Saving an Easy 35 lbs From Your Car With Braille Battery
Project Evo IX had a dead battery. Our car had been in storage for a couple of years which killed the lightweight Braille Battery AGM battery we had installed in…
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WATCH: Make Your Porsche Cayman Handle and Brake Like a Racecar!
 A friend and customer of MotoIQ recently asked us if we could turn her once beloved daily driver Porsche Cayman into a racecar she could drive to and…
Getting More Power From the 4G63 With Link Engine Managment
Photography by Vincent Soto Now that we have accumulated all of the cool parts for our Project Evo IX it is time to start getting it all together to integrate…
Watch: LiteBlox Ultralightweight Drop In Battery for the Porsche 911
Want to get rid of 42 pounds of weight from your Porsche 911? LiteBox makes it easy. We show how easy it is to install and what effects it…
Save 42 Pounds off of your car with Lite Blox Batteries!
The Porsche GT3 RS is a car that uses a lot of exotic materials to try to reduce its weight. Much of the car is made out of lightweight materials…
How To Build A Backup Battery System
Power to go! There are times when all of us want electricity when we are miles from the nearest electrical outlet. Two key components to having power on the go…
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 17 – Get out there! Or not…
With the car idling and most of the core sensors configured, we needed to keep moving forward in our electronics configuration in order to get to a point where we…
Team America BNR32 GT-R First Update in a Long Time!
Team America BNR32 GT-R First Update in a Long Time! by Mike Kojima So most of you probably thought that the Team America GT-R was dead, long abandoned to…
Saving (Lots) of Weight with a Pegasus Racing Ballistic Battery
Saving (Lots) of Weight with a Pegasus Racing Ballistic Battery by Mike Kojima “No way is this thing gonna start the car” is the first thing we said when we…
ARK Design Team America BNR32 GT-R Update
The Andrew Brilliant designed splitter is amazing and somewhat agricultural in appearance.  Given the team’s budget and time constraints, Andrew was not commissioned to make it look beautiful; only functional. I can…
ARK Design Team America BNR32 GT-R Update
The Andrew Brilliant designed splitter is amazing and somewhat agricultural in appearance.  Given the team’s budget and time constraints, Andrew was not commissioned to make it look beautiful; only functional. I can…
ARK Design Team America BNR32 GT-R Update
ARK Design Team America BNR32 GT-R Update by Mike Kojima and Eric Hsu The Team America crew has been busy and the car has really come together in the past…
ARK Team America BNR32 GT-R Update Teaser
ARK Team America BNR32 GT-R Update Teaser by Mike Kojima An update has been a long time in coming but it is true, the ARK Team America BNR32 has not…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 9
Team America WTAC – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 9 by Eric Hsu I realize it's been a long ass time since the last update, but they'll start rolling…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 9
Team America WTAC – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 9 by Eric Hsu I realize it's been a long ass time since the last update, but they'll start rolling…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 8
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 8 By Eric Hsu Mike did a great job covering the build while I was unable to write…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 8
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 8 By Eric Hsu Mike did a great job covering the build while I was unable to write…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 7
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 7 By Mike Kojima and Eric Hsu The clock is tearing itself through the calendar and there is…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 7
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 7 By Mike Kojima and Eric Hsu The clock is tearing itself through the calendar and there is…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 6
As our wing is going to be making a few hundred pounds of downforce, it is important that we have sturdy wing mounts. Just bolting it to the trunk lid…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 6
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 6 By Mike Kojima and Eric Hsu So much has happened on the car that it was a…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 5
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 5 Supposed to be by Eric Hsu but really again by Mike Kojima Well it's getting closer…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 5
Believe it or not the saddle is secured with quick release T-Bolt type clamps. Although this might sound woefully inadequate, please note that Top Fuel cars use this type of…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 4
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 4 Supposed to be by Eric Hsu, Really by Mike Kojima In the last segment, Gary Castillo…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 4
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 4 Supposed to be by Eric Hsu, Really by Mike Kojima In the last segment, Gary Castillo…
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…
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…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Intro Part 2
Badass unequal length A-arms all the way! Gary and Tyler working out some problems with the front suspension caused by the position of the front diff with the Hollinger…
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…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Intro Part 1
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 1 by Eric Hsu When Richard from Sierra Sierra last year told me that the Sierra Sierra EVO…
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design’s BNR32 Skyline GT-R Intro Part 1
Team America World Time Attack – ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R Part 1 by Eric Hsu When Richard from Sierra Sierra last year told me that the Sierra Sierra EVO…
Project Miatabusa Part 11 – Shorai Lithium Iron Battery (and Lots of Plumbing)
Project Miatabusa Part 11 Shorai Lithium Iron Battery (and Lots of Plumbing) by Dave Coleman Odds are pretty good this is the first Miata in history to have its battery…