Beyond the Dyno

Honda F20C with individual throttles and dry sump oiling. 1988 Le Man’s winning XJR9 with 7.4L V-12. I remember watching this car win the 1988 Le Man’s race on TV…

I’ve never really had the chance to look at an F1 car up close. Here at the Autosport show in the UK, I did get to see multiple F1 cars…

I just got into the UK this morning. Or was it afternoon? Jetlag and timezones got me all screwed up. I haven’t even recovered from the Japan jet lag yet.…

Stolen from the Jalopnik blog (which is a really good blog site BTW): Now doesn’t that fucking suck? Dumb ass rich kid? Probably….Sucks to be him.

I just heard from Troy that the XS Engineering website’s clearance section is picking up some serious steam. Some of the parts are really starting to move. If you’ve been…

You should go and pick up a copy of the February 2008 copy of Option Magazine. Hiro the editor in chief just sent me a copy because there’s a feature…

At a party on new year’s eve in Tokyo the TV was on in the background. On this NHK TV special that was this smoking hot chick that couldn’t sing…

Happy New Year and good luck in 2008! Now stop cruising blogs and go spend some time with your friends or family. Thanks for reading my blog in 2007.

Yesterday I went for a morning run at Niseko after the rain, but the slopes were really icy. I was kicking ass full speed, hit an icy divot and flipped…

Rain, sleet, and dirty snow is the forecast today as well as 55km/h winds. The windshield factor says feels like -12° C. Screw snowboarding today. Tomorrow will be icy, but…

Since most of us are on vacation right now, I’m going to do the same thing and take a vacation from writing about car related shit. I live and breathe…

So I’m not an experienced snowboarder or anything nor do I claim to be. In fact my trip to Niseko (where I am at the moment) is only my 6th…

I just settled in at the Niseko Higashiyama Prince Hotel Tower on Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. Having only visited inhabited areas of Japan, I’ve never seen a one…

Did you know that in 1990 Subaru attempted to campaign at F1 car? Overall it was a catastrophic failure to compete, but I do give them props for trying. Or…

After being in business for 11 years now and collecting junk for just as long, the guys at XS Engineering created a section on the website for “Specials & Clearance”…

My friend Evan Griffey wrote an excellent article on MSN Autos about the cars of yesteryear. Evan was the original editor of Turbo Magazine way back in the day when…

I was reading the infamous blog written by Damessenjah called DaTruth. There I discovered the most accurate, descriptive, and picturesque analogy of fake Chinese parts. If you pay attention you…

While I was at PRI in Orlando last week, I ran into Katsu from HKS USA. HKS Europe displays at PRI annually and Katsu was there helping. I’m not sure…

I’m not usually one to clown the 3rd world countries of the world. However, we who live in the western world usually take things for granted. For example, things like…

If you’re going to do an engine swap, why not an F1 engine? Or at least a previous generation F1 engine. It only weighs 95kgs! 835bhp at only 209 pounds…

I’m in Florida at the moment for the PRI show. This show is pretty cool and there’s plenty to check out if you’re hardcore. There’s very little to no pussy…

In my research for developing head studs for the performance street car engines at Cosworth, I came across some F1 nuts. They belong to a certain Cosworth F1 engine that…

A couple weeks ago at the LA Auto Show, I was checking out the Hyundai Genesis concept coupe. You might ask, why the hell is Eric writing about a Hyundai?…

We’re always up to new and exciting things at Cosworth. IRL airbox scoop on Lew’s MG restoration project. It’s definitely bigger than your exhaust.

The 500 whp XS built Arizona BNR34 Skyline GT-R owner’s club Brett and Jimmy and Troy and I went to the Pro-Motion Distributing party at Risque at the Paris Hotel…

Yesterday in Marina Del Rey was a up close and personal with the R35 day hosted by the guys at Edmunds. It was a good turn out with many socal…

Yesterday I went to the press day for the LA Auto Show with the VP and my manager at Cosworth. It was nice because there were very few people and…

  Last week on November 7th was the Super Street Super Lap Battle. Otherwise known as Time Attack, but they had to get all JDM on the name. So for…

SEMA this year was more of the same. I noticed that while there were more new companies attempting to enter the performance parts market, there were less new wheel companies…

On Autoblog, there’s an article and pics of the new JGTC/Super GT Nissan R35 GT-R race car at Suzuka. It looks really buff. Unfortunately it’s a V-8 rwd car using…

These Xbox360 games looks pretty tight. I think they will be fun to play and most of the Xbox360 games are pretty dope. Troy from XS sent me an email…