BTD Readers, Welcome to MotoIQ

by Eric Hsu

This one is for you loyal Beyond the Dyno readers. Click the title and read.

Ken Block Jump Car 2 and Cosworth Power

by Eric Hsu

I helped Vermont Sportcars spec the Cosworth components and some of the ancillaries selection, but the credit all goes to Vermont Sportcars for building a good car and to Ben Hoyle at Cosworth Electronics in Cambridge (UK) for the engine calibration with the ECPro. While Ben is no stranger to EJ engines (he was the head engineer for Prodrive's WRC engine development for the Subaru World Rally Team), it was Ben's first time to tune a full Cosworth engine. After the Baja300 event, Ben called me up and asked me in his fairly thick English accent, "What's that thing got in it? It makes some SERIOUS power." I said, "Naturally of course. It's got Cosworth power."

Driftspeed S14 Crash @ Formula D Chicago

by Eric Hsu

The Driftspeed S14 was totaled today at the Chicago Formula D drift event during practice.

Nashville Redline Time Attack - Sunday 7/26/09

I remember why I don’t play roulette much in vegas any more (see yesterday’s post). You never know what’s going to happen sometimes. The Sierra Sierra EVO 8 had a rear differential mount failure in the first time attack session on Sunday that prevented Bomarito from completing a timed lap. The car was running solid all day Saturday and even cranked out a 1:01.3 in a Sunday morning practice session. The constant beating of the Nashville Super Speedway’s relatively rough infield to oval transitions and the massive G loads of the oval banking took it’s toll on the SSE EVO’s rear end and bent the front portion of the rear differential mount and cracked ...

Nashville Redline Time Attack - Saturday 7/25/09

I like it out here in Tennessee. The people are nicer than in LA (I’m not too friendly myself but nodbody’s perfect) and the landscape is super green everywhere which makes for a much nicer drive than say a drive to Buttonwillow in California where it’s nothing but brown nothingness. Its crazy to see younger guys with import cars talking about JDM this and Buddy Club that in a southern drawl. I never thought I’d see the day where building import cars has become this mainstream. I guess we can thank Nopi and the F&F movies for that.

Question IT

by Eric Hsu

Some of you may or may not know, but I have a monthly column in Import Tuner magazine called “Question IT”. I have been contributing for about 1.5 years now and there have been a couple different intros and a couple different pictures. Carter at IT says it time to retake the heading picture and I agree. I’m not sure who writes my intro in the heading, but I think this issue has a pretty good intro. It reads:

Dirty Drifiting 2009

Eddie @ Dynamic sent me a link to this video of his drift cars. The Apexi FD is actually owned by Apexi, but is part of the Hankook team. Those three chicks are...

Sierra Sierra EVO 8 Test 7/9/2009

A couple weeks ago I drove up to Buttonwillow to meet up with Sierra Sierra for a couple days of testing. What a lot of people forget is that the SSE EVO 8 is still a new car. Already the SSE EVO is being compared to some of the fastest, more highly developed cars, but its only competed in only one time attack and has only been on the track three times in it’s life. So while the guys at SSE built a good car to begin with (and Cosworth builds a good 4G63), no ground up built unibody race car rolls off the trailer without any teething issues. On top of that the goal was to make some significant improvements in the car’s handling and lap times. NOTE: this post is just an upda...

Fontana Nissan 350z Build

Fontana Nissan Racing put up some pics and text of the build of their Grand Am/Time Attack 350Z. It includes the build of their engine which includes a Cosworth 3.8L VQ35 stroker. For the link to their blog, check out my left navigation bar (I feel lazy today). Click here for the FONTANA NISSAN RACING TECHNICAL CORNER. They cover the in house build of the Cosworth 3.8L VQ bottom end, the chassis, and custom body panels. Chris and Jackson also developed the intake plenum and headers on their own, but they aren’t going to tell you all of their secrets. Jackson and his crew have been building race car...

2008+ Subaru Impeza STi Parts You Need

Something’s been getting in the way of my blogging: life. For now, here’s some bad ass parts you need to have for your 2008 and newer Subaru STi:

Cosworth S2D Dual AVCS 278°-10.7mm IN/274°-10.0mm EX Camshafts