2009-01-01から1年間の記事一覧

Happy Honda Day in Hayward

As I announced last blog, I went to Re-Grand Opening event of N1 Concepts, Hayward, CA. N1 Concepts has been known an used engine and part importer and tuner in San Francisco. Now, they carry many JDM brands, including 5ZIGEN, J's Racing, …

N1 Concepts Grand Re-opening Event

Event after the events.... No weekend for 5ZIGEN USA staff, but actually, we are enjoying attending to the shows and events.5ZIGEN USA is joining N1 Concepts Grand Re-opening Event on July 18th as a guest vendor. N1 Concepts has been actin…

MOD 2009, July 11

MOD 2009 (Mitsubishi Owners Day) was held under the blue sky at Mitsubishi Motors head quarter in Cypress, CA, July 11. 5ZIGEN USA had a booth with many of other performance parts manufactures. We enjoyed talking with Mitsubishi owners and…

5ZIGEN Civic is going to tropical island

5ZIGEN Civic Type-R (FD2) has been shipped out to Malaysia. As we have reported, this car was built for Petronas Primax 3 MME 12-hour endurance race at Sepang International Circuit. The 12-hour race will start at 11:30 of August 8, 2009. H…

MOD 2009

5ZIGEN USA is attending Mitsubishi Owners Day 2009, tomorrow. This is the 3rd MOD for us to display products. The location is Mitsubishi Motors North America head quater, Cypress, CA. We are displaying our products including ProRacer ZZ fo…

5ZIGEN USA goes Formula-D Las Vegas

The world famous the hottest drift competition comes back to Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Formula-D Round 4, Las Vegas is this weekend, 7/11. http://www.formulad.com 5ZIGEN USA will display our products at LA Auto Guide booth together with D-…

East of Sierra Nevada

Today's blog is part 2 of my Reno trip. First of all, let me show everybody some pictures of auto-cross at Reno. SCCA Reno was holding auto-cross at the parking lot right next of the Extreme Autofest was held. We really thank Grand Sierra …

Extreme Autofest, Reno

Hi everyone! I have been out of office for a while for business trip to Northern California. At the same weekend, Extreme Autofest had a show at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, Reno Nevada. So, I decided to drive extra hundred and some…

Riverside again!!

I went to Riverside again... About 60 cars came Adams Motorsports Park for Time Attack Tuesday. It is amazing that the organizers, PROTO Motorsports and Adams have been getting 60 - 70 cars constantly every Tuesday. He was there again! FN0…

Dai’s Driving Academy 2 - June 20

5ZIGEN USA joined and had a booth at Dai's Driving Academy 2 at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station Saturday June 20. Watching 5ZIGEN users enjoying their cars is always fun. It also motivates us to develop better products and provide better …

Team 5ZIGEN will race in Malaysia

5ZIGEN International, Inc. proudly announced that Team 5ZIGEN is participating in 12-hour enduro race in Malaysia called MMER with FD2 Civic. The annual Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race (MMER), organized and promoted by Sepang Internation…

Have you registered?

Just want to let everyone around Southern California that registration of the Dai's Academy 2 is almost full!! Please contact Hiroshi-san of JDM Option ASAP, if you are planning to drive. The event is taking place at El Toro field in Irvin…

SPO-COM SHOW 2009

Sorry everyone, but I could not upload pictures from Spo-Com Show yesterday. This car show was held at Long Beach Convention Center June 14, 2009. The show is organized by big performance parts distributor, PRO-MOTION. They started this sh…

Of the Evo, For the Evo, By the Evo!!

