Drift Tengoku — October 2003

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  1. Handling
  2. Every driver wants a car that responds crisply and goes exactly where intended. But many are unsure what to change and where. From here, we ask specialists how to improve handling and explain the functions and construction of the relevant parts.
  3. Essential for drift cars!
  4. Performance improvement
  5. [Unclear: corrupted decorative lettering]
  6. Instructor: Naniwa’s steering-angle doctor
  7. Secret techniques
  8. …for… [heading fragment]
  9. 黒井敦, Tinker (given-name reading unverified)
  10. Just fitting off-the-shelf parts isn’t enough! I’ll show you a combination that increases steering angle even further!
  11. [Unclear: isolated fragment]
  12. A thorough explanation!
  13. This is what sets a good drift car apart!
  14. Effective methods… [OCR damaged]
  15. River
  16. Side
  17. Secret techniques
  18. The steering’s…
  19. Increased steering angle
  20. …about… [clipped fragment]
  21. …about… [damaged fragment]
  22. …increasing steering angle has become practically standard tuning for drift cars. [opening clipped]
  23. But there is apparently a new method to increase the steering angle further… [ending clipped]
  24. [Unclear: damaged steering-angle passage fragment]
  25. It has now become practically standard tuning for drift cars… [continued]
  26. …discovered…steering angle… [fragment too damaged for the relationship to be established]
  27. …a combination of parts apparently makes an unprecedented, extraordinary steering angle possible! [opening clipped]
  28. The secret to extreme steering angle is a rack-and-pinion combination! Look at the extraordinary lock on Kuroi’s Silvia; a conventional setup cannot turn this far. It enables entry at a deep drift angle. Many manufacturers and shops sell steering-angle parts, and many drivers already use them, but Kuroi says these parts alone cannot produce this angle. His secret is modifying the internals of the steering rack. After years of research into greater steering lock, he turned his attention to the rack itself.
  29. He dismantled racks from various cars almost daily in search of usable parts, and discovered that on Nissans such as the Silvia and Skyline, HICAS-model racks have more teeth than non-HICAS racks. He tried a pinion from a non-HICAS car, which fitted without modification. The combination had a major effect: the additional teeth allowed greater steering travel. The handling change involved not only the maximum angle but also the steering input required to reach it—[sentence continues on page 29].
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  31. Four secrets to better handling. What sets a good drift car apart: a detailed explanation of effective modifications!
  32. Increasing steering angle is already a standard drift-car modification. But what if another method could increase it even further? Here is a method discovered by Tinker’s Kuroi, nicknamed Naniwa’s steering-angle doctor: combining adapted factory parts with aftermarket steering-angle parts for an extraordinary amount of lock.