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,…
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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…
What is WPC Treatment and Why Do We Use it?
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…
Building the Nissan VQ37VHR part 2
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…
Vapor Blasting: Restoring Metal to Better Than New
Traditional chemicals, parts washers, and hot tanks can only do so much to clean dirty car parts. When pride is taken in rebuilding anything from a carburetor to an entire…
Garrett Advancing Motion Honda Civic Si Intercooler Test!
Getting something for nothing is always a good thing. When modding a car, usually every modification has drawbacks. Get more power? Usually more power means more stress on things, more…
VQ37VHR Air to Air Supercharger Kit – Soho Motorsports
VQ37VHR Air to Air Supercharger Kit In part 1 of our G37 Supercharger for the VQ37VHR article we covered the Vortech V3 SI supercharger. In part 2 we covered the…
Building the Nissan VQ37VHR!
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…
WATCH: How to build a RELIABLE 1,400 Horsepower LS Engine!
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…
Modding the BMW 2002 Head Part 1 Beyond Porting
BMW 2002-cylinder heads are not the worst cylinder heads ever made to try and improve but they are definitely in the running. The 2002 port runners are short and the…
The CSF Evo X, Building a Time Attack Worthy 4B11 Engine Part 1
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…
The Car Lovers Guide to Japan, Tomei
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…
Building a 650 hp Naturally Aspirated Drift Spec LS3 Part 2
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…
WATCH: 650whp “Moderate” Naturally Aspirated LS Build!
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…
Getting the Most From 91 Octane Pump Gas with a Honda K Motor, Part Four
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…
Building a Drift Spec LS3
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…