMike Kojima

The stock fuel system of the R35 GT-R is not adequate for anything much more involved than a mild reflash. The stock fuel pump and injectors do not have much…

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The Car Lovers Guide to Japan, The Nissan Heritage Museum

Posted on October 11, 2020
byMike Kojima

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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Inside CSF Cooling’s 1,000 Horsepower Porsche 991 Turbo S!

Posted on October 7, 2020
byMike Kojima

We take a look inside CSF coolings 1000 horsepower Shift Sector winning Porsche 991 Turbo S. This is an interesting well integrated sleeper build close to our hearts. This car…

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Project 987.2 Cayman S: Getting More Out of the Engine to Chase the GT4 Part 2

Posted on October 4, 2020
byMike Kojima

In previous segments of Project 987.2 Cayman we worked on our suspension and brakes to prepare our chassis for more power. Now it’s time to attack our 9A1 engine to…

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Rebuilding the CSF Evo X, Back from the Ashes

Posted on October 1, 2020October 1, 2020
byMike Kojima

Follow the CSF Team as we help them rebuild their Evo X Time Attack car! The MotoIQ Garage is leading up with the assembly, suspension, aero and engine development. …

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Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Keeping Limp Mode Away With More Cooling

Posted on September 24, 2020
byMike Kojima

So the Achilles heel of the mighty R35 GT-R is one that plagues most Japanese high performance cars, an inadequate cooling system. We are not sure why this seems to…

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Inside KW Suspensions Solid Piston Shock Technology

Posted on September 13, 2020
byMike Kojima

We were recently at KW Suspensions North American headquarters for some new product training and we got to take apart some of their latest technology, the innovative solid piston damper.…

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Project EVO IX, Getting Lots of Power From the 4G63 With Link Engine Management Part 2

Posted on September 7, 2020
byMike Kojima

When we last left of, we had tuned our Project Evo IX to run on a Link Plug and Play stand alone ECU and had done some preliminary dyno work…

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Project IS-F, Restoring the Factory Brembo Calipers with West Coast Calipers

Posted on August 26, 2020
byMike Kojima

Project IS-F is a daily driver. It is garaged and well taken care of but it is subjected to daily use and is parked outside during the day. One day…

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Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Bolt On Power Mods Part 1

Posted on August 23, 2020September 22, 2020
byMike Kojima

Our last work on our project R35 GT-R was to do the suspension and brakes to bring them up to a high level and address some of the R35’s shortcomings…

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Inside Michael Essa’s 1000hp Formula Drift BMW E46 M3!

Posted on August 17, 2020
byMike Kojima

Renaissance man noun The definition of a Renaissance man or woman is a person who is well educated and sophisticated and who has talent and knowledge in many different fields…

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Testing SDHQ Offroads Heavy Duty Battery Terminals

Posted on August 12, 2020August 15, 2020
byMike Kojima

So who would have thought that battery terminals are a critical off-road performance part! It did not occur to us and we almost got stranded in the middle of nowhere…

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Inside KW Suspensions New EXR valve system!

Posted on August 9, 2020
byMike Kojima

hys·ter·e·sis /ˌhistəˈrēsis/ noun The phenomenon in which the value of a physical property lags behind changes in the effect causing it. Reducing hysteresis is something that shock designers have worked…

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Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 4, Making the Big Power!

Posted on July 29, 2020July 30, 2020
byMike Kojima

You have probably been following our build of an NA VQ37VHR engine and are probably dying to to see how much power we can get out of it and frankly…

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Bulletproof Your Rear End!

Posted on July 23, 2020July 28, 2020
byMike Kojima

Nowadays as technology has enabled us to extract previously unheard of power levels out of our engines, the once rare failure of the ring and pinion gear in the differential…

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XE20 Lexus IS-F, IS Adjustable Front Sway Bar Hack

Posted on July 15, 2020
byMike Kojima

Our Project Lexus IS-F has never gotten a performance front swaybar even though it has a larger adjustable Sikky Manufacturing rear anti swaybar. The main reason is no one makes…

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Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 3

Posted on July 5, 2020July 30, 2020
byMike Kojima

In our last segment of building the ultimate NA VQ37VHR, we assembled the long block of our engine. Now its ready to drop into the 370Z chassis. We had a…