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 35 · English draft

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  1. GETHEGOOD HANDLING!!
  2. Thorough [OCR damaged]
  3. How to build a car that corners
  4. I thought spherical bearings were for advanced drivers!
  5. The spherical-bearing connection uses a turnbuckle arrangement, permitting approximately 30 [unit corrupted] of extension… [continued]
  6. You notice the difference as soon as you drive! Transitions are quick and feel great!
  7. …having brought the wrench helped the work go smoothly. After confirming that toe had not changed significantly, I entered the course. I did not notice it on the first gentle lap, but on entry the car’s movement under braking became much easier to read, making it easier to initiate a slide with the brakes. I also noticed the difference during transitions. Simply put, compared with before, the response to steering… [last phrase corrupted]
  8. Sato belongs to the team Slide and uses Link Circuit in Fukushima as his home course. An electric impact wrench made the work go smoothly, and both sides were finished in less than about an hour. The lower arms were set to the same length as the factory arms.
  9. Driving impressions: Masahiro Sato [given-name reading unverified]
  10. YANACK Front Spherical-Bearing Lower-Arm Kit
  11. IMPRESSION
  12. [Unclear: damaged transition-related fragment]
  13. I understood vaguely that spherical bearings were good, but associated them with advanced drivers, so I wondered whether I would notice the difference. Installation used an impact… [continued; OCR damaged]
  14. …the car reacts one beat sooner and more quickly. It follows the steering movement properly.
  15. …installed.
  16. [Unclear: damaged fragment]
  17. [Unclear: isolated fragment]
  18. To describe it, perhaps it feels like fitting tires one grade better. The difference is not very noticeable in long corners or sections held in a continuous drift, but I felt it clearly in tight corners. Correcting with the brakes when I was a little short on drift distance was easy too.
  19. [Unclear: isolated character]
  20. The car moves one beat sooner! You can feel its movement directly! [OCR damaged]
  21. After installation, toe was measured again as a precaution. It was almost zero, so there seemed to be no problem. If widening the track, caster, toe and camber adjustments will be needed.
  22. A thorough check of the parts’ effects!
  23. [Unclear: clipped fragment]
  24. At first I wondered what such a small part could change, but driving made it clear. Unfortunately the course was very wet, but at the entry to Turn 1 on Ebisu South… [continued]
  25. …the steering feel was definitely different. Entering at an angle and maintaining the drift toward the clipping point, I make small countersteer corrections. During those corrections, the steering felt more direct. To exaggerate a little, I could sense the road conditions. But it did not seem that all steering free play had disappeared… [continued]
  26. IMPRESSION
  27. YANACK Steering Quicker
  28. It seems everyone is fitting these lately!
  29. This thing…
  30. Steering response is improved!
  31. Driving impressions: Yutaka Tanuma [name reading unverified]
  32. …so operation did not feel strange. I concentrated on the S-bends to see how it felt during transitions, which involve more steering movement. But in these road conditions the car seemed to transition on its own inertia rather than through steering input, so unfortunately I could not identify a handling change there. From the feel at Turn 1, I expect more information would come through the steering on a dry surface. Response also seems likely to improve when you have to force the steering. [OCR damaged]
  33. [Unclear: clipped transition fragment]
  34. Most of the replacement work is done from underneath! Replacing the bushing midway along the steering shaft requires access from below, so a lift is best. The plate sandwiching the bushing is difficult to work on without a short-handled open-ended wrench. With help from three friends, Tanuma completed the work successfully in about 40 minutes.
  35. After replacement
  36. Before replacement
  37. The aluminum collar shows that it is rigid-mounted!
  38. Reporting assistance: ナック — 0284-71-1303 [company-name OCR may omit initial syllable]