Project 987.2 Cayman S, Cup Car Suspension for the Street!
The Porsche Cayman has always had a dear spot in our hearts. In another life, I was an engineer at a large OEM and we were doing benchmarking testing for…
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Restoring a Legend, Building a LS3 For Falken’s Championship Winning S13
The Discount Tire/Falken S13 that Dai Yoshihara drove to many podiums and a Formula Drift championship now resides with Falken Tire where it does duty as a promotional demo car. …
Project STurdteen, Plumbing the Motor and Getting Her Ready to Run!
So we have rebuilt the engine and the transmission for Rathyna’s Turd. Now came the job of putting the engine back in the car and undoing the clusterfuck of plumbing…
Rapid Designing and Testing Suspension With 3D Printing Part 2
In our last story, we were redesigning the steering knuckle/upright for the 2019 season on Dai Yoshihara’s Turn 14 Formula Drift BR-Z. Our design goals were to keep the tires…
The Closed Deck Subaru EJ20, Built for Boost!
In our last story, we were assembling the parts for Ian’s long rod stroker EJ205. Now that we had rods and a crankshaft from Eagle and Pistons from JE, it…
Project S-Turdteen Fixing the Transmission
Well, Rathyna’s S13 not only had a roached engine, but her transmission had given up the ghost as well. It didn’t shift well, third gear was broken and her clutch…
Watch: LiteBlox Ultralightweight Drop In Battery for the Porsche 911
Want to get rid of 42 pounds of weight from your Porsche 911? LiteBox makes it easy. We show how easy it is to install and what effects it…
The Eneos Oil Pikes Peak Toyota 86
Last week Eneos Oil officially announced that they would be backing the Evasive Motorsports Toyota 86 for an effort at 2019 running of the Pikes Peak hillclimb. With Formula Drift…
WPC Wants You!
WPC Treatment is looking for potential employees. If you are a long time reader of MotoIQ you know that we use WPC treatment on a lot of our projects to…
Project STurdteen: Building the SR20DET Engine
Rathyna’s S13 drift car’s engine was thoroughly hammered with little compression. In our last article, we rebuilt her cylinder head with Portflow Design replacing her worn valve guides and eroded…
These Old Photos, NHRA Xplod Series Final October 22, 2006
So I was looking at a bunch of old photos on my computer the other day and I found these from 2006 which doesn’t seem like that long ago but…
King Bearings Long Term Extreme Use Torture Test!
We have been using King Bearings almost exclusively in our engine builds for the past several years and have been getting extremely good results with them. So we wanted to…
Dai Yoshihara and Eneos Oil
I have been working with Dai Yoshihara for 10 years now on an adventure that has taken me all over the world and has gotten me involved in winning stuff as…
Testing the Fluidampr Viscous Harmonic Balancer on the B18C Engine
In laying down the base for some serious B series power that we have planned later, we decided to test out Fluidampr’s viscous harmonic balancer on our Project DC2 Integra’s…
Monitoring the S2000’s F20C Engine with Autometer!
When we last left our AP1 S2000, we had just installed a Canton Racing Products baffled high capacity oil pan to help assure that our F20C engine would always have a…
A Look Back, Nissan’s Best Ever Super Bowl Commercial and the Racecar that Never Was
It’s been a long-standing opinion of mine that a front engine layout can potentially work better for Prototype racing. A front engine car can easily be packaged into a body shape like…
Preventing S2000 Oiling Issues with Canton
The Honda S2000 is an awesome car. With mild suspension modifications, it handles like a dream and can turn some impressive lap times. With RWD, an engine that is set…
Designing Suspension with 3D Printing
Drift cars with their extreme steering angles are pretty difficult to design suspension for. A lot of things must be considered because geometry that works well on a regular car…
Master of Motors: The PRI Edition!
Check it out as Industry Illuminaries Brian Lohnes, Jeff Smith, David Freiburger, and our own Mike Kojima duke it out and pick out winners in Race Winning Brands Master of…
The Amazing 10,000 RPM Turbo 3-Rotor 20B Mazda MX-5! Kyle Mohan’s American Ethanol/Mazdatrix Formula Drift Monster
In sea of V8 swapped cars in the pro drifting world, the Mazda MX-5 of Kyle Mohan stands out as a bold statement of uniqueness and technical innovation. It is…
Getting More From the 4G63, Project Evo IX
After sitting for several years, we are getting off of our asses and are working on getting a decent bump in power on Project Mitsubishi Evo IX. In our last…
Masters Of Motors Episode 1, The SEMA Edition
Check it out as Industry Illuminaries Brian Lohnes, Steve Brule, David Freiburger, and our own Mike Kojima duke it out and pick out winners in JE Pistons and Race Winning…
Comparing the Falken RT615 to the RT615K Plus!
The Falken RT615 has always been a good all-around Ultra High Performance dry weather tire with decent durability. Good enough to be daily driven and good enough for the track. The…
Tribute to Georg Plasa and his BMW 320 JUDD V8
For the best part of two decades, there was hardly a more recognizable name in European hill climbing than Georg Plasa. He essentially defined the entire sport on the…
Update: The Team America BNR32 Is On Its Wheels Again!
If you have been following the saga of the Team America BNR32 you know it has been in hiatus for quite a while. Brian Kono of Afterhours Automotive has been…
Industry Insider: A Look Inside StopTech’s Production Facility
We have worked with StopTech on many of our project cars evaluating their excellent brake upgrades for street cars as well as some of our more involved motorsports projects in time…
BBi Autosport’s Ultimate Porsche 993, Modding the Last of the Air Cooled Era Porsches
The Porsche 993 variant of the iconic 911 is perhaps one of the most significant of all the 911 models. It was in many ways a game-changing model that incorporated…
The Best of 2018: The King of Speed, PZ Tuning’s Amazing Time Attack Civic
The King of Speed, PZ Tuning’s Amazing Time Attack Civic By Mike Kojima At the end of 2018, we take another look at the all-dominating FG4 Honda Civic of William…
Drift Car Brake Development
Action shots by Valters Boze When we first got started with our technical involvement in Formula Drift’s Pro Series 10 years ago, the state of the art in drift car braking…
Wheels and Tires for the Subaru GD WRX
It is time to get some new shoes for our Project GD WRX. We wanted an upgrade for the car that would easily fit into the wheel wells and would…
KW Clubsports and Hydraulic Lift System (HLS) for the C7 Corvette Stingray
If you have been following the progress on our Project C7 Corvette Stingray, you’ve seen us work on the brakes, suspension and cosmetics. After a test session at Buttonwillow things…
Mike Kojima in Masters of Motors SEMA Video!
JE Pistons Continues Masters of Motors Competition at PRI 2018 Beginning at the 2018 SEMA show and continuing on to the PRI show, JE Pistons will once again be recognizing…