Revenge of the Nerd: Bravo Toyota!

By Mike Kojima

Today Toyota announced perhaps what is the most extensive, comprehensive and expensive recall in the history of Automotive manufacturing.  The recall involves eight of their best selling models from the Camry to even our Project Tundra.  2.3 MILLION vehicles will be affected by this recall. In an unprecedented move, Toyota has also stopped all sales and production of the potentially affected models as well. This affects more than 100,000 brand new Toyotas in the sales pipe line.  This is STOPPED, dead cold, with thousands of workers at plants and dealerships who as of next Monday will be sitting around twiddling their thumbs. This recall will probably be disastrous financially for Toyota.

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Extreme Engine Tech: Technosquare's Monster Naturally Aspirated Toyota 4AG - Part 3 (VIDEO INSIDE!)

By Mike Kojima, Photos & Video by Jeff Naeyaert

When we last left the Technosquare crew, they had completed the stroker 4AG engines bottom end and assembled the cylinder head.  Now it was time for the engines final assembly and installation into an AE86 time attack car.

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Project Toyota Tundra Part One, Suspension and Brakes

By Mike Kojima

Since we are all about worry free towing, we decided to look into getting a new full size truck.  Over the years we have used about every truck on the market including the Dodge Ram and Ford F250 SD (which was our current favorite truck).  Dan Gardner, owner of our Project Scion racecar was awfully impressed with the Tundra he received on long-term loan from Toyota and recommended we give one a try.

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Extreme Engine Tech:  Technosquare's Monster Naturally Aspirated Toyota 4AG - Part I By Mike Kojima The Toyota 4AG is a historic engine, one that was essential in launching sport compact car culture in the USA.  In 1985 the 4AG first rocked the automotive world.  It was the standard engine in the Toyota Corolla GTS, the famed Hachi Roku AE86.  The AE86 was the last of the RWD Corollas and Toyota made history by equipping it with the revolutionary A4G engine.  The AW11 MR2 mid engine sports car was also powered by the 4AG as well.

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Extreme Engine Tech: Technosquare's Monster Naturally Aspirated Toyota 4AG - Part 2 By Mike Kojima In our last edition of the building of Technosquare's monster Toyota 4AG, we mainly looked at the details of the bottom end.  Now we will finish our tour of the bottom end and delve into the engines cylinder head which is the heart of any high performance engine. The 83mm x 83 mm stroker motor gives 1800cc.  The 200 extra cc's makes a huge difference, fortifying the 4AG's notoriously narrow power band. The engine cranks out over 250 crank hp, more than the most highly developed Formula Atlantic engines of yore and 30 more hp than the previous 1600 cc version of this motor.

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