Honda S2000 Wheel Stand

The words Honda and wheelie never really go together, but here's a video of the InlinePRO S2000 showing the V8s in the world what's really going down.



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Ken sent me a link to some cool videos from 1981 on the Cosworth DFV Formula engine. These are pretty interesting:

1981 Cosworth DFV Videos

Ken sent me a link to some a couple of old school videos from 1981 on the Cosworth DFV Formula engine. These are pretty interesting.

Tuning, Life, Beef Ribs and Remodeling

A couple months ago when Ben and Roland from Pi were visiting from the UK, we were having dinner somewhere and this conversation came up about tuning. I think we all ordered big ass beef BBQ ribs at Lucille's that night. Ben finished the ENTIRE full rack. Believe it or not, they don't have big ass tender tasty meaty beef ribs in the UK. They do have the best Guinness in the world, but that still doesn't quite make up for the missing beef ribs. Anyhow, as I remember the conversation it went a little something like this (in full on English accents except for me):

Roland, "You going to move into that big house and work on the t...

AVO Widebody STI @ HyperMeet 2009 - Tsukuba

I'm not sure what happened to the camera mount, but pretty cool in car video. Ross Wilson from AVO Turboworld was behind the wheel. Ross used to drive all kinds of race cars back in Australia, but he dusted off his years of absence behind the wheel and took to the track. The AVO GDB has an all sheet metal widebody so it is ultra nice. The Cosworth long block keeps the 600bhp engine reliable of course. The lap time looks to be about 1:00. At the Hypermeet you must use full tread street tires excluding the cheater A-048s, R888, etc.

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Super Street: Reader's Rides

I was flipping through an old Super Street Magazine from 2008 and I saw an image that looked familiar. The background, the toolbox, and the turbo all looked familiar. Then it struck me: Vanessa's was fondling the old turbo from my GS300 between her thighs while sitting on top of Pete's Snap-On box at XS Engineering. ...

After I tuned Wen's car to 900+whp (HKS T51RSPL turbo) on the XS Engineering dyno, it was time for practice. Wen was using too much clutch and eventually fried the clutch the next day at the IDRC GT-R Challenge. Although Wen has run a best of a 10.6 second 1/4 mile before with less power and no two-step (Palmdale 2600 ft. elevation), he actually only ran a low 11 the following day at Fontana which is close to sea level. Going in right now is a PPG straight cut dog box and a new Exedy triple. Now Wen will have no more excuses. Wen's car is one of the cleanest, high powered, GT-Rs in existence with a lot of attention to detail. But if you think Wen drives like a bitch, be sure to leave a comment. Wen works at DSPORT magazine so you can give the office a call and let him know there too.

Wen's R33 GT-R Launch Practice

After I tuned Wen's car to 900+whp (HKS T51RSPL turbo) on the XS Engineering dyno, it was time for practice. Wen was using too much clutch and eventually fried the clutch the next day at the IDRC GT-R Challenge. Although Wen has run a best of a 10.6 second 1/4 mile before with less power and no two-step (Palmdale 2600 ft. elevation), he actually only ran a low 11 the following day at Fontana which is close to sea level. Going in right now is a PPG straight cut dog box and a new Exedy triple. Now Wen will have no more excuses. Wen's car is one of the cleanest, high powered, GT-Rs in existence with a lot of atten...

Garrett EVO X Bolt On Turbos

FINALLY releasing this week are the Garrett EVO X bolt-on turbos based on the GT3071 and GT3076 CHRAs. Khiem and the engineers at Garrett spent A LOT of time on designing this turbo for precise OEM quality fitment and maximum performance. These turbos are not a generic Garretts made to bolt into place of the Mitsubishi TD05. A lot of time was spent perfecting gas flow with bespoke compressor and turbine housings. The results are a whole new volute shape for the divided turbine housing and a slightly tweaked volute shape of the legendary high flowing T04S compressor housing...

Lincoln Continental With Wings

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EVO X Twin Plate Clutch

The guys over at ARK Design sent me a press release on their new twin plate clutch for the Mitsubishi CZ4A EVO X. They just released their G700 twin plate clutch for the EVO X. I've heard that EVO 8 and EVO 9 clutches are the same as EVO X, but I'm kind of out of it (aka I mostly play with engines these days). If that is the case, then the ARK G700 will work with EVO 8, 9, and X (maybe EVO 7?). My EVO X MR has the twin clutch trans so I haven't paid attention either.

The ARK G700 twin plate clutch is available in two models: standard and lightweight. Some features of the clutch:

• The flywheel is made of heat treated, billet steel so it qualifies as an SFI legal drag...

BNR32 GT-R Stage 1, Part 1

These days I don't get to work on my own project cars or engines that often. My GT-R is parked at XS which is about 40 minutes away and my MA70 Supra is sitting in a garage about an hour away. I sold my FD and FC RX-7s, cut up my other FD RX-7, sold my MA60 Supra and DA Integra since I knew I was never going to get to them. Even when I don't have other stuff to do, it's easy to say, "Screw it. I'll do it next week." because the cars are far enough away. I need to buy a house with a 12 car garage building right after I hit the Lotto next week. But between Peter and I, we've been working on the R32 GT-R off and on.

The first HKS GT2530 car I tuned was probably back in 2001/02 I thin...