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By Mike Kojima
Walker Wilkerson has suddenly burst upon the Pro Drift scene. At the Long Beach season opener, the 21 year old College student made a sudden appearance on the 2011 Formula D tour in his striking lavender hued Nissan S13, qualifying well and beating out many seasoned pros. In his rookie year, Walker has surprised many drift fans by getting several high qualification rounds and decent finishes thus far in the season and looks to be a shoe in for rookie of the year honors.
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By Jonathan Donner and Mike Kojima
Race Car Fabricators APD had a goal in mind when building their Acura TSX, to build a car that would be competitive in MotoIQ’s Pacific Coast Tuner Challenge in the TU class. Currently most of the cars competing in the series were built to be competitive under the rule sets for different classes such as NASA and SCCA. APD’s car is the first car built specifically for our series so we just had to take a closer look at it.
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By Mike Kojima
We were planning to methodically add parts to our project Civic’s B18C engine one bit at a time to see how they affected power and powerband. Unfortunately, our car had other ideas. Although Annie had driven the Civic for over 200,000 miles on a daily basis with not a single hitch, a trip to the track exposed the car's age.
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Formula Drift Round 4: New Jersey - Wall Stadium Speedway
By Justin Banner
Wall Stadium Speedway in Wall Township, New Jersey is not the track at the top of the driver's lists of favorites. Carnage, is usually the reason why most do not like it. The old short track likes to gobble up cars like kids to a candy bar and can be a rather grumpy, bumpy thing. The whoops in the center section aren't friendly to short wheelbase or low cars either, so the Drifting Hipsters probably don't like it, though rarely do they like anything Formula Drift. Even so, this is a stop on the 2011 Formula Drift Schedule that must be run in order to determine the Champion and what a year it is shaping up to be! Would JTP come out on top again? Can someone beat the dominance of Falken Tire? Will there be another half-naked man attack? Find out by reading more!
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 Does Length Matter?
by Khiem Dinh
Someone recently asked, “Why a longer rod?” Someone else answered, “Longer dwell time.” I never really thought about it before, so I thought I’d look into it. Using some basic math, we can prove that a longer rod does indeed create a longer dwell time around top dead center.
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by Eric Hsu
The BNR32 Skyline GT-R is still the Nissan GT-R to me. You could argue the Hokosuka KPGC10 was the first GT-R. No disrespect to grandfather GT-R, but c'mon, are you going to tell me that 160bhp is exhilirating? The R35 is a GT-R too and is a technological marvel, but the last time I checked, the BNR34 was already a little too heavy albeit just (nothing some Z-tuned carbon parts can't fix). The BCNR33 GT-R? No comment unless you're going straight in a hurry. That only leaves one GT-R left: the BNR32, but I'd take a BNR34 GT-R as a substitute too.
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By Jeff Naeyaert
Although the Ducati Hypermotard S is a pretty light bike from the factory at 390 lbs. we figured that we could always make a good thing better by getting rid of some of the weight. For 2010 Ducati freshened up the Hypermotard model with the Evo SP which weighs only 379 lbs. This is mostly due to lighter engine cases, flywheel, alternator and crank.
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MotoIQ Staff Report
Ride along with Dai Yoshihara and Mike Kojima at Redline's MotoIQ Pacific Tuner Car Challenge race at Cal Speedway. See Dai cruse to victory after a brief battle with the APD Acura TSX. See Mike Kojima flub his way from last to second after a first lap crash. You can briefly see Project G20 for a couple of seconds as well with Steve Rockwood at the wheel.
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 Video - Conrad Grunewald at Formula D Florida
MotoIQ Staff Report
We know it's a little late but we wanted to share this cool video that our friend Conrad Grunewald sent to us. Conrad has been killing it with high angle entries in his Camaro lately. You can see Conrad get super angle at Formula D's Florida expansion event.
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 Billy Johnson and Jack Roush Jr. Celebrate 2nd Victory of the 2011 CTSCC Season at Watkins Glen
ROUSH Performance teammates Billy Johnson and Jack Roush Jr. led 30 laps, including the final 19 to bring home the win for the Continental Tire 150 at the historic Watkins Glen. This marked Round 6 of the 2011 CTSCC Championship. Billy and Jack drive the No. 61 Ford Mustang Boss 302R and currently have five consecutive podium finishes. This is their second win of the season and their fifth win together since mid-season in 2009.
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Turbo Tech: Turbo Bearings
By Khiem Dinh
We like turbos at MotoIQ. Why? In the phrase made famous by Tim Allen, "more power!" In order for a turbo to cram air into an engine, it has a pair of wheels and a shaft spinning at incredible speeds. Depending on the size of the turbo, they can spin anywhere from 100,000 rpm (big turbos) to 300,000 rpm (small turbos). 300,000 rpm equals 5000 revs a second. Put another way, if you rolled a compressor wheel on the ground, it would go about six football fields a second. That's about 1.7 times the speed of sound. Wrap your head around that!
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By Mike Kojima
We had never heard of Norwegian Fredric Aasbo before Formula D's Long Beach Round last year. Suddenly out of nowhere a red privateer Toyota Supra driven by a guy whose last name we could not pronounce almost stood on the podium bettering the efforts of many seasoned and well backed Formula D veterans.
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Formula Drift Round 3: Palm Beach International Raceway
By Justin Banner
Palm Beach International Raceway played host to Formula Drift for its third round of the 2011 championship season. With this new track, how would everything play out? Could Daijiro Yoshihara continue his winning streak? Would the track present a new challenge considering the promise of fast entries and technical layout? Who would rise, who would fall? Continue Reading to find out more!
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Project Infiniti G20 Racecar - Suspension & Handling Goodies
By Martin Gonzales & Steve Rockwood
Manufacturers of econoboxes – in our case, luxury econoboxes – don’t seem to have racing in mind when designing suspensions. In this article, we will take you through the daunting task of turning a luxury econobox into a luxuriously handling machine.
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Project V8 RX-7: Part 4 - Dressing the E-Rod
By Jeff Naeyaert
So we’ve got our E-Rod kit, unpacked everything and laid it all out, but curiously missing are all the spinny things that go on the front of the engine—more specifically, the alternator, power steering pump, a/c compressor and the other pulleys and tensioners necessary to keep everything playing together nicely.
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