Streetfire’s “Fastest Time Attack Car in the World” Video
John Naderi and the streefire.net video crew spent a day with Sierra Sierra at the Redline Time Attack's season opener at Buttonwillow Raceway a couple weekends ago and took some…
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Redline Time Attack – Buttonwillow 04-27-10
Redline Time Attack – Buttonwillow Season Opener Results by Jeff Naeyaert We headed up to Buttonwillow last Saturday to check out the first Redline Time Attack of the 2010 season…
Sierra Sierra Time Attack EVO 8 – 1:43.2 @ Buttonwillow
As you may have heard or read, the Sierra Sierra EVO 8 Time Attack car beat the long standing HKS CT230R's record of 1:43.523 set back in November 2007. The…
2011 WRX – Widebody
The new 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX will be wider and look more like it's cousin, the STi. The new widebody look will become standard on both the WRX sedan and…
XS Power – No, Not XS Engineering
Back in the day when I answered the phones once in a while at XS Engineering, I would get these angry, pissed off customers bitching to me about an “XS”…
Electronic Cigarettes
I was hearing about electronic cigarettes from the news, friends, the web, etc. As a smoker, I was interesting in finding out what the e-cig was all about. Having been a…
Cosworth F1 Website is Now Live
Cosworth F1 Website is Now Live By Eric Hsu The brand new Cosworth Formula 1 website is finally live. Its actually a pretty nicely laid out and informative site worth…
Sierra Sierra EVO 8 – 1:44.2 and Dropping
Last week I went testing with the Sierra Sierra team to test out a bunch of new stuff on the EVO 8 at Buttonwillor Raceway. Some of these new modifications…
Mitsubishi EVO X 4B11T on Engine Dyno – Stage 1
It all started about around November 2007 when we first received our first 4B11T long block from Japan. I think the EVO X was just released in the US around…
Baller Dyno Headers
The other day I was learning the ins and out of the engine dynos here at Cosworth. Upstairs on top of the dynos are a 2200 gallon water tank, vents,…
Taipei, Taiwan 2009
Over the Christmas break, I took a short vacation to Taipei, Taiwan to attend my buddy Andy's wedding. Andy's wedding was at the Shangri-la hotel on Christmas day so I…
World Time Attack Challenge – May 21-22, 2010 Australia
On May 21 and 22 near the outskirts of Sydney, Australia at the Eastern Creek Raceway the guys at Superlap Australia will be hosting the first ever World Time Attack…
Speedtech EVO 9 DRAG: 8.63 @ 164MPH in NZ
Andre from Speedtech Motorsport in New Zealand sent me an email a week ago about a 1001whp EVO 9 they recently built and tuned. The car went 9.59 in the 1/4…
CART Engine Evolution
Old engines have always fascinated me. They are after all, the reason why things are they way they are today. To ignore history while advancing into the future would be…
Cosworth Big Bore Head Gaskets for Sleeved Blocks
Even though Cosworth doesn't subscribe to cutting away a ton of aluminum and then inserting thick ass iron sleeves in production aluminum cylinder blocks, we still have big bore gaskets…
Sierra Sierra Enterprises – Time Attack EVO 8
I mentioned previously that I was working with the crew at Sierra Sierra Enterprises (SSE) and their Time Attack EVO 8. SSE may be new to the time attack scene,…
Redline Time Attack! – Willow Springs 5/31/09
I just got back home from a weekend of roasting at Willow Springs Raceway big track performing track support duties for the Sierra Sierra Enterprises EVO 8. The Redline boys…
Letter From Sierra Sierra
Here’s a letter from the team owner of Sierra Sierra regarding their time attack EVO 8. There are details of up to now and the near future of the car.…
Sierra Sierra EVO 8 in Car Video
This is mostly for the track nerds since it is only in car video. This was at Round 2 of Redline Time Attack at Willow Springs (5/30/09) with Jonathan Bomarito…
Aston Martin One-77 Goes 220+mph
The Aston Martin One-77 is too rich for my blood, but it's still a pretty cool car. The 7.3L V-12 is based on an Aston Martin block casting, but everything…
MR SST Transmission Kaput
What happens to an EVO X MR TC-SST (twin clutch) transmission after 16,000 race miles? The same thing that would happen after 16,000 race miles with a manual 5 speed from a…
Bugatti Veyron W-16 Castings
Looking around on the web, you can find images of the complete Bugatti W-16 engine. This behemoth is 8.0L of fury with 64 valves and 4 turbos makes 987bhp, 1001ps,…
2009 Thunderhill 25 Hour Enduro Summary
After that last update there was nothing else to update on since the car was retired due to the broken lower A-arm mount at the tub after 9.5 hours…
BMC Tool Racing Update from Thunderhill – Saturday 12/5/09
The morning started out with everybody on the grid and a ton of people on track. This is pretty typical for a race, but since I don't go to many…
BMC Tool Racing Update from Thunderhill – Friday 12/4/09
So far so good. Dino piloted the BMC Tool Racing Panoz DP-02 to an overall pole. The next fastest car is the K20A powered Norma which is 0.6 seconds away. The third place…
BMC Tool Racing Panoz DP02 25 Hour Car
www.youtube.com/user/ToolRacing#p/a/u/1/MaPPTp8_vl4 The guys over at Tool Racing have just spent the last 5 weeks thrashing like crazy to get their newly acquired Panoz DP02 ex-IMSA Lights car ready for the 2009…
24 Hours of LeMons – Thunderhill Arse-Freeze-Apalooza 2009
Photos Contributed by: Chuck Johnson, Martin Gonzales, Priscilla Ruiz In this segment, I will detour you from our regularly scheduled program to bring you a little adventure known as the…
Fast Lap With Billy Johnson : Auto Club Speedway Roval (Video Inside)
Fast Lap with Billy Johnson: Auto Club Speedway “Roval” By Billy Johnson Auto Club Speedway, previously known as California Speedway is a relatively new track built in early…
DSPORT BCNR33 GT-R Makes 1100hp
In typical Mike/DSPORT fashion the R33 GT-R was not raced for a almost a year, but the week before the next big drag racing event the email tennis began full…
Source Interlink Super Lap Battle 2009
I was at Buttonwillow Raceway the last couple of days for the Super Lap Battle invitational Time Attack event. Super Lap is organized by the guys at Source Interlink who…