2009-01-01から1年間の記事一覧

Dai’s Driving Academy 4 - Sept. 20

Dai's Driving Academy 4 was held September 20 at El Toro field. Over 80 drivers enjoyed driving their own cars. The organizer of the driving academy, D's Club prepared goodie bags for every driver. From 5ZIGEN USA, GN+ car# stickers and sa…

Scion LA Rendezvous

We headed to downtown Los Angels right after the Lexus meeting for LA RENDEZVOUS by REVOLUSCION. Yes, we had "double header"...because David of Tokico asked (forced) me to join. Anyway, it was the first time 5ZIGEN USA participated in Scio…

Lexus Meeting ”The Pursuit”

The day after Seven Stock, Team 5ZIGEN set up another EZ-Up tent at Toyota Speedway of Irwindale. Under the another California blue sky, Club Lexus owners meeting "THE PURSUIT" presented by Longo Lexus was held September 27th. Over 400 Lex…

Seven Stock 12

The event is called Seven Stock. The biggest rotary owners meeting of 2009, Seven Stock 12 was held at Mazda HQ office in Irvine, CA. 5ZIGEN USA had display booth and enjoyed talking with rotary fans and owners. I am sorry for late uploadi…

Octane Report EVO battled at Spring Mt.

Update from the last weekend. Very very hot weather, about 100-105deg both days, very hard on the car. Joey from Octane Report competed in Redline Time attack 9/26-27 at Spring Mountain, NV. He ended up in about 5th position, the car had e…

Ready to go!! Seven Stock 12

Tomorrow, Saturday, September 26 is day for rotary fans. 5ZIGEN USA is going to have a display booth at Seven Stock 12 at Mazda North America, Irvine, CA. This is our second Seven Stock. I am looking forward to talking with everybody, MAZD…

Lexus & Scion events on 9/27

There are two Toyota related car-meets are held in Los Angles area on this coming Sunday. 5ZIGEN USA is going to participate in following two events on Sunday September 27. Sunday morning, we will be at Toyota Speedway in Irwindale for "Th…

Pann Auto Car Meet & BBQ

Pann Auto Performance's car meet and BBQ event was held today. Many people got together and had fun together with Pann's staffs and vendors. At this show, INGS USA and 5ZIGEN USA decided to car-pool to San Diego together, because we both g…

SPECIAL OFFER to DAI’S ACADEMY DRIVERS

Only 3 days to Dai's Driving Academy 4!! Have you registered?5ZIGEN USA has supported DAI'S ACADEMY from the first event. This is our way to thank 5ZIGEN users and fans. By the Daijiro-san's strong wish that he wants to support amateur dri…

Pann Auto 18-year anniversary BBQ!!

Pann Auto Performance has been acting as 5ZIGEN dealer in San Diego for more than 10 years. In this weekend, Saturday September 19, Pann Auto is having big car meet & BBQ event to celebrate their 18-year anniversary!! Pann Auto has been le…

More Lancer Evo-X users select 5ZIGEN

It looks Lancer Evo-X have been getting popular in the car modification scene. We recently have many inquiries of products for this car. 5ZIGEN offers wheels and exhaust systems, of cause. Here is the recommended wheel size for CZ4A Lancer…

Team 5ZIGEN leads the series

Team 5ZIGEN finished Super Taikyu Round 6 Okayama with 4th in ST3 class, overall 12th. Unfortunately, we could not get another victory, however Team 5ZIGEN is leading the series as a result of getting the precious 10 points with the 4th fi…

New!! Border S-Plus mufflers for Hybrid Cars

5ZIGEN makes mufflers for hybrid cars in Japan. 5ZIGEN International has released Border S-Plus muffler systems for New Honda Insight and New Toyota Prius. And, they have been sold well!! These hybrids have been very popular in Japan where…

5ZIGEN goes to Seven Stock 12

5ZIGEN USA is going to participate in Seven Stock 12!! The world biggest rotary owners meeting is hosted by SoCal RX Club with Mazda North America. We are having a booth and displaying a race car (TBA). We are looking forward to seeing ove…

350Z sponsored opportunity!!

