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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…

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The CFD Development of Ken Block’s Hoonipigasus Porsche

Mike Kojima

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…

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Dyno Testing the Holley Skyram Intake Manifold

Mike Kojima

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…

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Street Friendly (And California Legal) GD Subaru STI Build! Part Three, Getting Some Green Power With Cobb Tuning

Mike Kojima

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…

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Ken Block’s Killer Pikes Peak 911!

Mike Kojima

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…

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30 years of KW – from a one-man business to a global entrepreneurial group

Mike Kojima

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…

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Street Friendly (And California Legal) GD Subaru STI Build! Part Two Streetable Suspension

Mike Kojima

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…

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Prevent Recovery Damage with Raceseng (and Mount Your Go Pro)

Mike Kojima

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…

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Street Friendly (And California Legal) GD Subaru STI Build! Part One

Mike Kojima

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…

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KW 3-Way Clubsports for the Evo IX. The Ultimate, All Weather, Daily Driving Shocks!

Mike Kojima

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…

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Holley LS Fest West 2022 Drift Challenge

Mike Kojima

Every year Vegas Drift holds a drift competition at Holley’s LS Fest West. We really like this event because it attracts all different levels of drivers from Pro to Local…

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Holley Officially Releases the SkyRam Intake for LS Motors!

Mike Kojima

We were pretty in shock at our first view of the Holley SkyRam intake manifold. Holley just dropped the press release for it today so we can finally write about…

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DIY Dye Penetrant Crack Testing

Mike Kojima

Crack detection is important in the performance world. The ability to find cracks in parts that are under stress is a good tool in preventative maintenance and can prevent catastrophic…

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Improving Your Driving with DK Racing School

Mike Kojima

Christa Kojima had done ok on her first track day and had a pretty good time so we figured that the best thing now would be to get some formal…

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WATCH: HANDCRAFTED 400+ Horsepower 1982 Porsche 911 Restomod!

Jeff Naeyaert

In this video Ravi Dalwani from CSF Radiators drops by to show us his latest build, a 1982 Porsche 911 SC that’s been COMPLETELY redone! Not even a bolt…

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Quick Wheel Repair With Onsite Wheels

Mike Kojima

It happens to all of us. We were driving our Evo 9 Project car through a construction zone and hit one of the wheel lips on the edge of one…

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rusEFI – DIY Open Source Engine Management For Your Car?!

Morgan Thompson

There is no doubt that Linux and open-source software has changed humanity for the better. What started out as various side projects have turned into a framework which runs much…

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Superlap Battle COTA, an Insiders Look at Working an Event

Mike Kojima

Last week I flew to Austin Texas to support Evasive Motorsports in their efforts to turn a fast lap at Super Lap Battle at the Circuit of the Americas or…

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WATCH: Tesla Powered Mustang | In-Depth Walk Around and Driving Impressions!

Jeff Naeyaert

In this week’s video Lawson Mollica from AEM Electronic’s new EV division (aptly named AEM EV) stopped by to show us an S197 Mustang with a Tesla motor swap…

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The CSF Porsche 911, a Retromodern Rocket

Mike Kojima

When you have been in the industry as long as we have, frankly it’s pretty hard to impress us. However Ravi Dolwani the head honcho at CSF Radiators has done…

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Your First Track Day, What to Do and What to Expect

Mike Kojima

In my opinion, every enthusiast should be out doing track days. A track day is a safe outlet where you can drive as fast as your heart desires in a…

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Building a Drift Kart Sort Of

Mike Kojima

So when Googling around for good prices for kart racing slicks my daughter Christa saw an ad for kart drift tires from Monster Scooters and thinking it would be fun,…

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Industry News

PRI 2021: What’s New and Cool

Erik Jacobs

The COVID pandemic put the kibosh on the 2020 Performance Racing Industry (PRI) show, but the auto racing gods managed to shine upon us and allow the 2021 show to…

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The Best of 2021 #1: The GT3 Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV Spaceship

Mike Kojima

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…

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The Best of 2021, #4: Testing The CSF VF Engineering A90 A91 Supra Intake Manifold Intercooler

Mike Kojima

CSF Radiators in collaboration with VF Engineering is about to launch a new intake manifold for the A90 and A91 Toyota Supra with both the B58B30C and B58M30O1 engines –…

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King Bearings – Alpha Bearing Technology and PRI Tech Seminar

Mike Kojima

Bearing technology leader King Bearings continues to push the horsepower limits of modern engines. Their new Alpha line of high performance bearings could not have come at a better time,…

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WTF Acura/Honda! The New Acura Integra

Mike Kojima

We love the old DC2 Integra, we have one as a project car, and it’s a blast to drive on the street and on the track. With its high revving…

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The Nismo R33 400R

Mike Kojima

If you are into rare JDM cars, one of the unicorn cars that you probably lust after is the Nismo 400R. The 400R is a very limited edition R33 GT-R…

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An End to an Era, Dai Yoshihara Retires from Formula Drift Pro Championship

Mike Kojima

After 18 years and 128 Formula Drift events, 2011 Formula Drift champion Dai Yoshihara has announced his retirement from Formula Drift. With 8 wins and 28 podiums, Dai has one…

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Dan Wheldon: Ten Years Later

Dave Zipf

Sunday October 16, 2011 was always going to be a historic day for IndyCar. 2011 was both an experimental and transitional year for America’s premier open wheel racing series: New…

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The Pagani Huayra BC Up Close

Mike Kojima

Normally we don’t talk about hypercars too much. Usually, we feel that these are just the playthings of the elite super-rich and are so out of reach for normal people,…