Too Cool : MiataBusa : That Is What You Are Thinking

Dave Coleman is my hero. He always gets into some cool, wacky, weird stuff. I have known him for years since the Sport Compact Car Magazine days.  Smart guy, and a wacky guy, heres his new project.  Mount a Hayabusa 1300cc engine in a Miata.  Aka Miatabusa.com.

 

You know what makes it really cool? “Its 99 lb-ft toruqe output is nearly a dead match for the original Miata's 100 lb-ft, but its 171 hp (or 197 if you drop the big bucks on a 2008 or newer engine) will give the Miata the longitudinal urgency it so desperately needs.”.

Dave has come up with a way to mount the Miata transmission to the Hayabusa engine in a very right, very wrong way. I can’t wait to hear the Miata at 10,500 rpm. I think they really need to go all in at first and just turbocharge it. A 400 whp, 10k rpm Miata. So wrong, so right.

Head over to MotoIQ for a full writeup on the Miatabusa.

The Ultimate guide to Suspension and Handling Part 1, Wheels and Tires

The Ultimate guide to Suspension and Handling Part 1, Wheels and Tires

 

 MotoIQ's Mike Kojima posted the first part of their ultimate guide to suspension and handling.

Horsepower is sexy and chicks dig it, at least a lot of meatheads think that way. Making horsepower is relatively easy. A lot of competent people know how to make power, lots of it. Until drifting became the rage in this country, handling and cornering prowess was for geeks, the road racing elite and autocrossers. Handling was for dweebs that raced around cones in parking lots, or loners prowling canyon roads at night, not for cool people in the scene.

How to tune a car's suspension was an unknown art in the world of mainstream performance, simply because most people didn’t care about handling. Most people emulated the world of road racing by making their cars low. Low was cool, low was handling.

 

Mike explains some of the basics on tires and wheels, and what people should look for in wheels and tires, obviously more slated to track/street usage than bling.

I am looking forward to the rest of this serious. MotoIQ is full of great tech, you should check it out. 

 

Source: MotoIQ

Bugatti Veyron Engine Picture from MotoIQ

 

Eric Hsu posted up a picture of a Bugatti Veyron engine with the heads removed.  Interesting looking engine. 1001 hp, quad turbo. I consider this to be the fastest production car in the world, no matter the couple “production car” claims of higher speeds.  As you can see in the above video, a 480 hp Nissan GT-R doesn’t stand a chance against a Veyron. However for $80,000 vs $1,500,000 you have some change left over if you purchase a GT-R.  The Veyron is just something that demands respect.

 

Construction type/number of cylinders
W16

Cylinder/bank angles
15°/90°

Number of valves per cylinder
4

Supercharging
4 exhaust turbochargers with air coolers

Cylinder spacing
73 mm

Bore/stroke
86.00 mm/86.05 mm

Cylinder capacity
7,993 cm³

Power rating/engine speed
1,001 hp (736 kW)/6,000 rpm

Max. torque/engine speed
1,250 Nm/2,200–5,500 rpm

Max. mean effective pressure
19.7 bar

Compression ratio
9.0

Acceleration

0–100 km/h
2.5 sec.

0–200 km/h
7.3 sec.

0–300 km/h
16.7 sec.

0–400 km/h
55.6 sec.

Head over to MotoIQ and post up some comments, and enjoy some of the best tech out there on the web from most of the people that brought you Sport Compact Car Magazine.

Source: MotoIQ

MotoIQ.com Goes Live

Its been a long time coming, but its finally up. MotoIQ. Head Geek in charge Mike Kojima has banded together with a merry band of enthusiasts to form MotoIQ. There are some names you might recognize, besides Mike Kojima, there is Dave Coleman , Anne Sam , Sara Forst, and Eric Hsu.

So here we are. I believe that the hardcore are still out there, I believe that your editorial needs are not anywhere close to being filled by the current publications on the shelves at the newsstands or on low signal to noise ratio internet user group forums. We are not corporate, we are independents, we are lean mean and nimble, responsive to your interests.

If you are reading this, I believe you miss SCC. Well, I am here, Dave Coleman is here, as well as a bunch of other equally hardcore and capable car freaks and nerds.

Geek and Nissan Strong.