Archives for November 2008

BMW M Cars Switching to Turbocharging

Read all about it over at AutoWeek

Details : SPT Intake

I just noticed something nice about the SPT (Subaru Performance Tuning) short intake. It has little holders cast into the pipe for the OEM coolant lines. It’s all in the details, folks.

The end of Harman Motive, for now.

The Harman Motive blog has a press release stating that the facility, equipment, tools, and their STI are for sale due to the upcoming closing of their shop. The last quoted sentence, “Certainly this is a difficult time for all of us, but I am confident that we will emerge better and stronger than ever.”, [...]

How DeatschWerks Rolls

When I extracted the Denso ~550cc injectors (EJ207-STI “Pinks”) from Project Resell, they were crusty and not something I could reinstall as-is in good conscience. Having used RC Engineering before for injector flow-testing work, I decided to give DeatschWerks a shot this time. I was happy with RC, but their cost was a bit much. [...]

Cusco/Tomei STI Wins Super Lap Battle at Buttonwillow

Congratulations to the Cusco/Tomei team and Tarzan Yamada for winning the 2008 finals of the Super Lap Battle series at Buttonwillow Raceway (Unlimited AWD Class). I’m sure it won’t be long before we get more details, but I am also sure several media companies have the footage on lockdown.

AMS Oil Pan Released (Evo 7 8 9)

Made from 6061 aluminum, 1.5 quarts additional capacity, integrated crank oil stripper (sort of), and MSRP of $649. For full details, see the AMS Racing Blog entry.

Top Secret Hood Latches, Only Not Top Secret

These super elite mad-tyte-JDM-yo hood latches “from” Japanese super-tuner Top Secret? They’re made by Aerocatch in the UK, not for Top Secret, and are easily found for around $100 per set. Expect more total BS to be uncovered in future posts. Sorry GTR-R. Wait, no I’m not.

SSR Wheels Website

Although I am completely confused these days regarding the status of SSR, who owns what, and who distributes their wheels in the US, it doesn’t diminish the fact that the new SSR website is live today.

Madness : Stage Infinity Video

JIC “Not so Magic” Coilovers

“Not so Magic” taken by dunk from NASIOC Seems there’s a rash of JIC Magic coilovers failing in the last few years. Some were caught on video even. Video links open in new windows. I didn’t want to clobber page loads here with 3 embedded videos. Count along with Count von Count! ONE failure… ah [...]