Cams and Valvetrain Archives

Project GD Subaru STI: Building the Engine Part Three, Cylinder Head Technology With IAG Performance.

Posted on May 23, 2021June 9, 2021
byMike Kojima

The cylinder head is one of the most important parts when it comes to making power in an engine. Although headwork is less critical in a turbo engine than a…

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WATCH: How to Build a Subaru EJ Engine that won’t BLOW UP!

Posted on March 6, 2021
byJeff Naeyaert

Time to dust off Project Bugeye WRX and start putting its new engine together. We’ll show you all the parts that will be going into our EJ20 build, along…

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Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 3

Posted on July 5, 2020July 30, 2020
byMike Kojima

In our last segment of building the ultimate NA VQ37VHR, we assembled the long block of our engine. Now its ready to drop into the 370Z chassis. We had a…

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What is WPC Treatment and Why Do We Use it?

Posted on July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
byMike Kojima

Wonder why we use this mysterious WPC Treatment on so many of our engine builds? Let us explain what WPC is and how it works. It’s an inexpensive…

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Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 2

Posted on July 1, 2020July 30, 2020
byMike Kojima

In our last story, we gave you a sneak peek and a technical overview of the parts we were going to use on our naturally aspirated VQ37VHR engine with some…

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Building the Nissan VQ37VHR!

Posted on May 10, 2020July 30, 2020
byMike Kojima

The Nissan VQ37VHR is a notoriously difficult engine to modify in naturally aspirated form. This is due to its VVEL continual variable cam timing system on the intake side of…

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WATCH: How to build a RELIABLE 1,400 Horsepower LS Engine!

Posted on May 7, 2020
byJeff Naeyaert

Today in the MotoIQ Garage we’re building a 1,400 horsepower LS based engine that will be powering Dai Yoshihara’s Formula Drift BRZ but could be used for any…

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The CSF Evo X, Building a Time Attack Worthy 4B11 Engine Part 1

Posted on April 12, 2020April 12, 2020
byMike Kojima

We are tackling the building of a 4B11 engine for the Time Attack Evo X built by CSF Cooling. The car was previously a big hit on the SEMA/Show circuit…

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The Car Lovers Guide to Japan, Tomei

Posted on April 7, 2020
byMike Kojima

As a treat, we got to visit Tomei’s facility located in Machida City, a suburb in Western Tokyo. Most of you know of Tomei as the supplier of top quality…

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Building a 650 hp Naturally Aspirated Drift Spec LS3 Part 2

Posted on March 22, 2020March 23, 2020
byMike Kojima

In the first installment of our drift spec LS3 build, we discussed our parts selection and listed the part numbers for building a 650 whp NA monster with parts from…

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WATCH: 650whp “Moderate” Naturally Aspirated LS Build!

Posted on February 20, 2020
byJeff Naeyaert

Today in the MotoIQ Garage we’re building a Chevrolet LS3 engine for a customer’s drift car but this particular build could be easily tweaked for road racing or…

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Getting the Most From 91 Octane Pump Gas with a Honda K Motor, Part Four

Posted on February 4, 2020November 10, 2020
byMike Kojima

In our last articles, we gathered the parts and assembled out low octane Honda K motors for our sleeper DC5 RSX Type S project car. Our engine was intended to…

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Building a Drift Spec LS3

Posted on January 29, 2020February 3, 2020
byMike Kojima

There is a lot of interest in the LS world nowadays. The LS is rapidly becoming the king of motors, surpassing the Honda B and K series or the 2JZ…

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Getting the Most From 91 Octane Pump Gas with a Honda K Motor, Part Three

Posted on January 5, 2020November 10, 2020
byMike Kojima

In the last installment of our pump gas Honda K Motor project, we discussed the engines top end with a Drag Cartel cylinder head which was going to nicely complement…

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WATCH: Mission Impossible – Building the Nissan VQ37VHR!

Posted on December 20, 2019December 20, 2019
byJeff Naeyaert

You may not know it but MotoIQ was born and bred by a bunch of Nissan dorks.. Bring the best minds we’ve got together with the companies that…

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Getting the Most From 91 Octane Pump Gas with a Honda K Motor, Part Two

Posted on November 24, 2019November 10, 2020
byMike Kojima

In our last article, we discussed the modifications needed to the bottom end on our super pump gas Honda K series engine to get it up to snuff. Now we…

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WATCH: How to Get 150hp/liter from your Honda!

