VQ Crazy

 

Recently all around me have been Nissan VQs. There's the Cosworth Castrol Top Shop engine that I have been coordinating and tuning at Cosworth, then over at XS they are building a Z33 for my buddy Andy who owns Ark Design, so as a I built that engine on my own time, then I have been writing reports at Cosworth on VQ35DE camshafts like a madman, then I have been working on the Cosworth VQ35 long stroke crankshaft, my daily driver Maxima has a VQ30, I've been driving my mom's G35 which has a VQ35, etc. VQs kick ass.

 

The Cosworth Top Shop engine made 4xxbhp (buy the magazines) normally aspirated which impressed me. Th...

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Greddy USA Press Release

From Mike Chung at Greddy USA:

GReddy Performance Products Inc., Parent Company to Undergo Reorganization

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Trust (Greddy) Declares Bankruptcy

 

Japan's largest credit research company Teikoku Databank announced that automotive parts manufacturer Trust filed for bankruptcy on September 10th, 2008. Trust also known abroad as Greddy is reported to be approx US$60M in debt.

 

In February 2008, Trust reported declined annual sales of US$53M. Loan payments totallying US$43M became a burden and was forced to file bankruptcy to the Tokyo District Court.

 

Trust was founded in 1976 and employs 190 workers producing exhausts, springs, turbo chargers and car electronics. A US subsidiary, Greddy Performance Products was founded in 1994 to expand overseas sales....

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Armada AEM BRUTE FORCE!!! Intake

About three weeks ago I walked up to my desk in the morning at Cosworth and there was this big ass red box sitting on my chair. I was thinking "who the hell sent me an Armada intake?" It didn't cross my mind at the time that I had just posted about using a K&N intake. So I put it aside and started my day. Later that day at lunch Tyler said, "Hey Greg is going to send you an intake. Would you run an AEM intake?" I said, "Yeah I'm down as long as its not an xxx." BTW, thanks for hooking up the BRUTE FORCE!!! intake, Greg. Sorry I haven't called to thank you, but it is non-stop super busy at work so I haven't had a...

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Parts for Less

I was talking to Troy at XS earlier today and he mentioned that he just put up a bunch of kick ass parts on the XS Ebay store that are priced pretty damn good. Check some of this stuff out for some examples:

Apexi N1 Pro Coilovers for IS300/Altezza, brand new

HKS EVO 8 272 Camshafts, brand new

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Saleen

 

Sometime back in the mid 80's before I had a license, I remember checking out a Road & Track magazine where they did a road test of a 1984 or 1985 Saleen Mustang. I remember I used to like it a lot. I thought it was a pretty damn cool car actually. I had nothing against the 5.0's, but then again, I didn't know shit back then either (they suck BIG TIME ass stock). Most of my buddies in high school had 5.0's. In fact, my first hidden nitrous install was in my buddy Ed's 1988 5.0 Mustang GT. We smoked hella fools and made plenty of lunch money street racing that thing. All the black dudes with Mustan...

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Big Brakes

I love big brakes. They can stop a car faster, you can brake later in to a turn, and the car just feels better when you have them. What I think is even better than big brakes are FAKE big brakes! You know the sky is falling when people are making a living off of FAKE big brakes. As a true enthusiast, you can't even imagine the concept, right? I was cruising eBay and I found this crock of shit:

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What a Con

Cruising through the web, I stumbled upon the Surge 02 Power Chip for only $99.99. Here are some of the features. Check out the image of the high tech kit below too.

• Improves engine output by as much as 10 %.


• Enhance throttle response, acceleration and low end torque.


• Preserves smog certification.


• Pushes up acceleration and dynamism by upto 15 %.


• Results higher top speed.


• Lifetime Warranty


• Easy installation in 3...

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Wide Body Miatas

While the Miata is cool fun little car, it doesn't measure too high on the manliness scale when you compare it to other Japanese cars that are commonly modified. The stock bumper has that look like its smiling and it is pretty small overall. Then in the US, you have many women who own Miatas and of course gay dudes. You're shielded from my criticizm if you're a normal dude and own a Miata, but chances are you're not a normal dude if you're reading this blog. To avoid gayness, look no more: AWR Racing has wide body kits that look pretty clean.  None of the cars on the AWR website are very complete, but ...

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Tech Calls

by Eric Hsu

This post and actually all my posts are of my opinion only and not of my employer, Cosworth LLC or any other company that I've previously worked for.

Having been working at different manufacturers for many years now and being one of the technically inclined personnel in the office, I always seem to have to deal with tech calls from customers no matter where I seem to work. I'm glad to help somebody out if I can save their day. Luckily I don't answer all tech calls as I'm usually busy doing something else, but if I'm sitting at my desk I usually get the serious tech calls. Here's a quick summary of the types of people I've encountered over the years (both dealers and end users):

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