This has to be one of the best videos I have seen of this type, The clarity and detail in which he explained every part that was installed on the car was simply amazing.
I've been a fan of Mike since the Sport Compact Car days. Endless supply of knowledge and no bullshitting his way through things he doesn't understand. And the fact he sounds like the stoner manager reading off the menu at hotdog on a stick, is still mind boggling.
I don't own a GT-R but if I did, I would definitely let these guys mod it the same way. They are addressing all the weak links in the car, saving weight and paying attention to details, not just throwing a bunch of parts at it.
I have only seen this man twice on the internet once with rob dam and his awd rx7 and this video this man is so happy with what he does; watch his smile throughout the video🥺
Subscribed, I like Mr. Smiles man, hes dope asf. This is how you become an elder without being “old”, with age comes wisdom its only a number man. His children, nephews and grandkids must love him 😂❤
Drove a GT-R a few years ago and have wanted one ever since! Truly a super car for half the price. Bought an E90 M3 and as fun as it is, it does not take to bolt ons nearly as well as a GT-R. Also, I looked at the dyno chart for this car vs my old WRX with bigger turbo and E-85 and MY GOD the torque curve on this thing!
Man GTRs are so cool! Those price tags are a bummer tho! I wish there was more support for the VQ40. With all the Frontiers, older Parthfinders, and NV vans they came in those things are all over junk yards. They could be the poor man's VR38. The VQ40 has 166mm rods and a 1.81 ratio with stout mains, just open decks... Compared to the VQ35 it's got 22mm longer rods, 11mm more stroke, 2mm thicker journal on the big end and 10mm larger main journals so they freaking added overlap with stroke! I don't know how their head geometry compares but the bottom end is all potential.
Every video, Mike looks like someone getting away with something. Seems like he is loving life! Thanks for the great content Mike, been following your stuff since Sport Compact Car era.
Lol, I think I still might have one of those issues. I gave away almost my entire SCC subscription some years ago to a guy that was opening his own tuning shop but kept a few for nostalgia. Mike, Dave and Josh👍
To make the transmission last, take it all apart and heat treat the stressed parts. Correct heat treatment makes steel parts much stronger on surfaces. Stronger surfaces crack less, not getting cracks prevents breakage.
Always impressed with your knowledge, and always learning from your videos! Didn't they show on engine masters how the mushroom shaped intake filter made the most power? A little surprised you are using the 'standard' performance intake filter cone shape that doesn't allow air straight in through the end, but makes it all bend 90 degrees. (Just because normally you are on the cutting edge of every technology and pushing everything to maximum performance).
That's not necessarily true. Mushroom filters have little surface area, usually have poor filtering media that lets all sorts of dirt past them, and not enough standoff for laminar flow into the induction tube.
yes, our project STI ran them then promptly blew up before we could properly evaluate them. Our EVO IX and X run them and you could notice better cold start and idle on alcohol and a much better idle on the IX with its big lopy cams. Go to MotoIQ.com and check out the tests there.
@@motoiq thanks! I will definitely be checking that out. I actually posted this video in my local subaru group and everyone tore me up because you guys used eagle rods which typically give out around 500whp. Why not something like manley or wiseco? They couldnt say jack shit about the rest because the rest was super informative! Thats all they were able to criticize fairly..
@@boppernostopper8598 Your local group guys are wrong. There are 4 grades of Eagle rods, we used the extreme duty ones with the CA 625 bolts and special proprietary alloy which are much stronger than the base rods. These will take way more than 500 hp. Even the standard H-Beam 4340 Eagle rods with the ARP 2000 bolts can take up to 900 hp on your typical 4 cylinder. Eagle lower-grade rods are I-Beam and Eagle doesn't even make these in Subaru applications.
Actually we bought these parts. Why do some people think if you put something up that someone made its a paid advertisement. Heck if we hand made all of the parts by hand you would probably say its a paid advertisement for our company.
We experienced a huge drop in fuel economy because now the car actually feels fast and we punch it everywhere! The fuel economy is really bad on E85. The best mileage we now get is something like 20 mpg on gas and 14 or less mpg on E85. We also retuned the transmission shift scheduling to get rid of the annoying early upshifts and super aggressive light throttle upshifts. This helps driveability but probably also hurts mileage.
