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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…
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Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 3

  • Posted on July 5, 2020July 30, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
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…
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What is WPC Treatment and Why Do We Use it?

  • Posted on July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
   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…
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Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 2

  • Posted on July 1, 2020July 30, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
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…
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Not all Michelin Cup 2 Tires Are Created The Same

  • Posted on June 14, 2020June 15, 2020
  • byBilly Johnson
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…
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Vapor Blasting: Restoring Metal to Better Than New

  • Posted on June 10, 2020June 13, 2020
  • byBilly Johnson
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…
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Garrett Advancing Motion Honda Civic Si Intercooler Test!

  • Posted on June 8, 2020June 16, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
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…
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Building the Nissan VQ37VHR!

  • Posted on May 10, 2020July 30, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
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…
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WATCH: How to build a RELIABLE 1,400 Horsepower LS Engine!

  • Posted on May 7, 2020
  • byJeff Naeyaert
   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…
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Modding the BMW 2002 Head Part 1 Beyond Porting

  • Posted on May 3, 2020May 5, 2020
  • byDon Redmon
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…
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Taco Con Carnes: Adding More Meat to a 2017 Tacoma

  • Posted on April 16, 2020
  • byDave Zipf
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…
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WATCH: McLeod Mag Force BMW E46 M3 Twin Disk Clutch Review!

  • Posted on March 26, 2020
  • byJeff Naeyaert
   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…
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How Does the Ohlins DFV Valve Work?

  • Posted on March 24, 2020March 26, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
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…
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Building a 650 hp Naturally Aspirated Drift Spec LS3 Part 2

  • Posted on March 22, 2020March 23, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
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…

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