BMC Tool Racing Update from Thunderhill – Saturday 12/5/09
The morning started out with everybody on the grid and a ton of people on track. This is pretty typical for a race, but since I don't go to many…
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BMC Tool Racing Update from Thunderhill – Friday 12/4/09
So far so good. Dino piloted the BMC Tool Racing Panoz DP-02 to an overall pole. The next fastest car is the K20A powered Norma which is 0.6 seconds away. The third place…
BMC Tool Racing Panoz DP02 25 Hour Car
www.youtube.com/user/ToolRacing#p/a/u/1/MaPPTp8_vl4 The guys over at Tool Racing have just spent the last 5 weeks thrashing like crazy to get their newly acquired Panoz DP02 ex-IMSA Lights car ready for the 2009…
DSPORT BCNR33 GT-R Makes 1100hp
In typical Mike/DSPORT fashion the R33 GT-R was not raced for a almost a year, but the week before the next big drag racing event the email tennis began full…
Source Interlink Super Lap Battle 2009
I was at Buttonwillow Raceway the last couple of days for the Super Lap Battle invitational Time Attack event. Super Lap is organized by the guys at Source Interlink who…
Cosworth CA F1 – 2.4L V-8
At the Cosworth SEMA booth there is a Cosworth F1 CA display engine. I believe this is the first time the engine has been displayed at a non-motorsports show. Previously pictures…
Super Broke Ass Gourmet
A couple years ago, I wrote my first installment of “Broke Ass Gourmet“. This isn't really a part two or anything, but I'll get around to it eventually. I just…
Subiefest 2009
Subiefest 2009 By Eric Hsu Last Saturday I made it up to Subiefest to check out the Subaru world. These days I don't have much time to make it out to all…
Ken Block to Race WRC?
Ken Block to Race WRC? By Eric Hsu For those of you who are Ken Block fans, you might be interested to know that he is near to closing a…
DSPORT Tokyo Auto Salon Trip 2010
Last year I joined DSPORT crew on their tour for a couple days. I had a lot of fun so I highly recommend this tour. Chances are pretty slim that I’ll…
R.I.P. Shaun Carlson
Way back in 1997/98 sometime, I got introduced to Shaun Carlson somehow. I do not remember exactly how we met, but I think it was through Mike Ferrara (now publisher…
Cosworth R35 GT-R VR38DETT Components
It's no secret that we take our sweet ass time developing our products so I've had some OE and aftermarket Nissan VR38DETT engine parts on my desk and in my shop…
AFC GC Impreza Runs 8.87 ET @ 164mph
Andy T. from the mothership sent me this link to Andy Forrest Performance's GC Impreza that ran 8.87 ET @ 164mph on radials this past weekend at Santa Pod Raceway in…
Skyline R34 Buggy Video
Leave it to Sean to find the strange ass oddities in the Skyline GT-R world. Sean put this up one of his blogs and this has got to be the absolute…
900hp 10-second GTR goes OFF Runway
Andrew from Motive DVD in Australia put this up on YouTube. You may know Andrew from the DSPORT DVD series. Anyhow, it's always pretty sick to watch an RB26 blast through the…
Wannabe JDM Companies
In today's automotive high performance market for Japanese vehicles, there are many companies that are basically wannabe JDM and motorsport companies. Often times they sport Japanese or JDM or motorsport…
Future NASCAR Sponsor
Ben was over at the Nurburgring for like the 3rd time this year (lucky SOB) and snapped this photo. This website needs to sponsor a NASCAR to get the full…
Traffic School
Although I was playing with some 4B11T EVO X exhaust tube diameter testing until late last night, I woke up early because I couldn’t sleep. Seeing as how I have traffic school due…
60 Days to Export or Surrender Your Skyline
It appears that the government is wasting resources chasing certain Skyline GT-Rs out of the country. What a great example of our tax dollars at work.I haven't really been following…
NASCAR + Coyote = Dead Mess
Taco sent me an email with these pics. They’re pretty brutal so if you’re a wuss and cannot handle blood, do not view. With the email came this text: …
U.S. F1 Team to American-Born Drivers: We Want You!
I think it’s awesome that an F1 car constructor will be taking on the regular F1 teams in Europe on their home turf. I see it kind of as USF1…
Dynojet 248C Chassis Dynomometer FOR SALE
I've had this Dynojet 248C sitting over at XS Engineering for just under 3 years now. It's literally been sitting and hasn't been used for 3.5 years. XS has been…
Ken Block Jump Car 2 and Cosworth Power
I grabbed this from the Cosworth USA website. I helped Vermont Sportcars spec the Cosworth components and some of the ancillaries selection, but the credit all goes to Vermont Sportcars…
BTD Readers, Welcome to MotoIQ
You've surely noticed by now that I have moved Beyond the Dyno to it's new home at MotoIQ. I've been invited by other sites in the past to move BTD…
Driftspeed S14 Crash @ Formula D Chicago
Koji from Driftspeed sent me an email with some pics of their crashed S14 at the Chicago Formula D event. It always sucks to see a built car crashed because…
Hyundai Genesis 2.0L Turbo & Differences
There seems to be a lot of buzz starting regarding the coming Hyundai Genesis coupe. Hopefully it will be a solid foundation that people can easily modify and beat the…
Tuning, Life, Beef Ribs and Remodeling
A couple months ago when Ben and Roland from Pi were visiting from the UK, we were having dinner somewhere and this conversation came up about tuning. I think we…
Epic Failures
Andy from Cosworth UK sent me a link to a thread on Scoobynet which is a UK Subaru forum. His email simply said, “omg-must-see-poor-workmanship. W T F ?” and a…
Beat Ass EVO X Intercooler
What happens to a stock Mitsu EVO X front mount intercooler after 16,000 racing miles? It gets beat. The super thin fins of the stock intercooler cannot handle the debris…
Design Craft STi
How buff does this look? Lanny and Gary at Design Craft fabricated the bumper and splitter. Gary is talking about making them out of dry carbon in the near future.…
Hyundai 4B11 Arrives at Cosworth
My buddy Simon at Hyundai arranged for us to examine a Hyundai 4B11 in depth at Cosworth. We’ll dig into it and see if our components will work with the…