Pray for Japan

We sympathize to everyone affected by the tsunami and earthquake. Wishing reconstruction of Tohoku area as earlier as possible. (from Mr. Kinoshita's blog)大地震 大津波に被災された皆様にお見舞い申し上げます。1日も早い復興を願ってます。 (5…

XDC/REMIX 2011 this weekend!

The battle begins this weekend... The season opener of Japanese car events in Los Angeles is Xtreme Drift Circuit / Remix at Toyota Speedway of Irwindale Saturday March 12. バトルの始まりは今週末…。 ロスアンジェルスの日本車イベントの開幕は…

PANN AUTO, San Diego

I enjoyed a quite long drive to San Diego yesterday. Long time 5ZIGEN dealer in San Diego, Pann Auto Perfromance gave us pretty big order, so I volunteered to deliver the merchandises. We love driving the van with full of wheels! 昨日は、…

ECON on SportsCar Mag.

ProRacer ECON was introduced on Sports Car Magazine, March issue. Sports Car is the magazine which covers amateur racing events as the official publication of the SCCA (Sports Car Club of America). プロレーサーECONがスポーツカー・マガジン3…

BOMEX Cobalt got ZR+520

Long time industry friend of ours, BOMEX USA has been a 5ZIGEN user always. They have been helping to promote 5ZIGEN products with their demo vehicles. One of their demo cars, BOMEX COBALT SS now got new shoes - ProRacer ZR+520. 5ZIGEN USA…

Cool Video from Rally Ready

I like to share awesome video from Dave Carapetyan. He is a rally driver who used 5ZIGEN product at the highest altitude in the world, I guess. Dave and Rally Ready Motorsports took three times consecutive winner of Pikes Peak AWD Open Cla…

5ZIGEN x BMW E36

It's President's Day in the USA. How did you spend President's Day? Did you do anything good for your company’s boss? If you are a President of company, club or something, did you do something good for yourself? 今日はアメリカではプレジデ…

Ready for TORC 2011?

Toyota owners, are you ready to display your car at Queen Mary, Long Beach this year? It might sound too early to register but I like to remind new comers that this show is sold out very fast every year. So, if you are building your Toyota…

Impreza for drifting

We got an opportunity involving an interesting project. 5ZIGEN USA got an order for a set of ProRacer GN+ from Robert Ljuba of Vallejo, California. His project car is very unique. 今回はちょっと変わったクルマの製作に関わるチャンスがありま…

Osaka Auto Messe

Happy Valentine's Day!! Hope your day was filled with a lot of LOVE and HAPPINESS. ハッピー・バレンタイン・デー!! 愛と幸福に満ちた1日でしたでしょうか?(なんか日本語だと恥ずかしい…) See what we got! GHIRARDELLI... It's taste so delicious…

WEKFEST III 2/20

The big show gave big impact to performance industry last year, SF WEKFEST will back to the capitol of Hellaflush, San Francisco. The 2010 SF WEKFEST collected 450 show vehicles by adding many new comers like, Lexus’s and Euros. I am looki…

SLIDE N RIDE 2/17 @ Adams

7 days to go to Valentine’s Day. Have you prepared presents to ladies you love? バレンタイン・デーまであと7日。 大事なあの人へのプレゼントがもう準備できてますか? (因みに、アメリカでは男性が女性にプレゼントするんです)The famous Thursday …

KOMA & Super Lap on Super Street

Have you gotten the latest issue of Super Street? 皆さん、最新のスーパーストリート、もうゲットしました? Starting from page 52 in this issue of Super Street, you will see CHEAP THRILL which is special section collecting inexpensive small d…

5ZIGEN EG Civic

I like to share some pictures of old-school Civic. This car is the first road race car 5ZIGEN USA supported. The team owner as well as the driver of this car was Sam Higashi, Japanese has lived in Los Angeles. He raced in NASA (National Au…

EURO MEET 2011

SMART WAX is hosting first annual EURO MEET 2011 Saturday February 5, near Los Angeles International Airport. It sounds very relaxing event enjoying cars and coffee. スマート・ワックスさんがユーロミート2011を2月5日(土)にロスアンジェルス…