@@motoiq like half and half and what kidna result ehat would that give cooler gas with soem bonus property's I live in canada and in the winter how does e85 hold in the cold or high altatuid like the mountains or by sea level and what is the diffrence
Here's a question to anyone. Let's say you build a motor of your own liking and everything is running perfectly. What is the most major thing to worry about? Is it your cooling system or fuel or is it weight? What's everyone's opinion?
it has some advantages over top to bottom flow like better charge cooling and more effective use of the entire core not just biased toward the inlet like most top to bottoms without shaped end tanks, some of the disadvantages are somewhat uneven cooling flow to the different cores which we fixed with a baffle and slightly more pressure drop due to skin drag of the longer core channels. However pressure drop is minimal and much better than stock.
In monitoring the IAT's in this car, the variation is small and the temps are lower due to longer heat exchangers. If I was making above 1400 hp I would probably do something else but up to 1100 I would rather do this way. Also less obstruction in airflow to the radiators which is important for track driving. This is backed by data and testing.
OK, dude here just cheated. He claimed all that 650 HP by "Bolt On". The real power upgrade here is purified E85. (not the E85-50 from pumps). All other upgrades don't add as much as E85.
Stock on 91 octane pump gas the car made 421 whp and 419 lb\ft of torque. With mods, on 91 octane pump gas the car makes 583 whp and 600 lb/ft of torque. On a tank full of mostly pump E85 the car made 656 whp and 645 lb/ft of torque. The car would have made more but we were tuning to keep the torque below 650 lb/ft which is the most the stock bottom end can take with reliably. So E85 made 73 more hp. On pump gas, the mods made 162 whp. The mods made almost 3x the power of the switch to E85. So the switching to E85 doesn't make more power than the rest of the mods, not even close.
Sure it is with a stock bottom end and transmission if you want any sort of reliability from it. Sure some TH-cam "tuners" will get more and we can get more from bolt ons but then things will start to break unless you car is just a garage and dyno queen.
@@motoiq dude I have a 1500 whp gtr…I know what it takes. Upgraded turbos + fbo at 800-850 whp is extremely reliable and 1000s of people run that set up. Any real gtr tuner knows this as a fact. As long as the torque stays under 650 torque. Stop spreading misinformation. In fact 850 whp is so reliable shops give warranties out for this type of set up.
@@motoiq I see you guys do tons of different cars every week/month so maybe you don’t truly understand the vr38 but us in the community deep and build fast drag gtrs 24/7 know that 850 is safe 900 is when you start to push if
Our engine holds the torque to 645 and that's the horsepower we developed, we could make more if we ran more boost at higher rpm but we are on stock turbos so there is not a ton left there. We were holding the torque at 645 and thus the power level was what it was since torque and power are interrelated. So if we upgraded the turbos, we might make more top-end power, as the torque would fall off less past the torque peak but we are currently also against the octane limits of the fuel, having less backpressure may improve the ability to hold boost at higher rpm due to less reversion due to better turbine flow but why push the stock bottom end so hard, especially when the ethanol content of pump E85 varies so much. Also, there is a difference between street reliable, 1/4 mile reliable, and what you can take to shift sector and run a mile on or a 20-30 min track session. We fix VR's that pushed street tunes too far. As far as misinformation the guys who tune the car and advise what the limits should be are Mitch Mckee and John Carburry, Mitch was the head tuner at AMS and the head development engineer for the GT-R at Cobb before starting M-Engineering and John was well known in the open source world as well as one of the top development engineers at Cobb. You can google them. They tuned the car and it was done for reliability under track conditions not to make internet and youtube bragging numbers. I would like to see how long a torque limited 850 whp stock bottom end and transmission car lasts on a track day on a road course. I would not do that on my car or recommend a customer do it.
We know the VR pretty well and we are just conservative on what we recomend. Our customer base is also different, hardly any of them drag race, it's mostly track day kind of people and the cars have to be able to hold together for 20-30 minutes of hard driving that might require 30 seconds at continuous WOT and WOT for many shorter periods during just one lap. Big difference between that and 9-10 seconds of WOT. If you hold the torque to 650 lb feet the stock bottom end can hold for awhile but it's not good to pound it hard all the time. The other thing to consider is that the ethanol content of pump E85 varies a lot, especially in our area. You run the car hard and have a batch of so so E85 something bad can and will happen. We set up stuff to be reliable not, for youtube or internet bragging numbers.
