Project Infiniti G37S: Advan RZII Wheels Nitto Invo Tires
Project Infiniti G37S: Advan RZII Wheels & Nitto Invo Tires by Aaron LaBeau When we first bought Project G37S there weren’t a whole lot of choices while looking for an extremely specific…
Project STurdteen: Installing Progress Sway Bars
Project STurdteen: Installing Progress Sway Bars by Rathyna Gomer To run sway bars or to not run sway bars? That is the question. In the drift world, there's been a…
Tested! Garrett Advancing Motion Upgraded Intercooler for the EcoBoost Mustang
The Turbo Mustang is an often overlooked choice when looking for a great track car to build. A not so secret fact no one seems to consider is that the turbo 4 is…
Japanese Cars That Don’t Suck!
Japanese Cars That Don't Suck by Mike Kojima I pissed a lot of people off with my Japanese Cars Suck article a few weeks ago, where I expressed dismay…
How Magical is Black Magic Intense Wheel Cleaner? We Test it Out!
How Magical is Black Magic Intense Wheel Cleaner? We Test it Out! by Karla Pestotnik With a word such as 'magic' in the name, it's easy to assume that…
Turbo Tech: Calculating Turbocharger Compressor and Turbine Performance Advantage with the New Honeywell Garrett GTX Gen2
Turbo Tech: Calculating Turbocharger Compressor and Turbine Performance Advantage with the New Honeywell Garrett GTX Gen2 by Khiem Dinh Honeywell Garrett launched the GTX series about a decade ago…
Testing Meguiar’s Two Step Headlight Restoration Kit!
Testing Meguiar's Two Step Headlight Restoration Kit! by Mike Kojima Any car that has the newer plastic headlights will experience weathering and yellowing eventually. This is caused by UV light…
The Blackbird Fabworx Morpheus Miata!
The Blackbird Fabworx Morpheus Miata! by Mike Kojima The cars created by Moti Almagor of Blackbird Fabworx have always caught our attention. More for less has always been the theme his…
Project EP3 Civic Si, Improving the Brakes with Fastbrakes, Stoptech and Willwood
Project EP3 Civic Si, Improving the Brakes with Fastbrakes, Stoptech and Willwood by Mike Kojima In the last edition of Project EP3 Civic Si, we explained how we went about…
How To Do A 5 Lug Conversion the Right Way! Project EP3
How To Do A 5 Lug Conversion the Right Way! Project EP3 by Mike Kojima As we finally start to mod our much-maligned shop EP3, the car that everyone loves…
Testing Radium Engineering’s Advanced Self-Draining Catch Can!
Testing Radium Engineering's Advanced Self-Draining Catch Can! by Mike Kojima Having proper crankcase ventilation is critical on a performance engine, especially forced induction ones that have more blowby past the rings…
Tech Tip: How to Fix a Broken Mazda Door Handle
Tech Tip: How to Fix a Broken Mazda Door Handle by David Zipf It is important that we start off this Tech Tip noting that it mostly applies to Mazda 3…
AEM AQ1 – Installing and Setting Up the AQ1 Data Logger
AEM AQ1 – Installing & Setting Up the AQ1 Data Logger by Ramitha Edirisinghe In Article 1 we went over the features of the AQ1. In Article 2 we showed…
Performance Engines That Suck- The Porsche M96
Performance Car Engines That Suck- The Porsche M96 by Mike Kojima A few months ago we did an article on 5 performance car engines that suck. This story was highly popular, and…
Project F150: Part One – Opening Things Up With a MagnaFlow Exhaust System
Project F150 EcoBoost: Part One – Opening Things Up With a MagnaFlow Exhaust System by S. Tate MotoIQ's latest project car is a (tow) truck! Let's get it introduced…
10 Ways To Prepare Your Car For Spring And Summer
10 Ways To Prepare Your Car For Spring And Summer by Pablo Mazlumian Most of us have a daily-driven vehicle that sees year-round driving. In an area where the…
Project E46 M3- Part 18: E46 M3 vs E90 M3
At 316 WHP, some might say we’re at the equivalent of around 370 bhp at the flywheel. If that’s true, at this power level we’re confident Project E46 M3 would…
Project E46 M3, Part 17: Preferred exhaust, MKC/AEM tune
Here is Project M3 sporting a Khoalty rear diffuser and Scorpion exhaust from Bavarian Autosport. Finding the exhaust combo to work with the VAC/Fabspeed header setup has been a real…
Subaru Clutch Forks Cracking Under Pressure? Say It Isn’t So!
