For all the happiness and joy our cars bring us, they have also brought us plenty of frustration and stress. The late nights wrenching on cars to meet a deadline, last minute failures that need to be corrected, and even the occasional roadside repair. We have all been there, but […]
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D’GARAGE Honda S2000 | Track Prepping a 366,000 Mile S2000
The DSPORT office parking lot is filled with staff projects and D’Garage cars both old and new, but none of these come close to matching the longevity of Tyler Hirashima’s 366,000-mile AP1 Honda S2000. The car was first purchased new in 1999 by his father and then passed down to […]
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D’GARAGE | Supreme Power BMW M2
Manufacturers may label their performance vehicles as “sports cars,” but 99-percent of the time these cars are hardly ready for a performance driving environment. What does everyone tell you to do before you take any car to the track? They give you a checklist, usually suggesting at minimum to replace […]
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D’GARAGE | Part:1 REMARK / GReddy VW Golf GTI MK7
DGARAGE Remove the games of drafting behind other cars, playing chicken in braking zones, or sharing the road as you battle in tight corners and you have time attack racing; one of the purest forms of motorsport. The goal is simple: build the fastest car possible and put a capable […]
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Neo Motorsport Front Big Brake Kit for the Honda S2000
What should your next upgrade be? Asking yourself this question can send you down a rabbit hole of unnecessary and expensive mods if you’re not careful. So before window shopping catalogs and forums for new parts, decide first what you want to do with the car. If you plan to […]
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D’GARAGE Project KA S14 | Building A Bulletproof Turbo Testing Machine
FOUR CYLINDERS, IRON BLOCK AND READY TO ROCK. NISSAN’S KA24DE engine sports a 2.4-liter displacement, dual overhead camshafts, four valves per cylinder and a compression ratio of 9.5:1. In many ways, the design of the KA24DE makes it the perfect candidate for a high-horsepower, turbocharged setup. For that very reason, […]
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Fuel Pumps, Lines, Injectors & ECU Make it E85 Ready | Project Time Capsule R34 GT-R: Part 3
Everything changed when E85 came to town. The days of having separate tunes for pump gas versus race gas are now just a memory for many. Every day, more enthusiasts make the switch to E85. If you are blessed enough to live in an area that has access to this […]
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New Turbos and New Personality | Project Time Capsule R34 GT-R: Part 2
When it comes to the R34 GT-R’s RB26 engine, its personality is established by the choice of turbo system. For two decades, turbo upgrades for the RB26 provided either a solid mid-RPM performer for street and track use or a top-end screamer for drag racing. If you were content with […]
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Reviving a Performance Icon | Project Time Capsule R34 GT-R: Part 1
There comes a point in many children’s lives where they put prized possessions into a time capsule, bury it in the yard and forget about it as time passes. When it’s time to unearth the capsule, the contents seem to gain more value and appreciation. Such is the case with […]
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D’GARAGE Honda CR-X B17A | Passing the BAR, Broken Parts, Building Up Power
A lot has changed. We have two presidential candidates on deck that seem no better than each other and even Britain is following in our footsteps to secede from the motherland. While we haven’t done the best job keeping our readers updated on D’GARAGE Project CR-X,rest assured that the project […]
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D’GARAGE CRX: Honda Twin-cam Swap Part 2
BE IT A JUNKYARD BARGAIN FIND OR A COMPLETELY REBUILT ENGINE FROM THE ground up, swapping in a B-series engine will generally require the same parts, procedures and pain-in-the-you-know-what. Within the family of B-series VTEC engines, small di fferences like the intake manifold, deck height, combustion chamber and sensor placement distinguish […]
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Part 13: PROJECT RH9 GT-R | 10-Second Power, 11-Second Timeslips 11.25@ 133.7mph
“Should have…could have…would have…” Our most recent trip to the strip with our Project GT-R proved to be full of both trials and tribulations. While many questions were answered, a number of new questions and concerns surfaced. Text & Photos by Michael Ferrara Persistence Pays The original plan was to […]
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Part 12: Ported & Flowed: Part 3 | Computer Models Versus the Dyno on our RB26 GT-R
In our last installment of Ported & Flowed (October 2004), we mentioned that our next step would be to put the computer model to the test. This test would occur when we installed the ported cylinder head along with the camshafts on our GT-R. Then we would optimize the fuel […]
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Part 11: Ported & Flowed: Part 2 | Flow Numbers, Flow Velocity and Horsepower with our GT-R
You’ve probably been told or heard from someone that “an internal combustion automotive engine is just a sophisticated air pump.” Here’s the truth. What you have been told isn’t entirely accurate. First, a pump is a device used to move fluids and it operates at relatively low pressures. Air is […]
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Part 10: PROJECT RH9 GT-R | Pump Gas: 505whp Attained, 600whp Possible?
Last issue, we said “when we get back on the dyno, we won’t be surprised to see 500-plus horsepower on 91-octane with a boost and power curves that we never believed possible with turbos so big. As predicted, we accomplished our mission with 505 horsepower registering on the dyno after […]
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