Low Cost, Effective Headwork!
Low Cost, Effective Headwork! By Mike Kojima My race in the inaugural MPTCC race ended with a bang in the practice before qualifying as my SR20VE decided not to…
GTX Upgrade!
AQ Motorsports STI Getting the GTX Upgrade By Khiem Dinh, photos by JC Meynet Khiem Dinh is an engineer for Honeywell Turbo Technologies at the time of this writing. All statements and…
Project Honda Civic: Initial Driving Impression
Project Honda Civic: Initial Driving Impression By Annie Sam Streets of Willow, December 2002. I can still recall the first time that I had taken my little Honda Civic…
Dai Yoshihara’s Team Falken/Discount Tire 2011 Formula D Ride
Dai Yoshihara's Team Falken/Discount Tire 2011 Formula D Ride By Mike Kojima The 2011 Formula D pre season is heating up and we are getting in a bunch of last…
Project Hyper-Miler Part 1: Introduction
Project Hyper-Miler Part 1: Introduction By Steve Rockwood Let's face it: the days of cheap fuel are over. Whether you want to blame Wall Street, the government, democratic…
Compressor Efficiency and More
Compressor Efficiency and More by Khiem Dinh Khiem Dinh is an engineer for Honeywell Turbo Technologies at the time of this writing. All statements and opinions expressed by Khiem…
The Controversy- Turbo I4, Turbo V6 vs GM LS7!
The Controversy- Turbo I4, Turbo V6 vs GM LS7! By Mike Kojima There has been a lot of controversy burning up the forums about the issue of V8 swaps, particularly…
Update! Matt Powers Formula D LS7 Powered S14
Update! Matt Powers Formula D LS7 Powered S14 By Mike Kojima We last left Matt Powers in the middle of retrofitting his car for the 2011 Formula D season. …
Testing Fastbrake’s Bigger Brake Kit
Testing Fastbrakes’ Bigger Brake Kit By Mike Kojima Fastbrakes is an Arizona company whose claim to fame is making affordable brake upgrade kits for many cars and having applications for…
Hard as F*ck!- Mike Essa’s BMW Z4 Drift Monster
Hard as F*ck!- Mike Essa’s BMW Z4 Drift Monster By Mike Kojima In the 2010 Formula D season, GSR Autosport/Nitto Tires driver Mike Essa grabbed plenty of Media attention with…
A Quick Look at Stephan Verdier’s 2011 Rallycross Subaru STi
A Quick Look at Stephan Verdier’s 2011 Rallycross Subaru STi By Mike Kojima We spend a lot of time at Costa Gialamas’s shop GTI Tech Innovations. Costa is Dai Yoshihara’s…
The Three Day Wonder, Building a Nissan VQ35DE in Just 3 Days!
The Three Day Wonder, Building a Turbo Nissan VQ35DE in Just 3 Days! By Costa Gialamas If you have been following our adventures with Dai Yoshihara in the Middle…
Project Honda Civic: Introduction
Introducing Project EJ Honda Civic By Chuck Johnson You're probably wondering what this busted ass Honda Civic is doing on the virtual pages of MotoIQ. I mean, it's…
K&N Pledges to Stand behind Their Customers
K&N Pledges to Stand Behind Their Customers By Mike Kojima We were in a meeting with K&N, makers of the iconic high performance air filter and air intakes recently and…
A Preview of Matt Powers Formula D 2011 Rebuild
A Preview of Matt Powers Formula D 2011 Rebuild By Mike Kojima Our Friend Matt Powers has been rebuilding his S14 Nissan 240SX for the 2011 Formula D season. If…
Project Toyota Tundra Part 5: Testing TRD’s Warranty Friendly Exhaust System
Project Toyota Tundra Part 5: Testing TRD’s Warranty Friendly Exhaust System By Mike Kojima It’s been a while since we tested our last power adder on Project Tundra, a TRD…
An Early Look at Dai Yoshihara’s 2011 Formula D Ride
An Early Look at Dai Yoshihara’s 2011 Formula D Ride By Mike Kojima Team Falken’s Dai Yoshihara will once again be driving his Chevy LS powered Nissan S13 in…
Project Evo IX Part 7: Cosworth Rocks!
