Can an Oil Change Affect Horsepower?
A lot of people have asked this question before and the jury has been out on whether this is something that is true or not. We have attempted to test to…
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Project AP1 S2000: Installing Forbidden Side Diffusers
Project AP1 S2000: Installing Forbidden Side Diffusers by Karla Pestotnik Project AP1 S2000 has specific plans to be the ultimate, fun street car that can hold its own performance-wise,…
Project EP3 Civic Si: Fixing EP3 Bumpsteer with Hardrace
Project EP3 Civic Si: Fixing EP3 Bumpsteer with Hardrace by Mike Kojima In prior editions of Project EP3 Civic Si, we went over the history of the car, the worst…
Project EP3 Civic Si: Installing Fortune Auto 510 Coilovers!
Project EP3 Civic Si: Installing Fortune Auto 510 Coilovers! by Mike Kojima Over the past few installments of our EP3 project, we have been working on fixing on what is…
Project EP3 Civic Si: Suspension Upgrades with Whiteline!
So everyone into Hondas just about universally ignores or even hates the dumpy EP3 Civic. The EP3 represents, to most Honda fans, the generation of Civic where Honda lost their…
Project EP3 Si, Going 5 Lug with Wheels from Enkei and Nitto NT05 Tires
Project EP3 Si: Going 5 Lug with Wheels from Enkei and Nitto NT05 Tires by Mike Kojima Now that we converted our EP3 Civic from 4 to 5 lug hubs and added…
Japanese Cars That Don’t Suck!
Japanese Cars That Don't Suck by Mike Kojima I pissed a lot of people off with my Japanese Cars Suck article a few weeks ago, where I expressed dismay…
How Magical is Black Magic Intense Wheel Cleaner? We Test it Out!
How Magical is Black Magic Intense Wheel Cleaner? We Test it Out! by Karla Pestotnik With a word such as 'magic' in the name, it's easy to assume that…
Testing Meguiar’s Two Step Headlight Restoration Kit!
Testing Meguiar's Two Step Headlight Restoration Kit! by Mike Kojima Any car that has the newer plastic headlights will experience weathering and yellowing eventually. This is caused by UV light…
Project EP3 Civic Si, Improving the Brakes with Fastbrakes, Stoptech and Willwood
Project EP3 Civic Si, Improving the Brakes with Fastbrakes, Stoptech and Willwood by Mike Kojima In the last edition of Project EP3 Civic Si, we explained how we went about…
How To Do A 5 Lug Conversion the Right Way! Project EP3
How To Do A 5 Lug Conversion the Right Way! Project EP3 by Mike Kojima As we finally start to mod our much-maligned shop EP3, the car that everyone loves…
Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine: Part 4- Burns Header and Tuning
Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine! Part 4- Burns Header and Tuning By Mike Kojima If you have been following our previous articles of our build of the naturally aspirated K24, we…
Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine Part 3, Assembling the Engine
Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine Part 3, Assembling the Engine By Mike Kojima In the previous two installments of our engine build, you were able to take a look…
Project DC2 Integra- Fixing Old Clutch Woes With Centerforce
Project DC2 Integra- Fixing Old Clutch Woes With Centerforce by Mike Kojima Our DC2 Integra was a great find, in near unmolested close to stock condition despite being a GSR and…
Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine with Drag Cartel! Part 2
Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine with Drag Cartel! Part 2 by Mike Kojima In the last edition of building the naturally aspirated K24, we were showing some of…
The Spoon Sports Center Seat Civic at Super Lap Battle!
