‘Sup people!! Here to give everyone a heads-up on some new T-shirts we recently released. They were designed by our staff here at TEIN USA in California. We went through lots of designs ’til we finally all agreed on three of the best designs.
The naming of the T-shirts was not easy, but once again we all chose the best names to describe our new T-shirts. The names are Gradation, Circle White, Circle Gray and Silhouette.
Shortly thereafter we posted that TEIN was once again collaborating with Toyota Motorsports on a New Development Project.
Here are a few more shots on what we were working on.
(These are a one-off set of dampers specially made for this project.)
(Here is the OE front suspension in comparison to our damper)
(The OE rear suspension in comparison to our damper and spring.)
(One of our engineers at work, making sure the dampers will work without issue in a race-use environment)
For those of you attended the Long Beach Grand Prix on April 14th and 15th, you might have seen this vehicle parked next to the Camry Pace Cars.
(A group shot of the Camry Pace Cars that have been fitted with customized Super Street Dampers, ready for action on the streets of Long Beach and anywhere else that their use is needed.)
A few posts back I mentioned a little bit about the China Touring Car Championship, and proceeded with a blah blah blah about how much I loved watching Super Touring on tv as a kid. As I had stated, the series still lives on through other series internationally.
Recently, I’ve been watching some videos of the Super Taikyu series on YouTube. It has some pretty interesting regulations. Basically modifications can be done to suspension and body, but drivetrain must be left relatively stock, with the exception of exhaust and intake modification.
As it was explained to me, the series is more of a stepping stone for drivers looking to advance to other series of racing. Super Taikyu, which translates to “Super Endurance”, is an entry-level endurance race with several classes in between (ST1 through ST5) with classification based on engine displacement and drivetrain layout. Sounds fairly straightforward.
Here is a video that I found online
And another one of the Fujitsubo GDB-E Super Taikyu car
So I guess for me the appeal is that there is no major focus on power adders. At least for the ST5-ST3 category, that is. It’s no different than taking a stock showroom model, stripping it down, putting in a cage and a few necessary interior parts, fitting slicks and adjustable suspension, an exhaust and an intake, and that’s it.
For ST1 & ST2, they also allow performance clutch and lsd’s. Although extra power can be had from ecu tuning, it is still very limited. Factory force-induction cars can benefit from aftermarket intercoolers. wow.
They run somewhere around 60 laps for each event.
I suppose it’s not in every privateer’s budget to build such a car. But the ST4 & ST5 categories are well within reach. Again, simple modifications (there’s nothing simple about racing, however) and less of a focus on high power sounds pretty fun and somewhat of a challenge. I wouldn’t mind building up a Honda Fit or Toyota Yaris/Vitz to putt putt around the track.
The Triple Meter Package consists of packages of turbo, oil pressure, oil temperature gauges(ADVANCE CR or ADVANCE BF) and ADVANCE Control Unit.
