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 27 — English draft translation
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Full repaint for ¥6,000!
SOUL OFGAKUDRIFTER
Urethane cushions, so scraping is no problem!
I bought it at a home-improvement store!
NARDI
Before leaving for Gakudori,
In three hours
I painted it!
Hiroyoshi Ui [tentative romanization]
Last year’s reused INTEC lip and bumper catch are still in place.
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All…
You have to stand out at Gakudori, so I painted it myself! I used regular lacquer spray paint, 30 cans at ¥200 each including clear coat, for a total of just ¥6,000! I also spent ¥800 on four used wheels. I painted the hubs silver, too.
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Masayuki Yamashita [tentative romanization]
Ota Automotive College
Even an FRP lip gets scraped and damaged, so I stuck urethane cushions from a home-improvement store on with double-sided tape. They come in three sections, so if one part disappears, it’s easy to repair right away!
The cleanly painted front NC-10R belongs to Yamada from the same automotive club. Everyone in the club helped, and they finished it in three hours for just under ¥10,000.
180SX
Daido University
(S15)
Silvia
…apparently.
(RPS13)
A little farther away…
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…and you can see it…
When I tried it, it was surprisingly…
…look at it from a distance…
It turned out pretty well. The rear spoiler was attached by slotting the coilover bracket and fitting it that way.
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Issei Kaneko [tentative romanization]
…good!
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180SX
Ota Automotive College
…it seems.
(RPS13)
Modified an FD part and installed it!
Out of FRP
I made it myself!
The headlights were badly bent,
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I screwed them to the core support. The hood’s…
RX-7…
TMAZDA
The customization course shows what it can do!
…‘MAZDA RX-7’ sticker is a nice touch.
eimu
OAEC
I crashed and broke the headlights, so I forced parts from the FD I used to own onto the car. They don’t look too out of place, and the lights actually work—better than having nothing! The side reflectors are from the FD, too.
The customization course shows its true skills!
Yuki Tonosho [tentative romanization]
180SX
Gunma Automotive College
I kept only the stock frame and made the outer surface from fiberglass. It’s a Brid-style bonnet, lighter than stock! I spent eight hours painting it with an airbrush. I was going for a summer look—what do you think?
（RPS13）
I thought you had only painted it, but…
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Made it myself
I was surprised to hear you made the whole bonnet yourself. It doesn’t look like your first time using an airbrush.
This is definitely…
It fits…
…right?!
USDM style wins with color!
Soka University
Shota Yamamoto
Trueno
（AE86）
He added heart-shaped endplates cut from plywood on top of the endplates of an aftermarket GT wing. With a student drift car, standing out is the point. This should win over both the crowd and the judges!
Toshiyuki Sakano
Meijo University
Skyline
（ECR33）
Everyone calls him ‘Golgo,’ but he’s surprisingly sentimental. His friends in Meijo University’s auto club used to say, ‘Those wing endplates…’
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People used to say it ‘didn’t suit the character,’ but…
The rim is just under the width of a pack of cigarettes—about 8 cm. And each wheel costs only ¥10,000!
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I painted the spokes of my Hatchiroku’s wheels yellow for its USDM look! They’re AutoWay AW-241s, 15 inches by 8J, offset 0. They were only ¥10,000 each new—cheap and cool!
The center caps were included, too. Apparently the black parts of the outer rim were painted that way from the factory.
You wouldn’t even know it was one!