Project AE86, More Suspension with Techno Toy Tuning!
In this installment of Project AE86, we continue with our suspension mods brought to you by Techno Toy Tuning or T3. As we said in our first installment T3 makes…
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Introducing Project AE86 Starting on the Front Suspension With Techno Toy Tuning and Whiteline
Way back in 1985, I was in my last year of school. I was working at TRD (Toyota Racing Development) as my going through college job and I was going…
Project Cappuccino: Nuts & Bolts Are Wheely Cool
While doing some routine maintenance on our Suzuki Cappuccino, we noticed that the wheel nuts were not always spinning on and off smoothly. Some nuts would stick slightly as we…
Project FD RX7 Restomod: Part 21 – Suspension Refresh with SuperPro USA polyurethane bushings.
We freshened up our FD’s30-year old, worn out suspension bushings with SuperPro USA polyurethane bushings and replaced the clunking old pillow ball bushings in the rear suspension. We also vapor…
Project Cappuccino: Upgrading the Suspension
While our Cappuccino has been a lot of fun to fling around on back roads, there are some serious shortcomings in the suspension department. The lowering springs (or Down Suspension…
45 Years With ST Suspensions!
Born in Southern California, ST Suspensions quickly rose to prominence as a foundational aftermarket supplier, paving the way for the performance aftermarket with its exceptional coilover suspension systems, anti-sway bars,…
Sikky Lexus IS-F Swaybars
Since we last worked on the suspension of our IS-F project, we noted that Sikky Manufacturing, our rear sway bar manufacturer, had since come out with a new adjustable front…
Fixing Rapid Front Tire Wear on the Lexus IS with Figs Engineering
If you own a second or third-generation Lexus IS, RC, RC-F, or the IS-F, you are probably familiar with their problem of severe front tire wear. It is especially bad…
SPL Parts Suspension Upgrade on the Devine Force Racing VA STi
We all know the saying, “you have to crawl before you walk”…. we’ve been crawling for a bit and it’s time for the Devine Force Racing STI to continue growing…
Fixing the Positively Horrible Worn Out Stock Ford Excursion Tow Vehicle Suspension!
As an additional tow vehicle and shop hauler for the MotoIQ garage, we bought a well-worn but well-maintained 2000 Ford Excursion for a great unresistable price. With its big 6.8…
Project E39 M5, Fixing Broken Sway Bar Brackets For Good!
For the E39 model, BMW made the mistake of making the antisway bar to frame brackets out of thin gauge aluminum to save a few grams per car. These break…
KW Update and Refurbishing Service for our S13 Drift Grip Project Car!
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…
How Does Engine Position Affect Weight Distribution
I have always told people that moving the position of an engine does not make that much of a difference in the car’s weight distribution and that moving a battery…
How to Adjust Your Shocks, Part One- Single Adjustable Shocks
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…
WATCH: Project Jeep Update! Stretched | Tons | 40’s | Atlas Transfer Case | Suspension | Armor & More
We know this is kinda the opposite of what you normally see around here, but we have “off pavement” interests here too! It’s been a long time since the…
Strengthening and Improving the Geometry of the S13 Subframe With GKTech and ZSM Custom
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…
Tesla P100D- Getting the Car Lower and Aligned Correctly With Unplugged Performance!
We recently had a Tesla P100D in the MotoIQ garage that needed to be lowered. The owner of the car also wanted to improve tire wear which is horrendous with…
Mike Kojima Guest on HP Academy’s Podcast on Suspension!
We have always really liked the content that the guys from HP Academy create. They share the same passion for technical excellence as we do and we were recently honored…
WATCH: The Ultimate Nissan S Chassis REAR Suspension?
We’ve got a new project at MotoIQ and this time it’s a Nissan S13! If you watched our last video you saw why we think GK Tech makes the…
WATCH: The Ultimate Nissan S Chassis Front Suspension?
We’ve got a new project at MotoIQ and this time it’s a Nissan S13! We’ve had a couple 240sx builds in the past built for drifting or land speed…
The Most Advanced 240SX/ Nissan S Chassis, Z32/300ZX, R32/GT-R Rear Suspension Ever From GKTech!
In our last story about Suspension for our upcoming S13 Project car, we went over what we feel is the ultimate front suspension/angle kit for the S Chassis from GKTech. …
Subaru WRX Econo Suspension! Part 2
We had last left our GD WRX with the front suspension mods from ST Suspension and Whiteline. Now it’s time to finish the installation at the rear suspension and get…
Subaru WRX Econo Suspension! Part 1
A lot of what you see here at MotoIQ are often really high-end mods that many people can just dream about or are so high performance and track level that…
Porsche 992 GT3 Undercar Overview
Porsche is a very conservative company, much of the Porsche development on legacy models like the 911 is incremental. Even the latest models have cues dating back to the original. …
The Most Advanced 240SX/ Nissan S Chassis Front Suspension Ever From GKTech!
We will soon be starting work on a new MotoIQ project car, we have obtained A Nissan S13 240SX hatchback with a totally stock SR20DET swap. This car is going…
Street Friendly (And California Legal) GD Subaru STI Build! Part Two Streetable Suspension
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…
KW 3-Way Clubsports for the Evo IX. The Ultimate, All Weather, Daily Driving Shocks!
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…
Project FD RX7 Restomod: Part 3 – SuperPro Front Swaybar and Steering Rack Bushings
We fix a bad clunk and steering issue with a stiffer SuperPro front swaybar and steering rack bushings. When Project FD RX7 Restomod was purchased, it had a pretty bad…
The Best of 2021, #3: Resurrecting Project FR-S: Wisefab Track Suspension
Our Project FR-S was already a really good handling car with the stuff we had done to it with parts from KW Suspension, Whiteline and Cusco but we wanted to…
Refreshing a BMW E46 M3 for Street Performance with KW V2 Suspension
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…
Feal Suspension 442, The Best Sentra B Chassis Shocks!: Tested on the K24 powered NX2000
There are so many options for suspensions systems that it is challenging to make a decision. Unless however, you have a Nissan B13 and then the choices are reduced…
Tune your OEM Active Suspension with DSC Sport’s Suspension Controller
Many of today’s higher-end sports cars and sports sedans have active damper control. The factories engineers use this active control to tune the suspension in the same way that we…