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13:1 Compression and 40 mpg on 87 Octane fuel? Introducing Mazda’s Skyactiv Technology By Mike Kojima Does the idea of a super efficient, reasonably performing, fun to drive car with…

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Project Miatabusa part 9: Thank God We Finally Found a Starter!

Dave Coleman

Project Miatabusa, Part 9: Thank God We Finally Found a Starter! by Dave Coleman This seemed like a problem with two easy answers. The Miatabusa would need a starter. Miatas…

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Project Miatabusa Gets the Shaft!

Dave Coleman

Project Miatabusa Gets the Shaft! by Dave Coleman The last time any of you heard anything but excuses about Project Miatabusa was January. I almost can't believe that myself. The…

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10 Fastest Cars of the World Time Attack Challenge Pro Class

Eric Hsu

10 Fastest Cars of the World Time Attack Challenge Pro Class by Eric Hsu Now that the dust has settled from WTAC 2011 itself and the thrashing to prepare in…

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World Time Attack Challenge 2011 Pro Class Controversies

Eric Hsu

World Time Attack Challenge 2011 Pro Class Controversies By Eric Hsu The Yokohama World Time Attack Challenge (WTAC) 2011 was a massive success for the promoters, competitors, fans,…

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Project V8 RX-7: Part 4 – Dressing the E-Rod

Jeff Naeyaert

Project V8 RX-7: Part 4 – Dressing the E-Rod by Jeff Naeyaert So we’ve got our E-Rod kit, unpacked everything and laid it all out, but curiously missing are all…

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Project V8 RX-7: Part 3 – Inside the GM LS3 Cylinder Head

Mike Kojima

Project V8 RX-7: Part 3 – Inside the GM LS3 Cylinder Head By Mike Kojima In the last edition of Project V8 RX-7 we looked into the bottom end of…

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NASA 25 Hours of Thunderhill with BMC Tool Racing, Part 2

Eric Hsu

To read Part 1 of this story, CLICK HERE! In part 1, I mentioned that the original delivery date of the engine was to be mid-October to allow the guys…

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Project Frankenmiata – Salvaging the Chassis

Dave Coleman

Project Frankenmiata: Salvaging the Chassis by Dave Coleman Like every good story (assuming Star Wars is every good story), this one started in the middle, ran through to…

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Frankenmiata Dyno Secrets Revealed!

Dave Coleman

Frankenmiata: Dyno Secrets Revealed For The First Time! by Dave Coleman One of the best things about LeMons (and there are a lot of great things…) is the complete engineering…

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Project V8 RX-7: Part 2 – Inside the GM LS3 E-ROD Crate Engine

Mike Kojima

Project V8 RX-7: Part 2 – Inside the GM LS3 E-ROD Crate Engine By Mike Kojima Hybrid, noun- the offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds, varieties, species, or genera,…

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Project Miatabusa Part 5 – De-Powering the Steering Rack

Dave Coleman

Project Miatabusa Part 5 – De-Powering the Steering Rack By Dave Coleman That's right; this installment of Project Miatabusa has nothing to do with putting the engine in…

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Project Miatabusa part 7: Mounting the Gauges

Dave Coleman

Last time we looked at cramming the Hayabusa's instrument cluster into the Miata housing, it proved to be a shockingly good fit. There was a very large unresolved issue of…

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Project Miatabusa Part 6 – The Wiring Job From Heck

Dave Coleman

Yea, well, it wasn't really the wiring job from Hell, but it was damn near the wiring job from Purgatory, considering how long it took me to get around…

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Project Miatabusa Part 4.3 – The Intake Manifold

Dave Coleman

This week's half step toward 11,000 rpm Miata madness is a good solid head start toward making a workable intake manifold. Starting from virtually nothing, the fertile mind and ghettofabrication…

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Project Miatabusa part 10 – Tubular Subframes and Engine Mounts, Oh My!!

