Drift Tengoku — October 2003

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English draft translations are available throughout this issue. Unclear or unreadable OCR remains flagged; these drafts have not received full image proofreading. The archive retains 310 scan files, including two duplicate captures, representing 308 unique pages.

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Page 152 · English draft

Draft translation. Unclear OCR remains flagged; full image proofreading has not been performed.

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  1. Everyone’s car showcase
  2. Send us your submissions!
  3. Car showcase
  4. My
  5. Their presence shakes up the drift world!
  6. This time we have a whole lineup of rare cars. Nice! A drift car should not just be what everyone calls the standard choice. Taking a car that looks unlikely to drift and modifying it with ingenuity, effort and determination until it surprises everyone—that is the fun of it, right? And the standard cars should fight back with unconventional tuning!
  7. Commemorative gifts: brake pads
  8. Provided by Missile.
  9. Giveaway
  10. Five types are available:Street for rotor temperatures up to350°C,Racing up to700°C,Carbon Racing and Full Metal Racing up to900°C,and Side Lock brake shoes up to500°C.Choose according to rotor temperature and use.They cover Japanese domestic cars generally;contact Missile at048-621-0007 if interested.
  11. [Unclear specification list: readable fragments include FC, TD, a lightweight flywheel, intercooler, Blitz, clutch, coilovers with F 12 kg/R 14 kg/mm springs, TRD stabilizers, Cusco components, TRD LSD, final-drive ratio 4.5, water/oil-temperature and boost gauges, Momo steering wheel, F/R 9J, later-model engine swap, and GT. Product names and several relationships are too corrupted to establish.]
  12. Car specifications
  13. Looking for Altezza drift buddies!
  14. Still practicing [ending unclear].
  15. Owner’s comment: I am gradually building it with help from friends, and the shops have helped me too. It is still lightly tuned, but I want to save up for a rear spoiler and cooling upgrades. ★ He also sent a photo of modifications involving the position lights and fog lights [details corrupted], but it was too hard to make out to use. Thanks to Uechin’s exploits, the Soarer has become recognized as a drift car, but few people really master it. Kusano, keep drifting and aim to become a Soarer master!
  16. Ride height [damaged]; front bumper [damaged]; HKS limited-edition red [component unclear]; Weld.
  17. Car specifications
  18. Exhaust
  19. HKS Power [model ending unclear].
  20. [Unclear: isolated specification fragment.]
  21. SOARER
  22. 1991 model
  23. JZZ30)
  24. [Damaged list] …gauge; APEXi ECV; Tracer 17-inch and BNR32 stock alloy wheels.
  25. …cover [component OCR damaged].
  26. Blitz
  27. Purchase price: ¥750,000. Tuning cost: unknown. Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Tomohiro Kusano [name reading provisional].
  28. Age 23
  29. I’ll keep modifying it!
  30. Team: unaffiliated. Drifting experience: a little [ending unclear].
  31. He recommends Nology HotWires, saying the effect was noticeable. [The remaining wording is damaged, but says there is plenty to look forward to with future modifications.]
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  33. [Unclear: “…might look cool” with the subject damaged.]
  34. [Unclear: isolated “力”.]
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  42. [Unclear: isolated “拉”.]
  43. [Unclear: isolated “工”.]
  44. HKS [power-related product name damaged]; [muffler brand/model damaged]; Cusco ZERO2 coilovers; Blitz [gauge/controller name damaged]; Cusco carbon tower bar; Nology HotWires; Weld [cover name damaged]; [remaining identifiers damaged]; HID.
  45. Car specification
  46. [Unclear: heavily corrupted sentence fragment.]
  47. [Unclear: “もorv”.]
  48. [Unclear: “…made red” fragment.]
  49. SILVIA
  50. A setup proud of its body color
  51. [Unclear: fragmented OCR.]
  52. [Unclear: fragmented OCR.]
  53. [Unclear: red-color fragment.]
  54. [Unclear: “looks/appears” fragment.]
  55. [Unclear: “…is red” fragment.]
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  57. 2001 S15. Purchase price: ¥2,300,000. Tuning cost: ¥70,000. Yuki, Ibaraki Prefecture. Yasuya Iwasaki [name reading provisional]. Team: I’m going to start one! Drifting experience: two months.
  58. Owner’s comment: I only recently bought it used and have not modified it much myself. My favorite part is definitely the full repaint. The factory NSX blue looks reddish purple depending on the angle of the light, which is really striking. ★ A gleaming S15—looks like it will be fun to modify! It is a shame the photo does not show the sheen of that prized repaint. When you have just bought a car, it is exciting to think about how to modify it. Perhaps side and rear aero parts first?
  59. Cooling upgrades and a rear spoiler next!
  60. Age 21
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