Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 3
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 3 Supposed to be by Eric Hsu, Really by Mike Kojima In our last segment we had a…
Project Garage VIII: Making it Messy
Project Garage: Making it Messy By Sarah Forst There are seven cars in Project Garage – one for each day of the week. Well, four in it and three outside…
Company Profile: AMS Performance
Company Profile: AMS Performance By Wes Dumalski Additional images courtesy of AMS Performance AMS Performance… No we are not talking about the knock off CDM version we are talking about…
Getting Clever With Carbon Fiber
Getting Clever With Carbon Fiber By Alex Vendier Smart people might say that having carbon fiber parts on your car is a little bit like having a gold watch. Both…
Tested: 999 Motorsports Supersport Racer!
Tested: 999 Motorsports Supersport Racer! By Mike Kojima, Photos by Dave Karey What is as fast as a Smallbore GT race car and cheaper to operate than a Spec Miata?…
Tested: Scion FR-S
Tested: 2013 Scion FR-S By Jeff Naeyaert and Steve Rockwood Nearly every mass-produced car we come across today is governed, designed, regulated, or otherwise manipulated by a committee. As a…
When Car Parts Attack – Drag Racing Safety Equipment
When Car Parts Attack – Drag Racing Safety Equipment By Khiem Dinh Khiem Dinh is an engineer for Honeywell Turbo Technologies at the time of this writing. All…
Driver Blog: Duncan Ende, The Streets of Long Beach
Driver Blog: Duncan Ende, The Streets of Long Beach By Duncan Ende After a four week hiatus – which felt at least twice as long – the American Le Mans…
Project Husqvarna TE610 Part 4: Dual Sport Adventure Bike Ergos and Armor
Project Husqvarna TE610 Part 4: Ergonomics and Armor By Dan Barnes Finally, we're going to start the fun stuff: upgrades! Having a bike fit you properly makes everything work better…
TESTED: 2013 Lexus GS 350 F Sport
TESTED: 2013 Lexus GS 350 F Sport by Greg Vogel The all new Lexus GS 350 F Sport shines in a lot of the right places. Park and walk…
Sneak Peek: COBB Tuning’s 2012 Ford Focus – Part 1
Sneak Peek: COBB Tuning's 2012 Ford Focus – Part 1 By Steve Rockwood The new Focus has finally brought Ford the sport compact they had been looking for since the…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Intro Part 2
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Intro Part 2 By Eric Hsu, Important Stuff By Mike Kojima Mike was driving my G35 home from…
Walker Wilkerson’s 2012 Formula D ride
Walker Wilkerson's 2012 Formula D Ride By Mike Kojima In 2011 Walker Wilkerson blasted out of the Pacific Northwest and took the Pro Drifting world by storm. The 21 year…
Matt Powers 2012 Formula D ride Part 2
Matt Powers 2012 Formula D ride Part 2 By Mike Kojima In our first article we showed you how Matt Powers Crew Chief and fabricator Costa Gialamas prepped the Nissan…
Project Land Speed Racer 240SX: KW Suspension
Project Land Speed Racer 240SX: KW Suspension By Chuck Johnson and Mike Kojima Photos by Joe Lu If racing wasn't already hard enough on a racecar and all of its…
Revenge of the Nerd – The Consultant, Helping Fast GT-R’s go Even Faster!
Revenge of the Nerd – The Consultant, Helping Fast GT-R's go Even Faster! By Mike Kojima I am lucky enough to get to work with some of the best people…
Project Gen 3STi: Testing the COBB AccessPORT
Project Gen 3 STi: Testing the COBB AccessPORT. By Wes Dumalski As it turns out owning a project car is not easy! First and foremost these are real cars…
Testing the Nitto Motivo All Season Ultra High Performance Tire
“Hey, want to do some tire testing for Nitto next week?” is what the voice on the phone says. “Hey, want to come with us and shred some tires driving…
Underneath the Skin of the Legendary CyberEVO
Underneath the Skin of the Legendary CyberEVO by Eric Hsu As with the other times I've broken down cars in detail, most of what you'll read here are facts, but…
Company Profile – Radium Engineering
Company Profile- Radium Engineering By Wes Dumalski por·nog·ra·phy [pawr-nog-ruh-fee] noun: obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, especially those having little or no artistic merit. Shit, I could use…
Matt Powers 2012 Formula D Ride!
Matt Powers 2012 Formula D Ride! By Mike Kojima In 2011 Matt Powers battled to sixth place in the Formula D points standing in his Nissan S14 240SX. The old 240…
Project Miatabusa part 15: AEM Data Logging (and some RC plane parts)
As we inch ever closer to getting Project Miatabusa on a dyno, more and more unfinished business keeps revealing itself. Ok, the car starts and runs now, but it still…
Project Miatabusa Part 13 – Sweet Sounds and Donuts!
Project Miatabusa has been dragging on for a long time. So long, that our comment section is filling up with impatient demands to hear this baby run and…
Physics Lesson – Calculating Torque and Power From Datalogs
Physics Lesson – Calculating Torque and Power From Datalogs By Khiem Dinh Khiem Dinh is an engineer for Honeywell Turbo Technologies at the time of this writing. All statements…
VIDEO: Blowin’ Up Garrett Turbos
VIDEO: Blowin' Up Garrett Turbos By Mike Kojima No this is not a problem with Garrett turbochargers but an example of Garrett's suburb OEM level engineering. A turbo can spin…
The Ultimate No-Budget Racecar Transporter
Imagine, if you will, a world where a single vehicle could transport you, a friend or two, your race car, spares, tires, and tools, to and from the track without…
We Can Rebuild It!
We Can Rebuild It! By Frank Ewald It was the last day of the Ontario Time Attack season and the competition was at the Shannonville Motorsport Park's Long track. We'd…
Project Miatabusa part 14: The home stretch
Hope you enjoyed yesterday's tasty donuts. Now here are a bunch of details that have delayed the making of stinky donuts: At the end of the aluminum exhaust fab project, we…
Project EJ Civic, Building the Drivetrain
Project EJ Civic, Building the Drivetrain By Mike Kojima Annie’s Civic had seen tons of street and track miles, over 200,000 miles since she had completed her B series swap…
Project Nissan 370Z- Suspension Basics
Project Nissan 370Z- Suspension Basics By Mike Kojima In the first segment of Project 370Z we worked with AEM to evaluate the awesome ETI cold air intake. Since our car…
Project Garage Part VII: Garage Tools
What a pretty assortment from ratchets and sockets (short and deep) to wobble drives and extensions. Project Garage Part VII: Garage Tools By Sarah Forst During my college years, my…
Project Nissan Sentra SE-R- Turbo SR20 Final Build Items
Project Nissan Sentra SE-R- Turbo SR20 Final Build Items By Aaron LaBeau Without a doubt the stage of adding all the little components to a major modification is the…