Project E46 M3: Part 3 – Headers, software, dyno testing and more
Project M3: Part 3 – Headers, software, dyno testing and more! 100whp per liter or bust! by Pablo Mazlumian This project is starting to get really fun. Building an E46…
Project S2000: Part 19 – Ram Air!!! Plus Hot Air Testing!
Project S2000: Part 19 – Ram Air!!! Plus Hot Air Testing! By Khiem Dinh Khiem Dinh is an engineer for Honeywell Turbo Technologies at the time of this writing. All…
Yost Autosport #YAE92 M3: Part 1 – We Officially Void the Warranty
Yost Autosport #YAE92 M3: Part 1 – We Officially Void the Warranty by Mike Bonanni The BMW M3 has long been touted as one of the best production sports cars…
Gates Belts – Scion FR-S & Ford Mustang Drive Belts
Gates Belts – Scion FR-S & Ford Mustang Drive Belts by Mike Kojima For maximum reliability we chose to run accessory drive belts from Gates new racing RPM line. All…
Project E46 M3: Part 2 – Cat-back Exhaust and Pulleys
Project E46 M3 sitting pretty on lightweight D-Force wheels and BFG Rival tires. We’ll discuss these, along with our new brakes and tires, in detail, and include real-world testing, later in Part 6.…
Tested: Qstarz LT-Q6000 GPS Lap Timer
Tested: Qstarz LT-Q6000 GPS Lap Timer by Clint Boisdeau Proper technique, experience, and seat time are usually what gets you faster around a road course. But once a certain level…
How To Wrap Your Car with Skyprint Media, 3M and Lamin-x
How To Wrap Your Car with Skyprint Media, 3M and Lamin-x by Mike Kojima Paint used to be the preferred and just about the only method of refinishing a race…
Project Trailer-All Done and Using It!
Project Trailer-All Done and Using It! By Mike Kojima We have gotten a few emails asking about the status of Project Trailer and to be honest we had kinda forgotten…
Project FR-S- Getting Torque Everywhere with an Innovate Motorsports Supercharger
Project FR-S: Getting Torque Everywhere with an Innovate Motorsports Supercharger By Mike Kojima Our FR-S is a difficult car to deal with in the engine department. The ECU with a…
Project E36 M3: Part 1 – Taming the Wobbly Beast
Project E36 M3: Part 1 – Taming the Wobbly Beast by Jonathan Lawson I'm an addict. A full-fledged, mainlining, E36 M3 addict, and I haven't been able to lift myself out…
Keep Racing Fun- Bonneville Speed Week 2013
Keep Racing Fun- Bonneville Speed Week-2013 By Mike Kojima Every once in a while we do a behind the scenes story about some of our Motorsports adventures and stuff we…
The Dumpster Diver’s Garage – #1 Air Freight Shed
The Dumpser Diver's Garage #1: The Air Freight Shed by Dave Coleman Yeah, yeah, yeah, where the hell is Project Miatabusa? I know, I know… After the death rattle, the…
Motovicity’s Ticket To Ride FR-S Update- Exedy Stage 2 Clutch
Motovicity's Ticket To Ride FR-S Update- Exedy Stage 2 Clutch By Mike Kojima In anticipation of more added power to the Motovicity Ticket to Ride FR-S from the HKS Supercharger it…
Project E36 323is: Building the Poor Man’s M3, Part 5 – Intake and Software
Project E36 323is: Building the Poor Man's M3, Part 5 – Intake and Software By Jonathan Lawson In Part 4 of our Poor Man's M3 project, we added a more…
The DeltaWing: The Look of Things To Come?
The DeltaWing: The Look of Things To Come? By Mike Kojima The DeltaWing is a love it or hate it sort of car. You can either love its space age…
Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R: Front End Protection with Premium Shield
Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R: Front End Protection with Premium Shield By Mike Kojima We have written articles about getting the paint on our various project cars protected with various…
Motovicity’s Ticket To Ride FR-S Update- HKS Supercharger Kit!
