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How to Adjust Your Shocks Like A Pro and Go Faster Part 3: 3,4 and 5-Way Adjustable Shocks With Advanced Techniques

  • Posted on May 22, 2023May 30, 2023
  • byMike Kojima
Ah, now it’s time for the third and last edition of this series on shock tuning.  We are gonna talk about how to adjust 3 to 5 way adjustable shocks…
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KW Update and Refurbishing Service for our S13 Drift Grip Project Car!

  • Posted on May 7, 2023May 7, 2023
  • byMike Kojima
We had gotten a set of excellent GKTech suspension parts for our project S13 and had finished welding up, reinforcing, and relocating the lower control arms pick-up points on the…
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How to Adjust Your Shocks, Part Two- Double Adjustable Shocks

  • Posted on March 5, 2023March 5, 2023
  • byMike Kojima
In our first article of this series, I talked about the very basics of shock adjustment in general, basic shock damping technology, and how to adjust single adjustable shocks.  For…
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How to Adjust Your Shocks, Part One- Single Adjustable Shocks

  • Posted on February 5, 2023March 5, 2023
  • byMike Kojima
A lot of the art of shock adjustment is seemingly pretty basic, but as a Motorsports Engineer and someone who is hired frequently to sort out ill-handling cars, I have…
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Ken Block’s Killer Pikes Peak 911!

  • Posted on May 18, 2022March 30, 2023
  • byMike Kojima
We got to get an early look at Ken Blocks super awesome 1400 hp, mid-engine, tube frame, unequal length A-arm suspension, AWD, Porsche 911 this week and boy are we…
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30 years of KW – from a one-man business to a global entrepreneurial group

  • Posted on May 17, 2022
  • byMike Kojima
If you are a long-time reader of MotoIQ, you know we partner with KW Suspension in many of our internal projects and much of the Motorsports stuff that we are…
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Street Friendly (And California Legal) GD Subaru STI Build! Part Two Streetable Suspension

  • Posted on May 15, 2022
  • byMike Kojima
In our first story on our practical daily STI build, we worked over the worn OEM brakes with DBA rotors and Hawk Performance Pads adding a Cobb short shifter into…
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KW 3-Way Clubsports for the Evo IX. The Ultimate, All Weather, Daily Driving Shocks!

  • Posted on May 3, 2022
  • byMike Kojima
In the past, to get 3-way adjustable damping on your car, you need to invest in really high-dollar sophisticated race-grade dampers.  The trouble with this kind of shock is that…
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Refreshing a BMW E46 M3 for Street Performance with KW V2 Suspension

  • Posted on December 14, 2021December 14, 2021
  • byMike Kojima
The MotoIQ garage often does a lot of high-end work with pretty much state of the art components but sometimes we also do work for customers that want high-quality stuff…
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The Shape of Things to Come: Evasive Motorsports Pikes Peak/Time Attack Tesla Model 3

  • Posted on August 15, 2021August 30, 2021
  • byMike Kojima
Like it or not, the electric revolution is coming.  Electric cars already outpower IC-driven ones in contests of acceleration and as battery technology and battery management improves, it’s only a…
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WATCH: Why The C8 Corvette Sucks.. and how we’re fixing it!

  • Posted on August 13, 2021August 13, 2021
  • byJeff Naeyaert
  In this video we’re back under our Project C8 addressing some of the few shortcomings we’ve found in the new C8 Corvette! With the help of an Essex Racing…
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Camaro ZL-1 Handling fix with KW Suspension

  • Posted on August 8, 2021
  • byMike Kojima
The     ZL-1 Camaro with the 1LE package is Chevrolet’s top-of-the-line performance model.  The ILE option package after a brief hiatus returned to the 5th generation Camaro from 2013…
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Project Viper: Part 13 – Lowering the car with KW Coilovers

  • Posted on July 28, 2021
  • byBilly Johnson
2nd Generation Vipers desperately need to be lowered.  We accomplished this with a set of coilovers from KW Suspension. The Viper’s stock suspension is actually quite good.  The ride quality…
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KW Suspension Trackfest/Tech Expo 2020

  • Posted on February 25, 2021March 2, 2021
  • byMike Kojima
With the 2020 SEMA show canceled due to the Covid pandemic, KW Suspension, in lieu of having their SEMA booth decided to bring a bit of a trade show to…
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Inside KW Suspensions Solid Piston Shock Technology

  • Posted on September 13, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
We were recently at KW Suspensions North American headquarters for some new product training and we got to take apart some of their latest technology, the innovative solid piston damper.…
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Inside KW Suspensions New EXR valve system!