It was big promotion event of new Mitsubishi cars with lots of fun on Sunday 6/14 at El Toro, Irvine CA. South Coast Mitsubishi, one of the biggest Mitsubishi car dealership in Orange County, CA, held customer appreciation event at El Toro…

1 week to Dai’s Driving Academy 2

Another good driving event is coming soon!! The Dai's Driving Academy 2 is going to be held June 20 at El Toro field Irvine, CA. As same as their last event in April, this is a driving event everyone can enjoy. It is also very low cost - o…

Time Attack Tuesday at Adams

I visited Adams Motorsports Park again for... PROTO & Adams Motorsports Park presents Time Attack Tuesday. This mini time attack event has been holding every Tuesday evening since March 24 at the 3/4 mile 14 turn paved race circuit. And, y…

Super Taikyu Round 3, Suzuka

The same weekend while I was enjoying nice ocean breeze in Santa Barbara attending Subaru Summer Solstice, 5ZIGEN Japan's race team had been racing in the Super Taikyu Round 3, Suzuka. The result was qualified at 2nd, and finished 3rd in t…

S3 at Santa Barbara

The first Subaru Summer Solstice was took place at La Playa Field in Santa Barbara, CA Sunday June 7th. Subaru Summer Solstice (AKA, S3) is the meeting event of Subaru owners. Nearly 180 Subarus got together and enjoyed games, raffles, etc…

Adams Motorsports Park Drift Night

I visited Adams Motorsports Park to see the Thursday Night Drifting. Adams is a poplar kart racing course in Riverside, CA. http://www.adamsmotorsportspark.com/ Every Thursday evening, Adams turns to the drifters' heaven! Adams Motorsports…

5ZIGEN Accord in Japan

As I reported other day, 5ZIGEN Accord Euro-R has just returned to our factory in Japan. The day after Team 5ZIGEN received the Accord, 5ZIGEN Japan had photo session for "Honda Style" which is Japanese magazine full of Honda contents - fr…

Another Victory for FN01R-C!!

We got great news from one of FN01R-C users. Jeremy Croiset won Street RWD class in Redline Time Attack Street Class with his SW20 Toyota MR2. The time attack event took place at Willow Springs Raceway this past weekend. Following is a bri…

TMT meeting at Chino Valley SUBARU

5ZIGEN USA participated TMT show and meeting presented by EDO performance, Saturday May 30. This big Subaru meeting was held to celebrate 3rd anniversary of The Monkey’s Trunk. http://themonkeystrunk.com/ The show place was front parking l…

ProRacer SP on Octane Report

New informative web magazine called Octane Report has been launched. This new web magazine covers many kinds of motorsports, street modified cars and road test of new cars. ProRacer SP exhaust systems for Nissan 350Z and 370Z are introduce…

Online Store Special - SC3000 for Euros

5ZIGEN USA Online Store has been updated many of items in clearance section. Gravis-I and FN01R-C old version on the clearance special were sold out now. Thank you for many of supports!! We have just started new special because the clearan…

Photoshoot at El Segundo

We are attending two Subaru events in two weeks in a raw here in Los Angeles area. 5/30 Sat: TMT 3rd Year Anniversary show and meet at Chino Valley Subaru 6/7 Sun: Subaru Summer Solstice in Santa Barbara 5ZIGEN USA will have a booth and di…

5ZIGEN TSX backed home!!

According to 5ZIGEN Japan blog, our time attack TSX has safely arrived at our factory in Osaka. Now, the TSX is back to her original name. She will be called as Accord Euro-R or just CL7 in Japan. Here are some pictures that Team 5ZIGEN ra…

2009 MAZFEST with Stars!!

5ZIGEN USA had a joint booth with International Allstars for promotion of products at MAZFEST 2009, Auto Club Speedway May 23. MAZFEST is an event that combined driving event and owners meeting at one place. We had a lot of fun with Mazda …

Fujita Engineering

As famous as FEED brand, Fujita Engineering has acted as a rotary specialist and parts manufactuer in Japan for long time. They selected 5ZIGEN USA as a distributor in North American market. Fujita's specialty parts for Mazda cars, under F…

5ZIGEN NSX in-car video

We got in-car video footages from Japan. These were taken from qualify session of 2009 Super Taikyu Round 2, SUGO. Machine is, of cause, ST-3 class 5ZIGEN NSX. Please enjoy!! Katsuyuki Hiranaka Attack Lap starts at 1:43 Hiroki Yoshimoto At…

KONI Challenge at Laguna Seca

Finally! We didn’t have any event to promote our products last weekend. So, I decided to drive up to Monterey to see KONI Challenge in the Festival of Speed at Mazda Speedway of Laguna Seca. KONI Challenge is a semi-endurance touring car r…