Sierra Sierra EVO 8 in Car Video
This is mostly for the track nerds since it is only in car video. This was at Round 2 of Redline Time Attack at Willow Springs (5/30/09) with Jonathan Bomarito…
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Fastbrakes Nissan 370Z Superlight Rotor Upgrade!
Fastbrakes Nissan 370Z Superlight Rotor Upgrade! MotoIQ Staff Report Big brake upgrade specialists, Fastbrakes is pleased to announce their upgraded high performance super light two-piece rotor for the Nissan 370Z Sport…
New Honda K series goodies from Skunk 2
New Honda K series goodies from Skunk 2 If you are fans of the Honda K series motor like we are (engine for geek correct guys like Coleman) you will…
Project Aprilia SR50: 100 MPG Madness Part 2, Engine Internals
Project Aprilia SR50: 100 MPG Madness Part 2, Engine Internals By Mike Kojima In our last edition of Project SR50, we had reached the limits of simple bolt on…
New Nissan S16 Silvia, Oh We Hope Not!
New Nissan S16 Silvia, Oh We Hope Not! MotoIQ Staff Report The gist of this story comes from Autoguide.com who in turn got much of the information from InsideLine. Rumor has…
The Dog II
The Dog II By Sarah Forst and Mike Kojima Photography by Jeff Naeyaert & Steve Mitchell Racing, performance, Nissan Sentra and basket case are not words that usually go together.…
Project Scion tC Part III
Project Scion TC Part 3 By Mike Kojima After Technosquare was done fabricating our cage we proceeded to paint the cage for corrosion resistance and a finished look. A spot…
Project Nissan Sentra Spec-V part 4: Installing Sway Bars
Project Nissan Sentra Spec-V part 4: Installing Sway Bars By Mike Kojima Follow Project Spec-V Here! Part of any good handling package includes the antisway bars or swaybars for short.…
Project Scion Wins WERC Endurance Series Championship
MotoIQ Staff Report The Scion road racing team added another highlight to their 2009 season with yet another championship. The six-hour win at Thunderhill clinched the season championship for…
Best Engineered Lemons #3 – The Angry Hamster PART II
The Best-Engineered Cars of LeMons #3 Part II: the Angry Hamster Gets an Engine Last week, we introduced you to the Angry Hamster, and showed you how much cutting and…
Project Honda Ruckus Part 6: The Final Option, Tuning the Transmission
Project Honda Ruckus Part 6: The Final Option, Tuning the Transmission By Jeff Naeyaert In our last installment ofProject Ruckus we got our super motor tuned and running well, however…
2009 Thunderhill 25 Hour Enduro Summary
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…
Summer Road Trip: Silver State Classic Part 2
Summer Road Trip: Silver State Classic Part 2 By Mike Kojima and Annie Sam As we left off last time, we had survived the Z1Z challenge, the flying mile High…
BMC Tool Racing Update from Thunderhill – Saturday 12/5/09
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…
BMC Tool Racing Update from Thunderhill – Friday 12/4/09
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…
BMC Tool Racing Panoz DP02 25 Hour Car
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…
Best Engineered Lemons #3 – The Angry Hamster Z600
The Best-Engineered Cars of LeMons #3 – the Angry Hamster Honda Z600 What you are about to see is a ridiculous feat of LeMons engineering. At 1400 lbs and 116…
Project Aprilia SR50: 100 mpg Madness Part 1, Basic Bolt on Stuff
Project Aprilia SR50: 100 mpg Madness Part 1, Basic Bolt on Stuff By Mike Kojima A few years back, if you rode a scooter, most people would immediately write…
Project EVO IX: Part 4, In search of the Ultimate EVO Brake System
Project EVO IX: Part 4, In search of the Ultimate EVO Brake System By Mike Kojima How do you improve on something that is really good to begin with? The…
Robispec’s Street Class Time Attack Nissan 370Z, Simple is Better?
Robispec’s Street Class Time Attack Nissan 370Z, Simple is Better? By Mike Kojima, photos by Jeff Naeyaert Robispec is a Southern California tuning shop whose specialty is a rather unusual…
Project Honda Ruckus Part 5, Engine Bottom End
Project Honda Ruckus: Part 5 – Engine Bottom End by Jeff Naeyaert In the previous installment of Project Honda Ruckus, we worked with Dan Paramore of DPR racing to…
Dai Yoshihara’s Two Week Wonder, GT Channel’s Time Attack 350Z
Dai Yoshihara’s Two Week Wonder, GT Channel’s Time Attack Nissan 350Z By Mike Kojima Pro Drifter and Formula D ace Dai Yoshihara is used to working on tight deadlines. Perhaps…
No Respect, Project Nissan Sentra Spec-V part 3, Building a Race Ready Suspension System
No Respect, Project Nissan Sentra Spec-V part 3, Building a Race Ready Suspension System By Mike Kojima To see older editions of this series click here! There are 5 elements…
Congratulations Billy Johnson and Team FXMD/Cricket Wireless!
Congratulations Billy Johnson and Team FXMD/Cricket Wireless! MotoIQ Staff Report MotoIQ would like to give a hearty congratulations to our very own Billy Johnson for his smoking lap time…
Congratulations Eric Hsu-Sierra Sierra and Billy Johnson-FX Motorsports Development
Congratulations Eric Hsu-Sierra Sierra and Billy Johnson-FX Motorsports Development for your Source Interlink Superlap Battle Wins! MotoIQ Staff Report MotoIQ's master Tech Editor Eric Hsu helped Sierra Sierra win the…
Project Ruckus part 4, Building the ultimate Honda GET engine
Project Ruckus Part 4, Building the ultimate Honda GET Engine by Jeff Naeyaert In part 3 of Project Ruckus we applied a bunch of bolt on mods to our bike…
Extreme Engine Tech, Technosquare’s Monster Naturally Aspirated Toyota 4AG part 2
Extreme Engine Tech: Technosquare’s Monster Naturally Aspirated Toyota 4AG – Part 2 by Mike Kojima In our last edition of the building of Technosquare’s monster Toyota 4AG, we mainly looked…
Project NSX: Part 3 – Building a Race Proven C32 Engine
At MotoIQ we have always contended that it is a much larger challenge to build an engine to hold up to the stress of road racing than nearly any other…
Extreme Engine Tech, Technosquare’s Monster Naturally Aspirated Toyota 4AG
Extreme Engine Tech: Technosquare’s Monster Naturally Aspirated Toyota 4AG – Part I by Mike Kojima, photos by Jeff Naeyaert The Toyota 4AG is a historic engine, one that was essential…
On the 8th Day – Falken Tires S13
And on the 8th Day… Falken Tire's S13 Drift Monster By Mike Kojima, photos by Jeff Naeyaert In the Bible God created the world in 6 days then got to rest. …
Frankenmiata – Turbocharging
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…
Best-Engineered Cars of LeMons
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.…