Eric Hsu facts:

Eric Hsu welds roll cages by rubbing two screwdrivers together.
Eric Hsu never pays to drive on toll roads. There is nothing anyone can do about it.
Eric Hsu owns no kitchen equipment. He puts food in his hand and holds it over an acetylene torch until it's cooked.
Eric Hsu can win them all.
If Eric Hsu had a dime for every time he was wrong, he'd be in debt.
Eric Hsu hates Teletubbies. Hates them.
"Eyjafjallajokull" is not an active volcano, but the nickname recently given to Eric Hsu after he won a burnout contest in Iceland.
Eric Hsu is willing to share his perfection.

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Damping Dilemmas

2NR's 4G64 project build (using a 4G64 block with DOHC 4G63 MIVEC head) has been an excellent read, and is giving me ideas for my '00 Mitsubishi Galant. I priced out your engine build and calculated the costs at roughly $8,000. Before I jump into trying to mess with my engine, I want to obtain the proper suspension setup. I recently upgraded the factory rotors to Brembo slotted disks and added EBC Greenstuff pads, but find it difficult to find a decent set of coilovers for my Galant. I know the JDM Legnum, VR-4, and Eclipse Spyder can all be compatible, but before I spend a ton of money, I would like to know if there is any definite match of parts I can use, considering a Legnum is a wagon with a heavier curb weight, the VR-4 has a stiffer chassis with AYC, and the Spyder is a coupe.
-Brandon Goodrich
Lawrence, KS

HKS has numerous special-order coilover applications for JDM passenger cars that would possibly fit your Galant. Unfortunately, no suspension company is going to guarantee fitment for a JDM coilover onto a U.S. spec Galant . . . so you're on your own there. Your best bet is to try verifying JDM to US spec suspension fitment on a Mitsubishi forum.

Swapping for Power

I own a '91 Honda Civic hatchback that's broken down and sitting on bricks at home. I am fixing the car to drop in a K20A2. What transmission can I use for this engine to fit into my Civic, and can I swap over the wiring, cluster, and most of the electronics from an RSX Type-S?
-Luis Mines
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Your only reasonably priced choices for an engine swap are the factory RSX and EP3 Civic Si transmissions that came with K20s. Hasport offers engine mounts, and you'll need axles from a base model RSX (non-S) or a '02 Civic Si. The RSX-S and Type R axles have a different spline count so they will not work. A few others have used the RSX-S or EP3 Civic axles with DA Integra outer stub axles with success.

Need 4 Speed

I'd like to get just a bit more power (50-75 hp) out of my '06 M45 Infiniti 4.5L V-8 currently equipped with a cold air intake and Stillen exhaust. I've looked on the Internet for performance upgrades but still haven't found anything regarding my motor (VK45DE). I'm willing to spend $1,500 to $3,500 toward parts if it can help me obtain my horsepower goal.
-Steve
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Being a V-8, any bolt-on turbocharger kit for the VK45DE engines is going to cost large sums of money. The Drift Emporium cars are all running Stillen supercharged VKs-you might want to give them a call for advice. Cosworth designed a supercharged engine package based on the VK45DE engine for a high-end boat race team in Dubai. Each of their boats uses two of these 600hp engines, which cost about $80,000 each, so unfortunately such a setup wouldn't fit your budget. Damn, don't we all wish we had oil money?!