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Project Do It All S13, Engine Control and Electrical System Control with Haltech

  • Posted on June 14, 2025
  • byMike Kojima
With a ton of other projects that have come to MotoIQ HQ, our Project S13 was sort of put on a minor back burner for a bit, but we are…
Project Civic Racecar Waits for Tech Inspection
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Project EF Civic Racecar: Witchcraft & Wizardry

  • Posted on April 28, 2025
  • byDave Zipf
We already documented that on our first shakedown, we found a massive oil leak.  Our second shakedown went better as we were at least able to complete two whole days…
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Validating AEM Electronics’ Improved Wideband AFR Sensor

  • Posted on April 20, 2025
  • byMike Kojima
For many years, the industry standard sensor for consumer-grade wide-band fuel/air ratio meters has been the Bosch LSU 4.9 Sensor.  This was for a good reason, the LSU sensor is…
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Project Evo IX, Fixing Battery Issues With AntiGravity and Mele Design

  • Posted on July 14, 2024
  • byMike Kojima
We had installed a lightweight Lithium battery in our Project Evo a couple of years ago and it bricked while we were storing the car during the rainy season, despite…
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SDHQ Offroads Gen II Heavy Duty Battery Terminals

  • Posted on November 29, 2023
  • byMike Kojima
After shredding our OEM ones during hard off-road driving, we had previously evaluated SDHQ’s heavy-duty battery terminals.  The newer terminals were a lot better than the super weak stock parts…
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Hypertech REACT Revisited

  • Posted on March 23, 2023March 28, 2023
  • byMike Kojima
It is not often that I feel compelled to revisit a product in a positive way but I am so in love with Hypertech’s REACT drive-by-wire throttle controller that I…
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Hypertech REACT Eliminates the Annoying Toyota Tundra Overly Sensitive Throttle

  • Posted on February 12, 2023February 15, 2023
  • byMike Kojima
One of the things that really annoyed us about Project Tundra was the exaggerated throttle swell programmed into the drive-by-wire throttle.  Toyota seemingly did this to make Tundra owners think…
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Fix Your BMW Power Mirrors For Cheap!

  • Posted on February 9, 2023February 13, 2023
  • byMike Kojima
Have your BMW power folding mirrors stopped working? We’re going to show you how to repair them with some readily available parts. If you have an older BMW with vertical…
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Fixing the GD WRX Fuel System with Radium Engineering and DeatschWerks

  • Posted on December 18, 2022December 20, 2022
  • byMike Kojima
On our Project GD STI we upgraded the fuel system using a Radium Engineering fuel hanger and a single large Walbro TIA450 fuel pump.  However, we found that Subaru wiring…
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Project GD STI, Fixing all the Details!

  • Posted on September 25, 2022September 28, 2022
  • byMike Kojima
There are a lot of small details involved with swapping an engine, especially when upgrading all of the system parts for higher performance.  These make the difference in the reliability…
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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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  • EVO IX
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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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  • 991 GT3RS
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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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