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 28 — English draft translation
The paint adds shadows at the trim and panel seams to emphasize the military look. The body is so dented that almost no panel is flat; the gray around the door handles is bare metal. Aside from the Amemiya mirrors, the aero parts are all unidentified. The smoked taillights and rear view add impact. The exhaust tip points downward as a noise-control measure for the Nikko circuit, but it still failed the sound check, so they were scrambling to fix it in the pits.
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XIEP
A culmination of technical ingenuity!
The spirit of modification
Exterior
Ryoya Ota
Tohoku University
Kanta Yamaguchi
Silvia
(PS13）
Chiba Institute of Technology
The paint is ordinary water-based household paint. Materials cost just ¥2,500 for the paint and ¥3,500 including the . One coat looked very pale, so I finished it with two. It’s easy to touch up, so I won’t be changing this color for a while!
（S13）
Silvia
I built a system using bicycle brake wire that lets me raise and lower the cabin’s rear license plate! The lever is just PVC pipe held in place with a clamp—a simple, mechanical setup.
The matte finish was made with household paint!
In four hours
Applied with a roller…
…and finished!
Wild car
CASHIEW
Raise and lower the plate freely with a wire!
SPORTS
SUPER EVOLUTION
EVON
Last year he hid the plate behind dazzling LEDs, and this year…
He brought a can of paint along so he could repair it right away if he bumped it…
Comment
Comment
This year he modified it using a mechanical method. An electric motor might have worked, but he said, ‘I’m committed to keeping it mechanical!’
…and from about five meters away it looks like an ordinary paint job. The two-tone finish is stylish, too.
I got tired of the S15 look and switched to an 180SX front end! I bought projector headlights individually on Yahoo! Auctions and made the housings from fiberglass. The 180SX front fenders fit with almost no modification. Once it’s painted, it doesn’t look out of place, does it?
Just having an 180SX front end is unusual enough!
Tatsuki Hidaka
Saga University
PAMA
The mounting…
（S15）
Silvia
I made it from the frame up
The 180SX fenders are fiberglass, and they’re attached pretty forcefully…
Comment
STABL
PLABAM
…but the fit is balanced enough that it doesn’t bother you. The decals are meant to create a certain image.
The rear spoiler combines an S15 stock spoiler with a genuine R34 spoiler for a double-wing look. I cut into the S15 spoiler so the legs of the R34 wing would sit properly on the trunk…
…that’s how it’s done!
A military look with a seriously striking impact!
PICKUP*
MGAKUDORI PUCCI MODIFY
Yoshitaka Okane
It’s not that I particularly like military style. A friend actually painted it with water-based paint without asking—using a roller, no less. It has a certain charm, so I’m driving it as-is, though I really prefer black. The saddest thing is when my friends’ mom calls it ‘trash’!
Good-looking school project machine
RX-7
Yaita Higashi High School
（FC3S）
CAROLNG
FALKEN
I went to Disneyland in this!
let
Rather than a neatly finished military style…
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…his is more like a ‘natural military’ look, battered and scratched from all the bumps. He was the only one from the University of Tokyo at the FC event, and with an exterior like this he really stood out! His aggressive driving matched the body color, too.
azDa
CLR
CIRCUTT&DR