Don’t Die! Lifeline Increases the Safety of Project S13 Do It All!
We have been around several fire incidents lately that have given us a renewed focus on safety, particularly fire safety. We were at Gridlife Laguna Seca when an A91 Supra…
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SDHQ Offroads Gen II Heavy Duty Battery Terminals
After shredding our OEM ones during hard off-road driving, we had previously evaluated SDHQ’s heavy-duty battery terminals. The newer terminals were a lot better than the super weak stock parts…
SPL Parts Suspension Upgrade on the Devine Force Racing VA STi
We all know the saying, “you have to crawl before you walk”…. we’ve been crawling for a bit and it’s time for the Devine Force Racing STI to continue growing…
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…
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…
Project FD RX7 Restomod: Part 12 – Rotor Lightening, WPC and CTP Cryo Treatment
To kick off our engine build, we CNC-lightened the rotors of our 13B REW before shipping them off to be cryogenically frozen by CTP Cryogenics to improve strength and durability…
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…
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…
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…
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…
3D Printing an Oil Cooler Duct With BD Engineering
With a huge heatwave hitting California, we found when doing a track day at Willow Springs raceway in over 100-degree heat that our car was starting to run a little…
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 718 Cayman T: Part 2 – Oil Change Mod, GT4 Scoop Install, and Increased Octane
The 718 Cayman T is not the easiest car to do an oil change on. I did one modification to make doing an oil change quicker at least. The first…
Project NSX: Part 20 – Antigravity Lithium Battery and CTEK Charger
When it comes to weight reduction, it’s difficult to beat the cost-to-benefit ratio of a lithium battery. We replaced our NSX’s heavy AGM battery with Antigravity’s drop-in Group-35/Q85 lithium battery…
Adding a Deep Sump Diff Cover to the Nissan S13
So our project S13 came with a Nismo 1.5 way clutch type limited slip differential that the previous owner had installed. From prior experience we know that clutch type LSD’s…
Project Cayman T: Part 1 – Intro and Must-Do Mods
For all of those wondering why I sold Project S2000 shortly after I FINALLY got the turbo installed and running well, this is it: a 2023 718 Cayman T. The…
3rd Gen Tacoma Taillight from Form Lighting
3rd Gen Tacoma Taillight from Form Lighting In this article we review the 3rd Gen Tacoma Taillight from Form Lighting. I admit I never really have thought much about tail…
Project FD RX7 Restomod: Part 11 – Engine Disassembly
We decided to tear down a 2,000-mile brand-new Mazda crate engine to turn it into one of the most highly-modified 13B REW engines on the planet. We started by removing…
Project Cappuccino: Driveline Love with Monster Sport Bushings
As of 2023, every single Cappuccino ever made is a quarter century old. In that time, rubber will harden, degrade, and fail. This includes the bushings in all of the…
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. …
WATCH: Precision Turbo Stock Position Subaru Drop-In Turbo!
In this video Mike show you why you don’t need a rotated mount turbo to make big power on our Project GD Subaru WRX STI! If you liked the…
Project FD RX7 Restomod: Part 10 – Engine Fire Update
Owning an RX-7 is like riding a motorcycle. It’s not a matter of “IF” (the car catches fire) but rather “WHEN, and how bad?”. A small engine fire changed the…
Project GD STI We Don’t Need a Damn Rotated Mount Turbo
So with our last go around of Project GD STI we had reached our goal of 500 wheel hp but we were not entirely pleased with our powerband. Our power…
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 NSX: Part 19 – Designing a Crank Position Sensor and Knock Control
We design a custom tone ring and hall-effect sensor mount for our Motec M150 to more accurately record the crankshaft position and control ignition timing at high RPM. We also…
Project FD RX7 Restomod: Part 9 – Air Pump Removal and FFE Idler Pulley
To make a simpler and more reliable off-road (track-only) engine setup, we removed the factory Air Pump and Air Control Valve, then installed the Full Function Engineering Idler Pulley Full…
S2000 Suspension Geometry Fix
In our last article, we lowered the height of our S2000, which changed the suspension geometry leading to tweaked handling and irregular wear to the driveshaft inboard joints. In addition,…
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…
Project NSX: Part 18 – DBW Conversion with Motec
We upgrade the ECU in our 30-year-old NSX to the advanced Motec M150, and ditch the throttle cable in favor of a Drive-By-Wire setup to take full advantage of new…
Project NSX: Part 17 – ECU Master PMU16
We replace the NSX’s aging factory main relay and fan control modules with the ECU Master PMU16 Power Management Unit. This also gives us the ability to not only control…