HKS quietly announced that they will be discontinuing some of their GD Max Clutch and GD Pro Clutch lineups the other day. For those of you who still need replacement discs the good news is that all the discs are the same so as long as there are still some clutches in the lineup there will be discs available. The bad news is for those of you who need clutch covers, hubs and other vehicle specific rebuild parts you will have to act fast as once the parts are sold out there will be no more.

I recommend that you take a look at your clutch to see if you can identify any wear and if so you may want to stock up. The thing that made the HKS GD clutch so nice was that the discs were the cheapest to replace so the HKS GD series was the best bang for the buck over the long run and a few rebuilds.

 I wont go in to all the details of which vehicles were discontinued but all the clutches on www.rhdjapan.com are being updated now so if you notice you vehicle is no longer listed, that is why.. 

The clutch will be missed by many… 

Is it getting hot enough for you guys and gals out there yet? When the summer temps start to rise you can hit the beach and cool off but if your running a tuned engine in that car down to the beach you bet your gonna need to modify the cooling system to keep your ride cool in those blazing days on the road!

You guessed it!! Its time for our annual Summer Cooling Campaign!!

You can get discounts on intercoolers, radiators, radiator hoses, intercooler piping, or whatever else is listed under the cooling section of our website under your desired car.

10% off all products listed under the cooling section!!

Coupon Code: 2009CoolingCampaign  

Offer ends 30 June

Take advantage while you can as this only happens once a year!!

It’s that time of year again for Golden Week here in Japan.  Golden week is a string of National Holidays; April 29 is Showa Day, May 3rd is Constitution Memorial Day, May 4th is Greenery Day, May 5th is Children’s Day, May 6th is a substitute holiday for the 3rd which falls on Sunday this year. You can get more information on this holiday here Golden Week

As they are national holidays almost all companies are closed down during this period. Nissan, Toyota, HKS, Sard, and virtually all the other manufacturers and warehouses will be closed so even if our employees were here working there would be little for them to do. We think our RHDJapan team deserves a break so Patrick and Russell will be the only ones working on these holidays. We will be responding to emails but will be in out of the office taking small trips within Japan so you will most likely not be able to get to us by phone.

You can expect the prompt RHDJapan email response experience from us just as always. Our shipping days will be the 28th, 30th, and then resuming back to normal on May 7th.

The sale timers went off on a few hundred products.. (>_<)Ahh!!!Its going to be a few hours till we get the sale prices back on, sorry for the inconvenience on that! Please check back in about 4 hours!

It’s been a long time since I have posted here, I’m sorry you guys!! I just wanted to let you all know that there is a campaign in the works that starts today that will get you 10% off any Sard product we have. The coupon code is Sard-Spring-Sale and is good until 30th Apr, 2009  Japan standard time. You can check the Sard goods here

Well it has been one week since the Tokyo Auto Salon 2009. What a blast! Although it has been getting a little smaller and a little smaller every year it is still the greatest Japanese Domestic Market motor sports trade show and expo in the world. Pat and I got there about 9 AM and went straight in.TAS has visibly less drift cars than last year but what it lacked in drift beasts it made up in tons of hooked up GT-Rs and a few new Fairlady Zs. One big surprise was (and we knew this in August) that HKS was not going to exhibit, and Trust Greddy would not be there too.I was looking for the GT-R V spec but it was not there. We did find a S tune Fairlady Z and it was great looking!  I know Im gonna get slagged for this but I think the Z34 looks a lot better than the new GT-R R35. In terms of pure performance yes GT-R, please sign me up!! But for looks, man, the Z34 is still the best looking car out there!! There were a lot of RX-7s as well and yes the race queens were there too. I managed to document almost every tuned car at the Auto Salon and the shots came out pretty good. 

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It is official, we have a winner folks!! The price of 20,000 yen gift certificate to www.rhdjapan.com to the winner is also official!!  As you can see this is one nice RX-7 with many hours put in to it. http://www.rhdjapan.com/rhdjapanridez/2271/RX7 We will be  announcing the winners every month from now on so the next winner will be announced on Feb 1st. If you have not entered your car now is your chance. And while you are online why not vote for your car so you can get the ball rolling and get you one vote closer to winning a gift certificate to www.rhdjapan.com

Shipping days for the end of December. We are taking orders and processing as normal and our shipping days for the end of December are 22nd, 24th and the 26th. Then again on the 2nd of January and then regular shipping resumes everyday from the 5th. Lottery announcements will be on the 25th of Jan here on the site for those of you who have received them. Email us for holiday coupon codes if you are interested in gettin some more additional holiday cheer.    Thank you and stay tuned for 2009, year of the cow!! 

Loyalty credit back on orders has been raised to 10% for the REST of the YEAR!!  Depending on the response we may keep it through to 2009 as well!

 SARD Campaign!! 

Get 11% off anything SARD until the 11th day of the 11th month of this year!!

Get it while you can and supplies are limited!!

The coupon code is “11-11-11-SARD” 

Visit the Sard Product Page to see what products are available for your vehicle!! 

Hi Guys and Gals!

Lately we have been seeing some very rough economic times with the exchange rates and commodities price increases! It is enough to make us all a little crazy!!

Well we have a new section in our site that can allow you to win up to JPY 20,000 (close to $200 USD) in free gift coupons EVERY Month from our site just for participating!! If you have noticed up in the top right corner there is a link to RHDJapanRidez You can create your cars in the My Account section under My Vehicles This is a new functionality that will allow you to show off your car and its modifications as well as comment on other cars, and rank each other’s cars. Sort of like Cardomain. But the difference is that by creating a car and allowing it to be voted on will automatically get you a chance to win up to JPY 20,000 (close to $200 USD) in products from RHDJapan every month!

RHDJapanRidez was created in response to many requests by users to allow for a some type of page in RHDJapan to represent their vehicles as well as comment on others and share product information and installation tips. We have been taking this in to consideration for the past 2 years and finally figured out a way to not only allow customers a place on our website for them to represent their cars, but also to comment about other user vehicles and give product reviews and tips for installation on all the items for sale in our catalog. There is more in development as we speak.

Basically, you will be able to vote on every car out there but only once. You can even vote on your own car if you want to! The user with the highest vote score for the one month period will get a coupon to be used in our site. There will be a new winner every month! That means tons of possible giveaways to you per car!! Gift certificates to the most popular vehicle owner every month will be issued to be used in our site within 31 days from the winning day. This will continue every month indefinitely.

This is your chance to get a little back and our chance to show you that we do care about you guys and want to promote the motor sports movement and community of JDM enthusiasts around the world. We will display the monthly winners as well as what they have decided to purchase with their gift certificate. If there is a tie for the top position at the end of the month the winners will have to choose a number on the website from 1 to 20 and the closest person to that number will win that month. You will have 24 hours to participate in this sudden death match or automatically forfeit to the other user.

The contest starts officially in November but all votes up to December 31st will be cumulative for December’s winnings so the sooner your car is in there to be voted on the more votes it can possibly have. For the first 6 months we will be giving 20,000 Yen (about $200 USD) gift certificates every month for the top ranked vehicles for that one month period and from June 09 we will be giving 10,000 Yen (about $100 USD) certificates every month to the top voted monthly winner. A car can only win once. The coupon is good for 31 days from the day of winning, is not transferrable, redeemable as cash, or applicable to any orders already made or pending and can only be used with the user account that has won the prize.

Of course, in using our site you are agreeing to use it in good spirit and will act responsibly and respectfully to the RHDJapanRidez community. No funny stuff! We are always open to advice and requests so please feel free to contact us.