Destruction Tech!
Just for fun, we went to Irwindale Speedway’s “Night Of Destruction” This is a really cool event where you can see super cheap Mini Stock racing, Skid Racing, Figure 8,…
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Mike Kojima
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Modernizing the VG30DETT, Fixing the Oil System
The VG30DETT is known to fail the rod bearings. Since the oil pump seems to have decent capacity and the rod bearings have a sufficient surface area, we believe a…
Modernizing the VG30DETT, Strengthening the Block With Engineered Performance
There has been a resurgence of interest in 90’s Japanese cars as of late and with that a surge in new parts development with specific popular models. In our case,…
Victory Functions Functional FR-S Fender Vents
Our friend Cheston is an aerospace engineer during the day, but he also designs and sells functional body kits sold through his company Victory Function when he isn’t working on…
Project Tundra- California Legal High Flow Cats from Magnaflow
Our Project Tundra had had cat problems before. It had a cat function DTC code on bank one at just under 100k miles. The emissions were still under warranty and…
What is Shot Peening and Why is it Useful?
If you are a long-time MotoIQ reader you probably know we often prescribe shot peening for heavily stressed metal parts. You have probably read about us prescribing the shot peening…
Simpson Safety’s Hybrid S Head and Neck Restraint
Not all of us drive on the track in race cars, in fact, most of us probably drive on track days in street-legal vehicles. Some of us do this as…
IAG’s New Easy Plug and Play Drive By Wire Big Throttle Body for the EJ257.
We previously had gotten an IAG Performance big throttle body for Project STI, although it was a nice piece it was not exactly user-friendly. You had to get the drive-by-wire…
Project GD STI, Out with the Old and in with the New!
It is time for us to swap out our damaged EJ257 and install our IAG 700 engine. We spent a lot of time waiting on parts to finish the job,…
What is E-Fuel and Can it Save the Internal Combustion Engine?
Political beliefs aside, we are pretty sick of our mindless politicians mandating stupid green policies without any thought of their economic impact and how to successfully implement them. Take for…
The Most Advanced 240SX/ Nissan S Chassis, Z32/300ZX, R32/GT-R Rear Suspension Ever From GKTech!
In our last story about Suspension for our upcoming S13 Project car, we went over what we feel is the ultimate front suspension/angle kit for the S Chassis from GKTech. …
Subaru WRX Econo Suspension! Part 2
We had last left our GD WRX with the front suspension mods from ST Suspension and Whiteline. Now it’s time to finish the installation at the rear suspension and get…
Subaru WRX Econo Suspension! Part 1
A lot of what you see here at MotoIQ are often really high-end mods that many people can just dream about or are so high performance and track level that…
Porsche 992 GT3 Undercar Overview
Porsche is a very conservative company, much of the Porsche development on legacy models like the 911 is incremental. Even the latest models have cues dating back to the original. …
Project FR-S, Fixing the original tune with Church Automotive Testing
We had been running Project FR-S on the track for a few events. Most of these were at Streets of Willow, a tight course with a lot of turns and…
The Most Advanced 240SX/ Nissan S Chassis Front Suspension Ever From GKTech!
We will soon be starting work on a new MotoIQ project car, we have obtained A Nissan S13 240SX hatchback with a totally stock SR20DET swap. This car is going…
Uses for Solidworks in Motorsports with Full Race!
Join us Friday, July 8 (12PM ET) as Mat Velders, Lead of Product Design and Engineering at Full Race Motorsports joins Jesse Sprague to explore how SOLIDWORKS has helped…
Pikes Peak 2022, Redemption for Team Evasive and the Model 3 Tesla-Part 2
Action Pictures by Larry Chen After we qualified 4th on Thursday, Friday was fairly quiet, we just had to prep the car and attend the Colorado Springs fan feast. …
Pikes Peak 2022, Redemption for Team Evasive and the Model 3 Tesla-Part 1
Action Photos by Larry Chen Last year’s Pikes Peak Hill Climb even was a disaster for Team Evasive Motorsports. Although the Model 3 Tesla ran well in practice and qualification…
Project R35 GT-R, What is inside our 1200 lb/ft Capable GR-6 Transmission!
For years I have wanted a transmission built by Sheptrans, builder of some of the most amazing transmissions for AWD Mitsubishis and Nissans but I never had a car worthy…
The CFD Development of Ken Block’s Hoonipigasus Porsche
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a story about the aerodynamics of Ken Blocks Hoonipigasus Porsche 911. I was wondering how close I was to being right so I…
Project FR-S, Improving the Aero Balance with Verus Engineering and Victory Function
When driving Project FR-S on the track we had noticed that although the car had excellent handling in general, it had understeer in high-speed turns. We also noticed in pictures…
More Power for your Electrical system! (Most Race Cars and Drift cars Need This)
Power demands on modified cars, particularly race cars have been going up and up in the past few years. More power means more electrical demand from stuff like bigger fans…
Dyno Testing the Holley Skyram Intake Manifold
We first wrote about Holley’s Sky Ram intake manifold as an April fools joke. Although many people thought this was photoshop, Holley actually made a working Sky Ram manifold using…
Street Friendly (And California Legal) GD Subaru STI Build! Part Three, Getting Some Green Power With Cobb Tuning
Although our home state, California has great food and possibly the best weather in the county, the regulations that govern just about everything here have made about anything you want…
Ken Block’s Killer Pikes Peak 911!
We got to get an early look at Ken Blocks super awesome 1400 hp, mid-engine, tube frame, unequal length A-arm suspension, AWD, Porsche 911 this week and boy are we…
30 years of KW – from a one-man business to a global entrepreneurial group
If you are a long-time reader of MotoIQ, you know we partner with KW Suspension in many of our internal projects and much of the Motorsports stuff that we are…
Street Friendly (And California Legal) GD Subaru STI Build! Part Two Streetable Suspension
In our first story on our practical daily STI build, we worked over the worn OEM brakes with DBA rotors and Hawk Performance Pads adding a Cobb short shifter into…
Prevent Recovery Damage with Raceseng (and Mount Your Go Pro)
We have seen cars damaged at races and track days by corner workers and tow truck drivers many times. Often the damage caused by recovering the car is worse than…
Big Power with a MSD Atomic Intake Manifold and Tuning for Project C7 Corvette!
In our last episode of Project C7 Corvette, we installed some Hooker Blackheart long tube header for the direct-injected LT1 engine. For this episode, we are going to add an…
Street Friendly (And California Legal) GD Subaru STI Build! Part One
If you are a follower of MotoIQ, you are probably familiar with our way of building cars. We tend to build innocuous-looking cars stuffed full of race car technology to…
KW 3-Way Clubsports for the Evo IX. The Ultimate, All Weather, Daily Driving Shocks!
In the past, to get 3-way adjustable damping on your car, you need to invest in really high-dollar sophisticated race-grade dampers. The trouble with this kind of shock is that…