Beyond the Dyno

This week is CRAZY busy. Daytime is Cosworth and we’re cranking at 125% right now trying to finish up the multitude of projects that we have going on. In the…

Its time to change it up a little. Somebody sent me a link to this gallery. If you got the the asian girl fetish, check out this tasty site: mycar168.com.…

It was a nice day today at Buttonwillow with the exception of some wind and dust here and there. I think I got a hardcore farmer’s tan too. There were…

These days I don't get to work on my own project cars or engines that often. My GT-R is parked at XS which is about 40 minutes away and my…

Press release from Aston Martin is below. The engine is a magnificent piece of work by Cosworth. I have some pictures of it in the flesh, but I don’t think…

The Porsche fetish continues:

FINALLY releasing this week are the Garrett EVO X bolt-on turbos based on the GT3071 and GT3076 CHRAs. Khiem and the engineers at Garrett spent A LOT of time on…

I was flipping through an old Super Street Magazine from 2008 and I saw an image that looked familiar. The background, the toolbox, and the turbo all looked familiar. Then…

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…

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…

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…

My GS300 is currently awaiting its conversion back to a stock body. In its heyday (I bought it new in 1999), it was what I thought to be the ideal…

On Sunday Roland and I hopped on to the DSPORT tour bus again to go check out the Carmate and Nitto Tire drift ride along. More on the drift day…

Saya and I rented a little Toyota Passo and drove out to Hakone to check out the hot springs. On the way back we stopped by Mishima to eat at…

The R35 Club Sport kit was on display at the Nismo booth at TAS. The complete Nismo Club Sport kit costs a cool 5,460,000 yen (US$60,279). The kit is also…

I woke up at 3:30am this morning. What a bitch. Later today I have to go and fix the belt for the rear roller on the XS Engineering DTS dyno.…

An update is coming soon on the Red Dragon. Eric (different guy in Engineering) rolled the rear fenders for some extra tire clearance today and we had the car corner…

In America, SEMA used to throw a half ass attempt at a show called the Import Auto Salon. I went to the first two or three years in Long Beach,…

Sean the living GT-R database, posted a pic of the XS BNR32 lifting the front left wheel after I shifted into 2nd gear. While this looks ultra fucking cool on…

I hopped on to the DSPORT tour bus on Saturday and went to Super Autobacs in Tokyo. This store is crazy big and smokes the two Super Autobacs in California.…

Ken showed me a magazine the other day that showed the world’s biggest engine. Being the engine geek I am, I did some googling and found out that the world’s…

This is pretty damn cool. This would be fun to have at the shop. This is a bad ass rig.

The words Honda and wheelie never really go together, but here’s a video of the InlinePRO S2000 showing the V8s in the world what’s really going down.   The F20C…

Ken sent me a link to some cool videos from 1981 on the Cosworth DFV Formula engine. These are pretty interesting: That piston forge you see in the beginning of…

I’m not sure what happened to the camera mount, but pretty cool in car video. Ross Wilson from AVO Turboworld was behind the wheel. Ross used to drive all kinds…

After I tuned Wen’s car to 900+whp (HKS T51RSPL turbo) on the XS Engineering dyno, it was time for practice. Wen was using too much clutch and eventually fried the…

Kenny Powers attempted to make a one mile jump. You don’t even need high school physics to figure that one out…

The guys over at ARK Design sent me a press release on their new twin plate clutch for the Mitsubishi CZ4A EVO X. They just released their G700 twin plate…

Ben and I were emailing about his newly acquired ECR33 and he sent me a link to the UK GTR forum (GTROC) that shows an early (circa 2002) Prodrive WRC…

The Cosworth Subaru Plenums/Intake Manifolds/Inlet Plenums started shipping last week finally. Depending on who you talk to, it seems intake manifolds go by different names. The British like to say…

I’m not sure if the EVO IX was just way faster, the GT-R driver was out of talent, or if it’s the laws of physics (which dictate that a 4000lb…

Trust Japan has had their “Minji-Saisei-Hou” (US equivalent of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing) reorganization plan successfully approved. This basically means that the government has accepted Trust’s plan to become…