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Entries for 'Mike Kojima'
Mike Kojima posted on May 21, 2012 00:00
Supposed to be by Eric Hsu, Really by Mike Kojima
In our last segment we had a look at the entirely new front suspension of the Team America/ARK Design's BNR32 Skyline GT-R. With a tight deadline, Eric can not get around to writing these updates so I am doing them for him. The car is scheduled to be loaded in a container to Australia by early June and the clock is ticking. I don't know how we are going to make it but everyone on the team is cranking in all of their free time.
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Mike Kojima posted on May 16, 2012 00:00
By Mike Kojima
When we last left off on Project IS-F, we had done some intake and exhaust work and gotten excellent results. Now it was time to work on the suspension, get some larger rubber under the car and add some tint and protective film by 3M.
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Mike Kojima posted on May 07, 2012 14:30
By Mike Kojima, Photos by Dave Karey
What is as fast as a Smallbore GT race car and cheaper to operate than a Spec Miata? I recently got a call last week from Jackson Stewart, President of 999 Motorsports. Jackson had called to see if I was interested in driving their new Supersport race car. The Supersport is designed to be a user friendly and cheap to maintain purpose built race car that is fast enough to be fun but not so edgy as to be scary. A sort of poor man's Daytona Prototype. We eagerly made the trip down to Willow Springs to give the Supersport a spin.
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Mike Kojima posted on April 04, 2012 00:00
Matt Powers' 2012 Formula D Ride Part 2
By Mike Kojima
In our first article we showed you how Matt Powers Crew Chief and fabricator Costa Gialamas prepped the Nissan S14 chassis for its conversion to pro drift car spec. Now we watch as Costa shows the right way to build a cage.
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Mike Kojima posted on April 04, 2012 00:00
By Mike Kojima
In 2011 Walker Wilkerson blasted out of the Pacific Northwest and took the Pro Drifting world by storm. The 21 year old college kid sponsored mainly by his family was able to make his mark as a privateer in the most competitive and hard fought Formula D season in history. With his spectacular reverse entry driving style, Walker clutch kicked his powerful but pipey SR20DET powered S13 through the season.
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Mike Kojima posted on March 26, 2012 00:00
Revenge of the Nerd - The Consultant, Helping Fast GT-R's go Even Faster!
By Mike Kojima
I am lucky enough to get to work with some of the best people and companies in the industry as a consultant, usually in the field of suspension design and set up. A couple of weeks ago, I got a call from the folks at Greddy Performance Products and KW Suspension to help with an effort to break the 1/4 mile record for a street driven full body R35 Nissan GT-R.
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Mike Kojima posted on March 20, 2012 00:00
By Mike Kojima
In 2011 Matt Powers battled to seventh place in the Formula D points standing in his Nissan S14 240SX. The old 240 had served Matt well being his street car and gradually evolving from a street drift, to amateur drifting, to Pro Am and finally Formula D pro competition.
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Mike Kojima posted on March 05, 2012 00:00
By Mike Kojima
Annie’s Civic had seen tons of street and track miles, over 200,000 miles since she had completed her B series swap years ago. Her clutch had begun to slip probably 3 years ago and she had been nursing it along for this long as she was too busy with other car projects to take care of it. With this many miles we felt that it was probably prudent to open up the transmission just to inspect the insides and take care of any issues before bolting it up to her renewed engine pushing much more power.
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Mike Kojima posted on February 27, 2012 04:00
By Mike Kojima
In the first segment of Project 370Z we worked with AEM to evaluate the awesome ETI cold air intake. Since our car is going to be focused on streetable track performance, we next turned our attention to the suspension. The first and most critical parts of any track worthy suspension build are the swaybars, dampers and springs.
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Mike Kojima posted on February 20, 2012 00:00
By Mike Kojima
Alignment is one of the most important things in getting your drift car to handle correctly and a subject that is mangled quite a bit on internet forums. It is important to make your alignment adjustable. In the case of you having a popular car like a Nissan S chassis you can get adjustable front tension rods, rear toe, traction and camber links all off the shelf from companies like SPL Parts and Battle Version. If you have cars with MacPherson struts in the front, you can often get camber plates. Ground Control Suspension has camber plates for many different cars.
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