Posted on October 24, 2019December 26, 2019
byJeff Naeyaert

Today in the MotoIQ Garage we’re building a hybrid K24 Honda engine for a customer who wants to get the most power out of his daily driven Acura…

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Restoring a Legend, Building a LS3 For Falken’s Championship Winning S13, Part One

Posted on May 5, 2019October 3, 2019
byMike Kojima

The Discount Tire/Falken S13 that Dai Yoshihara drove to many podiums and a Formula Drift championship now resides with Falken Tire where it does duty as a promotional demo car. …

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Project STurdteen: Building the SR20DET Engine

Posted on March 31, 2019April 9, 2019
byMike Kojima

Rathyna’s S13 drift car’s engine was thoroughly hammered with little compression. In our last article, we rebuilt her cylinder head with Portflow Design replacing her worn valve guides and eroded…

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Building the 1.6 liter Ecoboost Engine with mountune Part 1-Project Ford Fiesta ST Race Car

Posted on August 26, 2018August 27, 2018
byMike Kojima

Its been awhile since we did an update on Project Ford Fiesta ST Racecar. Until now we have been working on the chassis but now its time to go through…

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Giving the LS3 More Power With Comp Cams and FAST!

Posted on July 30, 2018July 31, 2018
byMike Kojima

If you have been a long time reader of MotoIQ, you probably know of our Social Media Manager, Rathyna Gomer’s LS-powered 350Z drift car. Rathyna is known around here to…

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Inside the 1000 hp LS, Dai Yoshihara’s Formula Drift Powerplant

Posted on May 14, 2018July 2, 2018
byMike Kojima

Inside the 1000 hp LS, Dai Yoshihara’s Formula Drift Powerplant By Mike Kojima MotoIQ Garage has taken over the development of Dai Yoshihara’s engine program for the last two years…

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Building an FA20 Race Engine for Michele Abbate: Part 2

Posted on January 27, 2018August 9, 2018
byMike Kojima

So when we last left off, we were putting together some awesome parts for Michele’s engine and were about to embark on assembling it. In the interest of long-term durability, we…

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Building an FA20 Race Engine for Michele Abbate: Part 1

Posted on November 25, 2017August 9, 2018
byMike Kojima

We have known Michele Abbate ever since she was a college student doing track days with her trusty Mazdaspeed Protege and have followed her career as friends as she has…

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Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine Part 3, Assembling the Engine

Posted on January 4, 2017July 2, 2018
byMike Kojima

Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine Part 3, Assembling the Engine By Mike Kojima In the previous two installments of our engine build, you were able to take a look…

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Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine with Drag Cartel! Part 2

Posted on November 29, 2016July 2, 2018
byMike Kojima

Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine with Drag Cartel! Part 2 by Mike Kojima In the last edition of building the naturally aspirated K24, we were showing some of…

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Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine! Part 1

Posted on August 31, 2016July 2, 2018
byMike Kojima

Building the Naturally Aspirated Honda K Engine! Part 1 by Mike Kojima The Honda K series of engines is one of our favorites and one of the top production inline…

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Demystifying the Camshaft: Part 2 – Terminology

Posted on February 8, 2016July 12, 2018
byJonathanSpiegel

Demystifying the Camshaft: Part 2 – Terminology by Jonathan Spiegel In the first installment of this series, we took a fairly in-depth look at valve events, which, simply put, are…

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Project 5.0 Mustang: Getting More Power and Durability with Ford Racing

Posted on October 29, 2015January 28, 2020
byMike Kojima

We have just about maximized the bolt on potential of Project 5.0 Mustang in our last installment with the addition of the Ford Racing Cobra Jet intake manifold. Now, in…

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Matt Powers and the AEM Infinity 58X LS Plug and Play System

Posted on September 9, 2015July 2, 2018
byMike Kojima

Matt Powers and the AEM Infinity 58X LS Plug and Play System by Mike Kojima It's been a long time coming and we have been eagerly anticipating it, but now…

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Project 350Z- Building a New Engine Part 3

Posted on August 24, 2015July 2, 2018
byMike Kojima

Project 350Z: Building a New Engine Part 3 by Mike Kojima In our last edition of Project 350Z we started to assemble our VQ35DE and got the bottom end pretty…

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Extreme Engine Tech: Building the Ultimate K24 Part 3- The Finished Goods!

Posted on June 9, 2015October 27, 2020
byMike Kojima

We have been working with Motovicity for the last few weeks to demonstrate the building of a potent Honda K24Z7 motor, built completely from in stock and off the shelf parts…