Beyond the Dyno

  The cars are getting faster every year which is pretty exciting. Almost all of the cars below are now faster than the Cyber EVO from a couple years ago.…

  Does that look good or what? The center lock wheels are DOPE. Is Nissan building a 600hp Le Mans edition R35 GT-R for the street? I don’t think so.…

  I’m glad that SEMA is over this year. While it is overall a pain in the ass, it’s a necessary evil to develop new business and show off your…

  I have spent the last month or so prepping the Red Dragon with Tyler, Keith, Lew, and the new Eric. Since Ark Design’s engineer had a delay from Japan,…

  Pretty damn clean, huh? I thought it was a G37 at first.

  Cosworth has just released the 4B11T camshafts for the EVOX and the new Ralliart Lancer. This is the first available grind for the new Mitsubishi 4B11T engine called the…

  I got an email from Ecutek this morning on this. This is good news for the professional tuners all around the world who can read English. I’m ordering this…

I realize that I have been lagging pretty hard on posting original material. If you notice, my last several posts have basically been rehashes of OPP (other people’s…..property). Time is…

Roger Clark Motorsport Time Attack PRO Winner 2008 from Clashproduction on Vimeo. Andy from Cosworth UK sent me this link. Notice how well sorted the car’s suspension is. Even when…

Somebody sent me a link to this video. This video is very obviously not a Cosworth production so it’s not a web marketing sneak attack or anything. Anyhow, its great…

I was going through a search for Cosworth and found this site on motorcycle engine development for Honda 400cc road racing motorcycle engine. On this site, G-Force breaks down their…

Here’s a little break from the monotony of cars, engines, horsepower, and my incessant bitching about cheap ass Chinaman products and his cheap fuck customers. Eddie at Mackin sent me…

  Before I started working at Cosworth, the guys here were working on a “low budget” drag Subaru EJ257 engine program. The quotes are there because the term is relative.…

The AMS EVO 8 drag car is FAST. I believe its the world’s fastest drag EVO so congratulations to the AMS crew are in order. AMS EVO Goes 8.42 @168.7…

Here’s some new video from GT Channel on some Japanese muscle cars. I’m over the 4 banger shit for now. Nothing against most 4 banger owners, but is it any…

Congratulations to Ecutek, ADR Motorsports, Ralliart UK, and all others involved for finishing the 24 hour Britcar race at Silverstone with a completely stock engine. This was the car’s first…

While finishing my Lexus the other day over at XS, Rob from D-Sport mag was over there finishing up his dyno testing on a brand new Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart. If…

I’m out here at Big Bear Lake and I have to say it is absolutely beautiful here. No cars for two days is great too. Troy has a time share…

Recently all around me have been Nissan VQs. There’s the Cosworth Castrol Top Shop engine that I have been coordinating and tuning at Cosworth, then over at XS they are…

Motorsports improves the breed. Too bad it won’t improve the way the 2008 Impreza hatchback looks (I dig the sedan actually), but at least Subaru is racing it. It looks…

Japan’s largest credit research company Teikoku Databank announced that automotive parts manufacturer Trust filed for bankruptcy on September 10th, 2008. Trust also known abroad as Greddy is reported to be…

Calling all ballers and baller companies: 2 ex-Champ Car telemetry and track support trailers for sale. Asking price $140,000 each or best offer. No reasonable offer refused. Perfect for mobile…

Progress is slow on the Red Dragon since everybody is busy all the time. Lew is currently working on the suspension. In our search to create a perfect Impreza, I…

About three weeks ago I walked up to my desk in the morning at Cosworth and there was this big ass red box sitting on my chair. I was thinking…

Steve at M-Workz sent me some links the other day to some interesting stuff on the RJN Motorsports 350Z that raced at the 24 hours of Nurburgring. You can see…

I was talking to Troy at XS earlier today and he mentioned that he just put up a bunch of kick ass parts on the XS Ebay store that are…

Legendary driver Phil Hill passed away today at age 81. He is the legendary American race car driver that put Americans on the motorsports map. Back in those days, Americans…

I really wonder why people don’t understand how critical the condition of the sealing surfaces of the deck of a block and the fire face of the cylinder head is…

I have been way busy lately spending a lot of time putting my GS300 back to stock. Or at least that was the original plan. I was going to return…

  Sometime back in the mid 80’s before I had a license, I remember checking out a Road & Track magazine where they did a road test of a 1984…