Thursday, March 26, 2009

RS Chita

RS Chita is a AE86 parts and used parts specialist. They are based in Nagano and have been around since 1985. This is a great brand for AE86 tuners looking for a great selection of Individual Throttle Body kits and parts for swapping the 5 Valve AE101 and AE111 engines.

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Rising

Hachioji based Rising takes much pride in their custom and original work. Many of their items are handmade in an extremely precise process to bring you engine parts of the highest quality. They are located on the outskirts of Tokyo, where they can engage in tuning without worry of disrupting the people within the heart of the city.

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Ridox

Ridox is Drifting and Super GT super star, Manabu "Max" Orido's very own aero parts brand that specializes aero parts for the JZA80 Supra and an extensive line of goods, such as silver jewelry and shirts. Dress up your car's exterior with high quality aero, and stand out from the crowd with the signature GT car look Ridox is known for. Ridox is definitely a brand to take a look at for owners of the JZA80 Supra.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Revolution

Established in 1989, Saitama based Revolution is a RX-7, RX-8, and NSX tuning specialist garage. Revolution has a large catalog of parts for each supported vehicle and is hard at work producing more and more parts to increase the performance potential of each car.

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Restored

Restored is FRP and Carbon Fiber body panel company founded for the "Old School" JDM cars. The 510 Bluebird, S30 Z, GC10 Skyline GT-R "Hakosuka" and many other tuner favorites of the past are supported by this company. Doors, Hoods, Trunks, and more can be found here!

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Reimax

A GT-R ONLY tuner located in the busy port city of Yokohama. They originated in 1986 with the tuning of the FJ20 and CA18 motors. As soon as the GT-R was debuted, Reimax began tuning and testing the colossal vehicle. This gives them as much experience and know how of the RB26 as possible. Their catalog of engine and drivetrain parts speak for themselves. A must see for the RB26DETT owner.

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Recaro

Established in 1906 and based in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany, Recaro is a marque seat maker used all around the globe. Their FIA certified full bucket seats are used in professional motorsport competitions as well as in amateur competitions. Commonly heard opinion is that Recaro seats, although at times lacking in holding capability to its competitors is extremely comfortable. More than its main competition in Japan, Bride.

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Real Speed

Osaka based Real Speed has what you need to completely dress up both the outside and inside of your Fairlady Z. Lights, Seat Covers, Front and Rear Bumpers, and more great cosmetics parts are available for your Fairlady at Real Speed.

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RE-Wing

RE-Wing is a tuning garage specializing in building Grip and Drag rotaries. The Mie based garage was founded in 1989 and has built a variety of Rotary specific parts for the FC, FD, and SE3P.

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RE Ameimya

No Rotary engine fan can exist without giving respect to the design and tuning ability of the RE guru, RE-Amemiya. From the most exotic aeroparts, competition winning D1 Drift vehicles to GT Racing Championships, RE-Amemiya has proved performance with beautiful design.

Founded in 1974, RE Amemiya has proven itself time and time again in the rotary tuning industry. Their quality tuning and parts has made RE Amemiya the first brand to come to mind when a rotary owner wants some modification done to their street/circuit machine.

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Raybrig

Raybrig is a car H.I.D., LED, Halogen bulb maker established in 1996. Their Multi-Reflector Head Lamps for cars equipped with retractable head lights are highly popular among 180SX and Miata Roadster owners, adding better lighting and looks. Raybrig promote their car lighting items through sponsorship of teams in Japan's JGTC racing championship, showing the world the quality of their lighting products.

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Ralliart

Ralliart is the tuning arm of Mitsubishi Motors, established in 1984, Ralliart develops the company's rally and off-road competition cars as well as produce performance parts for Mitsubishi's current line-up of consumer cars. Ralliart participates in rally and off-road competitions around the world, notably the World Rally Championship and Dakar Rally.

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Lowen Hart Corporation

The Ehime based Lowen Hart Corporation is a multi-brand company composed of a variety of exclusive marque wheel brands. Lowenhart, Racing Hart, Euro Hart, DEF, and Bersaglio. These brands are highly popular among the Spo-Con, VIP, and LUX style tuning crowd here in Japan. The Lowen Hart Corporation's catalog of wheels is built of the highest quality and are guaranteed to add style to your street cruiser!

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Racing Gear

Established in 1947, Racing Gear produces a wide variety of parts for vehicles of a variety of makes and models. RG's catalog of clutch parts is highly popular, used by shops and garages throughout Japan as the shop's "special clutch." The JTC'N1 Circuit Damper series of coilover suspension kits are built of the highest quality, and have proven their performance ability in N1 Races throughout Japan.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

R-Magic

Established in 1993, R-Magic is a Rotary specialist shop with dream products for any Rotary Fan. R-Magic boasts a large catalog of parts for all aspects of your rotary powered sports car. From Suspension and Exhaust, to Cooling and Aero, they have it all.

R-Magic has also made their debut in film with their demo car playing in a role as the starmachine in the Japanese action movie, SpeedMaster. R-Magic is currently expanding their exposure competing Japan's D1 Grand Prix.

