Ticket-to-Ride Explained

Ticket to Ride is Motovicity’s premiere showcase event where our customers can get in the action to win a 2013 Scion FR-S with a trunk full of the latest brands of performance parts from HKS, AEM Electronics, Vibrant, Exedy, StopTech, Eibach, Royal Purple, Energy Suspension, Gates Racing, and Sparco.

Keeping It Cool with Vibrant

As with almost anything in performance modifications, once you add a few items here, upgrade a couple things there, you soon find a new bottleneck. Some might have existed all along, as others introduced themselves as your project progressed. Case in point was the intercooler on Motovicity Rep Bryan Spears’ 2002 Miata project car.

HKS 1,000+ HP Sequential Transmission

HKS now offers a multi-disc clutch and sequential transmission upgrade for the R35 GT-R supercars.  A HKS twin-turbo system equipped GT-R can easily top the 1,000HP mark, so it was only a matter of time before HKS came up with a solution.  Come take a look as, Motovicity Product Manager, Scott Cole gives us a sneak peak at this unique GT-R transmission upgrade.

In our last update for the Motovicity Ticket To Ride Scion FR-S project, we discussed the attributes of the HKS Legamax Exhaust.  Now we will be adding a couple of gauges from AEM Electronics to help monitor the performance of the FR-S, while the AQ-1 unit will continously log all the data.  Finally, we give you an overview of the AEM fuel pump that will be handling the project's fuel supply.

When Mike Kojima extols the virtues of a particular coil-over kit, or discusses how the valving works, or what sort of proprietary hydraulic oil makes the shock respond well to undulations, I sometimes feel these concepts require an engineering degree. Much of it is over my head, but I know well enough that when a smart guy raves about some product I'm better off following suit than trying to understand it. 

HKS is here to solve your mundane exhaust tone with an exhaust that wont have you reaching for the earplugs after 60 feet of driving. We take a close look at the Legamax Premium Axle-Back Exhaust System which is part of the HKS Legamax Premium line of exhaust systems for the FR-S/BRZ.

The Subaru GD STI comes with pretty good brakes from the factory. This means we would have to be careful when it comes to modding them as it would be easy to worsen the performance with a poorly engineered brake upgrade.  We went with Stoptech's Trophy STR big brake kit as our brake system of choice for their combination of daily driveability and track performance.

If racing wasn't already hard enough on racecar components, replace the well-manicured tarmac of a road course with a few hundred tons of salt and then racing becomes even more brutal. After infiltrating the KW Automotive parts bin, we Frankenstein together the perfect set of coilovers for Project 240SX Land Speed Racer. This perfection came through the marriage of parts from both KW's Clubsport and Competition coilover kits.

The end is in sight!  Only a couple of things left on the TO DO list and the most glaring is our driveshaft and rear end. And hey, while we’re cutting up our driveshaft we might as well slap on one of AEM Electronic’s new Dyno-Shaft on-vehicle dynamometers, right?

Now that we have completely beefed up the suspension and brakes of Project Honda Civic, it's time to button things up with the last several suspension upgrades we had lined up for our little weekend warrior. Next on the list were the worn OE bushings and getting rid of unnecessary body roll.

Do you have a car that sees sporting driving, but not necessarily track use? Or perhaps you don't do braking intensive driving events like drifting or autocross and don't want to have the expense of a big brake system but could still stand to upgrade your brakes.  StopTech has a simple solution for you!

At MotoIQ headquarters, it’s no secret that we love the EVO VIII. To us it’s one of the best-balanced all around cars we have ever driven for any price.  It has reasonable power with tons of upgrade potential for its well developed bulletproof 4G63 engine. We did not want to upset the stock EVO’s fine balance between ride comfort and handling so we ended up choosing HKS’ Hyperdamper II suspension system. 

Although a competent machine out of the box, no car can stay stock for long in the hands of a MotoIQ staffer.  While we have many things planned to tailor our Golf to our liking, we decided the suspension needed upgrading before anything else.

Racing is hazardous to your health.  With a helmet on, one of the most immediate dangers to your continued existence on this planet is a basilar skull fracture. So we install and test the Head and Neck Support (HANS) Device along with Sparco's HANS specific harness.