Tech Archives - MotoIQ

Posted on April 11, 2021
byKhiem Dinh

When we last looked at the Mercedes AMG M139 engine, it was the highest output 2.0L engine to go into production at 416hp. Increasing horsepower out of a small displacement…

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WATCH: AEM Electronics CD Digital Racing Dash SETUP (CD-5/CD-7)

Posted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021
byJeff Naeyaert

In this video we have a couple guys from AEM Electronics at our shop helping us setup their CD5 data logging race dash in a customer’s 350Z track car.…

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WATCH: BMW E46 330ci Gets a CSF Radiator Upgrade!

Posted on March 19, 2021
byJeff Naeyaert

Friend of MotoIQ Rachard Johnson, of FrshMedia, came by the shop to continue the restoration of his BMW E46 330ci. This time we get rid of the old plastic…

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Testing Red Line’s New SuperCool Coolant & CSF’s Tundra Radiator

Posted on March 14, 2021March 17, 2021
byMike Kojima

Red Line has released a new high performance coolant that has its famous, and universally used in motorsports, Water Wetter surfactant additive pre blended in. Red Line Supercool comes in…

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How to Measure Your Combustion Chamber Volume

Posted on March 9, 2021March 10, 2021
byMike Kojima

It is very important to know your combustion chamber volume when building an engine so you can know your exact compression ratio or order the correct dome volume piston to…

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Antigravity Battery saves weight for TAG Karts and other Powersports

Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021
byMike Kojima

So Christa Kojima is a retired Kart racer. She quit due to having to study a lot for college. During her winter break, she took out her old 125cc Jr…

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WATCH: MEGA Suspension Tech Session with Ohlins USA

Posted on February 26, 2021February 27, 2021
byJeff Naeyaert

What happens when you put two suspension engineers in the same room? Come find out as our head nerd talks suspension technology with the chief engineer at Ohlins USA.…

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Increase Your Safety With Tilton’s Sliding Pedal Box

Posted on February 16, 2021
byMike Kojima

Having a rock-solid seat mount secured to your roll cage and proper harness angles are critical items to assure safety in your race car. As a person who has struggled…

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WATCH: Is ST Suspension the best Budget Coilover for the BMW E46?

Posted on February 12, 2021
byJeff Naeyaert

See what you get for $900 as we take a look at and install the ST coilover kit for the BMW E46. We’ll go over its features and reasons…

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WATCH: How the OS Giken Differential Works and How to Tune it!

Posted on February 5, 2021
byJeff Naeyaert

In this video we have a torn down OS Giken limited slip differential we’ll be installing into a customer car, but before we do Mike is going to show…

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Project S2000: Part 30 – Cooling Upgrades and Packaging Improvements

Posted on February 2, 2021
byKhiem Dinh

In deciding to go with an air-to-water intercooler setup, there are extra component and packaging challenges compared to a typical air-to-air setup. The S2000 already has a tight engine bay…

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Saving Weight with a Magnus Motorsports Evo Subframe

Posted on January 31, 2021February 27, 2021
byMike Kojima

Evo’s have a pretty good cast aluminum rear subframe from the factory. So when an Evo IX was brought in to have its subframe changed out to a lightweight part…

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WATCH: How Ohlins TTR 4-way Damper Works!

Posted on January 29, 2021
byJeff Naeyaert

Just a few weeks before Covid shut everything down we got a chance to tour the Ohlins USA facility in Hendersonville, North Carolina. In this video Mike sits down…

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Sportbike Easy Upgrades: Accelerating Faster and Decelerating Better

Posted on January 20, 2021January 20, 2021
byKhiem Dinh

Motorcycles are relatively basic machines which makes them easy to upgrade for performance. I’m not doing anything nearly as cool as Rob with his Ducati 998, but just a couple…

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Make Your Own Parts with Shareware CAD and 3D Printing!

Posted on January 10, 2021
byBilly Johnson

Additive manufacturing is a booming industry. Due to advancements in technology, designing and 3D printing your own parts at home is becoming cheaper and easier than ever. You don’t need…

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WATCH: Ohlins TTX 36 Damper Dissection!

Posted on December 20, 2020December 21, 2020
byJeff Naeyaert

If you got here from our Ohlins facility tour video then you know what you’re about to see! If not, in this video Brad from Ohlins shows our Mike Kojima…

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Happy 10th Birthday for the BorgWarner EFR Family of Turbochargers!

Posted on December 15, 2020December 16, 2020
byMike Kojima

The MotoIQ family would like to wish the BorgWarner EFR Turbo a happy tenth birthday! It seems like just a few years ago when we first set eyes on the…

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Project S2000: Part 29 – Investment Cast 347SS Turbo Manifold

Posted on December 6, 2020December 8, 2020
byKhiem Dinh

It’s been a long journey, but the most important piece of the Project S2000 AP2 turbo build is finally here. The original plan was to 3d print from Inconel 625…

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Project Fried Turkey

Posted on November 25, 2020November 26, 2020
byMotoIQ Staff

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…

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Wrench Tips: Pick the Correct Screwdriver

Posted on November 4, 2020October 29, 2020
bySteve Rockwood

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…

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You Get What You Pay For But Sometimes You Don’t Get What You Need

Posted on October 28, 2020October 30, 2020
byDon Redmon

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.…

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Giving a Hand to Rob Dahm and His Monster AWD 4 Rotor FD

Posted on October 21, 2020
byMike Kojima

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…

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Rebuilding the CSF Evo X, Back from the Ashes

Posted on October 1, 2020October 1, 2020
byMike Kojima

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. …

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Power To Go: Doubling My RV’s Battery Capacity!

Posted on September 16, 2020September 18, 2020
byFrank Ewald

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…

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Inside KW Suspensions Solid Piston Shock Technology

Posted on September 13, 2020
byMike Kojima

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.…

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Inside Michael Essa’s 1000hp Formula Drift BMW E46 M3!

Posted on August 17, 2020
byMike Kojima

Renaissance man noun The definition of a Renaissance man or woman is a person who is well educated and sophisticated and who has talent and knowledge in many different fields…

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Inside KW Suspensions New EXR valve system!

Posted on August 9, 2020
byMike Kojima

hys·ter·e·sis /ˌhistəˈrēsis/ noun The phenomenon in which the value of a physical property lags behind changes in the effect causing it. Reducing hysteresis is something that shock designers have worked…

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McLeod Mag Force Twin Disc for the E46 – The Clutch of All Trades?

Posted on August 3, 2020October 19, 2020
byBeau Brown

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…

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Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 4, Making the Big Power!

Posted on July 29, 2020July 30, 2020
byMike Kojima

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…

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The Ultimate DIY Alignment Rig

Posted on July 26, 2020October 29, 2020
byErik Jacobs

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…

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Bulletproof Your Rear End!

Posted on July 23, 2020July 28, 2020
byMike Kojima

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…

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G37 Supercharger Tuning

Posted on July 19, 2020
byAaron LaBeau

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…