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…
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Project EP3 Civic Si Two Piece Rotor Rebuild with Fastbrakes
So our Project EP3 Civic has been doing duty as our daily driven super-beater car and has been racking up the miles. The miles had been taking their toll on…
Turbocharging the Nissan MR20DD Engine, Part 5, Putting It All Together!
So if you have been following our series on building the Turbo Nissan MR20DD engine, you can read about our analysis of the engine in the first chapter, the engine internals…
Turbocharging the Nissan MR20DD Engine, Part 4, The Turbo System
If you have been following our series on building the Turbo Nissan MR20DD engine, you can read about our analysis of the engine in the first chapter, the engine internals…
Fixing the Positively Horrible Worn Out Stock Ford Excursion Tow Vehicle Suspension!
As an additional tow vehicle and shop hauler for the MotoIQ garage, we bought a well-worn but well-maintained 2000 Ford Excursion for a great unresistable price. With its big 6.8…
Turbocharging the Nissan MR20DD, Fortifying the Engines Internals!
If you have been following our build-up of the Nissan MR20DDT, We have been examining the suitability of this engine to be converted to turbocharging. We were able to identify…
Turbocharging the Nissan MR20DD Engine! Part Two, the Internal MR20DD Architecture
In our last story of our saga of turbocharging the MR20DD, we looked at the engine’s external features to see how they would be would be suitable for building a…
The Full Bolt on SR20 Engine, Part One, The Basics
Check out the entire project to date! For MotoIQ Merch and Parts Check out our Store! With our do-it-all all S-Chassis suspension and brakes nearly done, it is time to…
Turbocharging the Nissan MR20DD Engine! Part one, the External MR20DD Architecture
Our latest endeavor in the field of modding cars has been to revisit what was one of our favorite cars of all time, the Nissan Sentra. If it was not…
Upgrading Nissan S Chassis Rear Brakes and Adding a Drift Brake the Easy Way!
We needed to upgrade the brakes on our S13 grip/drift car and we wanted to do something straightforward and simple. We also wanted to add a drift brake to the…
Project E39 M5, Fixing Broken Sway Bar Brackets For Good!
For the E39 model, BMW made the mistake of making the antisway bar to frame brackets out of thin gauge aluminum to save a few grams per car. These break…
Project GD STI, Adding an Intercooler Sprayer to a Front Mount Intercooler
Subaru STIs have a water intercooler sprayer as factory equipment. There is an intercooler spray button on the dash with a large water reservoir in the truck with a pump. …
Project GD STI, Our Custom Stoptech Big Rear Brake Kit Comes Together!
In our last segment, we talked about the lack of rear brake upgrades for the GD and why it was difficult to design one. We started out with a Stoptech…
Project GD STI, Designing a Stoptech Rear big brake kit with BD Engineering
We had always wanted to upgrade the rear brakes on Project GD STI but were not able to do it. Nobody made a quality rear brake upgrade for the car.…
Project GD STI, Installing an Upgraded Precision Ball Bearing Drop In Turbo and Larger Injector Dynamics Injectors
In our previous article, we had gotten a new Precision Turbo ball bearing center section drop in factory replacement turbo to replace our previous turbo that was choking our engine…
Antigravity’s new XP-15 Microstart/Air Pump!
We have always been fans of Antigravity Micro-Start jump batteries, we not only carry them in our personal cars but we also have a few around the shop that we…
How to Adjust Your Shocks Like A Pro and Go Faster Part 3: 3,4 and 5-Way Adjustable Shocks With Advanced Techniques
Ah, now it’s time for the third and last edition of this series on shock tuning. We are gonna talk about how to adjust 3 to 5 way adjustable shocks…
The Holley LS Fest West 2023 Tire Streets Drift Challenge
This year’s Holley LS Fest West was the largest one to date. Holley Performance’s multifaceted Motorsports festival saw a dramatic increase in spectators as well as participants and the action-packed…
KW Update and Refurbishing Service for our S13 Drift Grip Project Car!
We had gotten a set of excellent GKTech suspension parts for our project S13 and had finished welding up, reinforcing, and relocating the lower control arms pick-up points on the…
Testing the CSF BMW S58 G8X Intake Manifold
The BMW S58 engine is pretty impressive, directly based on BMW’s sturdy diesel engines, it is capable of producing over 1000 hp with just bolt-on mods. One of the bolt-on…
The Dunning Kruger Effect and the Automotive Enthusiast
One of the most infuriating things about being a Motorsports professional and an Engineer in the performance domain, especially if you are also a media guy who does a lot…
AMS Performance Alpha Deep Transmission Oil Pan and Pickup Relocation Kit for the R35 GT-R
If you own an R35 GT-R and drive it hard, you will know about some of its transmission pitfalls. Besides running hot and breaking internal parts if you have a…
E85 Can Mess Up Your Engine!
Although E85 is an awesome fuel, high octane, cheap, cool burning, it can cause a lot of harm under certain operating conditions. This is an EJ257 that failed in my…
Hypertech REACT Revisited
It is not often that I feel compelled to revisit a product in a positive way but I am so in love with Hypertech’s REACT drive-by-wire throttle controller that I…
NSX Shift Fork Restoration
Nowadays it’s getting harder and harder to find parts for classic JDM cars. Recently we had an Acura NSX in the MotoIQ Garage to repair its transaxle. The synchros, hubs,…
Checking out the New McLeod PTT Clutch Line
We were visiting McLeod clutches with Billy Johnson to discuss some of the nuances of a clutch for Project Retromod RX-7. Here we are with our hosts drag racing greats…
Adding an Easy to Install Heavy Duty Power Steering Cooler to the E39 BMW M5
When changing the radiator on Project E39 M5 to a CSF Racing performance part, we noticed that our power steering system was suffering from age-deteriorated lines and was leaking fluid. …
How to Adjust Your Shocks, Part Two- Double Adjustable Shocks
In our first article of this series, I talked about the very basics of shock adjustment in general, basic shock damping technology, and how to adjust single adjustable shocks. For…
How Does Engine Position Affect Weight Distribution
I have always told people that moving the position of an engine does not make that much of a difference in the car’s weight distribution and that moving a battery…
Project E39 M5, Improving Cooling With CSF
Even though our E39 M5 has been well maintained and is in excellent shape, it is still a 20-year-old car and some components were starting to show their age. In…
Hypertech REACT Eliminates the Annoying Toyota Tundra Overly Sensitive Throttle
One of the things that really annoyed us about Project Tundra was the exaggerated throttle swell programmed into the drive-by-wire throttle. Toyota seemingly did this to make Tundra owners think…
Fix Your BMW Power Mirrors For Cheap!
Have your BMW power folding mirrors stopped working? We’re going to show you how to repair them with some readily available parts. If you have an older BMW with vertical…