Subaru Clutch Forks Cracking Under Pressure? Say It Isn’t So! by Eric Hazen Subarus have roamed the streets, tracks, and dirt for decades, with hundreds of thousands of upgrades…
TESTED: Continental Tire ExtremeContact Sport
TESTED: Continental Tire ExtremeContact Sport by Billy Johnson “Same level dry performance as a Michelin Pilot Super Sport”. That is a HUGE statement by Continental when the PSS is hands…
Turbo Tech: Internal vs. External Wastegates
Turbo Tech: Internal vs. External Wastegates by Khiem Dinh Photos Courtesy of Bren Tuning and Killer B Motorsport Before we get into the numbers and reasons why a dumped external…
Wrench Tip: The Ultimate Oil Filter Wrench That You Need to Buy Right Now!
Wrench Tip: The Ultimate Oil Filter Wrench that You Need to Buy Right Now! by David Zipf Aside from checking tire pressures, an oil change is the most basic automotive…
Diagnosing the Screech on a Silverado LB7 Diesel Engine
Diagnosing the Screech on a Silverado LB7 Diesel Engine by Karla Pestotnik Any car can eventually get a pesky squeak coming from the drive belt area under the hood.…
AEM AQ1 – Using Data to Develop a Car
AEM AQ1 – Using Data to Develop a Car by Ramitha Edirisinghe The goal of this series of write-ups is to show how powerful data logging can be for race…
Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine: Part 4- Burns Header and Tuning
Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine! Part 4- Burns Header and Tuning By Mike Kojima If you have been following our previous articles of our build of the naturally aspirated K24, we…
Tested! NOCO Genius Boost GB40-Emergency Jump Starter
Tested! NOCO Genius Boost GB40-Emergency Jump Starter by Mike Kojima Having a dead battery really sucks. Not only can it leave you stranded, but you are also dependent on finding…
Building a NASA NP01 Prototype the Right Way with Stoptech! Part 3
Building a NASA NP01 Prototype the Right Way with Stoptech! Part 3 by Mike Kojima We have been following the Stoptech’s team build of their NP01 in the MotoIQ Megashop…
Project Mazdaspeed3: Building a Stock Class Cone Killer- Introduction and Installing Koni Shocks
Project Mazdaspeed3: Building a Stock Class Cone Killer- Introduction and Installing Koni Shocks by David Zipf Autocrossing is a ton of fun. It’s super cheap, you can take almost any car…
Making the Ford F-150 Ecoboost Drive and Tow Smoother with Eibach Shocks
Making the Ford F-150 Ecoboost Drive and Tow Smoother with Eibach Shocks by Rathyna Gomer My dad's Ford F-150 Ecoboost is something I frequently drive, usually to pick up car…
Building the FR-S FA20 Engine with Stay Crushing, Assembling the Engine!
Building the FR-S FA20 Engine with Stay Crushing, Assembling the Engine! by Mike Kojima In our previous installments of the Stay Crushing FR-S engine build, we have been accumulating the parts…
AEM AQ1 – Affordable Data Logging and More!
AEM AQ1 – Affordable Data Logging and More! by Ramitha Edirisinghe Henry Ford once said, “Auto racing began five minutes after the second car was built.” To which I add,…
PRI 2016 Street Outlaws Edition: Part 1 – Nitrous and Supercharged!
The Street Outlaws show is about the fastest street racers cars in America. If by street car they mean you only need a license plate, well then this guy barely…