Motovicity's Ticket To Ride FR-S Update- HKS Supercharger Kit! By Mike Kojima Just about all of us can agree that the Scion FR-S is a pretty fun car, a car…
Project FR-S: Getting Stopping Power with Stoptech Brakes!
Project FR-S: Getting Stopping Power with Stoptech Brakes! By Mike Kojima Our FR-S isn't the fastest thing but it has inspiring handling and best of all it's rear wheel drive. …
Road Trip: Classic Remise
The showroom at Classic Remise is an amazing retrospective of purpose built race cars, vintage hot rods, and souped up one of a kind vehicles. Road Trip: Classic Remise By…
Nerd’s Eye View: Mike Ryan’s Banks Super-Turbo Powered Pikes Peak Freightliner
Nerd’s Eye View: Mike Ryan’s Banks Super-Turbo Powered Pikes Peak Freightliner By Khiem Dinh Khiem Dinh is an engineer for Honeywell Turbo Technologies at the time of this writing. All…
Nerd’s Eye View — Inside 10,000 horsepower! (Part 2)
Inside 10,000 horsepower! Part 2: Putting the power to the ground By Pablo Mazlumian A month ago MotoIQ published an article called Nerd's Eye View—Inside 10,000 HP. In that article are…
Project [Rotary] FD RX-7 Part 1 – Regenesis
Project [Rotary] FD RX-7: Part 1 – Regenesis By M-P Spierer The 3rd generation Mazda RX-7, often simply referred to as the FD from its chassis code FD3S, is a world…
Tested: Igloo Case for iPhone
Tested: Igloo Case for iPhone By: Wes Dumalski As much as we like fast cars and sano builds here at MotoIQ we also love tech gadgets! Messing with cameras, microphones,…
WPC is Neat Stuff
WPC is Neat Stuff! By Mike Kojima If you are a longtime MotoIQ reader you will probably know that we are big fans of the WPC process and use it…
A Track Day with Nitto
A Track Day with Nitto and the Tokyo Auto FR-S By: Tatsu Tsuchida Photos: Steve Enomoto & Author I wouldn't exactly call it an epiphany. I mean this wouldn't be…
Nerd’s Eye View, a Look Inside Darren McNamara’s Falken Tire Nissan S14
Nerd's Eye View-a Look Inside Darren McNamara's Falken Tire Nissan S14 By Mike Kojima Falken Tire's drift team consists of Justin Pawlak, Dai Yoshihara and Darren “DMac” McNamara. Hailing…
Motovicity’s Ticket To Ride Mustang Update- Stack Pro-Control Gauges
Motovicity's Ticket To Ride Mustang Update- Stack Pro-Control Gauges By Mike Kojima Having a lot of trick parts on your car means nothing if you blow it up because…
Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R
Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R By Mike Kojima Our Project GT-R was originally going to be an early 2009 CBA model. We had acquired a low mileage first generation CBA…
Nerd’s Eye View- The Hawk Performance CRP Racing Nissan GT-R
Nerds Eye View- The Hawk Performance CRP Racing Nissan GT-R By Mike Kojima We were lucky enough to get a close look at the only R35 Nissan GT-R being campaigned…
Project E36 323is: Building the Poor Man’s M3, Part 4 – Exhaust
Project E36 323is: Building the Poor Man's M3, Part 4 – Exhaust By Jonathan Lawson Now that our E36 323is is hustling through the corners a bit more sure-footedly, there's…
MotoIQ Garage Fabrication – Introduction to Fab
MotoIQ Garage Fabrication: Introduction to Fab By Steve Rockwood There comes a time in every car nut's life where no one sells that much-needed part and it must be fabricated from raw…
Project Gen 3 STi: Suspension upgrade with M7
Project Gen 3 STi: Suspension upgrade with M7 by Wes Dumalski When last we left off with Project Gen 3 STi we were enjoying the power and up to this…