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More Power for your Electrical system! (Most Race Cars and Drift cars Need This)

  • Posted on May 30, 2022
  • byMike Kojima
Power demands on modified cars, particularly race cars have been going up and up in the past few years.  More power means more electrical demand from stuff like bigger fans…
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Cutting Big Weight From Project STI With AntiGravity Batteries and MeleDesign Firm

  • Posted on April 17, 2022
  • byMike Kojima
While we are going through Project GD STI, repowering it and upgrading many of its systems, we thought it would be nice to replace the car’s heavy AGM battery with…
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Project Tundra, Changing the Rest of the Lights with Headlight Revolution

  • Posted on February 6, 2022
  • byMike Kojima
Since we had such great results upgrading the front lights on our Tundra with modern LED lights we decided to also upgrade the rear lights on our truck with LED…
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Project Tundra, Game Changing Lights With Turner LED’s

  • Posted on December 20, 2021December 21, 2021
  • byMike Kojima
Our Tundra was badly in need of help in the lighting department.  Being 11 years old, the factory lights were definitely old technology and low-end being run-of-the-mill halogen instead of…
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Antigravity Battery saves weight for TAG Karts and other Powersports

  • Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021
  • byMike Kojima
So Christa Kojima is a retired Kart racer. She quit due to having to study a lot for college. During her winter break, she took out her old 125cc Jr…
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OPTIMA Deep Cycle Power for the MotoIQ Trailer!

  • Posted on January 26, 2021January 27, 2021
  • byMike Kojima
The MotoIQ shop trailer has an electric jack and winch that are powered by its own battery, and like any trailer it sits around for long periods of time.  Not…
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Jeep LS Swap Part 1: Introduction

  • Posted on November 29, 2020December 2, 2020
  • bySteve Rockwood
If you had told 20-something me that I would stop racing, only have one operational SR20-powered vehicle (an off-road buggy, no less), daily drive a RWD V8 pony car, and…
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Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Helping the Breathing

  • Posted on October 25, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
The CBA R35 GT-R which was made from 2009 to 2011 was held back significantly by a restrictive air intake. This was improved in 2012 in the more powerful DBA…
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Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R Bolt On Power Mods Part 2, Fueling for 1000 Hp

  • Posted on October 14, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
The stock fuel system of the R35 GT-R is not adequate for anything much more involved than a mild reflash.  The stock fuel pump and injectors do not have much…
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Power To Go: Doubling My RV’s Battery Capacity!

  • Posted on September 16, 2020September 18, 2020
  • byFrank Ewald
Power to go camping off grid with no access to electrical power, that is! Over the years in my writing with MotoIQ, there are two vehicles that I constantly refer…
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Project EVO IX, Getting Lots of Power From the 4G63 With Link Engine Management Part 2

  • Posted on September 7, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
When we last left of, we had tuned our Project Evo IX to run on a Link Plug and Play stand alone ECU and had done some preliminary dyno work…
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Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Bolt On Power Mods Part 1

  • Posted on August 23, 2020September 22, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
Our last work on our project R35 GT-R was to do the suspension and brakes to bring them up to a high level and address some of the R35’s shortcomings…
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Testing SDHQ Offroads Heavy Duty Battery Terminals

  • Posted on August 12, 2020August 15, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
So who would have thought that battery terminals are a critical off-road performance part!  It did not occur to us and we almost got stranded in the middle of nowhere…
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Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 4, Making the Big Power!

  • Posted on July 29, 2020July 30, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
You have probably been following our build of an NA VQ37VHR engine and are probably dying to to see how much power we can get out of it and frankly…
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Project Tundra, Fix the Battery Hold Down!

  • Posted on June 5, 2020June 8, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
So we were out doing some offroad suspension tuning on Project Tundra’s Icon Vehicle Dynamics suspension for an upcoming article when we discovered something that is overlooked but an important…
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Project Ford E350 Tow Rig: Part 4 – Calling for backup!

  • Posted on April 1, 2020April 1, 2020
  • byErik Jacobs
Project Ford E350 Tow Rig: Part 4 – Calling for backup! by Erik Jacobs It’s been a minute since we’ve last seen Project E350, but it’s still very much around,…
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Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 26 – It’s Getting Hot in Here, so Chillout!