Project Evo IX Part 7: Cosworth Rocks! By Mike Kojima When we last left off on Project EVO IX, we had increased the capacity of the fuel system with larger…
Project Infiniti G35 Part 2: Improving Stopping Power with Brembo, Project Mu and DBA
Project Infiniti G35 Part 2: Improving Stopping Power with Brembo, Project Mu and DBA By Mike Kojima In our last edition of Project G35 we set out to improve our…
Project Lexus IS-F Part 2: We test the PTS – Joe Z Series Exhaust
Project Lexus IS-F Part 2: We test the PTS – Joe Z Series Exhaust By Mike Kojima One of the bad things about having an unusual car like our Lexus IS-F…
Project Garage Part V: Air Compressors
Many times I've struggled with stubborn bolts, cursing car manufacturers wth a number of expletives in languages I didn't know I could speak. Stripped, rusted, or fused, these bolts can…
Project Mitsubishi EVO IX Part 6: More power
Project Mitsubishi EVO IX Part 6: More power By Mike Kojima When we had last left Project EVO IX we were in the good hands of Eric Hsu and XS…
AEM Water Injection Failsafe Device: Part 2 – Catching Our Mistakes and Upgrading Our Water Injection System
AEM Water Injection Failsafe Device: Part 2 – Catching Our Mistakes and Upgrading Our Water Injection System By Mike Kojima Over the past few months in-between other projects we have…
Project Nissan Sentra Spec-V Part 7: Installing a Turbo System
Project Nissan Sentra Spec-V Part 7: Installing a Turbo System By Mike Kojima Some good news for our project is that Redline Track Events has revamped their rules set so…
No It’s Not an STI: GST Motorsports Mighty Subaru Impreza
No It's Not an STI: GST Motorsports Mighty Subaru Impreza By Mike Kojima We have always been fans of the GST Motorsports 1996 GC8 Subaru Impreza L. The car…
Wrench Tips # 23: Tube Fabrication Tips
Wrench Tips # 23: Tube Fabrication Tips By Mike Kojima When hanging out at Costa Gialamas’ shop Gialamas Technical Innovations, we picked up on some really good ideas that Costa…
100 MPG Madness: Project Aprilia RS50
100 MPG Madness: Project Aprilia RS50 By Mike Kojima In these days of ever increasing fuel prices, MotoIQ's penchant for quirky small bore two wheel projects strikes again. MotoIQ was conceived…
Suck, Squish, Bang, Blow Part Six: Ignition Timing Basics
Suck, Squish, Bang, Blow Part Six: Ignition Timing Basics By Mike Kojima Ignition Timing is expressed as the number of degrees of crankshaft rotation in advance of Top Dead Center…
Turbo – Once Round the Block
Mark sent me an email last week about a post over at Axis of Oversteer where they had these videos up. It turns out they also had a link to…
Project Lexus IS-F Part 1: We Test the K&N Typhoon High Flow Air Intake
Project Lexus IS-F Part 1: We Test the K&N Typhoon High Flow Air Intake By Mike Kojima We got an IS-F as one of our daily drivers around the MotoIQ…
Project Infiniti G35 Sedan: The Poor Man’s M3
Project Infiniti G35 Sedan: The Poor Man's M3 By Mike Kojima Not all of the cars in the MotoIQ stable are cutting edge performance machines. Sometimes we do have to…
AEM Electronics: Universal High Flow -10 In-Line Fuel Filter
AEM INTRODUCES ITS UNIVERSAL HIGH FLOW -10 AN INLINE FUEL FILTER AEM Performance Electronics is pleased to introduce its Billet Aluminum Universal High Flow -10 AN Inline Fuel…