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Entries for 'Mike Kojima'
Mike Kojima posted on January 20, 2011 22:34 
By Mike Kojima
When our friends at K&N heard that we had gotten an IS-F, they got excited and insisted that we try out their Typhoon high flow air intake system as they claimed that they had gotten excellent results in their testing.
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Mike Kojima posted on January 18, 2011 17:34
By Mike Kojima
Not all of the cars in the MotoIQ stable are cutting edge performance machines. Sometimes we do have to have cars that are practical. Our current office car is a 2004 Infiniti G35 Sedan. The G35 is an excellent car for daily driving, it gets reasonable mileage in the low 20 mpg range and has 4 doors and plenty of inside room for taking the staff to lunch or meetings. The automatic transmission for dealing with bumper to bumper daily commuter traffic makes jumping into the G35 to go somewhere a no hassle proposition.
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Mike Kojima posted on January 13, 2011 23:25 
By Mike Kojima
We have been friends with Synapse Engineering's chief engineer Peter Medina for a long time, since before he started the company and even before he had the ideas that launched its product line. Many years ago Peter came up with an original twist for pneumatic controlled devices, a piston actuated control valve. Not just any piston actuated control valve either, Peter's valve had an actuator piston with two substrates, basically two individual pistons coaxially divided on one piston head, basically a stepped piston.
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Mike Kojima posted on January 11, 2011 20:00
AEM Water/Methanol Failsafe Device Evaluation
By Mike Kojima
We are very familiar with water and water/methanol injection; many years ago, we were one of the first to tune with modern water injection systems and took advantage of water's ability to inhibit detonation and provide charge cooling in forced induction engines. With water you can run more timing, more boost, leaner air fuel mixtures, a combination of all three or just use water to gain a measure of safety and to control engine temperatures for track use.
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Mike Kojima posted on January 06, 2011 18:38
By Mike Kojima
A few weeks ago Formula D Team Falken ace Dai Yoshihara got an invitation to participate in a Formula D expansion event in none other than exotic Abu Dhabi the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. The event will be held at the World Class Yas Marina Circuit, a world class F-1 approved facility on February 25th 2011.
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Mike Kojima posted on January 04, 2011 21:00
Project CRG Go Kart: From Basket Case to Bitchin
By Mike Kojima
Lately the MotoIQ staff has been Karting a lot to get our speed fix for few bucks. Running MotoIQ is an expensive endeavor and we have had to mostly give up racing cars for now to keep MotoIQ growing and strong. Looking for cheap used Kart parts on Craigslist one day, we happened upon an ad for what seemed like a lost cause.
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Mike Kojima posted on January 02, 2011 22:00
By Mike Kojima
We hate cheesy aftermarket accessories whose lower quality often degrades a cool truck like our Tundra. Well we found solutions to all of our practical issues with a trip to our Toyota dealer who helped us out with some high quality Toyota genuine accessories to fix our problems. Toyota accessories are built to the same quality standards as the vehicle and will not degrade your warranty. They are also warranted the same as the vehicle and if installed by the dealer at the time of purchase, can also be financed through the dealer.
Read more about Project Tundra Here!
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Mike Kojima posted on December 30, 2010 22:00
By Mike Kojima
As we continue our trip back to review the last year, who can forget our sneak peek at the insides of Dai Yoshihara's Team Falken S13. SPD gets the credit for building what is arguably the best S chassis car ever screwed together. Many felt that the "outdated and obsolete" S chassis could not be competitive in the high tech world of the top echelons of Formula D competition but Dai, SPD and Team Falken went on to prove the nay sayers wrong in 2010 by giving champion and Falken Teammate Vaughn Gittin Jr a heart stopping season long run for the championship by being the only competitor to consistently beat Jr in head to head battles. Look for Dai to return in a greatly evolved and improving version of this iconic car in 2011. Be sure and follow the links to the orignal build of the car as well.
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Mike Kojima posted on December 29, 2010 22:00
By Mike Kojima, Photos & Video by Jeff Naeyaert
Another look back to the best stories of 2010 featuring this three part build of the Iconic naturally aspirated Toyota 4AG. Follow the links, read all three parts and enjoy!
When we last left the Technosquare crew, they had completed the stroker 4AG engine's bottom end and assembled the cylinder head. Now it was time for the engine's final assembly and installation into an AE86 time attack car.
Click Here for Part One
Click Here for Part Two
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Mike Kojima posted on December 29, 2010 04:00
By Mike Kojima and Eric Hsu, photos by Jeff Naeyaert
We are taking a look back at 2010 and are bringing you some of our best stuff of the year this week. We feel that Sierra Sierra bringing the North American Time Attack record back into US hands by solidly beating the long standing record set by the HKS CT230R is the industries highlight achievement of the year worthy of revisiting,
At the 2010 Redline Time Attack season opener at Buttonwillow the Sierra Sierra EVO made history by turning the fastest lap by a time attack car around Buttonwillow Configuration 13 CW turning a 1:43.20 breaking the long standing North American Time Attack record set by the exotic HKS CT230R set in November 2007 of 1:43.523.
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