It is not built as a dedicated time attack car. That is what you need to win at time attack. Unfortunately it got hit by an idiot and totaled before it could be driven on the track.
i love thats hes smiling the whole time😆
metoo :D
He gets to do something he loves for a living. Mad Respect
Lmao he's cheezin like he's trippin on shrooms..
Always. What's a happy guy..love the channel and the relaxed mood.
This has to be one of the best videos I have seen of this type, The clarity and detail in which he explained every part that was installed on the car was simply amazing.
I've been a fan of Mike since the Sport Compact Car days. Endless supply of knowledge and no bullshitting his way through things he doesn't understand. And the fact he sounds like the stoner manager reading off the menu at hotdog on a stick, is still mind boggling.
Yep. I remember him build a GA16DE turbo 200SX back in those days.
I don't own a GT-R but if I did, I would definitely let these guys mod it the same way. They are addressing all the weak links in the car, saving weight and paying attention to details, not just throwing a bunch of parts at it.
Explain to me like I’m 5 - he always does an excellent job breaking down what he and the team does or works on. Makes so much sense 👏🏽
This R35 is mint. 3 catch cans is incredible, that engines gonna do great
I have only seen this man twice on the internet
once with rob dam and his awd rx7 and this video
this man is so happy with what he does; watch his smile throughout the video🥺
Man, he seems like a super nice and knowledgeable guy
I love this guy. Just the way he talks and not to mention smiling the whole freakin time
I wish one day to be as chill and happy as Mike. Such a cool dude!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME,,, THIS GUY'S A GENIUS........... OF COURSE, I WILL SUBSCRIBE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That trans and oil cooler set up is trick!! Love the use of those scoops! I would be interested in some before and after temps on the trans.
...Man I feel like I could listen to Uncle talk all day about whatever, great vid!
Best TH-cam channel for knowledge and Intel on performance vehicles. I have a Turbo 350z Nismo and I can relate to a lot of your videos.
dudes passion for what he does shines through.
Really impressed by that Intercooler and Transmission Intercooler/Heatsync
Subscribed, I like Mr. Smiles man, hes dope asf. This is how you become an elder without being “old”, with age comes wisdom its only a number man. His children, nephews and grandkids must love him 😂❤
Thanks for all the mod ideas for the GTR community. Great work!
Glad you like them!
Generously informative video. Will check your website for export services.
I haven't seen anyone hold a microphone 🎤 in so long, old school I love it.
This guy can talk me into anything, I wouldn't care if we killed someone
this guy is the definition of happy!!!
Drove a GT-R a few years ago and have wanted one ever since! Truly a super car for half the price. Bought an E90 M3 and as fun as it is, it does not take to bolt ons nearly as well as a GT-R. Also, I looked at the dyno chart for this car vs my old WRX with bigger turbo and E-85 and MY GOD the torque curve on this thing!
Plus the engine is strong and not a grenade like the Subaru
@@motoiq Ice Ice baby !
Man GTRs are so cool! Those price tags are a bummer tho! I wish there was more support for the VQ40. With all the Frontiers, older Parthfinders, and NV vans they came in those things are all over junk yards. They could be the poor man's VR38. The VQ40 has 166mm rods and a 1.81 ratio with stout mains, just open decks... Compared to the VQ35 it's got 22mm longer rods, 11mm more stroke, 2mm thicker journal on the big end and 10mm larger main journals so they freaking added overlap with stroke! I don't know how their head geometry compares but the bottom end is all potential.
Yo I love his presentation! Very informative, I never once lost interest, and it looks like he thoroughly enjoyed talking about it as well!
He seems like a really laid back dude
Sick build bro!
2 resources i've learned the most about cars: Gran Turismo and Mr. Mike Kojima/Moto IQ.
That’s the coolest dad in the world.
You have the most calm, likable demeanor..you're like the Jason Bateman of the performance world.
While I dont disagree, i feel " hes the bob ross of horsepower" is a better fit
I have a stock 2010 GTR, would love to have some bolt ons added. Like you said, the stock in cooling is a big weak point.
