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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…
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Project AE86, Repairing the Chassis

  • Posted on March 9, 2025
  • byMike Kojima
One of the pitfalls of buying a car sight unseen is that sometimes the car may be worse in areas than you were hoping. This was true with our project…
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Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 36 – I Can’t Stop (Enough)

  • Posted on August 13, 2024August 29, 2024
  • byErik Jacobs
Project SC300 ain’t dead. It’s just taking a bit of a vacation. Those who know me more personally understand that there was a rough few years of family-related issues of…
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Project Do It All S13, Chassis Fabrication part 3 With ZSM Customs

  • Posted on April 21, 2024
  • byMike Kojima
If you have been following the progress of our S13 project, we have been working with ZSM Customs to do our track-worthy chassis mods for both safety and chassis stiffness. …
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Project Do It All S13, Chassis Fabrication part 2 With ZSM Customs

  • Posted on March 31, 2024
  • byMike Kojima
From our last article, we are continuing to build on the body structure of our S13 to both improve handling and safety. ZSM Customs cut out the spare tire well…
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Project Do It All S13, Starting the Chassis Fabrication With ZSM Customs

  • Posted on March 17, 2024March 19, 2024
  • byMike Kojima
The S13 is known to have a pretty weak body and we wanted to strethen things up to make it safer.  We are going to send the car to ZSM…
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Don’t Die! Lifeline Increases the Safety of Project S13 Do It All!

  • Posted on December 4, 2023
  • byMike Kojima
We have been around several fire incidents lately that have given us a renewed focus on safety, particularly fire safety.  We were at Gridlife Laguna Seca when an A91 Supra…
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Turbocharging the Nissan MR20DD Engine, Part 4, The Turbo System

  • Posted on October 31, 2023October 31, 2023
  • byMike Kojima
If you have been following our series on building the Turbo Nissan MR20DD engine, you can read about our analysis of the engine in the first chapter, the engine internals…
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Strengthening and Improving the Geometry of the S13 Subframe With GKTech and ZSM Custom

  • Posted on December 11, 2022December 11, 2022
  • byMike Kojima
Since were are building the ultimate suspension system for our S13 with GKTech, we also got some of their parts to beef up the often ignored rear subframe. With stronger…
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Project C8 Corvette, Getting Track Safe with Peitz Performance and Simpson Safety

  • Posted on October 10, 2021
  • byMike Kojima
Since we have upgraded our C8’s wheels, tires, brakes, and suspension, the car is starting to turn some seriously fast lap times (1:52’s at Buttonwillow CW 13). We found that…
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Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 33 – A quick, dry break with Radium Engineering

  • Posted on January 25, 2021September 12, 2021
  • byErik Jacobs
While you haven’t heard from Project SC300 in a minute, it hasn’t been entirely idle. We took the car out to Carolina Motorsports Park last November for some additional testing…
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Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 28 – Getting Safer with Sabelt

  • Posted on January 12, 2020December 26, 2021
  • byErik Jacobs
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 28 – Getting Safer with Sabelt by Erik Jacobs Earlier in the year I had gotten all new safety equipment and detailed the journey to…
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Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 23 – Wider is better! Getting Clearance with a Wide Body Kit.

  • Posted on September 9, 2019
  • byErik Jacobs
Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 23 – Wider is better! by Erik Jacobs We had brakes, we had suspension, we had refreshed hubs, and we had a scary, twitchy car…
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Project SR E30: Part 8 – Fabricating a Custom Stainless Steel Oval Exhaust

  • Posted on June 9, 2019
  • byNikita Rushmanov
Part 8??? Wow, we are getting close to the end now! Can we make it a 10 part series?  If we had to pick one thing on this car that…
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Project STurdteen, Plumbing the Motor and Getting Her Ready to Run!

  • Posted on April 28, 2019September 24, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
So we have rebuilt the engine and the transmission for Rathyna’s Turd.  Now came the job of putting the engine back in the car and undoing the clusterfuck of plumbing…
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Project S2000: Part 26 – Air to Water Intercooler Setup

  • Posted on March 25, 2019March 31, 2019
  • byKhiem Dinh
For my low-speed/max-response turbo S2000 project, I decided to go with an air-to-water setup. Auto-x is the environment I’m designing for where you’re sitting idling for long periods of time…
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Project SR E30: Part 6 – Catch Can, Plumbing and Throttle Cable

  • Posted on March 6, 2019
  • byNikita Rushmanov
We’re back! After a short break, the SR E30 saga continues! In the last episode, we painted the engine bay and installed the SR20 back into the car… through the…
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Update: The Team America BNR32 Is On Its Wheels Again!