Dave Coleman

Project Miatabusa Part 10: Tubular Subframes and Engine Mounts, Oh my! by Dave Coleman In July, 2010, we posted Part 2 of Project Miatabusa and proclaimed, in a very carefully…

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Project Miatabusa part 4.2 – Hacking the Hayabusa Harness

Dave Coleman

Next up in our pile of partially finished projects is making the Hayabusa's engine harness fit properly in the Miata. The Hayabusa is fuel injected (not always an obvious thing…

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Project Miatabusa Part 4.1 – It goes to 11(,000 rpm)

Dave Coleman

Project Miatabusa is progressing on several fronts, with wiring, fuel delivery, induction, exhaust and subframe projects all happening in parallel. With three guys spread across so many projects, none…

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Project Miatabusa Part 3 – Let the Weight Weenieing Begin

Dave Coleman

Project Miatabusa Part 3: Attack of the Weight Weenie by Dave Coleman Project Miatabusa's theoretical claim to Awesomeness doesn't come from power alone, but from the unique combination of…

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Project Miatabusa Part 2 – The Engine Is In!

Dave Coleman

Project Miatabusa – Part 2: The Engine Is IN! by Dave Coleman A few short months ago, when we introduced project Miatabusa, (part 1 is here) it was little more…

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Tire Test, LeMons Style: Falken Azenis RT615-K

Dave Coleman

The typical new tire introduction goes like this: The new Pazoosy Jaberwoky XR 745 Ultra R Super Star uses triple-inverted diagonal ply Inconel belts and a directional, asymmetrical tread pattern…

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SNEAK PEEK: Project V8 RX-7

Jeff Naeyaert

SNEAK PEAK: Project V8 RX-7 By Jeff Naeyaert Normally we don’t do Project “previews” here on MotoIQ, but normally Mike hasn’t ground down 1 of his only 2 typing fingers in…

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Project MiataBusa – Part 1: What The Hell Are We Thinking?

Dave Coleman

Project Miatabusa – Part 1: What The Hell Are We Thinking? by Dave Coleman With all due respect to the rest of the project car stable, this is destined to be the…

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AEM’s Plug and Play ECU for the Chevy LS1, a Swappers Delight!

Mike Kojima

AEM's Plug and Play ECU for the Chevy LS1, a Swappers Delight! By Mike Kojima The Chevy LS engine family is not your grandpa's small block Chevy. Although it…

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FrankenMiata – Handling with a Hacksaw

Dave Coleman

Best-Engineered Cars of Lemons – The FrankenMiata Part III: Making it handle with a hacksaw. by Dave Coleman The FrankenMiata is a handling machine. Sure, it slices through fields of $500…

2009 Thunderhill 25 Hour Enduro Summary

Eric Hsu

After that last update there was nothing else to update on since the car was retired due to the broken lower A-arm mount at the tub after 9.5 hours…

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BMC Tool Racing Update from Thunderhill – Saturday 12/5/09

Eric Hsu

The morning started out with everybody on the grid and a ton of people on track. This is pretty typical for a race, but since I don't go to many…

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BMC Tool Racing Update from Thunderhill – Friday 12/4/09

Eric Hsu

So far so good. Dino piloted the BMC Tool Racing Panoz DP-02 to an overall pole. The next fastest car is the K20A powered Norma which is 0.6 seconds away. The third place…

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BMC Tool Racing Panoz DP02 25 Hour Car

Eric Hsu

www.youtube.com/user/ToolRacing#p/a/u/1/MaPPTp8_vl4 The guys over at Tool Racing have just spent the last 5 weeks thrashing like crazy to get their newly acquired Panoz DP02 ex-IMSA Lights car ready for the 2009…

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Frankenmiata – Turbocharging

Dave Coleman

FrankenMiata – Turbocharging for $95.55 By Dave Coleman We didn't need power. We proved that to ourselves by leading more than 6 hours of a LeMons race with our 77…

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Best-Engineered Cars of LeMons

Dave Coleman

The Best-Engineered Cars of LeMons By Dave Coleman The 24 Hours of LeMons is recognized as many things. Incredibly stupid. Safer than OxyContin. A flagrant waste of natural resources.…

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FrankenMiata: Part I – Freebuilding the Engine

Dave Coleman

FrankenMiata: Part I – Freebuilding the engine By Dave Coleman There is a moment of magic at the end of every engine build. It's that mysterious and suspenseful instant when a…