Beyond the Dyno

The inside of a proper race car is always cool. There are tubes everywhere, carbon fiber everything, sequential or paddle shifters, Alcantara suede dash and coverings, super low seats mounted…

This was the first official race for the Nissan R35 GT-R in Super GT and it took a 1, 2 finish at Suzuka yesterday. The Xanavi/Nismo car took 1st and…

This morning I was tuning the world’s cleanest Supra. I am VERY confident in saying that too. XS Engineering built a show Supra from the ground up (literally) for Sean,…

SS Autochrome, XS Power, and Stone Mountain racing are all one and the same: the peddlers of crap. They did most of their jacking, peddling, robbing, or whatever you want…

Tony Stewart is the man. Aside from driving the Sprint Cup Home Depot NASCAR racecar at 200+ mph, he boldly smoked the shit out of Goodyear in a recent interview…

So I rolled in this morning to XS Engineering to pick up some RB26 heads and as I entered the driveway I saw this mangled mess that somewhat resembled a…

Here are some quick peeks inside the new EVO X engine. So far the engine is feature packed with all the stuff you want in a stout engine except for…

Some of you probably got all excited and said, “Oh shit! JDM oil pan!” As with many JDM yo parts, there’s nothing to be excited about today. I like a…

Have you ever checked out a Sprint car up close? Over at M-Workz, there’s a team that rents some space so I walked over and checked out the car. The…

The people at Google cut me off from Adsense (there used to be ads in the right side bar). They have accused me of click fraud which is absolute bullshit.…

Look what rolled into Cosworth yesterday: the new Impreza STi EJ257B engine. The new engine in the Ford Focus, sorry, I meant the new Subaru Impreza STi remains mostly unchanged.…

I have been crazy busy recently and haven’t had a chance to post. Actually I am still crazy busy and still don’t have time to post, but fuck it. You…

Here in America after you watch James Bond movies or Vin Diesel in XXX, you think of Russia being run by the mob, mafia, gangsters, or some other form of…

Hahah…you pervs seemed to have liked my last post of race queens. The page views went through the roof! To be honest though, I found myself visiting my own blog…

It’s time for a break from all the serious car talk and check out some females. In Asia, every race team has campaign girls and these girls have been called…

Last week Cosworth USA picked up a red colored new type GE body STi. I haven’t driven it yet. It still has only 60 miles as of today, but I…

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”…

Yesterday we received an EVO X 4B11T engine assembly so that we could create our engine dyno set up at Cosworth. Why fabricate a dyno install? Because we have great…

Happy Chinese New Year – Gung Hey Fat Choy. Today is new year's day in the Chinese lunar calendar. I am second generation Chinese and lucky enough to have been…

The 4B11T is the new EVO X engine designed and manufactured through an alliance called GEMA which consists of Mitsubishi, Hyundai, and Chrysler. Here at Cosworth we have had an…

If you like X-files, Lost, and that kind of mysterious suspenseful stuff then you need to go and watch Cloverfield. Just drop whatever it is you are doing now and…

So Troy at XS has been emailing me to post some updates of new stuff he added to the XS Clearance section of their site. I’ve been out of town,…

I took apart an engine last weekend from an IS300 that literally torched a piston. It had a turbo on a stock engine (2JZ) with a piggyback ecu (engine control…

When I was cruising Tokyo on January 3, I got dropped off in Ginza to do some last minute shopping before I had to head back to the states. Right…

A nod to The Cure. The Toyota 2ZZ-GE is a piece of shit compared to the Honda K20A. Really. Don’t deny it. Just accept it if you own a 2ZZ.…

I have visited many factories: Apexi Japan (I used to work there), Greddy Japan, HKS Japan, and a couple of other tuning parts manufacturer factories in Japan. I was impressed…

I’m glad to be back in southern California. The UK was great and I wish I had a bit more time there, but it was FUCKING COLD! It’s so windy…

I was reviewing some random pictures and found this. The car is currently being completed by Koji at XS, but the turbo system was fabricated by Greg Profeta before he…

I was digging through my files and found some random pics from November’s Super Lap Battle at Buttonwillow, CA. They’re kind of behind the scenes: Here’s the RRR/Twin’s Turbo/Jack Merdikian’s…

Hello from the UK. It is raining and cold as fuck here. People who live here tell me its the same here 9 months out of the year. That really…

Rewinding back to January 2, 2008, Yaya and I went to 109 in Shibuya, Tokyo. For those of you not familiar with 109, it is 9 stories of female fashion…

Ken and I went to the world famous Ace Cafe in London this morning to check out a local EVO meet. If you’ve ever heard the term “Cafe Racer” which…