Top Ten Engines | Inside The Engines That Powered An Industry

1| Honda B-series VTEC The little engines that started a REVolution… So why did Honda’s B-Series engine earn the top spot among DSPORT’s Top 10 Engines? It’s not the highest horsepower, not the largest displacement; it’s not even turbocharged from the factory. But the B series featured Honda’s revolutionary Variable […]

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Camshaft Showcase: 4G63 EVO Build

Mitsubishi’s 4G63 engine is arguably one of the best four-cylinder engines ever built. While the early variants set records powering DSMs, later versions of the engine propelled the EVO VIII and EVO IX. In terms of strength, power potential and ease of service, the 4G63 engine simply has no equal. […]

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10 Best Cover Cars from the first 100 Issues

MEET THE ELITE. DSPORT HAS ASSEMBLED THE TEN BEST CARS TO GRACE THE COVER OF DSPORT MAGAZINE. BY WAY OF ACHIEVEMENT, TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION AND BUILD QUALITY, THESE MACHINES REPRESENT THE EPITOME OF IMPORT PERFORMANCE. HORSEPOWER OUTPUT, COMPREHENSIVE CHASSIS DEVELOPMENT, TRACK RECORDS, ONE-OFF FABRICATION AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL WERE JUST A FEW OF THE CRITERIA […]

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STM’s 864 WHP EVO RS Takes the 8-second crown

It’s been said that records are made to be broken. After setting the quickest elapsed time record for a 2.0-liter 4G63 EVO, Emery Kapral and STM’s “Ricer” (an 8-second EVO VIII featured in Issue #97 of DSPORT) arrived at a crossroads. “We had to make a tough decision. Since Ricer […]

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Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Wagon GT

Specialists excel at what they do, and customers that know what they want are drawn to them. In the case of Naohisa Tazawa of Garage G-Force, he became a specialist by default. Tazawa recalled, “I worked on Galant VR-4 rally engines at my work, so I was already familiar with […]

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Final Results

THE NUMBERS GAME When we arrange all of the tested camshafts by the actual measured intake duration at 1mm, an interesting trend is revealed. The trend is that every manufacturer has a different method of computing its”advertised” duration of the camshaft. As a result, not all camshafts advertised as “264” […]

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TOMEI POWERED 290

MANUFACTURER: TOMEI POWERED ENGINE MODEL: 4G63 EVO 8 CAMSHAFT PN# (INTAKE): 1454290115 CAMSHAFT PN# (EXHAUST):1455290115 SPEC CARD# : GSC-6008S3 INTAKE EXHAUST CAM TIMING EVENTS Centerline 110° 115° Valve Opening @ 1.0mm 6.1° BTDC 59.7° BBDC Valve Opening @ 0.050″ 2.53° BTDC 56.1° BBDC Valve Closing @ 1.0mm 55.8° ABDC 0.7° ATDC Valve Closing […]

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GSC S3

MANUFACTURER: GSC Power Division ENGINE MODEL: 4G63 EVO 8 CAMSHAFT PN#: GSC-6008S3 SPEC CARD#: N/A INTAKE EXHAUST CAM TIMING EVENTS Centerline 109° 115° Valve Opening @ 1.0mm 3.8° BTDC 53.8° BBDC Valve Opening @ 0.050″ 0.4° BTDC 50.2° BBDC Valve Closing @ 1.0mm 51.5° ABDC 4.8° BTDC Valve Closing @ 0.050″ 47.5° ABDC […]

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Kelford Cams 280

MANUFACTURER: Kelford Cams ENGINE MODEL: 4G63 EVO 8 CAMSHAFT PN#: 8-TX280 SPEC CARD#: 133933 INTAKE EXHAUST CAM TIMING EVENTS Centerline 107° 113° Valve Opening @ 1.0mm 1.8° BTDC 47.6° BBDC Valve Opening @ 0.050″ 1.7° ATDC 43.9° BBDC Valve Closing @ 1.0mm 41.4° ABDC 4.4° BTDC Valve Closing @ 0.050″ 37.6° ABDC 7.9° […]

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