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From: Anaheim, Orange County
Originally Posted by GoTuningUnlimited,Mar 23 2010, 12:42 AM
We were one of the first to be notified of Kanayama-San's accident by his wife shortly after it occured but we have since refrained from commenting on the matter because we are respecting his family's privacy and did not want to make this a public matter. The Japanese are usually very private in these kinds of situations so we have no and will not be spreading any news out of respect for him and his family until we feel that it is necessary.
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its for their race car, its lighter then Alcantara covered one they are using now.
from asm blog
To reduce the weight of our S2000 car no.1, we are going to install the carbon dash board. For the surface finish have done the UV cut matte clear paint job which brings out the texture of the carbon. Compared to the normal dash board with the Alcantara we had which had the weight of 6.3kg, with the carbon only has 1.7kg with the paint on it. We manage to reduce 4.6kg with this. Including the small things we did with the stays we did for the front, in total we manage to reduce 5.3kg in total after the Tsukuba Super Battle.
This product is very rare even for ASM and it isn’t easy to install. You cannot just swap the parts for it and you have to cut and past each stay for the correct position. it was design specially to install for our ASM Tsukuba Special back in 2004 so, we did not spend extra cost to be able to install in any car. We also had to cut the dash board to match the roll cage which we have in car no.1. Installing the MUGEN multi vision meter and re-doing the center console and many more. It took the whole day but we really wanted to reduce the weight for the front part of the car which will make a big difference.
from asm blog
To reduce the weight of our S2000 car no.1, we are going to install the carbon dash board. For the surface finish have done the UV cut matte clear paint job which brings out the texture of the carbon. Compared to the normal dash board with the Alcantara we had which had the weight of 6.3kg, with the carbon only has 1.7kg with the paint on it. We manage to reduce 4.6kg with this. Including the small things we did with the stays we did for the front, in total we manage to reduce 5.3kg in total after the Tsukuba Super Battle.
This product is very rare even for ASM and it isn’t easy to install. You cannot just swap the parts for it and you have to cut and past each stay for the correct position. it was design specially to install for our ASM Tsukuba Special back in 2004 so, we did not spend extra cost to be able to install in any car. We also had to cut the dash board to match the roll cage which we have in car no.1. Installing the MUGEN multi vision meter and re-doing the center console and many more. It took the whole day but we really wanted to reduce the weight for the front part of the car which will make a big difference.
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Originally Posted by GoTuningUnlimited,Jan 20 2010, 05:01 PM
We have been an authorized TODA dealer for a while now. The US operations for TODA have gone through some changes lately and the website may not be up to date. You're welcome to call them if you have any concerns before purchasing TODA products from us.
There is no English version of the ASM blog but some relevant posts are translated to English after a couple days so please check back often.
*edit: TODA USA has updated the dealer list.
There is no English version of the ASM blog but some relevant posts are translated to English after a couple days so please check back often.
*edit: TODA USA has updated the dealer list.
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From: Cologne, Germany
Originally Posted by DR. FEINSTONE,Oct 31 2009, 09:34 AM
I have both jdm tow hook brackets version 1 and 2. Long story short the guy at honda part dept., did not familiar with this got the short jdm tow hook bracket, but I wanted the long jdm tow hook bracket with re-enforcement beam attached.
and what is it needed for?
I mounted my ASM bumper w/o any extra parts needed. Meanwhile I have the ASM towhook in the garage waiting to be installed
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On the US cars, there is a different crash beam bumper support on the car. With my ASM rear bumper and ASM rear tow hook, I had to remove the US-spec crash beam and install a jdm rear bumper support/tow hook mount.