  • Posted on August 9, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
hys·ter·e·sis /ˌhistəˈrēsis/ noun The phenomenon in which the value of a physical property lags behind changes in the effect causing it. Reducing hysteresis is something that shock designers have worked…
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Nordschleife BTG 7:17 in 321 HP BMW E36 M3

  • Posted on July 19, 2020July 21, 2020
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Nordschleife-BTG 7:17 in 321 hp BMW E36 M3 with KW Competition 4A Imagine how sick that is! While many people are always trying to get more engine power first, many…
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Project Acura RSX Sleeper, Buttoning Up the Project With Suspension!

  • Posted on March 29, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
We left off in our last edition of Project DC5 RSX with some killer brakes by Stoptech that brought our cars stopping power in line with our fantastic 300 whp…
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What is an Inverted Shaft Strut?

  • Posted on March 16, 2020March 18, 2020
  • byMike Kojima
As a suspension guy, lately, I have been asked what is an inverted MacPherson strut a whole bunch of times.  So I  concluded that I had better write something about…
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SuperPro Suspension Parts joins the Devine Force Racing STi and is put to work at COTA

  • Posted on March 8, 2020March 9, 2020
  • byDevin Hofmann
Subarus are known for their competitive advantage of AWD and the ability to always have traction pulling you through the corners. It’s important to note the use of pulling, and…
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WATCH: Make Your Porsche Cayman Handle and Brake Like a Racecar!

  • Posted on November 8, 2019
  • byJeff Naeyaert
   A friend and customer of MotoIQ recently asked us if we could turn her once beloved daily driver Porsche Cayman into a racecar she could drive to and…
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Installing KW Clubsport Coilovers on my moms C63 AMG

  • Posted on November 6, 2019November 4, 2019
  • byNikita Rushmanov
Yeah so, my mom drives a C63 AMG. She recently moved to New York for a year, leaving me to “take care” of her car.  So as soon as she…
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Installation and testing of the KW 2-Way Clubsports on the Devine Force Racing Time Attack STi

  • Posted on October 9, 2019
  • byDevin Hofmann
At last! It’s the end to unwanted body roll, understeer and driving an off-roading truck through the esses of Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. We have finally taken the steps to…
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WATCH: Track Testing the New CSF Radiator on Project C7 Corvette!

  • Posted on October 3, 2019October 3, 2019
  • byJeff Naeyaert
   We brought our Project C7 Corvette Stingray  back to Buttonwillow Raceway for more testing!  While we’ve upgraded the Vette’s transverse leaf springs and Chevrolet Performance’s T1 dampers to…
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Project Porsche 987.2 Cayman S: Getting the Suspension Together! Part 2

  • Posted on September 2, 2019September 5, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
In our last article, we got most of of the suspension for Project 987.2 Porsche Cayman in place.  Now we have to finish the job installing the parts from KW…
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Project Porsche 987.2 Cayman S: Getting the Suspension Together! Part 1

  • Posted on August 21, 2019August 30, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
In our last edition of Project 987 Cayman, we discussed some of the parts we would be installing on our street going track car project.  Now it is time to…
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WATCH: Project DC2 Integra back at Buttonwillow!

  • Posted on August 8, 2019August 13, 2019
  • byJeff Naeyaert
   Last time we were at Buttonwillow Raceway to test out the new Stoptech big brakes and sticky new Nitto NT01 tires on our DC2 Integra we had a…
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KW Releases First Coilover Solution for the New Toyota Supra

  • Posted on August 3, 2019August 8, 2019
  • byMotoIQ Staff
KW Variant 3 Coilover Suspension for the Toyota GR Supra KW automotive, the suspension manufacturer, has already developed the first in the market full adjustable coilover suspension kit for the…
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Project 987.2 Cayman S, Cup Car Suspension for the Street!

  • Posted on May 22, 2019August 20, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
The Porsche Cayman has always had a dear spot in our hearts.  In another life, I was an engineer at a large OEM and we were doing benchmarking testing for…
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Tribute to Georg Plasa and his BMW 320 JUDD V8

  • Posted on January 17, 2019February 25, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
  For the best part of two decades, there was hardly a more recognizable name in European hill climbing than Georg Plasa. He essentially defined the entire sport on the…
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KW V3 Coilovers and Hydraulic Lift System (HLS) for the C7 Corvette Stingray

  • Posted on December 12, 2018October 4, 2019
  • byMike Kojima
If you have been following the progress on our Project C7 Corvette Stingray, you’ve seen us work on the brakes, suspension and cosmetics. After a test session at Buttonwillow things…
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WATCH: Project DC2 Integra Goes Faster at Buttonwillow Raceway!

  • Posted on August 24, 2018August 24, 2018
  • byJeff Naeyaert
     We’re back at Buttonwillow Raceway with our 1996 Acura Integra GSR and even with the hotter temps that were holding Project C7 Corvette from going faster our…

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