Hey guys we need to hear some opinions from you and have you vote for SP Engineering and Turbo Magazine in our Castrol Syntec Top Shop Challenge. Were gonna blow the competitors out of the water!

Vote as many times as you want! Theres no limit! Help us rise from the bottom of the voting pack and watch the RB26DETT wreck *** up.

Super Lap Battle at Long Beach Grand Prix had its ups and downs with plenty of engine failures, fires, and problems but it ended off on a posative note with Factor X of LV posting some fast ass times. Were talking 5 seconds off the ALMS cars times if you factor in this is the first time any of the cars or drivers have raced on the Long Beach course.

Along with our redesign and changes being made to the magazine, we would like you, as readers to play a more integral role in building Turbo Magazine into the leading  automotive performance magazine. 

How can you help? Its quite simple. If you think your cars got what it takes to be a recognized as a cover, feature, or even a readers ride, send us some high resolution photos (300dpi) minimum along with specs and future plans. Have some interesting tech stories or stories you'd like us to cover? Hit us up at turbomagazine@sourceinterlink.com and we'll be sure to answer your questions or consider your ride for a future issue.   -Scott

For everyone who comes to the Turbo Magazine website to religiously check to see if any updates on content or feature updates have been made, you'll be in for a pleasant surprise in the next few months. While were working hard  on redesigning the new and improved Turbo Magazine, with more tech coverage and feature cars than ever before, the website has been given the green light to be revamped as well. What does this mean? For starters it means periodic updates and mo more photos or content on our main page from 2001. You know and i know, seeing down loadable wallpapers from 1999 and limited interaction with editorial staffers such as I are just a few of the reasons this site has never been able to flourish. While theres no guarantees we will become the next big thing on the Internet, we can honestly say look for us on a more consistent basis as we will continue to bridge the gap between Turbo magazine and our website. The world wide web will be become a invaluable tool for us as we look to find readers rides, needs and wants from our readers in terms of content, and any thoughts or comments on a certain tech feature or unresolved issue you might have with a story we recently ran. Until then I'll keep blogging at random hours of the day and hope you keep coming back to this site in hope of creating our own nitch community.   -Scott Tsuneishi

Ever want to see which motor can be built to put out the most power? Lucky for us Castrol Syntec wants to find out too.

For 2008 we’re going to go head to head with our sister publications Super Street, Import Tuner, Modified, Sport Compact Car, eurotuner and even Lowrider to see who can make the most crank horsepower and torque. Since every magazine focuses on different motors we decided to measure this contest by horsepower per liter. This way when the Lowrider guys show up with a 7 liter LS7 motor, things will be on a level playing field. Now to complicate things a little there’s a displacement multiplier for using turbos. (yeah seems a little biased to us too). But we’re not going to let that get in the way though since we hit up our friends at SP Engineering, one of the premier tuners of the venerable Nissan GTR RB26DETT, to become Castrol Syntec’s Top Shop. We’re looking to go over 1000 horsepower with this motor on 100 octane so make sure you follow the build in the magazine as well ask check out our progress at www.SyntecTopShopChallenge.com.

So, you've made the decision to finally convert that "street/strip" car of yours into a full-on racecar.  I've found a lot of enthusiasts have their motors built to the brim with every forged internal possible...over-engineering is good. 

So your motor is built for 1500 whp but you're "only" knocking on 600whp.  Think Big.  As in Garrett's newest ball-bearing brethren.  Wow.  I can hear the NHRA rulebooks crackling...

Wow.  Everyone knew it would happen...but again, wow.  Click the link below for more.

http://www.nhra.com/content/news.asp?articleid=17880

I found the solution.  Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.  15x7 +35et clears 12.2" Wilwood 6-piston Superlite (not the crappy Dynalites) calipers.  Throw on a set of 225/50 BFG Comp T/A Drag Radials for 1/4 mile while still retaining your big brakes for your Honda.  Wow.

And the best part is the price.  $250 or so for the pair.  Nice.

I've test driven a few new cars, notable the Evo IX MR, WRX STI, and 350Z.  I'm not impressed with either.

Especially for the $31k - 35k they run fully loaded.  One of my buddies has an R33 GTR, and even though its somewhat dated, it so much more car.  Ultimately, the R34 would be the best bet.  I took a spin in one, and with mild tuning and a set of Ohlins coilovers, wow.  If you had your choice, what would you ***

I hate compromises sometimes.  400whp tuned for the track, 250whp for the street. 

You want decent brakes with large enough rotors for the road course, but when you want to bolt on a set of slicks, you can't (due to brake clearance).  I'm going to be doing some research to figure out how the 4x100 people out there can get the best of both worlds.  What solution have you used?

Nissan 350Z GT-S.  Sweet!

Loving the Nismo wheels...in that legendary bronze hue that Ray's made famous on the TE37.  Why don't more manufacturers anodize the lip?  Beats me...

Twin Turbo has a nice ring to it, but twice as many parts...moving parts, at that (wastegate actuation, turbine spinning, etc).  More potential, too. 

But supercharging is popular amongst the VQ35DE contingent.  It'd be cool to have a shootout in the pages of Turbo, e.g., take the best turbo kit (under a preset price) and the best supercharger kit and test them back to back. 

Dang you got it easy.  My buddy picked up a crispy-clean White Evo IX.  He didn't even have to jot down a list of parts he wanted, just his goal.

300whp might seem like a little to most, but it's just enough to be fun while maintaining reliability.  He added a 3.5" catalytic-back exhaust, HKS EVC, and a flash retune....330whp/317 lb/ft for under $900.  Lucky SOB.

HKS just dropped their brand-spanking new boost controller at SEMA. 

Pretty fresh...can't wait till Rob tests this bad boy out.  I'll be posting pictures once everyone's back from SEMA.  Wonder what GReddy has up it's sleeve...

So, Turbonetics just basically took what HKS had been doing for a couple years and applied it to their compressor housings.  Hopefully they'll be a little more affordable than the HKS units .

Garrett's been playing around with the shrouded compressor housings for awhile.  I have one on my GT30R, but I have yet to swap out the housing to a more vanllia-flavored Precision housing.  HKS offers a "air horn" type deal that screws into the machine-tapped housing of the GT30R.  Wish we had a dyno!!!