This is a great video. love the in depth data and the passion for it. comittment and love of his craft.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome update, that transmission cooling mod is really nice!
Mike needs to be attired in a Hawaiian shirt, with Ray Ban shades and sipping a Daiquiri while dispensing automotive pearls of wisdom.
Every video, Mike looks like someone getting away with something. Seems like he is loving life! Thanks for the great content Mike, been following your stuff since Sport Compact Car era.
love this guy!
I was waiting for you to crack a baaaaaddddd assss joke for 20 min 😆😆
Very interested in that 1000 hp build. PLEASE DO THAT!
It's coming soon!
Can you please keep making videos they are amazing
this guy is definitely from Socal
Thank you for the experienced details
It’s been almost 20 years since you rebuilt your Z32 with JWT and other components. Do you plan on updating that car?
A similar run down on that Z32 would be awesome Mike.
I remember the multi issue build in Sport Compact Car with Dave Coleman. Mike is one of my top 5 automotive editors of all time.
I am going through the car to repair it from being stored for nearly 20 years. Then I would like to sell it.
Lol, I think I still might have one of those issues. I gave away almost my entire SCC subscription some years ago to a guy that was opening his own tuning shop but kept a few for nostalgia. Mike, Dave and Josh👍
@@motoiq that’s good to know Mike. I’ll definitely be following along.
I spy an eclipse gsx in the back.
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge! Much appreciated
To make the transmission last, take it all apart and heat treat the stressed parts. Correct heat treatment makes steel parts much stronger on surfaces. Stronger surfaces crack less, not getting cracks prevents breakage.
Its not even close to correct, most stock transmission gears are induction heat treated at the factory.
If your going take it apart might as well build it !!
How is the underside of that thing so clean?
Great video!
Great information. Great video. Keep it up.
i love this guy !
Good info but I'm having trouble getting past the 1980s hand mic
Always impressed with your knowledge, and always learning from your videos! Didn't they show on engine masters how the mushroom shaped intake filter made the most power? A little surprised you are using the 'standard' performance intake filter cone shape that doesn't allow air straight in through the end, but makes it all bend 90 degrees. (Just because normally you are on the cutting edge of every technology and pushing everything to maximum performance).
That's not necessarily true. Mushroom filters have little surface area, usually have poor filtering media that lets all sorts of dirt past them, and not enough standoff for laminar flow into the induction tube.
@@motoiq Please explain Laminar flow ?
He said you can max out a GTR with simple bolt ons like it’s a good thing. Maxing out with just bolt ons means you have to spend extra money
Mike looking extra handsome in this vid, not sure what exactly is different
Why thank you!
Nice Video and very helpful. I was just wondering what is the torque spec for the Greddy Automatic Transmission Oil Cooler Bracket? Thanks in advance!
Tight, didn't even torque it.
@@motoiq I actually did a hand tight but then i can see some leaking
@@motoiq thank you
Why you always got a smirk??
when money is no object
Hahaha those are only bolt ons!
@@motoiqvery expensive bolt one for a poor gtr r35 owner like me lol
I wonder how much all the labour and parts in this build are worth.
Less than 2 minutes in and already it the like. Love the details on the specific radiator
one of the perks of owning a godzilla, you can't stop smiling
How much did you guys spend in doing such modes sir? Maybe intercool is the only mode missing?🤔 btw thanks and have a good day, cheers..👍
No we went over what kind of intercooler in the video.
@@motoiq i think am not listening😅thanks sir...
going to rewire my fuel pumps to better guage wire makes sense
I enjoy your videos. Can you do VR30 redsport engine?
We can build a VR30
seems like these are very similar to subarus in alot of ways. have you tried the OTL coils for high hp subaru EJs?
yes, our project STI ran them then promptly blew up before we could properly evaluate them. Our EVO IX and X run them and you could notice better cold start and idle on alcohol and a much better idle on the IX with its big lopy cams. Go to MotoIQ.com and check out the tests there.
@@motoiq thanks! I will definitely be checking that out. I actually posted this video in my local subaru group and everyone tore me up because you guys used eagle rods which typically give out around 500whp. Why not something like manley or wiseco? They couldnt say jack shit about the rest because the rest was super informative! Thats all they were able to criticize fairly..