Bomex wide body Camaro

I swung by BOMEX USA this evening and found this! 今日の夕方、フラッとBOMEX USAさんに立ち寄って、こんなのを見てしまいました! New Camaro with BOMEX wide body kit waiting to be shipped back to the owner. オーナーへ送り返されるのを待つBOMEXワ…

Super Street features ARD

The most popular import tuning magazine in the USA, Super Street featured some products from 5ZIGEN's racing gear division, ARD. Sean Klingelhoefer, an editor/writer of Super Street took pictures and wrote about ARD Roadmaster Ride driving…

Hyper 5ZR 20-inch on sale!!

We are enjoying warm weather in Los Angeles since last week. 2011 show season is around the corner. It is good news for someone who wants to debut in the show or to build new car for this year. ロサンジェルスは先週から暖かくなってきました…

Tokyo Auto Salon

A crowd of people sarounded something. What is this? 群集が何かを囲んでいますが、これは一体? The festival of customer cars and modified tuning cars, Tokyo Auto Salon has been holding for 3 days this weekend, January 14 - 16. It looks tune…

Extreme x Remix = Big Show!!

It has been two weeks since 2011 started. How's everybody doing? In Japan, Tokyo Auto Salon had just started. 5ZIGEN FD2 Civic Type-R is displayed at REVSPEED booth and our exhaust systems are displayed at JASMA booth in the biggest afterm…

Coming-of Age Day!

A friend of us, Henry De Kuyper uploaded cool picture on his Facebook page. I like to share this to 5ZIGEN fans. Henry is an experienced photographer works for Source Interlink Media. He has been in Japan since last week for shooting cool …

5ZIGEN Civic on SpeedHunters

Featured article and pictures of 5ZIGEN FD2 Civic Type-R at Tsukuba Super Lap can be seen on SpeedHunters.com. Click following link to SpeedHunters which is well-known for the detailed information and high quality photographs. http://speed…

Super Lap on Super Street

How are you doing everyone? It's very cold here in Los Angeles. Here is hot news in cold winter. 5ZIGEN's newest exhaust system, Super Lap cat-back system was featured. 皆さん、お元気ですか? ロスアンジェルスはとっても寒いです。 この寒い冬…

First Day of 2011

Once again, a Happy New Year, 2011! Hoping everyone makes this year great. 改めまして、明けましておめでとうございます。 どうぞ、みなさん今年もグレートな年にして下さいね。How was your 2010 - 2011 Holiday? We hope you had nice time with fami…

A Happy New Year

Thank you for your support to 5ZIGEN USA in 2010. Wishing you a Happy and Safe New Year! 2010年も大変お世話になりました。 どうぞ、良いお年をお迎え下さい。

Exhaust Noise Test in Japan

How's everyone spending the end of the year? Some might have been enjoying vacation... We open regular hours by tomorrow, but not much things going on... No events, no race. So, I like to share some pictures from exhaust acceleration noise…

ZENKAI MS Gymkhana Video

Happy Holidays!! Hoping all you had wonderful Christmas with your family and friends. For someone who had to work in Christmas Day, please enjoy your holiday with full of fun when others works hard!! ハッピー・ホリデー!! 皆さん、ご家族とま…

Modified Mag Project SRT-4

Have you seen recent Modified Magazine? FN01R-C Hot Version was featured in the 2010 November issue. A set of 17x8.0 +35 5-100 Face Polish was selected for their Project SRT-4. 最近のモディファイド・マガジンはもう見ましたでしょうか? 2010…

Professional Awesome video from Fontana

A 5ZIGEN FN01R-C user competed in 2010 Redline Time Attack street tire AWD class, Professional Awesome made nice video from the RTA 2010 Final, Fontana round. They are sharing the cool video at their FaceBook page. Check following link and…

5ZIGEN Civic broke FWD record!!

5ZIGEN Civic Ver.2010 broke the front-wheel drive course record in the Tsukuba Super Battle!! We like to share the video which captured the moment. 5ZIGEN Civic Ver.2010, 筑波スーパーバトルでのFF車のコースレコードを更新!! 今日はのそ瞬間…