Imagine a world without boost. High-performance street engines would make around 100 horsepower per liter. Racing engines would only be able to squeeze out 130 horsepower per liter. In this boost-free world, a five- hundred horsepower streetcar would need an engine that is over five liters in displacement. Heavy, large- […]
Read MoreTop 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 […]
Read MoreOne Bad ‘Bish | 712whp Demo Car Exemplifies Buschur Racing Philosophy While Chasing the 8s
“No bull” has been the tuning the development philosophy behind Buschur Racing since the beginning. Always a skeptic, David Buschur would test each and every component on the track before recommending it to others. If a part didn’t make the car run quicker, it simply wouldn’t be sold. Today, that […]
Read MoreTest & Tune: 2011 Mitsubishi EVO X GSR Part 2 | More Power Under the Curve, Same Boost Levels
In our last installment of the Mitsubishi EVO X Test & Tune, we added an intake system and a turbo-back exhaust upgrade and fine-tuned our way to a peak increase of 71 WHP. The addition of the COBB AccessPORT and Boost Pill allowed increased levels of boost pressure from the […]
Read MoreSierra-Sierra’s EVO VIII Brings Pro Racing To Time Attack
What happens when a multi-million dollar racing operation leaves the Formula Atlantic series to campaign a production car in time attack? They build a serious car backed by an experienced team that puts the veterans of time-attack series to the test. Sierra-Sierra Enterprises (SSE) out of Minden, Nevada, won the […]
Read MoreCamshaft 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. […]
Read MoreTest & Tune: 2011 Mitsubishi EVO X GSR | Big Power Gains for the 4B11
The Mitsubishi EVO X is still one of the most popular choices for tuners and for good reason. The 4B11T long block has proven to be stout, capable of handling in excess of 500-plus horsepower regularly. Additionally, the GSR model’s five-speed manual transmission is able to hold equivalent power levels […]
Read More10 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 […]
Read MoreSTM’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 […]
Read MoreStreet Cyber EVO iX
The “Street Cyber EVO iX” was featured in DSPORT DVD #19. DSPORT DVD #19 came Free with the July 2011 Issue of DSPORT Magazine
Read MoreWORLDS QUICKEST & FASTEST FWD DSM | Kiggly Racing Plymouth Laser
While in Ohio, DSPORT Magazine caught up with Kevin Kwiatkowski and his 1991 Plymouth Laser which is currently the world’s quickest & fastest FWD DSM running on gas. Click on the video to learn more about the build and see the DSM in action. Best ET: 8.21 @ 168.5mph Best […]
Read MoreMitsubishi 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 […]
Read MoreFinal 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” […]
Read MoreTOMEI 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 […]
Read MoreGSC 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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