  • Posted on December 12, 2019December 13, 2019
  • byErik Jacobs
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 26 – It’s Getting Hot in Here, so Chillout! When we left the SC300 we had the body kit completely installed and then were off…
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Getting More Power From the 4G63 With Link Engine Managment

  • Posted on October 13, 2019December 9, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
Photography by Vincent Soto Now that we have accumulated all of the cool parts for our Project Evo IX it is time to start getting it all together to integrate…
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Project Subaru GD STI, Improving The Ignition System!

  • Posted on September 19, 2019September 24, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
Nowadays it is hard to improve the ignition on late model cars.  New car ignitions, especially ones with coil on plug systems are more powerful from the factory than racing…
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Portable Data Acquisition and Logging – AEM Electronics CD-5

  • Posted on June 11, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
The AEM Electronics CD-5  Digital Dash Display is more than just a pretty digital dash for a race car. At MotoIQ we have been using one for all sorts of…
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Project SR E30: Part 7 – Wiring and First Startup!

  • Posted on May 19, 2019
  • byNikita Rushmanov
Hello! Welcome to the 7th installment in our hardheaded adventure of SR swapping a BMW E30. As you may recall, in part 6, we finished up some plumbing and installed…
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Watch: LiteBlox Ultralightweight Drop In Battery for the Porsche 911

  • Posted on April 12, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
  Want to get rid of 42 pounds of weight from your Porsche 911? LiteBox makes it easy.  We show how easy it is to install and what effects it…
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Monitoring the S2000’s F20C Engine with Autometer!

  • Posted on March 10, 2019March 13, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
When we last left our AP1 S2000, we had just installed a Canton Racing Products baffled high capacity oil pan to help assure that our F20C engine would always have a…
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Save 42 Pounds off of your car with Lite Blox Batteries!

  • Posted on November 28, 2018November 29, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
The Porsche GT3 RS is a car that uses a lot of exotic materials to try to reduce its weight. Much of the car is made out of lightweight materials…
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Ultimate SR20 Rebuild Guide: Part 2 – Selecting Your Engine Management

  • Posted on October 29, 2018
  • byNikita Rushmanov
In the last installment we disassembled our SR20 in preparation for machining. Now comes the fun part where we get to pick all the parts for the new build! We’re…
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How To Build A Backup Battery System

  • Posted on September 18, 2018September 18, 2018
  • byFrank Ewald
Power to go! There are times when all of us want electricity when we are miles from the nearest electrical outlet. Two key components to having power on the go…
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  • EVO IX
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Ignition system upgrade for the Mitsubishi EVO 8 / 9 – 4G63 engine.

  • Posted on August 7, 2018September 19, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
We’re upgrading our Project Evo IX 4G63 motor with high-performance Ignition Projects – ignition coil IP-A133201 which features a high-power built-in spark amplifier, producing 4 times the spark energy and…
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Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 17 – Get out there! Or not…

  • Posted on June 28, 2018October 9, 2018
  • byErik Jacobs
With the car idling and most of the core sensors configured, we needed to keep moving forward in our electronics configuration in order to get to a point where we…
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Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 16 – We have ignition!

  • Posted on May 13, 2018October 9, 2018
  • byErik Jacobs
In the last segment, we said that we had finished wiring everything, but that’s not quite true. There were just a couple of finishing touches to sort through and then…
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Team America BNR32 GT-R First Update in a Long Time!

  • Posted on March 19, 2018July 3, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
Team America BNR32 GT-R First Update in a Long Time! by Mike Kojima   So most of you probably thought that the Team America GT-R was dead, long abandoned to…
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Tested! Weego’s Lunch Box Automotive Power Source

  • Posted on October 5, 2017July 2, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
Tested! Weego's Lunch Box Automotive Power Source By Mike Kojima   We get all sorts of cool stuff in the mail at MotoIQ's palatial mega-garage. Manufacturers send us stuff in hopes that…
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Testing the AEM Electronics X Series Air Fuel Ratio Gauge: Part 1

  • Posted on December 27, 2015July 2, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
Testing the AEM Electronics X Series Air Fuel Ratio Gauge: Part 1 by Mike Kojima How do you make a really good air fuel ratio gauge even better?  Well that's…

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