Project Do It All S13, Assembling the Bulletproof SR20DET Cylinder Head!
In our last edition of Project Do it All S13, were covered the build of our 2.2 liter bottom end. Now we are going to turn our attention to the…
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Project Do It All S13, Assembling the Bulletproof SR20DET Bottom End!
We are starting to put together the SR20DET for our car. Our goals are to have a wide powerband and lots of torque while limiting the revs to the stock…
Project Do It All S13, Chassis Fabrication part 3 With ZSM Customs
If you have been following the progress of our S13 project, we have been working with ZSM Customs to do our track-worthy chassis mods for both safety and chassis stiffness. …
Project Do It All S13, Chassis Fabrication part 2 With ZSM Customs
From our last article, we are continuing to build on the body structure of our S13 to both improve handling and safety. ZSM Customs cut out the spare tire well…
Project Do It All S13, Starting the Chassis Fabrication With ZSM Customs
The S13 is known to have a pretty weak body and we wanted to strethen things up to make it safer. We are going to send the car to ZSM…
Don’t Perish in Flames! Using Radium Engineering’s Fuel Cell for Project Do It All S13
We were planning to use our S13’s OEM fuel tank with a Radium Engineering pump hanger to supply fuel to our SR20DET but that plan ended when we opened up…
Dry Ice Blasting Removes 30 Years of Grime With No Damage!
So the engine and engine bay of our Project S13 were really dirty after 30-plus years of use and we wanted to clean it off before we started our engine…
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…
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…
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…
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…
KW Update and Refurbishing Service for our S13 Drift Grip Project Car!
We had gotten a set of excellent GKTech suspension parts for our project S13 and had finished welding up, reinforcing, and relocating the lower control arms pick-up points on the…
AMS Performance Alpha Deep Transmission Oil Pan and Pickup Relocation Kit for the R35 GT-R
If you own an R35 GT-R and drive it hard, you will know about some of its transmission pitfalls. Besides running hot and breaking internal parts if you have a…
WATCH: Classic B13 Sentra SE-R Breakdown – Project Car Stories
The Nissan B13 Sentra SE-R is a staple of 90’s sports compact performance, and MotoIQ, history. Mike and Martin sit down to talk about our highly asked about SE-R,…
Modernizing the 300ZX and the VG30DETT, Fixing Spark Scatter with EPR Engineered Performance
One of the VG30DE and DETT’s weak points is the belt drive of its valvetrain. Belts were the main way to drive camshafts in the 80’s when the engine was…
Modernizing the Nissan 300ZXTT (Z32) Fuel System with Polar Engineering, BDE Engineering and DeatschWerks
There have been a lot of developments for the Z32 and VG30 family engines over the last several years and as we accumulate parts to bring our 300ZXTT project back…
Strengthening and Improving the Geometry of the S13 Subframe With GKTech and ZSM Custom
Since were are building the ultimate suspension system for our S13 with GKTech, we also got some of their parts to beef up the often ignored rear subframe. With stronger…
Modernizing the Nissan VG30DETT, Polar Engineering’s Ignition Upgrade
The VG30DETT found in the 300ZX Turbo had a state-of-the-art ignition system back in the early 90’s. It had one of the first direct-fire, coil-on-plug ignition systems on a production…
Nissan VG30 Adjustable Timing Gears by BDE
Until now there have never been any adjustable timing gears for the VG30DETT and VG30DE as found in the 300ZX and the 300ZXTT. Brett Dempsey Engineering or BDE has come…
Modernizing the VG30DETT, Fixing the Oil System
The VG30DETT is known to fail the rod bearings. Since the oil pump seems to have decent capacity and the rod bearings have a sufficient surface area, we believe a…
Project Nissan Skyline R33 GT-R – Part 6: Clutch, Diverter valves, catch cans, and Dyno testing. Going from bad..to great..to terrible.
It’s been several months since we’ve updated you on our Project Nissan Skyline R33 GT-R. We battled some gremlins and figured things out along the way, and are finally moving…
WATCH: RB26 Bottom End Build: Rods & Pistons
Our project R33 GTR is making good power, but it recently started to smoke. We tore it down and found detonation damage, so it’s time to rebuild the engine!…
Modernizing the VG30DETT, Strengthening the Block With Engineered Performance
There has been a resurgence of interest in 90’s Japanese cars as of late and with that a surge in new parts development with specific popular models. In our case,…
WATCH: The Ultimate Nissan S Chassis REAR Suspension?
We’ve got a new project at MotoIQ and this time it’s a Nissan S13! If you watched our last video you saw why we think GK Tech makes the…
WATCH: The Ultimate Nissan S Chassis Front Suspension?
We’ve got a new project at MotoIQ and this time it’s a Nissan S13! We’ve had a couple 240sx builds in the past built for drifting or land speed…
The Most Advanced 240SX/ Nissan S Chassis, Z32/300ZX, R32/GT-R Rear Suspension Ever From GKTech!
In our last story about Suspension for our upcoming S13 Project car, we went over what we feel is the ultimate front suspension/angle kit for the S Chassis from GKTech. …
The Most Advanced 240SX/ Nissan S Chassis Front Suspension Ever From GKTech!
We will soon be starting work on a new MotoIQ project car, we have obtained A Nissan S13 240SX hatchback with a totally stock SR20DET swap. This car is going…
Project R35 GT-R, What is inside our 1200 lb/ft Capable GR-6 Transmission!
For years I have wanted a transmission built by Sheptrans, builder of some of the most amazing transmissions for AWD Mitsubishis and Nissans but I never had a car worthy…