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 94 · English draft

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

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  1. A drifting life that is not very useful
  2. A tale of attempting to solve your problems
  3. How about that! Never seen an iron pipe this long, have you? Today we shall use it to make something! [ending OCR damaged]
  4. [Unclear: damaged lettering or disconnected fragment]
  5. [Unclear: damaged lettering or disconnected fragment]
  6. After D1 at Ebisu, the Samurai muttered, “Hmm…just once, I would like to try that tandem drifting. I do not feel I would lose driving that way…” So we asked, “Could you win even against Koguchi?” “Ah—that would be a problem. It may go against the warrior’s code, but I would turn on my hazard lights and let him pass,” he declared. Yes, the Samurai is a fan who sincerely hopes Koguchi will win D1. [OCR damaged]
  7. Make a roll bar ourselves!
  8. This month’s challenge!
  9. Master Samurai!! [OCR damaged]
  10. All right!
  11. [Unclear: damaged lettering or disconnected fragment]
  12. Leave it…
  13. …to me!
  14. So I thought I would work this iron pipe into a roll bar! [OCR damaged]
  15. One Sunday
  16. Actually… [OCR damaged]
  17. [Unclear: damaged lettering or disconnected fragment]
  18. Hey, what is wrong?
  19. Hmm…
  20. R-really!? Even though it is such a selfish request…
  21. The Samurai bought this pipe from a supplier. It is 5 meters long, outside diameter 38 …, and cost ¥3,000 … [unit/ending truncated]
  22. It should bend if we heat it with a gas torch…
  23. Three minutes later, the heated section began turning red.
  24. Ichiro, give it a little more force! [OCR damaged]
  25. Samurai’s trivia: …it collapses easily here… [opening corrupted]. Proper roll bars must be bent with a special tool called a bender so wrinkles do not form at the bend. When bending with a burner, apparently the proper method is to fill the pipe with … first [filler material corrupted]. However, that … is a special kind and not easy to obtain. [OCR damaged]
  26. But…
  27. [Unclear: damaged lettering or disconnected fragment]
  28. Amazingly!
  29. Featuring Ichiro [OCR damaged]
  30. [Unclear: damaged lettering or disconnected fragment]
  31. Wrinkles form at the bend [OCR damaged]
  32. So easily…
  33. …it bends!
  34. [Unclear: damaged lettering or disconnected fragment]
  35. [Unclear: damaged lettering or disconnected fragment]
  36. Change the angle of heating with the burner and bend it little by little! [OCR damaged]
  37. If a roll-bar bend has wrinkles, when it receives an impact… [OCR damaged; continuation]
  38. It is about…
  39. …time!
  40. It really is bending!
  41. 8
  42. [Unclear: damaged lettering or disconnected fragment]
  43. Bend the pipe gradually to match the dimensions of the Silvia’s interior… [OCR damaged]
  44. [Unclear: damaged lettering or disconnected fragment]
  45. [Unclear: damaged lettering or disconnected fragment]
  46. No good! [OCR damaged]
  47. No use worrying… [OCR damaged]
  48. …about it; let us keep going!
  49. It is harder work than it looks! And hot, too. [OCR damaged]
  50. [Unclear: damaged lettering or disconnected fragment]
  51. This… [fragment]
  52. With help from: Ease (provisional name) [OCR damaged]
  53. 92