An American Japanese in Tokyo

To me a mega trend in which we are behind is the functional or functional looking aero kit. The JGTC GT cars are getting much more sophisticated aerodynamically and the JDM aero kit companies are also by emulating these cars. Here a placard in the Ings +1 booth explains how some of their parts work. Many kit companies like C-West, Voltex, Ings+1, Varis and Monster tune their aero kits in the wind tunnel and or on the track. Thankfully the days of the Combat kits seem to be gone forever.


The fences on this FD's side skirt help stop air from curling under the car.	An overall view of the fences. JGTC cars have been sprouting these over the last two seasons.	Kickups manage the air at the rear of the car to get a bit more downforce.

The Voltex splitter and canards on the Cyber EVO must help it stick, it is a really fast car.	Canards provide downforce and make vortexes that travel down the sides of the car helping prevent air from curling under the car.	Rear diffusers help shape the bottom of the car to reflect an upside down airplane wing to help increase downforce. The vertical strakes generate vortexes to help make the diffusers more effective at lower speeds.

For you old guys, remember the legendary Wicked crew? Ron Bergenholtz dusted off one of his old shirts for the occasion.

In the “You can't get it here” category, we took some snaps of these products that we haven't seen here yet, look for these parts soon or perhaps never!


HKS has a new Hyperdamper III. To bad I could not read what makes it different from the Hyperdamper II	New software and versions of the EVC V with what I believe is mappable boost curves.

New HKS vehicle information display system can probably take the place of many gauges.	HKS had BB Tune packages centered around their ball bearing turbo upgrades for some of the more popular motors like the EJ and 4G63.

A rear view of the BB Tune EJ plumbing.	HKS's upgrade for the 4G63 has a GT3037 turbo, tubular manifold, external wastegate and other tweaks.

HKS has big brake upgrades in Japan.


HKS has a turbo kit for the VQ35HR which will probably come here.	It bears a strong resemblance to the Turbonetics kit at a glance.


The old school RB26 still gets plenty of attention from the aftermarket. Here is HKS's treatment for one with a big TO4Z single conversion.	HKS has a straight cut gear, sequential shifting, dog shifter gear set for the EVO, this is really trick.	HKS 4G63 Stroker kits gets displacement up to 2300cc.