Ask Sarah- Brake Mania!
Got a Tech Question? Email Sarah at asksarah@motoiq.com Since I get so many questions about brake issues, I’m dedicating this column to Brake-mania! But first I must address a…
Demolition Derby Tech Part 2
Demolition Derby Tech part 2 By Mike Kojima and Aaron Guardado In our last story, we covered the basic prepping of a demolition derby car including the amazingly rudimentary safety…
Girl Gone Green: Verena Mei’s Time Attack Nissan 350Z
Girl Gone Green: Verena Mei’s Time Attack Nissan 350Z MotoIQ Staff Report Although you don’t normally think of motosports as being a green sport, in Verena Mei’s case it…
Revenge of the Nerd- Boycott Fakes!
Revenge of the Nerd-Boycott Fakes! By Mike Kojima I wrote a very similar column to this during my stint as Engineering Editor at the late great Turbo Magazine about a…
Calvin Wan-Thunderdrift
Calvin Wan-Thunderdrift Lately I have gotten to know Calvin Wan through my working with Falken Tires drift team where I have been helping him develop the chassis settings on the…
EVENT COVERAGE: 24 Hours of LeMons – Buttonwillow Histrionics 2009
Text and photos by Jeff Naeyaert (Click any image to view full gallery) I took a trip to the high desert this weekend to shoot the 24 Hours of LeMons…
Skunk2 Mitsubishi EVO VII-IX Composite Fuel Rail
Skunk2 Mitsubishi EVO VII-IX Composite Fuel Rail MotoIQ Staff Report The first-ever composite fuel rail for Mitsubishi’s Evo VII-IX is here. Skunk2’s Composite Fuel Rails are made using a…
Fairmont Butte Motorsports Park
Proposed New Road Course in Southern California Needs Your Help! by Jeff Naeyaert Some of you SoCal road racers out there might have heard about the proposed Fairmont Butte Motorsports…
Get Well Richey!
Get Well Richey! Our dear friend and Master Fabricator Richey Watanabe of Technosqaure was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer right after the Las Vegas Round of Formula D and has been…
Technobabble: Electric Cars and Turbos (how MIT is Going to Save The World)
Technobabble: Electric Cars & Turbos (How MIT is Going to Save the Wolrd) by Dave Coleman A few months ago, a short press release fluttered across the internet. It was…
Cosworth Back In Formula 1
Jeremy in track support sent me a text this morning and told me about this. Cosworth has won the tender to supply a low-cost engine and transmission package…
Greddy USA – Chapter 11 Filing
I got an email from Mike at Greddy today with a press release. Greddy USA filed for Chapter 11 today. Chapter 11 is a bankruptcy filing for reorganization. What…
Greddy USA Press Release
From Mike Chung at Greddy USA: TRUST CO. LTD, JAPAN, FILES FOR MINJI-SAISEI-HOU IN TOKYO GReddy Performance Products Inc., Parent Company to Undergo Reorganization Through Japanese Equivalent of…
Demolition Derby Tech
Demolition Derby Tech Part 1 A Tech Look Inside the Disposable Motorsports Machine by Mike Kojima and Aaron Guardado Although you might think that Destruction Derby is the simplistic smashing…
In the Beginning
In the Beginning… text and photos by Jeff Naeyaert So starts the first line of Genesis, the first chapter of the Bible describing how the world as we know it…
Chuck’s Bonneville Adventure Part 2
Chuck’s Bonneville Adventure Part 2 By Mike Kojima and Annie Sam As we left off in our last installment, Chuck and Annie were driving up to Bonneville after a long…
Revenge of the Nerd – Nissan in the sump with diamonds?
Revenge of the Nerd – Nissan in the sump with diamonds? By Mike Kojima When we launched MotoIQ, I wrote another article on this subject but it sorta got buried…
Revenge of the Nerd, Drifting is Not Ghey!
Revenge of the Nerd, Drifting is Not Ghey! By Mike Kojima, photos by Jeff Naeyaert As of late when I am not working here, I have been helping out at…
Skunk 2 Releases Pro Series Intake Manifold for EVO VII, VIII and IX
SKUNK2 EVO VII-IX PRO SERIES INTAKE MANIFOLD If you are tuning your EVO VII-IX you were probably wondering what was up with the designers of the…
Technobabble: How to Fix a Headgasket With a Garden Sprayer
Technobabble: How to Fix a Head Gasket With a Garden Sprayer by Dave Coleman It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I'm fiendishly clever. My SE-R Spec-V rally car…
Build Your Own 370Z:Photoshop and Illustrator
Build Your Own 370Z: Photoshop and Illustrator By Charlie Barnes For all you dreamers and customizers alike, one thing we all have in common is the desire to put…
Event Coverage: Motorgen Angeles Crest Cruise
Beautiful weather, beautiful cars, beautiful time. 2009 Motorgen Angeles Crest Cruise by Martin Gonzales What could possibly be better than cruising the freshly paved mountainous roads of Los Angeles? Doing…
Event Coverage: SpoCom 2009
photos and text by Jeff Naeyaert We spent the better part of 5 hours Sunday afternoon at SpoCom 2009 hosted at the Long Beach Convention Center. So dedicated to the…
Nissan 370Z Bad News Buzz: High Engine & Diff Oil Temps-The $300 Oil Change-Engine Clatter and More! Hype or Reality?
If you are reading this, you might have read about these things on a forum, you might have heard the rumors or you might have experienced some of these…
Goodbye SCC, Hello motoIQ
Revenge of the Nerd Goodbye SCC, Hello motoIQ A lot of you are probably familiar with me and my name, you probably know me from the pages of…
Hot Import Nights
HOT IMPORT NIGHTS -Where Dreams Are Reality Tour By Aaron Guardado and Mari Umekubo; Photos By Mari Umekubo unless where noted Hot Import Nights 2009 cruised through comfortably on…
An American Japanese in Tokyo
An American Japanese in Tokyo MotoIQ goes to Japan Story and Photos by Mike Kojima, Aaron LaBeau and Jenny Bergenholtz Busted, the plate in my leg sets off the…