Mike Kojima is a long-time editor of Nissan Performance Magazine, Turbo and High-Tech Performance, Project Car and Import Tuner magazines, and was an editor for Sport Compact Car (which sponsored the Ultimate Street Car Challenge). Kojima has also written several books on Honda Tuning and General Tech. His self-professed "reputation" is that of a "nerd" (having worked both for Nissan and TRD as an engineer).http://www.nissanperformancemag.com/columns/nerds/ His columns (and indeed his vehicles) reflect the highly technical approach he takes to making power. One such example is his famous "dog car," an underpowered

Nissan Sentra The Nissan Sentra is a series of automobiles manufactured by the Japanese automaker Nissan since 1982. Since 1999, the Sentra has been categorized as a compact car, while previously it occupied the subcompact class. Until 2006, Sentra was a reba ...

besting many more powerful vehicles (such as

Subaru Impreza WRX STI The is a compact car that has been manufactured by the Japanese automaker Subaru since 1992. It was introduced as a replacement for the Leone, with the predecessor's EA series engines replaced by the new EJ series. It is now in its sixth gene ...

s) on road courses. He has also been a popular figure on

internet forum An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporar ...

s and

mailing list A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. The term is often extended to include the people subscribed to such a list, so the group of subscribers is re ...

s for many years, such as th
SE-R list
which focuses on

Nissan SR engine The SR engine is a series of , or straight-four, four-stroke gasoline engines manufactured by Nissan. It has an aluminum head and cast-iron block with steel sleeves and has a DOHC 4-valve design, with variable valve timing on select models. T ...

s an
Twinturbo.net
Kojima was severely injured in a 2006 racing accident. He has been working on several new race cars, the Dog II, a B14 Nissan Sentra powered by a SR20VE engine and the Dog III a Time Attack Nitto Tire sponsored B15 Sentra powered by a 500+ hp turbocharged QR25 engine. He is currently working on several web project
370z.com
a site devoted to the new Nissan 370Z an
motoIQ.com
a technical performance site styled after the late Sport Compact Car Magazine. Kojima works as a chassis engineer for the

Daijiro Yoshihara (born December 24, 1978), more commonly known as Dai Yoshihara, is a Japanese professional driver with experience in Drifting, Road Racing, Time Attack, and Hill Climb. Background Before entering professional driving, Yoshihara enjoyed drifti ...

in the Formula D and as a team member is part of the cast of Behind the Smoke series on GTChannel.

Gallery

Image:New nerds small.jpg, Mike Kojima and the Dog Car Image:9. me hairpin.jpg, The Dog Car Racing in the Rain Image:17. time attack.jpg, The Dog Car at Redline Time Attack Image:5. language barrier.JPG, Mike Kojima and Tarzan Yamada discuss chassis set up

References

External links

* Kojima, Mike, ''Honda/Acura Engine Performance''
370z.com, The source for 370z information

motoIQ,com, the source of performance technical information on the web
American people of Japanese descent Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{automobile-bio-stub