We would like to thank all of our customers for their support in 2011. We look forward to bringing you exciting new products for the 2012 season!
In observance of the Christmas and New Year holidays, we will be closed from December 24th until January 2nd, and resume operations on January 3rd.
From all staff at TEIN USA, Inc., we wish you a safe and enjoyable holiday season!
If you like to read comics I recommend 2 popular manga in Japan which focuses on street racing. Both are not new but are favorites among kuruma otaku (car nuts).
頭文字D - INITIAL D
The central character “Takumi” drives a Toyota Trueno AE86 (Hachi-Roku) which has his family’s Tofu shop name on the side of the car.
The story follows Takumi as he enters the world of illegal Japanese street racing on the various Touge roads in Japan (TOUGE = mountain passes). The focus of the story is driving technique and tuning.
Many people know about Initial D and have probably watched the anime or maybe even the movie. I am originally from Japan and grew up when the Initial D manga were still being released on a weekly basis.
湾岸ミッドナイト- Wangan Midnight
“Wangan” means Tokyo’s Shuto Expressway Bayshore route and it is their stage. The main character “Akio” drives a Nissan Fairlady Z (S30) called “Devil Z”. And his rival Tatsuya drives a Porsche 911 Turbo (964) called “Black Bird”.
The story is about car tuning, vehicle setup and driving technique as well as the emotion behind it all.
I recently watched this animation on DVD and I saw a TEIN logo in the story! If your familiar with famous Japanese tuners you can probably see a correlation between characters in the manga/ anime and real life shops/ tuners.
Check this out if you are a kuruma otaku.
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TEIN USA’s R&D Section is in need of your car to do testing on.
If you, anyone in your family, one of your friends, or your neighbors owns one of the following cars or any of the cars listed on this page, let them know that TEIN USA needs their car to do testing on.
If your car is chosen to be used for testing you may have your car returned to you with lowering springs or maybe even coilovers free of charge.
The only sacrifice that need be made is your time.
Testing can take anywhere from 3-5 business days.
So let us know by filling in this Test Vehicle Application and one of our staff will be in contact with you.
Remember, we only need one car per testing application, and it’s first come first serve, so apply quickly.
Hey everyone. This was recently brought to our attention that the replacement lock plate used on the Nissan 350Z inner tie rod lock plate is only sold as part of a new replacement kit from Nissan.
After further research on the web few online auto parts retailers do sell just that replacement lock plate at a reasonable price. The lock plate was never provided in the kit as the item can easliy be obtained through the a Nissan dealer in Japan, of course not knowing that the U.S. would sell this item in a kit.
Provided below would be a few links to the online retail websites which offer the locking plate for purchase.
I hope this helps solve the hassle of locating this item on its own through the dealer. It may not be OEM but it will get the job done rather than reusing a damaged piece.
Congratulations to the Uspenskiy Rally Tecnica team and Patrik Flodin on their victory at this year’s Wales Rally GB! As has been proved in past events, it wasn’t an easy victory. But Flodin and co-driver Goran Bergsten pulled through with an amazing race to the finish.
As posted by wrc.com
“Flodin, from Sweden, feared his chances of winning the category were over when his Subaru Impreza suffered a front puncture one kilometre from the finish of the penultimate stage, which he completed with an advantage of 2.3s over Kosciuszko.
Despite the Pole going faster than him on the event-closing Power Stage in his Mitsubishi Lancer, Flodin did just enough to secure victory, albeit by a slender margin of 2.0s.
“We were really struggling yesterday with the driving on Tarmac,” said Flodin. “Last night we reset everything and tried to do our best today and the driving was working better. We tried to go a bit smoother, braking earlier and really focus on the exit of the corner. I saw in the fast sections we were faster than him and we could see that on the split times. Without the puncture it could have been quite safe. We did just enough.””
We’re definitely proud of their victory and for their continued support for TEIN!
In observance of the National holiday, TEIN USA, Inc. operations will be closed from 11/24-11/27 and will resume operations on 11/28.
We hope you all have a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving!
Time attack season has began from couple weeks ago.
Temperature is getting cool down but still see the sun during the day, there should be a no negative effect for the engines and all of the time attack vehicles.
We went to Super Lap Battle Final at Buttonwillow Raceway for our supported vehicles for 2 days.
Luckily both 2 days were good weather.
and some of the vehicles break their own record.
One of the our support vehicle Crawford Perfomance’s STi driven by Tarzan Yamada
This vehicle outputs 800+hp…
and beauty of the function.
And also, Crawford Performance brought 2 Scion tC.
2 cars from Evasive Motorsports.
Their Evo marked 1:49.124 and got 1st place in Limited AWD class.
And S2000 marked 1:57.887 and got 1st place in Street FR class.
Congratulations to Evasive!
Our ex-marketing manager Philip Chase’s Evo marked 1:57.735 which is his record and 1st place in Street AWD class!
TEIN damper on Philip Chase’s Evo
And another winner with TEIN damper vehicle is Sportscar Motion DC2R.
This car marked 1:54.789 and winner for Limited FF Class.
This clean JDM converted Civic Si is one of my favorite vehicle at Super Lap Battle .
The driver Renzo Marsano break his own record today with TEIN damper!
Another TEIN user vehicle APM Racing’s RSX.
This is another well track prepped S2000.
Driver maked 1:59.066 with TEIN Super Racing damper.
It was very busy 2 days but we are glad that most of our support driver break and got 1st place in this event.
Hey Everyone check out these SuperPro videos, view the benefits of having these polyurethane bushings versus the OEM rubber bushings.
As you can see the major difference between the stock and SuperPro bushings.
For more information on suspension and bushings and how it benefits doing the change over from rubber bushing to polyurethane bushings check out this other video.
For information on how you can purchase SuperPro check out the following link http://www.tein.com/products/superpro.html
Hey everyone! Back again with another bit of info regarding our S.Tech and High Tech lowering springs.
Both spring lines are manufactured with progressive springs rates which would differ from OE springs found on vehicles or any standard springs found on most coilover kits.
Progressive springs usually have two different spring rates – one softer, easily compressible rate and one stiffer or main spring rate.
The softer portion of the spring is actually not felt at all as it is designed with the idea to place a light load on the shock absorber when fully extended. Once load is placed on the spring , the softer portion of the spring fully compresses leaving the main spring rate to support the load. Silencer Rubbers are used in these locations to help in reduce any sounds of coil binding that can be produced during normal operation.
A common misconception about progressive springs is that they will change in rate during operation, gradually becoming stiffer as the springs compresses. Again, the main purpose of the progression is to allow some preload to the shock absorber assembly when fully extended (so that the spring isn’t loose in its mount).
I hope this was able to clairify any questions those may have had regarding TEIN S.Tech or High Tech lowering springs.
TEIN USA launched two promotion videos for new STREET BASIS coilover suspension.
TEIN Street Basis Coilover Suspension image video
ALL NEW TEIN Street Basis Coilover Suspension