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post Sep 11, 2003 - 7:17 PM
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Hey guys,
Last night I emailed Tanabe about some stuff on their US website, and today I received a reply, which is quoted below.

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Okay,

Sorry about the confusion on the chassis codes, our website is still under development and some of the chassis codes may be incorrect.

We are still in the R&D stage for producing parts for the 94-99 Celica.  First week of October, we will be doing another round of R&D and performing the final test fitting of our springs.

The swaybars are still in prototype stage and the tentative date for test fitting for those is early November.  Our swaybars are chromoly construction and come with replacement bushings, as well as brackets on certain applications.  I’m anticipating the diameter for the front to be from 27-30.4mm with the rear being 20-24mm. 

The coil overs are already in production in limited numbers in Japan, but are not available in the US currently.  If they are pre-ordered, they will be available as early as October.

All parts will fit the US 94-99 Celica.

Basically, availability  will be as follows:

Sustec Pro S-0C - October (with September pre-order)

Sustec Pro S-0C Type II - October (with September pre-order)

NF210 - October

GF210 - October

DF210 - October

Sustec Stabilizer (F+R) - December – January

Super Medalion Hyper - TBA (poss January)

Super Medalion Racing - TBA (poss January)

We were able to achieve a 6.7whp gain (Turbo Magazine) on the '00+ Celica with the Super Medalion Racing and I believe we have plans on developing a catback exhaust system for the 94-99 Celica.

We will be in need of quality test cars for our R&D team, and if you have any stock vehicles in good condition around the South Bay Los Angeles/Torrance area, please give us a call.


This is great news! Tanabe is producing parts that will be available in the US for our cars! biggrin.gif

If your car is stock and in good condition, you're located in the South Bay Los Angeles/Torrance area, and you'd be interested in helping Tanabe out with research and development, please PM me or email me, and include information about your car, where you're located, contact information(like an email address and phone number so Tanabe can get a hold of you), and photos if possible. You may get your car dynoed for free or get discounts or free parts, but I'm not sure yet. I emailed Tanabe back and I'm waiting for their reply still. smile.gif


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post Sep 11, 2003 - 9:11 PM
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Yeah, that'd be awesome! smile.gif I just got another email from Tanabe, and they said that everyone who participates in their research and development program will get to keep the part tested if it's in the final pre-production test fitment stage. smile.gif If the part is a prototype though, the testers won't be able to keep them. If some of you wanted to have the Tanabe springs test-fitted on your car in October, you'd be able to keep them.


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Posts in this topic
- Coomer   Great News from Tanabe!   Sep 11, 2003 - 7:17 PM
- - ghostdog   Coomer, thats awesome man! We should definetly...   Sep 11, 2003 - 8:46 PM
- - Coomer   Yeah, that'd be awesome! I just got anoth...   Sep 11, 2003 - 9:11 PM
- - Drunken_Style   awesome news   Sep 11, 2003 - 10:55 PM
- - 97sccelica   hrm, i live in the LA area. but what do they mean...   Sep 11, 2003 - 10:57 PM
- - TunerHawk   I have a completly stock 98 GT hatchback. It has 6...   Sep 11, 2003 - 11:15 PM
- - NYCelica   thats Awesome!   Sep 11, 2003 - 11:20 PM
- - capncrakhed   YES YES YES!!!!! Coomer....t...   Sep 11, 2003 - 11:37 PM
- - FallenHero   Hey Coomer, who's the man for finding those ta...   Sep 12, 2003 - 12:57 AM
- - LuDaChRiS   ohh man this is awesome. i live in carson, the nex...   Sep 12, 2003 - 1:03 AM

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