  • Posted on January 16, 2019January 16, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
If you have been following the saga of the Team America BNR32 you know it has been in hiatus for quite a while. Brian Kono of Afterhours Automotive has been…
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BMW Powered Toyota 86 – Roll Cage, Pedal Box & Fuel Cell

  • Posted on September 11, 2018September 27, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
The Toyota 86 (FR-S or BRZ) does everything quite well, right up until the moment you mash the throttle. The chassis would make an amazing race car, but something has…
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A Proper Primer on Personal Protection

  • Posted on June 29, 2018July 9, 2018
  • byErik Jacobs
A Proper Primer on Personal Protection by Erik Jacobs In the time between the SC300 getting dyno tuned and our first track day (complete with transmission soup), I had some…
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Dai Yoshihara’s 2018 Formula Drift Rebuild Conclusion

  • Posted on April 9, 2018July 2, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
Dai Yoshihara's 2018 Formula Drift Rebuild Conclusion by Mike Kojima   So if you have been following along with our mini-series on what an end of season refresh on Pro…
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Dai Yoshihara’s 2018 Formula Drift Rebuild Continued!

  • Posted on March 21, 2018July 2, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
Dai Yoshihara's 2018 Formula Drift Rebuild Continued! by Mike Kojima   So the rush to freshen Dai's car for 2018 by Eimer Engineering continues. In our last story, the chassis had gotten…
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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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Dai Yoshihara’s 2018 Formula Drift Rebuild

  • Posted on February 6, 2018July 2, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
Dai Yoshihara’s 2018 Formula Drift Rebuild by Mike Kojima After 3 years of Formula Drift competition, our team had pretty much developed the BRZ chassis to where we were satisfied with…
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Project SR E30: Part 2 – Making Custom Motor Mounts

  • Posted on December 14, 2017July 25, 2018
  • byNikita Rushmanov
In the last episode, we managed to make an SR20DET fit inside an E30. Now it’s time to actually make it stay there. In this installment, we will be fabricating…
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Fabricating Turbo Headers and Exhaust Systems with Eimer Engineering and Burns Stainless

  • Posted on March 28, 2016July 2, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
Fabricating Turbo Headers and Exhaust Systems with Eimer Engineering and Burns Stainless by Mike Kojima How do you make a good turbo system even better?  We did it by enlisting…
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Project Pure Performance E46 Time Attack

  • Posted on January 26, 2016February 26, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
Project Pure Performance E46 Time Attack by Mike Kojima In the pages of MotoIQ, we have partnered with Pure Performance in Laguna Hills California for many of our BMW projects.…
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Project V8 RX-7: Part 17 – Eimer Engineering Arms, Wheel Spacers and the Hunt for Perfect Stance

  • Posted on August 12, 2015July 1, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
Project V8 RX-7: Part 17 – Eimer Engineering Arms, Wheel Spacers and the Hunt for Perfect Stance by Mike Kojima In our last Project V8 RX-7 article, we left you with photos…
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Project Ford Fiesta ST- Making the Jump to a Race Car with SPD Motorsports Part 2!

  • Posted on April 14, 2015July 3, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
Project Ford Fiesta ST- Making the Jump to a Race Car with SPD Motorsports Part 2! by Mike Kojima When we last left our Project Ford Fiesta ST it was…
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Project Ford Fiesta ST- Making the Jump to a Race Car with SPD Motorsports!

  • Posted on March 6, 2015July 3, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
Project Ford Fiesta ST- Making the Jump to a Race Car With SPD Motorsports! by Mike Kojima Project Fiesta ST’s owner started to really get the track day bug after…
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ARK Design Team America BNR32 GT-R Update

  • Posted on September 9, 2014July 3, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
The Andrew Brilliant designed splitter is amazing and somewhat agricultural in appearance.  Given the team’s budget and time constraints, Andrew was not commissioned to make it look beautiful; only functional. I can…
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ARK Design Team America BNR32 GT-R Update

  • Posted on September 9, 2014July 3, 2018
  • byMike Kojima
The Andrew Brilliant designed splitter is amazing and somewhat agricultural in appearance.  Given the team’s budget and time constraints, Andrew was not commissioned to make it look beautiful; only functional. I can…

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