@@boppernostopper8598 Your local group guys are wrong. There are 4 grades of Eagle rods, we used the extreme duty ones with the CA 625 bolts and special proprietary alloy which are much stronger than the base rods. These will take way more than 500 hp. Even the standard H-Beam 4340 Eagle rods with the ARP 2000 bolts can take up to 900 hp on your typical 4 cylinder. Eagle lower-grade rods are I-Beam and Eagle doesn't even make these in Subaru applications.
Greddy still using blue silicone couplers and hose clamps... 😐
This was a paid advertisement by:
GREDDY - “maximize the excitement and enjoyment you get from your vehicle.”
Actually we bought these parts. Why do some people think if you put something up that someone made its a paid advertisement. Heck if we hand made all of the parts by hand you would probably say its a paid advertisement for our company.
@@motoiq it was in jest… almost all your parts are Greddy… lighten up.
It annoying when you try to give good information and someone does comments like that.
@@motoiq my apologies… all in good fun. It was a well thought out build. I guess we have thicker skin in Texas and aren’t as sensitive.
Any before and after of the IAT’s with the tube n fin. Also do you think the end tanks play a huge role in controlling temps?
We didn't data log that The end tanks can make a big difference in flow but controlling temps is more due to the intercooler core design.
@@motoiq Awesome thank you
How much would all this cost approximately without labor?
Hey Mike any WPC goodness going into this GTR? What about WPC'ing ball bearings is that viable?
Yeah for the engine. It's difficult to WPC assembled ball bearings.
You changed. That fame got to you....🤣😉
Been awhile!? Like years lol
Have you noticed any improvements to fuel economy with the ignition projects coils?
We experienced a huge drop in fuel economy because now the car actually feels fast and we punch it everywhere! The fuel economy is really bad on E85. The best mileage we now get is something like 20 mpg on gas and 14 or less mpg on E85. We also retuned the transmission shift scheduling to get rid of the annoying early upshifts and super aggressive light throttle upshifts. This helps driveability but probably also hurts mileage.
TL;DR: Buy the COBB Catalog for the GTR for reliable power
Qustion when you set up flex fuel can you switch between gas and ethanol
Yes and any mix in-between
@@motoiq like half and half and what kidna result ehat would that give cooler gas with soem bonus property's I live in canada and in the winter how does e85 hold in the cold or high altatuid like the mountains or by sea level and what is the diffrence
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Here's a question to anyone. Let's say you build a motor of your own liking and everything is running perfectly. What is the most major thing to worry about? Is it your cooling system or fuel or is it weight? What's everyone's opinion?
Well, things are not going to go well without adequate cooling or fueling.
glad to see greddy is still only making 5 items in their product line-up. jesus.Would be nive if they brought more subaru stuff.
What happened to the 370z engine build
The search button is your friend ;) Full write up and results are on MotoIQ.com
I want him to be my uncle lol
Pie cuts arent JDM, thats how you bend a tube with titanium.
It's easy to get titanium mandrel bends. A lot of places sell them.
That car is so freakin expensive
He is not Reading the brochure.
You don't want that kind of intercooler in your GTR!
it has some advantages over top to bottom flow like better charge cooling and more effective use of the entire core not just biased toward the inlet like most top to bottoms without shaped end tanks, some of the disadvantages are somewhat uneven cooling flow to the different cores which we fixed with a baffle and slightly more pressure drop due to skin drag of the longer core channels. However pressure drop is minimal and much better than stock.
Twin pass cooler?
I'm outa here
In monitoring the IAT's in this car, the variation is small and the temps are lower due to longer heat exchangers. If I was making above 1400 hp I would probably do something else but up to 1100 I would rather do this way. Also less obstruction in airflow to the radiators which is important for track driving. This is backed by data and testing.
@@motoiq I think you need to look at the pressure ratio across the cooler rather than how efficient it cools the air
That's why it doesn't work as well for higher power cars. Past 1300-1400 hp. Like I said, backed by data and testing.
OK, dude here just cheated. He claimed all that 650 HP by "Bolt On". The real power upgrade here is purified E85. (not the E85-50 from pumps). All other upgrades don't add as much as E85.
