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Entries for the 'Browse by Vehicle' Category
Mike Kojima posted on August 17, 2010 20:48 

By Mike Kojima
If you have been in the game of modifying cars for 10 years or so and got your start modding compact cars, you probably remember the good old days when adding a cold air intake was probably the first or second engine mod you did to your car. In those days a really well designed intake could add as much as 10 or more whp to your car's output and even the most basic poorly designed ebay intake usually added at least a few dyno verifiable horsepower. A cold air intake was considered to be a good bang for the buck modification and thousands were sold. Even the most mechanically inept were usually able to install an intake with a few simple hand tools.
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Mike Kojima posted on August 10, 2010 18:59 

By Mike Kojima
In the last installment of our build, we delved into building the bottom end of our VG30DETT engine for the goal of reliably achieving 550 plus horsepower. In this segment we will look into what was done to our top end including the cylinder heads to support this power level.
See part one about the bottom end here!
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Mike Kojima posted on July 27, 2010 20:07 

By Mike Kojima
When we last left off on our QR25DE project, Jim Wolf Technology was well on the development path for our motor with new rods, pistons and the removal of the balance shafts. JWT still had a few more tricks up their sleeves to help the motor make more power and to improve its reliability that we will get into in this installment.
Follow our project here!
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Wes Dumalski posted on July 14, 2010 19:48 

By Wes Dumalski
It's no secret that driving your car at speed on a road course will bring to light all of the car's weaknesses. After sorting the motor and suspension we decided to take Project 200SX to a few track day events to put the car through its paces. While the car has proven dead reliable we certainly found its shortcomings.
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Mike Kojima posted on June 29, 2010 20:29 

By Mike Kojima, Photos and video by Jeff Naeyaert
We had heard rumors that Rhys Millen was working with Hyundai and Red Bull to build something fantastic, an unlimited class supercar for Pikes Peak. Since we are on the Formula D Circuit with Rhys, we asked him what was up and he invited us to his shop for a closer look and to go testing with his team as he rolled the car out for the first time at El Toro.
Video inside!
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Mike Kojima posted on June 17, 2010 23:24

By Mike Kojima, photos by Jeff Naeyaert
N1 Concept's striking S2000 Time Attack car has caught our attention at this years Redline Time Attack events with both its speed and sharp looks. N1 Concepts is a Northern California tuner and purveyor of rare JDM parts. N1 purchased the car in the fall of 2008 from renowned Honda tuner J's Racing and set about converting it to US Time Attack configuration for Super Lap Battle's Unlimited RWD and Redline Time Attack's Super Modified RWD class.
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Mike Kojima posted on June 16, 2010 20:27

By Martin Gonzales and Mike Kojima
What is as important to your engine's health as your heart is to your own body? If you guessed the oil pump then you are absolutely correct! Like your heart, your oil pump circulates the engine's life blood, oil, around to critical components like your engine's bearings and valvetrain. These parts like parts of your own body would only last seconds without a continual supply of pressurized oil.
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Mike Kojima posted on June 14, 2010 17:13 

By Khiem Dinh, photos by Jeff Naeyaert
We chose our S2000 as a project car for its handling prowess. With multilink suspension and a 50/50 weight distribution, the S2K has all the right stuff to carve corners with. AP2 S2K's like our car have revised rear toe link pick up locations so they don't exhibit the twitchy at the limit cornering issues that the older AP1 chassis has. What's good can always be made better so we decided to spend our efforts in improving our car's suspension in the next round of mods.
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Mike Kojima posted on May 24, 2010 20:43 
 By Mike Kojima, photos by Jeff Naeyaert If you're into the Time Attack scene, no doubt you're well aware of Ryan Gates and his winning 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X; Ryan has been tearing up the Time Attack record book with an unheard of winning record. In the 2009 Redline Time Attack Season Ryan blew up the record book with an amazing 7 wins in 7 events in Modified Class. Ryan also scored wins at the Buttonwillow Superlap Battle Finale and at the NASA Road America Time Trial in the TTB class. That’s an amazing 9 wins in 9 events entered!
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Mike Kojima posted on May 04, 2010 17:11 

By Mike Kojima, photos by Jeff Naeyaert
Thanks to our friends at Volk Wheels, the technical staff at MotoIQ had a special opportunity to get a close insider's look at BMW's uber-trick factory works BMW M3's that Rahal-Letterman racing campaign in ALMS's GT class. If you do a google search on these cars, you will not find much information on them because until now, no one that cares has gotten a really close look at these amazing machines. Most reports have pretty pictures of the cars and stuff about the "Story of Joy" marketing campaign that the cars are promoting but in typical MotoIQ form, we will take you inside like no one else has before.
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