A picture of ProRacer SP for Nissan 350Z (Z33) was sent from Japan. It shows the detail of this unique exhaust system, especially the third muffler hiding behind the rear bumper. This 3-muffler system was created to make co-exist performan…

5ZIGEN Civic is home!

Race mechanics working at 5ZIGEN are always busy. They stay late every night to prep the NSX for next 400km race in Okayama this weekend. They got busier day today. 5ZIGEN Civic Type-R came back to our Osaka factory from Malaysia. The car,…

5ZIGEN x BOMEX at Super Autotoyz

Saturday August 22nd, auto parts and supplies super store in Stanton California, Super Autotoyz had parking lot car show. As many of this blog readers have already known, Autotoyz took over the former Super Autobacs' Stanton store after Au…

Dai’s Driving Academy 4

The fun driving event, Dai's Driving Academy will back to El Toro field September 20. 5ZIGEN USA will support this event as same as the last 3 events organized by D’s Club. Dai's Academy is not competition event, it's a laid-back atmospher…

SC3000 Day?!

Are people talking about Sports Engine SC3000 in the forums or something? We got so many inquiries for SC3000 today. SC3000 has been popular wheel among sport luxury car owners. But, I was wondering why we suddenly got many of stock checks…

FD Civic in-car video

In-car videos were delivered to us. They are videos from 12-hour race at Sepang Team 5ZIGEN raced August 8 - 9. The car is FD2 Civic Type-R. I like to share the videos and introduce Team 5ZIGEN drivers today. It is interesting checking dif…

Nisei Week Import Show-off

As same as every year, one of the most exciting import car shows, Import Show-off was held a part of 69th Nisei Week Japanese Festival in Little Tokyo of Los Angeles, Saturday August 15. Nisei (2-sei) is Japanese word means "2nd generation…

It has been about two weeks...

Our favorite driving event, Dai's Driving Academy was took place at El Toro, Irvine, CA, August 1. Over 90 drivers enjoyed driving with Daijiro-san's 3rd academy at former runway of Marine Corp air station. Here are some pictures provided …

5ZIGEN CIVIC finished 12-hour enduro

10th Merdeka Millennium Endurance (MME) 12-hour race was held at Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia August 6 - 9. Team 5ZIGEN participated in this race and finished 7th in A2 class, 16th in overall. This was not the best result we have…

San Diego, Extreme Autofest

It was nice to see car enthusiasts in San Diego!! Under the clear blue sky with full of California sun shine, the Extreme Autofest San Diego round was held at Qualcomm Stadium, July 26. I am sorry, the report of this event was delayed beca…

5ZIGEN NSX wins Super Taikyu Rd.5 Fuji

Finally, this moment came... 5ZIGEN NSX won the ST3 class in SUPER TAIKYU (Enduro) Round 5!!The 5th round of the Super Taikyu 2009 was taken place as 400km (250 miles) race at Fuji Speedway August 2nd. This was the 4th race for 5ZIGEN NSX …

ARD New Racing Gloves

2009 model racing gloves were released from our ARD division which has top share of racing gears in Japanese racing industry. The new ARD-270 and ARD-272 FIA approved racing gloves are now available in the North American market.The flag sh…

5ZIGEN to the peak!

Rally Ready Motorsports wins again at Pikes Peak! Second consecutive Pikes Peak Open Division Win for Carapetyan and Rally ReadyA user of 5ZIGEN ProRacer GN+ wheels, Rally Ready Hill Climb Team won one of the oldest hill climb time trail, …

GT-R Exhaust Video Clips

A container will be delivered to our warehouse tomorrow. There are a lot of goodies from 5ZIGEN Japan, including our inventory of exhausts for R35 GT-R. We have been having many back orders of GT-R exhausts. Thank you for waiting our shipm…

Allstars Drift MX-5

It was nice to see Drift Allstars’ MX-5 at Foothill Automotive in Glendora, CA. I went there and picked up their #2 car today to take the car to San Diego this weekend. 5ZIGE USA and International Allstars decided to join again at Extreme …

Dai’s Driving Academy 3

It is time for driving!! Dai's Driving Academy 3 will come back to El Toro, Saturday, August 1. 5ZIGEN USA joins the event to have a fun day with amateur drivers. Hoping to many of 5ZIGEN users at the field. This is a driving event for bot…