Designing Suspension with 3D Printing
Drift cars with their extreme steering angles are pretty difficult to design suspension for. A lot of things must be considered because geometry that works well on a regular car…
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The Best of 2018- Project EP3 Civic Si: Why the Suspension Sucks and How to Fix It!
The Best of 2018- Project EP3 Civic Si: Why the Suspension Sucks and How to Fix It! For the Holidays, we take a look back at some of our most…
KW Clubsports and Hydraulic Lift System (HLS) for the C7 Corvette Stingray
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…
Bushings Upgrade For WRX
Every Subaru suspension bushings of our Subaru WRX had two lifetimes of wear and needed replacing, but we don’t just replace parts here at MotoIQ. We will be completing our…
ST Suspensions Coilover Upgrade for WRX
Today our Subaru Impreza WRX gets a suspension upgrade with the ST Suspensions XTA coilover kit along with Whiteline Sway bars for improved handling and ride quality. ST Suspensions is…
WATCH: Project C7 Corvette RETURNS to Buttonwillow Raceway!
WATCH: Project C7 Corvette RETURNS to Buttonwillow Raceway! We’re back at Buttonwillow Raceway with our Project C7 Corvette Stingray and a bunch of new upgrade parts from Chevrolet…
Basic Drift Chassis Setup: The S-Chassis Tension Rod
The rear tension rod is probably the most overlooked suspension arm on an s-chassis. A lot of people don’t understand how it works, and there is a lot of conflicting…
Team America BNR32 GT-R First Update in a Long Time!
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…
Project DBA R35 GT-R, Putting the Suspension All Together With SPL Parts and Whiteline
Project DBA R35 GT-R: Putting the Suspension All Together With SPL Parts and Whiteline by Mike Kojima Now we are in the home stretch for upgrading our GT-R’s underpinnings with our…
Project DBA R35 GT-R: Starting the Suspension Revolution with KW Suspension and Forged Performance
Project DBA R35 GT-R: Starting the Suspension Revolution with KW Suspension and Forged Performance by Mike Kojima It’s been a long time since we even mentioned anything about our Project R35…
Project Unpimp My Ride: Pedders Easyfit Suspension and Swaybars, Street Performance for the Toyota86/BRZ/FR-S
Unpimp My Ride: Transforming a Modded BRZ Into a Civilized Daily Driver with Pedders, Verus Engineering and ARK Designs by Mike Kojima Not all of us want a race…
Project C7 Corvette Stingray Z51: Suspension Upgrades
Project C7 Corvette Stingray Z51: Suspension Upgrades by Mike Kojima In previous articles about our Project C7 Corvette, we got into the high tech chassis construction of the C7 that rivals…
Testing Feal 441 Suspension for the B13 Sentra SE-R!
An inside look at the Feal 441 Suspension for the B13 Sentra SE-R! by Mike Kojima The original B13 Sentra SE-R has always held a dear spot in many of…
Project DC2 Integra: Truing up the Suspension with Whiteline
Project DC2 Integra: Truing up the Suspension with Whiteline by Mike Kojima In the last edition of Project DC2, we greatly improved our car’s suspension by replacing the ancient worn out…
Project GD STI: Making the Front of the Car Stiffer with Ultra Racing
Project GD STI: Making the Front of the Car Stiffer with Ultra Racing by Mike Kojima In the last installment of Project STI, we had greatly increased the chassis…
Project GD STI: Getting Rid of Chassis Flex with Cusco
Project GD STI: Getting Rid of Chassis Flex with Cusco by Mike Kojima The GD STI/WRX had what was considered to be a very stiff chassis when it was first…
Project EP3 Civic Si: Fixing the @$#%! Steering for Good with SHG Motor Works!
Project EP3 Civic Si: Fixing the @$#%! Steering for Good with SHG Motor Works! by Mike Kojima In our last edition of Project EP3 Civic Si, we thought we had…
Project DC2 Integra: Starting the Journey Toward Better Lap Times with KW Suspension
Project DC2 Integra: Starting the Journey Toward Better Lap Times with KW Suspension by Mike Kojima If you've been paying attention to our DC2 project car, then you know in the last…
Wrench Tip: How to Do Your Own Alignment!
When most people hear the word alignment, they think of two things– lasers and alignment racks. There is a preconceived notion that in order to achieve an accurate alignment, you…
WATCH: MotoIQ Project V8 RX7 Suspension Update
WATCH: MotoIQ Project V8 RX7 Suspension Update From custom fabricated control arms to revalved KW V3 coilovers with HLS, Mike Kojima goes under Project V8 RX7 to explain everything we did…
Project EP3 Civic Si: Fixing EP3 Bumpsteer with Hardrace
Project EP3 Civic Si: Fixing EP3 Bumpsteer with Hardrace by Mike Kojima In prior editions of Project EP3 Civic Si, we went over the history of the car, the worst…
Project EP3 Civic Si: Installing Fortune Auto 510 Coilovers!
Project EP3 Civic Si: Installing Fortune Auto 510 Coilovers! by Mike Kojima Over the past few installments of our EP3 project, we have been working on fixing on what is…
Project EP3 Civic Si: Suspension Upgrades with Whiteline!
So everyone into Hondas just about universally ignores or even hates the dumpy EP3 Civic. The EP3 represents, to most Honda fans, the generation of Civic where Honda lost their…
Project EP3 Si, Going 5 Lug with Wheels from Enkei and Nitto NT05 Tires
Project EP3 Si: Going 5 Lug with Wheels from Enkei and Nitto NT05 Tires by Mike Kojima Now that we converted our EP3 Civic from 4 to 5 lug hubs and added…
How To Do A 5 Lug Conversion the Right Way! Project EP3
How To Do A 5 Lug Conversion the Right Way! Project EP3 by Mike Kojima As we finally start to mod our much-maligned shop EP3, the car that everyone loves…
Project Mazdaspeed3: Building a Stock Class Cone Killer- Introduction and Installing Koni Shocks
Project Mazdaspeed3: Building a Stock Class Cone Killer- Introduction and Installing Koni Shocks by David Zipf Autocrossing is a ton of fun. It’s super cheap, you can take almost any car…
Making the Ford F-150 Ecoboost Drive and Tow Smoother with Eibach Shocks
Making the Ford F-150 Ecoboost Drive and Tow Smoother with Eibach Shocks by Rathyna Gomer My dad's Ford F-150 Ecoboost is something I frequently drive, usually to pick up car…
Tested: KW Suspensions BMW F30 DDC Remote Adjustable Suspension
Tested: KW Suspensions BMW F30 DDC Remote Adjustable Suspension by Mike Kojima A few years ago we got to test a sample of KW Suspensions' electronically adjustable DDC coilovers…
Evaluating HKS Hipermax SP coilovers on the Mazda ND MX-5
Evaluating HKS Hipermax SP coilovers on the Mazda ND MX-5 by Mike Kojima The Mazda ND MX-5 is the latest evolution of the Miata chassis. We have found it to…
Product Development Testing with KW Suspension
Product Development Testing with KW Suspension by Mike Kojima If you are interested in the way a suspension company does R&D, take a look at how a typical test session…
Improving Towing Capability with Hellwig and Bilstein Part Two
Improving Towing Capability with Hellwig and Bilstein Part Two by Mike Kojima In part one, we installed Hellwig air springs, rear anti sway bar and Bilstein 5100 series shocks on…
Improving Towing Capability with Hellwig and Bilstein Part One
Improving Towing Capability with Hellwig and Bilstein Part One by Mike Kojima There has been a war brewing in the past few years, not in the Middle East, but in…