The Spoon Sports Center Seat Civic at Super Lap Battle! by Mike Kojima We hope you've been following our progress in updating the Spoon Sports USA Time Attack FWD Unlimited…
Zestino Gredge 07RS Race Track Tire Test
Zestino Gredge 07RS Race Track Tire Test by Karla Pestotnik It would be pretty comical if we saw Usain Bolt running the 100 meter dash in the Olympics without shoes. He…
Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine! Part 1
Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine! Part 1 by Mike Kojima The Honda K series of engines is one of our favorites and one of the top production inline…
Project S2000: Part 24 – Bridgestone Potenza RE-71Rs and DIY Brake Ducts
Project S2000: Part 24 – Bridgestone Potenza RE-71Rs and DIY Brake Ducts by Khiem Dinh If we go way back to the very first episode (sorry, been listening to some…
Evaluating the ACT Heavy Duty Clutch and XACT Prolite Flywheel for the Honda S2000
Evaluating the ACT Heavy Duty Clutch and XACT Prolite Flywheel for the Honda S2000 by Mike Kojima Vince, our FNG, drives a Honda S2000 that serves as his daily driver.…
Plastic is Fantastic: Part 6 – Assembling the Beast
Plastic is Fantastic: Part 6 – Assembling the Beast by Jonathan Spiegel As usual, racecars rarely get finished on schedule when you’ve got a day job, but that hasn’t stopped…
Project Civic EF Racecar: Part 4 – Improving Cooling Efficiency with Earl’s Performance
Project Civic EF Racecar: Part 4 – Improving Cooling Efficiency with Earl's Performance by Clint Boisdeau It's been a while since Project Civic EF Racecar has had an update outside of the MotoIQ Pacific…
Project Bucket: EP3 Honda Civic Si
Project Bucket: EP3 Honda Civic Si by Mike Kojima What, I said, your brother in law wants to sell his Civic Si for $500? I was speaking to one of…
Chasing the F-Wing: How Spoon Sports USA Beat the FWD Unlimited Record
Chasing the F-Wing: How Spoon Sports USA Beat the FWD Unlimited Record by Mike Kojima Last week at the annual 2015 GTA Super Lap Battle at Buttonwillow Raceway, Chris Rado's…
Project Honda Civic EJ Finale: Dyno Results and Lap Times
Project Honda Civic EJ Finale: Dyno Results and Lap Times by Chuck Johnson On April 7th, 2011, we introduced Project Honda Civic EJ to the readers of MotoIQ. Originally, the…
Plastic is Fantastic – Part 5, the Eagle Has Landed
The Eagle (umm, more like Big Bird) has landed. The tandem team from Reliable Carriers showed up on schedule and carefully unloaded the CRX from the top deck. There was…
Project S2000: Part 23 – Testing Air Temps Through Coolers and Vents
Project S2000: Part 23. Testing Air Temps Through Coolers and Vents by Khiem Dinh Khiem Dinh is an engineer for Honeywell Turbo Technologies at the time of this writing. All…
Race Tires Versus Street Tires – Nitto – Track Life Episode 6
Race Tires Versus Street Tires – Nitto – Track Life Episode 6 by GTChannel Rob tests the NT01 race tires and the NT05 street tires from Nitto (http://www.nittotire.com/) at a…
Blacktrax Performance S2000 Motorsport Makeover: Part 4 – Final Bodywork, Second Engine Build, Testing, and First Races
Blacktrax Performance S2000 Motorsport Makeover: Part 4 – Final Bodywork, Second Engine Build, Testing, and First Races by Edward Hu In our last update on the Blacktrax Performance S2000, nicknamed…
Extreme Engine Tech: Building the Ultimate K24 Part 2 The Bottom End!
In the last edition of our series, building the ultimate streetable late model K24, we had focused on the engines top end switching to an earlier model K20Z3 head with…
Polystrand GT-Lite CRX: Part 4 – Bringing the Design Concept to Life!
Polystrand GT-Lite CRX: Part 4 – Bringing the Design Concept to Life! by Jonathan Spiegel As we left off in the previous installment, we’d completed our prototype suspension design, done…
Sneak Peek: Inside IndyCar’s Oval Aero Kits
Sneak Peek: Inside IndyCar's Oval Aero Kits by David Zipf IndyCar is a fickle sport. On the one hand, no other racing series in the world competes on as many…