Project Fried Turkey
Project Fried Turkey MotoIQ Staff Report Well, the holiday season is upon us and we decided we were going to cook something MotoIQ style, which means it has to be…
Wrench Tips: Pick the Correct Screwdriver
Wrench Tips: Pick the Correct Screwdriver By Steve Rockwood A spade is a spade and a Phillips is a Phillips, right? Nope. Apparently, there’s more than just matching up the…
You Get What You Pay For But Sometimes You Don’t Get What You Need
Back in the annals of time, 2002 to be exact, a local Import car enthusiast purchased a High Performance SOHC Honda cylinder head from a nationally known High-Performance Import company.…
Giving a Hand to Rob Dahm and His Monster AWD 4 Rotor FD
We were honored to give a small hand to Rob Dahm in setting up the chassis of his awesome AWD, 1400 HP Garrett boosted 4 rotor FD RX-7. Right now…
Rebuilding the CSF Evo X, Back from the Ashes
Follow the CSF Team as we help them rebuild their Evo X Time Attack car! The MotoIQ Garage is leading up with the assembly, suspension, aero and engine development. …
Power To Go: Doubling My RV’s Battery Capacity!
Power to go camping off grid with no access to electrical power, that is! Over the years in my writing with MotoIQ, there are two vehicles that I constantly refer…
Inside KW Suspensions Solid Piston Shock Technology
We were recently at KW Suspensions North American headquarters for some new product training and we got to take apart some of their latest technology, the innovative solid piston damper.…
Inside Michael Essa’s 1000hp Formula Drift BMW E46 M3!
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Inside KW Suspensions New EXR valve system!
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McLeod Mag Force Twin Disc for the E46 – The Clutch of All Trades?
It’s easy to overdo a clutch. We’ve probably all been there – your clutch is slipping, maybe you did a few too many launches, or maybe you’re pegging your boost…
Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 4, Making the Big Power!
You have probably been following our build of an NA VQ37VHR engine and are probably dying to to see how much power we can get out of it and frankly…
The Ultimate DIY Alignment Rig
If you’ve been following MotoIQ for a while, you know that Project SC300 has been around for a long, long, long time. If you’ve been paying close attention, you may…
Bulletproof Your Rear End!
Nowadays as technology has enabled us to extract previously unheard of power levels out of our engines, the once rare failure of the ring and pinion gear in the differential…
G37 Supercharger Tuning
Our last article on the 370z/G37 supercharger install left off with Covid-19 rearing its ugly head and re-shuffling our tuning as a low priority in life. Over the weeks while…
Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 3
In our last segment of building the ultimate NA VQ37VHR, we assembled the long block of our engine. Now its ready to drop into the 370Z chassis. We had a…
What is WPC Treatment and Why Do We Use it?
Wonder why we use this mysterious WPC Treatment on so many of our engine builds? Let us explain what WPC is and how it works. It’s an inexpensive…
Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 2
In our last story, we gave you a sneak peek and a technical overview of the parts we were going to use on our naturally aspirated VQ37VHR engine with some…
Not all Michelin Cup 2 Tires Are Created The Same
They may look the same, smell the same, and be the exact same size; but not all Cup 2 tires are created equal, and for good reason. Michelin produces off-the-shelf…
Vapor Blasting: Restoring Metal to Better Than New
Traditional chemicals, parts washers, and hot tanks can only do so much to clean dirty car parts. When pride is taken in rebuilding anything from a carburetor to an entire…
Garrett Advancing Motion Honda Civic Si Intercooler Test!
Getting something for nothing is always a good thing. When modding a car, usually every modification has drawbacks. Get more power? Usually more power means more stress on things, more…
Building the Nissan VQ37VHR!
The Nissan VQ37VHR is a notoriously difficult engine to modify in naturally aspirated form. This is due to its VVEL continual variable cam timing system on the intake side of…
WATCH: How to build a RELIABLE 1,400 Horsepower LS Engine!
Today in the MotoIQ Garage we’re building a 1,400 horsepower LS based engine that will be powering Dai Yoshihara’s Formula Drift BRZ but could be used for any…
Modding the BMW 2002 Head Part 1 Beyond Porting
BMW 2002-cylinder heads are not the worst cylinder heads ever made to try and improve but they are definitely in the running. The 2002 port runners are short and the…
Taco Con Carnes: Adding More Meat to a 2017 Tacoma
Taco Con Carnes: Adding More Meat to a 2017 Tacoma by: David Zipf The midsize truck segment is incredibly hot right now. The rebirth of this segment started in…
WATCH: McLeod Mag Force BMW E46 M3 Twin Disk Clutch Review!
Our buddy Beau from BBR Tuning stopped by MotoIQ Garage to get McLeod’s Mag Force Twin Disk clutch installed in his beautiful BMW E46 M3! Beau’s M3 sees…
How Does the Ohlins DFV Valve Work?
A few weeks ago we were visiting the North American facilities of Ohlins Advanced Suspension Technology, Ohlins USA for a special look inside Ohlins’ operations and to be able to…
Building a 650 hp Naturally Aspirated Drift Spec LS3 Part 2
In the first installment of our drift spec LS3 build, we discussed our parts selection and listed the part numbers for building a 650 whp NA monster with parts from…
What is an Inverted Shaft Strut?
As a suspension guy, lately, I have been asked what is an inverted MacPherson strut a whole bunch of times. So I concluded that I had better write something about…
SuperPro Suspension Parts joins the Devine Force Racing STi and is put to work at COTA
Subarus are known for their competitive advantage of AWD and the ability to always have traction pulling you through the corners. It’s important to note the use of pulling, and…
Putting CSF’s E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit to the Test With Data!
It’s certainly no secret that the BMW S54 engine in the E46 M3 is special. For its time, it achieved a very high specific power output (105-110HP/L depending on model)…
WATCH: 650whp “Moderate” Naturally Aspirated LS Build!
Today in the MotoIQ Garage we’re building a Chevrolet LS3 engine for a customer’s drift car but this particular build could be easily tweaked for road racing or…
Building a Drift Spec LS3
There is a lot of interest in the LS world nowadays. The LS is rapidly becoming the king of motors, surpassing the Honda B and K series or the 2JZ…