Stock on 91 octane pump gas the car made 421 whp and 419 lb\ft of torque. With mods, on 91 octane pump gas the car makes 583 whp and 600 lb/ft of torque. On a tank full of mostly pump E85 the car made 656 whp and 645 lb/ft of torque. The car would have made more but we were tuning to keep the torque below 650 lb/ft which is the most the stock bottom end can take with reliably. So E85 made 73 more hp. On pump gas, the mods made 162 whp. The mods made almost 3x the power of the switch to E85. So the switching to E85 doesn't make more power than the rest of the mods, not even close.
Everything runs out of capacity real quick apparentl.
650 hp is definitely not maxed out 😂
Sure it is with a stock bottom end and transmission if you want any sort of reliability from it. Sure some TH-cam "tuners" will get more and we can get more from bolt ons but then things will start to break unless you car is just a garage and dyno queen.
@@motoiq dude I have a 1500 whp gtr…I know what it takes. Upgraded turbos + fbo at 800-850 whp is extremely reliable and 1000s of people run that set up. Any real gtr tuner knows this as a fact. As long as the torque stays under 650 torque. Stop spreading misinformation. In fact 850 whp is so reliable shops give warranties out for this type of set up.
@@motoiq I see you guys do tons of different cars every week/month so maybe you don’t truly understand the vr38 but us in the community deep and build fast drag gtrs 24/7 know that 850 is safe 900 is when you start to push if
Our engine holds the torque to 645 and that's the horsepower we developed, we could make more if we ran more boost at higher rpm but we are on stock turbos so there is not a ton left there. We were holding the torque at 645 and thus the power level was what it was since torque and power are interrelated. So if we upgraded the turbos, we might make more top-end power, as the torque would fall off less past the torque peak but we are currently also against the octane limits of the fuel, having less backpressure may improve the ability to hold boost at higher rpm due to less reversion due to better turbine flow but why push the stock bottom end so hard, especially when the ethanol content of pump E85 varies so much. Also, there is a difference between street reliable, 1/4 mile reliable, and what you can take to shift sector and run a mile on or a 20-30 min track session. We fix VR's that pushed street tunes too far. As far as misinformation the guys who tune the car and advise what the limits should be are Mitch Mckee and John Carburry, Mitch was the head tuner at AMS and the head development engineer for the GT-R at Cobb before starting M-Engineering and John was well known in the open source world as well as one of the top development engineers at Cobb. You can google them. They tuned the car and it was done for reliability under track conditions not to make internet and youtube bragging numbers. I would like to see how long a torque limited 850 whp stock bottom end and transmission car lasts on a track day on a road course. I would not do that on my car or recommend a customer do it.
We know the VR pretty well and we are just conservative on what we recomend. Our customer base is also different, hardly any of them drag race, it's mostly track day kind of people and the cars have to be able to hold together for 20-30 minutes of hard driving that might require 30 seconds at continuous WOT and WOT for many shorter periods during just one lap. Big difference between that and 9-10 seconds of WOT. If you hold the torque to 650 lb feet the stock bottom end can hold for awhile but it's not good to pound it hard all the time. The other thing to consider is that the ethanol content of pump E85 varies a lot, especially in our area. You run the car hard and have a batch of so so E85 something bad can and will happen. We set up stuff to be reliable not, for youtube or internet bragging numbers.
The undercarriage is unbelievably clean
Love the content bro 😎 super chill and relax
So how do you smog an FBO in California @motoiq
Fantastic explanation and visual guide from a humble genius who tells the tech in layman’s terms
PWR in Australia make some of the best intercoolers in the world .. F1 and motoGP teams are just some of their customers
I wish more people would go full bolt on with maximum weight reduction.
All those mods for just 650 hp yikes
funny we thought it was a lot for just bolt ons and stock turbos.
Playback speed - 1.25x - thank me later
Song used in the beginning of the video?
How has it performed as a time attack with these mods? Thinking about doing time attack/circuit racing so this video is really helpful.
The fastest NA time attack car is an R35
@@motoiq I was asking about your r35. How has it performed with these mods on the track
It is not built as a dedicated time attack car. That is what you need to win at time attack. Unfortunately it got hit by an idiot and totaled before it could be driven on the track.
@@motoiq oh man sorry to hear that. All that time money and work just for some idiot to total it.
Yeah it was lame. We are going to start over with a new car and finish it though, stay tuned.