Beyond the Dyno

3. Garage Revolution FD3S RX-7, driven by Mitsuhiro Kinoshita, best lap 1:30.5010 This car is beautifully built hands down. Virtually no attention to detail was overlooked, but this car’s controversial…

Ken Block's Gymkhana 4 (Four) Video – Ford Fiesta by Eric Hsu Since you Moto IQ readers care more about the substance than the hype, here are some specs on the…

World Time Attack Challenge 2011 Pro Class Controversies By Eric Hsu     The Yokohama World Time Attack Challenge (WTAC) 2011 was a massive success for the promoters, competitors, fans,…

From day one the Cosworth 4G63 has always run on Royal Purple XPR 20w50. We’ve had zero lubrication related issues. In fact, most of the parts come out of the…

To become a Cosworth E-Pro dealer (no relation to Beck’s CD name), a dealer needs to send their tuner and/or data guy, to our facilities in Torrance, CA for a whole…

Early in the morning was a parade of Mitsubishi lining up to get in. The MOD staff did an excellent job keeping the lines despite the clusterfcuk of cars piling up…

To be completely honest, it's my turn to write something on MotoIQ and I am neither prepared since I'm in a hotel room without my external hard drive nor have…

Also involved with Cosworth Subaru engines and most other builds that occur in the Cosworth USA build shop, is Lyon. Lyon has been building engines umm….forever. We crack jokes about his…

Scuderia Algar/Sierra Sierra Enterprises 2011 Ferrari Challenge Team For 2011 Sierra Sierra Enterprises has teamed up with Algar Ferrari to campaign two Ferrari Challenge cars in the North American Ferrari…

With all the hype about Time Attack, Drift, and Gymkhana/Rally Cross in the US, whatever happened to drag cars with Japanese engines? In the US we don't get too many…

The 2010 WTAC was a really exciting event. It was probably one of the best time attacks I have ever been to. I had the fortune of traveling to Sydney with the…

I seem to be constantly around EVOs so I decided to write a series of tech tips for the EVO X and the 4B11T engine. There’s no guarantee of when the next tech tip…

Mark sent me an email last week about a post over at Axis of Oversteer where they had these videos up. It turns out they also had a link to…

To read Part 1 of this story, CLICK HERE! In part 1, I mentioned that the original delivery date of the engine was to be mid-October to allow the guys…

Since the Sierra Sierra EVO didn't make it over to Revspeed's time attack last weekend at Tsukuba Circuit, I didn't either (I was stuck on the engine dyno anyway). I had…

To read what happened to the BMC Tool Racing Panoz in 2009 at Thunderhill, click here! The 25 Hours of Thunderhill is an annual enduro organized by NASA. What I…

I'm not even going to front and say I had anything to do with the XFE, but I have inherited the job of helping Ian run these engines on occasion…

Earlier today at the Source Interlink 2010 Superlap Battle, we (team Sierra Sierra) smashed the previous Buttonwillow CW13 time attack lap record with a 1:41.046 lap time. Emp cranked out…

This power chart should obviously only be used as a guideline for turbo selection. Check back on BorgWarner's EFR site in the near future for an extremely in depth turbo sizing…

When we changed turbos on the Sierra Sierra EVO to the BorgWarner EFR, we took the opportunity to test out some Turbosmart Comp-Gate40 wastegates. It wasn't too much work to…

  Sierra Sierra's marketing/hype man, John Naderi, posted these pictures from a Buttonwillow test day on Sierra Sierra's Facebook page last month. BTW John took all the pictures below and…

 FOR PART 1 OF THE WRC B-series Honda CRX, CLICK HERE! Sometime last month traveling between the Hungary and Spa F1 races, Ben sent me these pics from his mobile phone.…

Tyler threw together a pretty good time lapsed video of him and our engineering intern, Clayton, re-installing the Subaru EJ257B on the dyno for fun. Tyler used his old Canon…

Back in August 2010, I spent some time sectioning a 4G63 cylinder block and cylinder head so that Tyler, Clayton, Lyon, and I could get a detailed look at the structural…

Here's a quick trailer of the upcoming DVD release from Motive DVD and Superlap Australia of the 2010 Yokohama World Time Attack Challenge. Andrew, Pat, and the Motive crew have put…

I wrote most of this the week when I was in Sydney, but failed to complete it due to the fact that I was enjoying Australia too much to be in a…

Andy put this up on Facebook a couple weeks ago and I thought it was pretty cool. He was there supporting this 997 GT3 Cup car with Jeff Zwart behind the…

A couple weeks ago I got a call from Ben from the UK in the morning and he said in his mildy thick British accent, “Hey man, you ever heard…

For those of you who know those hipster, college grad, fixed gear bike riding, low carb beer drinking, ipad owning (or wanting), iphone loving, Apple can do absolutely no wrong…

The guys over at Tool Racing were prepping their Panoz DP02 for a 3 hour enduro at Buttonwillow this weekend so I dropped by the shop the other day to check…

The compressor wheel has 12 blades and the inducer measures approximately 55mm. The shaft play tells me it's a journal bearing turbo, but the shaft play is definitely smaller than…