Drift Tengoku — October 2013
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188 available scans from Drift Tengoku — October 2013, in right-to-left reading order. Japanese OCR and English translation drafts are available throughout. Drafts have not received exhaustive image proofreading; unreadable source remains recorded in the archival data.
Page 109 — English draft translation
Good evening! I'm Naoto Oguri, the winner of the 1J Meeting held in Hokkaido. The HKS Tokachi Summer Festival took place at Tokachi Speedway, so I tried a makeover. Please feel free to use the photos. I own three X90 Mark IIs, and I've painted all of them orange. See you! Naoto Oguri. ★ Going from silver to orange is quite a makeover! You fitted a full aero kit, too. So last month's issue must have caught you right before the modifications, at the ‘please don't photograph me’ moment? Was there no drift competition at the summer festival? If you get three wins in Hokkaido, maybe we'll come back to cover you!
Is it possible to drift it? The RX-8 in this month's ‘Unexpected Machine’ feature seems to be mainly a show car and may not drift often, so perhaps it's fine. But if I drift frequently, I'm worried the doors won't be strong enough, or that the body will flex and the panel gaps won't line up. You don't have to print this, but please answer. KARA_AKI33. ★ Here's a secret: the FC3S driven by Drift Samurai, who competed in D1GP two years ago (and is entered again this year), has gull-wing doors! You can get in through the side opening, so you don't often see them raised, but that car has been hit and driven hard over and over without a problem. So it should be fine! Besides, even a car without gull-wing doors can develop misaligned panels or frame damage if you drift it hard enough. Though that only matters if you can drive it that hard!
Captions and page details
Miki Yabuuchi
Zus
Image change / makeover
Hokkaido
Illustration exhibit
Full clutch…
Sieria
Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture. ★ The lines are sharp and simple, but it doesn't feel…
Yūta Nagase
…like it lacks anything. Nicely done!
Club
Full Counter Club
Hachimantai, Iwate Prefecture
Shun Sasaki
★ You're great at using a tire-marker pen to draw! It isn't white smoke, but it looks like white smoke!
Skyline
Nissan
V35
Tengoku
Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture
Takamichi Chiba
★ The V35 never really caught on, did it? Toyota cars usually get manual-transmission swaps without any fuss, so why…
Drift
…so?
Drift
Inside the tire…
What is the black ball inside the tire?
2
Last year I found one of these mysterious egg-shaped objects while changing a tire. This time it seemed upgraded: I couldn't crush it by hand, and when I threw it on the floor it landed with a hard clack…
…
O
No
It seems these things come to Earth once a year. Garage Berri. ★ I've heard that tire debris can spin around inside and form something like this. It's just a rumor, though…
…so perhaps you're lucky!
…but we in the editorial office have never seen one…
Can you drift with gull-wing doors?
Sorry to write so late. I'm KARA_AKI33…
There's something I've been wondering about, and I thought Drift Tengoku might know, so I decided to email you.
An acquaintance is giving me an ECR33 four-door, but the car has gull-wing doors. Can it be driven in drift events?
Nissan
GT-R
BNR32
Junji Yamazaki, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture. ★ I think that's an interesting idea—keeping the R character true to form. I'd like to see someone try it on a real car someday…
Full clutch / Illustration exhibit
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