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By Mike Kojima
When we last left off on Project Tundra we had installed a TRD cold air intake and TRD exhaust system. We were enjoying the high quality, warranty friendliness and smog legalness of our TRD factory engineered performance parts. However being how we are we still wanted more. In our search for the ultimate tow and work vehicle, we obtained one of TRD's awesome supercharger kits.
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Motegi Racing's Killer AE86 Corolla GTS
By Mike Kojima
The Iconic Toyota Corolla AE86 is one of our all time favorite cars. The last of the RWD econoboxes, the AE86 had timeless styling which still looks good today 26 years after it was first created. The rare GTS variant had the then radical 4AG engine which had an unheard of for its time, 4 valves per cylinder and dual overhead cams with a 7500 rpm redline. Its 1600cc's pumped out 114 hp at a time when your typical econo car revved to around 6000 rpm and put out 80 something hp.
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Redline Track Events & MPTCC Round 2 - Firebird Raceway
by Laura Heng
Redline Track Events made its way down to Firebird International Raceway for Round 2 of the Circuit Battles, Pro Time Attack, MotoIQ MPTCC, and Lotus Cup Races.
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By Mike Kojima
My race in the inaugural MPTCC race ended with a bang in the practice before qualifying as my SR20VE decided not to cooperate in a big way. Tearing down my engine afterward I found that one of the exhaust valves had lost its head. Fortunately the valve head did not bounce around in the combustion chamber and cause more damage, probably because I had shut the engine off and pushed in the clutch the second I felt the power fall off.
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Formula D 2011: Round 1 - Long Beach
By Jeff Naeyaert
The 2011 Formula D season got off to an exciting start this weekend at Long Beach and had no shortage of surprises! Let's see, since last season we've seen Tanner Foust take an indefinite break from the sport only to be replaced by Fredric Aasbo in an all new Scion TC. We've seen a bunch of rule changes that have kept our Mike Kojima away from the office and frantically working on Dai's car the last couple weeks to get into compliance. John Russakoff (who you may remember did so well at Gymkhana in his AE86) signed with Megan Racing and now has his AE86 painted that lovely pink and orange.. Pat Mordaunt finished (kinda) his new 350Z, Matt Powers lost his religion and went V8, and we saw all the guys that ran convertibles last season go hardtop--Chris Forsberg getting into a new 370Z while Darren McNamara and Tyler McQuarrie just added hardtops to their Saturn Sky and 350Z respectively.
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Project EJ Honda Civic
By Chuck Johnson
You're probably wondering what this busted ass Honda Civic is doing on the virtual pages of MotoIQ. I mean, it's far from the flawless presentation of MotoIQ's usual project cars and lacks the engineering luster to be excusable like Coleman's innovative crap cans. Instead, this Civic's clear coat is peeling off and almost every panel has some kind of battle wound on it… but every gear head has a story about the car that was their first love.
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 Hope for Japan - Relief for Tsunami & Earthquake victims
Hey guys, please take a minute to watch this short clip the drivers in Formula D put together to show support for those affected by the earthquake and tsunami last month in Japan. Find out how you can help by purchasing stickers, tshirts or just donating money.
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Project Hyper-Miler Part 1: Introduction
By Steve Rockwood
Let's face it: the days of cheap fuel are over. Whether you want to blame Wall Street, the government, democratic demonstrations in the Middle East, OPEC, hippies, China, or the soccer mom next door; the fact remains that if your buddy tosses you a five spot for gas money, you're more likely to punch him in the face than thank him. And everyone understands a punch in the face.
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Ask Sarah: Hi-po Eclectic Pistons
By Sarah Forst
I was at a car meet and overheard someone talking about hi-po eclectic pistons or something like that. I didn't want to ask him about them because everyone else seemed to understand what he meant. Are these high performance pistons? How are they different from regular pistons?
- Jassen
Got a difficult tech question? Email Sarah at asksarah@motoiq.com
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Turbo Tech: Compressor Efficiency and More
By Khiem Dinh
Compressor efficiency is a term thrown around whenever people mention forced induction, but what does it really mean? How does it affect an engine's performance? And what role does air temperature play in all of this?
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Project Sipster Part 8: All The Drag-Reducing Details
by Dave Coleman
This is it kids, the last story in the Project Sipster series. This one is longer and more detailed than the original story (first published on TopGear.com America) in an attempt to elevate the nerdiness to something approaching a MotoIQ level.
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By Mike Kojima
There has been a lot of controversy burning up the forums about the issue of V8 swaps, particularly the GM LSX series of engines in drifting. Digging through some data, we thought it might be cool to show you the differences between these engines. Here is the dyno results from Matt Powers' Turbo KA24DE, Dai Yoshihara's Turbo VQ35DE and Matt Powers' GM LS7.
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By Mike Kojima
We last left Matt Powers in the middle of retrofitting his car for the 2011 Formula D season. We dropped back in on Matt earlier this week to see how he was doing and were pleased to observe a bunch of progress being made.
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By Sarah Forst
One girl's story being Mike Kojima's love slave
This story was originally published a few years ago (pre-digital SLR camera for most of us obviously…), but is a wonderful tale of the kind of guy Mike Kojima is so I wanted to share the story with our MotoIQ readers. This is not a joke, but it was pretty funny!
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by Eric Hsu
photos by Ben at Speedtech Motorsport
Pro-stock style import drag racing is nearly dead in the US, but it's still going strong in Australia and New Zealand. Click to see build pictures of Mike Bradley's 4G63 powered pro-stock style drag EVO 8. Tons of build pictures inside and 3 videos inside also.
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