How To Check and Set Engine Bearing Clearances
Running the proper clearances in the main and rod bearings are some of the most critical things to control when building an engine. Having the correct clearances means the difference…
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The Rest of the Engine for Project WRX
We have been getting parts to finish off the engine build on Project GD WRX. If you have been following the project you can check out what we have done…
Testing The CSF VF Engineering A90 A91 Supra Intake Manifold Intercooler
CSF Radiators in collaboration with VF Engineering is about to launch a new intake manifold for the A90 and A91 Toyota Supra with both the B58B30C and B58M30O1 engines –…
Project GD Subaru STI, Building the Engine Part Five: Final Engine Assembly With IAG.
In our last story, you saw how IAG Performance assembled our short block with meticulous care. Now our engine travels to the second of IAG’s two cleanrooms for final assembly.…
Project GD Subaru STI, Building the Engine Part Four: Assembling the Short Block With IAG.
If you have been following our EJ257 engine build series with IAG Performance, you have been able to look inside IAG’s incredible attention to detail in machining and parts selection. …
Project GD Subaru STI: Building the Engine Part Three, Cylinder Head Technology With IAG Performance.
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…
Jeep LS Swap Part 2: Donor Teardown
“You’re going to do what with this truck?” Wait, let me back up. When I started the not-so-harebrained-project of swapping my Jeep XJ’s lump of iron 4.0 for a Chevy Gen…
Project GD Subaru STI: Building the Engine Part Two, Bottom End Bits With IAG Performance.
In part one of our series of building the motor for Project GD STI we talked about the IAG Performance engine cases we are using and all of the prep…
Resurrecting Project FR-S: Greddy Oil Cooler
We had dusted off Project FR-S for an industry track day at Buttonwillow Raceway last month. While we had run the car in the winter on small courses like Streets…
Project GD Subaru STI, Building the Engine Part One, Prepping the Case With IAG Performance.
It had to happen eventually. Our Project STI was running great. We had plans to build the engine as our 400 whp was past the limit that a stock bottom…
Testing Red Line’s New SuperCool Coolant & CSF’s Tundra Radiator
Red Line has released a new high performance coolant that has its famous, and universally used in motorsports, Water Wetter surfactant additive pre blended in. Red Line Supercool comes in…
How to Measure Your Combustion Chamber Volume
It is very important to know your combustion chamber volume when building an engine so you can know your exact compression ratio or order the correct dome volume piston to…
WATCH: How to Build a Subaru EJ Engine that won’t BLOW UP!
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…
Project C7 Corvette Stingray, Gaining octane with Moroso’s Air Oil Separator
Getting oil in your intake tract is never a good thing. The worse thing is that an oil mist that gets sucked into your cylinders can cause the engine to…
Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Getting Some Serious Power With M-Engineering!
So you have probably been following the progress of our R35 GT-R build over the past few articles. We had installed a full complement of bolt-on power parts from Greddy,…
Happy 10th Birthday for the BorgWarner EFR Family of Turbochargers!
The MotoIQ family would like to wish the BorgWarner EFR Turbo a happy tenth birthday! It seems like just a few years ago when we first set eyes on the…
Jeep LS Swap Part 1: Introduction
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…
Project 987.2 Porsche Cayman S, More Butt Kicking Power than the GT4!
If you have been following Project Porsche 987 Cayman S, you have been seeing the engine power parts we have installed as well as the mods to improve cooling and…
Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Adding a Radium Coolant Tank
As we prepare our max effort bolt on GT-R engine for tuning we decided to use Radium Engineering’s Coolant tank as a final touch to clean up our engine compartment. …
Project 987.2 Cayman S: Cooling for the Track Part 2 with Bilt Racing Service
In our last segment of Project 987.2 Cayman, to prevent the dreaded on track overheating engine and transmission limp mode, we greatly increased our engine’s cooling capability by switching over…
Project 987.2 Cayman S: Cooling for the Track Part I with CSF Radiators
The 987 Porsche is known to have heating problems when driven on the track hard, especially ones that have the PDK transmission. PDK equipped cars can go into limp mode…
You Get What You Pay For But Sometimes You Don’t Get What You Need
Back in the annals of time, 2002 to be exact, a local Import car enthusiast purchased a High Performance SOHC Honda cylinder head from a nationally known High-Performance Import company.…
Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Helping the Breathing
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…
Project Budget 400WHP S197 Mustang Track Car: Part 2 – Finding out what it takes to make 400WHP
We strap our first-generation 5.0L “Coyote” V8-powered S197 Mustang to the dyno and test the 2018+ “Gen-3” intake manifold, K&N air intake, and tunes by Palm Beach Dyno to find…
Project 987.2 Cayman S: Getting More Out of the Engine to Chase the GT4 Part 3
In our last article we focused on freeing up the exhaust side of our 9A1 engine. Now we are working on freeing up the intake side of the engine for…
Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R Bolt On Power Mods Part 2, Fueling for 1000 Hp
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…
Project 987.2 Cayman S: Getting More Out of the Engine to Chase the GT4 Part 2
In previous segments of Project 987.2 Cayman we worked on our suspension and brakes to prepare our chassis for more power. Now it’s time to attack our 9A1 engine to…
Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Keeping Limp Mode Away With More Cooling
So the Achilles heel of the mighty R35 GT-R is one that plagues most Japanese high performance cars, an inadequate cooling system. We are not sure why this seems to…
Project EVO IX, Getting Lots of Power From the 4G63 With Link Engine Management Part 2
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…
Project DBA R35 Nissan GT-R, Bolt On Power Mods Part 1
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…
Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 4, Making the Big Power!
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…
Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 3
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…