Thread: Mike Kojima's Dog 1

damn how much would one of those run? great to have you back mike. i love your motoiq articles!

nice vid man..thumbs up for mike

You can have one for 15k or both for 28k.

good price

Having driven the Dog I I can tell you it is the BEST sorted B14 I have ever personally been in. Very composed and the motor has AWESOME usable power. Having been in other VE cars on track I think the DE when properly built makes you faster on corner exit on lower speed stuff because of the area under the curve. Even on a street car I will take more torque any day of the week.

It is AWESOME that Mike and MotoIQ has stepped to the plate to make road racing FUN and AFFORDABLE again! If I was on the west coast I would have kept the 200 together and went racing for sure!

To all of the other FFF that commented on driving that was less than impressive NONE of you have been wheel to wheel racing. While Mike is not a professional race driver he is a seasoned veteran, shit happens when road racing and the fact that he fought back from last to second place after a frustrating and performance limiting crash (hosed aero) speaks for his ability....

I was going to comment on how most people with negative comments only know how to go fast in a straight line. You said it best though.

Mike, would you mind sharing dyno graphs of the 2 dog cars if you have them, I'd be interested to compare.

Wes the car is much better than when you drove it. It has a brand new treated tranny and LSD, a built engine with about 20 more hp, different suspension with all new geometry, freshly rebuilt and revalved AD's for the stiffer spring rate. Dai reports it does not understeer at all and handles way better than the Spoon Civic (and is 2-3 seconds a lap faster to boot). It also has bigger brakes and is about 30 lbs lighter with a stiffer body structure.

Some sucker bought the Spoon Civic for 24k! I think the dog car is a bargain for almost 10k less!

Not only was my front aero hosed but my tie rods bent in the crash giving me 1" of toe in. I was also experiencing wheel bearing failure and was getting brake pedal knockback which was throwing me off.

Jeff also edited the video to make me look lame on purpose to be funny. I also don't blip the throttle very hard on downshifts with cars with light flywheels and use the edge of my foot instead of my heels so it looks like I don't rev match but I am. On a stock flywheel 350z for instance, I blip pretty hard.

Dai and I turn nearly identical lap times when he was driving the Dog 2 and when I was driving his 350Z. Not drifting though!

Look for the MotoIQ article when I finish tuning things.

awesome stuff.