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Last week on Wednesday morning I made it out to K&N for the Ultimate Street Car Challenge as an “engineering guru”. The guru panel consists of 3 guys who are…

Phil from 360 video sent me a text on Friday at around 3pm. Both Phil and Robby (both responsible for video and editing of the JDM Insider videos) like to…

I love big brakes. They can stop a car faster, you can brake later in to a turn, and the car just feels better when you have them. What I…

On Monday morning, Troy gave me call and said, “Hey man. Some Nissan dealerships are blowing out Armadas and Titans for 50% off. You should buy one.” I said, “Why…

Cruising through the web, I stumbled upon the Surge 02 Power Chip for only $99.99. Here are some of the features. Check out the image of the high tech kit…

While the Miata is cool fun little car, it doesn’t measure too high on the manliness scale when you compare it to other Japanese cars that are commonly modified. The…

We have a 2008 STi at Cosworth that has been internally dubbed the Red Dragon. We have been using the car for product development so it hasn’t progressed much although…

A couple weeks ago, Nick, Yaya, Saya and I headed out to Arizona because our friends Danny & Marilyn got married. Other than being really, really, really hot in Arizona…

Go out and buy the current issue of 0-60 magazine. It has an in depth article written by Richard Chang, the successful Primedia graduate, on Motorex and the convoluted demise…

Football, or soccer as its known here in the US, is the most popular sport around the world outside of the US. For some reason Soccer has never gained any…

Yesterday I went to the Redline Time Attack! at California Speedway in Fontana, California. I love this track because it’s a NASCAR track with proper garages, indoor toilets, real grandstands,…

I’ve been noticing an increasing amount of the wheels with the colored stripe around the circumference. You know, the “Time Attack” style of stripe. Volk probably started the trend first…

The boys at XS are turbocharging a Lotus Elise and asked me to help out on the intercooler design. To investigate the possibilities, we removed the nose to check out…

I was looking for something in the build shop at Cosworth and found a workstation with some drawers underneath. I opened it up and I think I hit a jackpot…

Some of you may or may not know that I have a blog on the Cosworth USA site. I have to be politically correct since I am officially speaking as…

People keep asking me, “Is XS out of business?” The short answer is no. I stopped by last week and some of the customer cars in the shop were: a…

Carbon fiber is definitely making its way into our lives. As a lightweight, high strength, composite material (carbon weave cloth and plastic resin), it has many uses on race cars,…

Have you ever wondered how much power a NASCAR engine makes on the chassis dyno? It’s pretty relative to our street cars too since the official dyno of NASCAR is…

11 days ago I turned 35 years old. I think the physical decline started around 26 which I’m sure was expedited by the uh…partying, alcohol, girls, working long and late…

At the moment, my favorite magazine is Race Engine Technology. It’s published in the UK and you basically need to be rich to afford it since it’s $20 per issue.…

We have the EJ257B 2008 STi engine on the dyno at the moment for dry sump oil system testing. The engine looks pretty cool all wired up with sensors all…

After our guys in the head shop did some flow testing and measurements, they found that the EVO X head is pretty good for a stock head. There’s no doubt…

Psycho girlfriends: we’ve all had them to varying degrees. Sometimes they’re a bit too much and sometimes you know what you did to make them psycho. Most of the time…

I was cruising Freshalloy and found this thread on why the R35 GT-R is so damn heavy. Yes believe it or not, I am active on a couple of Skyline…

My blog server is having issues and I cannot upload images. In the meantime, here’s something I thought this was pretty funny even though it’s a bit old. First check…

If you’ve never heard of it then chances are you don’t need one. Dry sump oil systems are god’s gift to man. ALL race engines use some form of it,…

My boss Ken sent this to me. It’s not far from the car’s actual shape either: Jacked from www.scoobyblog.com.

A couple months ago Dan from Advanced Motorsport & Engineering in the UK sent out an email with a press release of a plug and play 350z traction control system.…

The video speaks for itself. My buddy John is part of the production team and these guys crank out excellent video. My buddy Brett tells me that he can’t see…

Some corrections: Sean sent me an email earlier today and mentioned that Sport Compact Car magazine actually left out a car they tested that belongs on the top 10 1/4…

I was flipping through some some car mags a couple months ago and I ran across this in the back of Sport Compact Car Magazine. I noticed that I worked…

My boss sent me some camera pics from the Cars and Coffee meet down in Irvine a couple weeks ago. I guess somebody from Hyundai rolled down the new Genesis…