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Quantum

Established in the F1 world, specialists and makers of High Quality coilover suspension. Quantum has been in the suspension market since the 60`s, making coilovers for F1 cars in need of high endurance suspension pieces able to withstand over 200kph. When ordering Quantum, you`re ordering over 40 years of racing experience and quality.

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Puriair

A company specializing in manufacturing Hypoallergenic Air Conditioning Filters for a wide variety of vehicle makes and models. Puriair A/C filters eliminates allergens and bacteria that build on your car's A/C filter.

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Proudear

Yokohama based Proudear is a parts brand producing parts for the Fairlady Z and Skyline. Proudear has a large catalog of parts for the Z31 available and is a great place to look at for Z31 owners wanting a more aggressive look on their cars. Fenders, Bonnets, Bumpers, and more can be found to add to the body of your already great looking Fairlady Z or Skyline.

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Project Mu

Project Mu is a high performance brake technology company with their product heavily researched and tested in motorsports competitions throughout Japan. Project Mu's current catalog covers all bases for everyone from the daily driver to the touge attacker.

Established in March of 1988 and currently employing 27 workers, Project Mu is hard at work to produce the best braking parts available.

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Prodrive

Prodrive is a world class motorsports and automotive technology company with experience in F1, WRC, and many other international motorsports competitions. Proof of their technical abilities and racing knowledge can be seen in their 6 World Rally Championships and over 100 international rally wins in collaboration with Subaru.

Originally established in 1984 with four employees, Prodrive has become a powerful motorsports brand with over 1000 employees around the world.

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Monday, March 16, 2009

Pro Shop Rapid

Founded by former amateur drifting star and currently driving under Team Orange in the D1GP. Hideo Hiraoka's Pro Shop Rapid is well known for their extremely popular "Dame Ningen" stickers and S13 Silvia aero. They also offer an original coilover suspension kit as well unique interior pieces and Carbon Fiber decorative parts.

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Pro Shop Iida

Kanagawa based Pro Shop Iida is a small shop specializing in tuning all things Mitsubishi. Need some tips on 4G63 tuning? They have you covered with plenty of knowledge and advice along with a great selection of parts ready for purchasing and installing onto your Mitsubishi. Legnum and Galant owners take notice, Pro Shop Iida also has parts specific to the EC5A and EC5W ready to up the performance of your ride!

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Power House Amuse

Chiba based Power House Amuse is well known for their high quality Titanium Exhaust parts and the Hi-Tech ROM ECU. Their circuit aimed Aero parts and Body Kits are also put together with 100% quality. Amuse can be normally seen at the world famous Tsukuba Circuit testing and adjusting upcoming prototype parts. Like many major companies, Power House Amuse is currently hard at work researching and developing new parts for the R35 GT-R.

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Power Enterprise

Since starting out as an engine parts developer for race applications in 1997, Shizuoka based Power Enterprise has become a brand to go to for everything (except suspension) you need to build a tire shredding monster machine. Power Enterprise currently is working on expanding its catalog of Supercharger Kits for everything from the tiny iQ to the massive R35 GT-R.

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Power Craft

Kanagawa based Power Craft is a specialist in exhaust parts fabricating. They specialize in parts for the GDB Impreza, AE86 Levin/Trueno, and the Z33 Fairlady Z. Power Craft's quality parts are second to none, and the brand is highly recommended to owners of the earlier mentioned Fairlady, Impreza, and Hachi-Roku.

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Friday, March 13, 2009

Pivot

Pivot was founded in 1986 as a new maker of electronics for race cars by a man who was only 24 years of age at the time. From there they have grown to offer a great line-up of gauges, smart devices, and much more for your vehicle. They are located up in the northern part of Honshu in a snowy land called Nagano.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Pit Road M

A tuning garage highly involved in zeroyon racing (0-400m). The owner is a Mitsubishi GTO freak and is the reason why much of their line-up supports this vehicle. They are located in the Nara prefecture which is close to the large city of Osaka. You may find some stuff you never knew existed for the Mitsubishi GTO from this company.

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PIAA

PIAA is a sponsor for many of the high-powered vehicles seen on the race track. They specialize in HID lights and lighting but also have a line-up of various accessories found in and around the car.

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Phoenix's Power

Once known as Garage Fukui, it was rumored that the boss was busted for insurance fraud when he crashed a customers car. Under new management, Garage Fukui was cleaned up and its image restored. Like the Phoenix out of the ashes, the small tuning shop was reincarnated to Phoenix's Power.

Today, Phoenix's Power has grown from one, to two shops in Kyoto and Fukui. They offer a line-up of original exhaust systems for a variety of vehicle models and also offer original ROM-Tuned ECUs for a wide range of cars.

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Monday, March 09, 2009

Pentroof

Established in 1993, Pentroof is a Tokyo based tuning garage experienced in tuning genres ranging from High Speed Time Attack Racing to Drifting. Pentroof offers a variety of parts from popular tuning bases from Nissan, Mitsubishi, Subaru, and Toyota.

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Pan Speed

Saitama based Pan Speed is a specialist garage for rotary engine tuning. The garage specialize in tuned ECU's and high power capable rebuilt engines for the rotary, and also offers a range of aero parts for the FD and FC RX-7. Pan Speed also offers a wide array of suspension, exhaust, and brake parts to better your Mazda.

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