Drift Tengoku — October 2013
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About this issue
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 30 — English draft translation
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CXICR
BRIDE
The spirit of modification
Exterior
Among all the roughness…
…the S-Class taillights shine!
Super…
Easy, too…
…you can paint it!
The secret behind the matte black…
Kunihiko
…was chassis-black paint!
180SX
(RPS13)
Shiga Prefectural University Graduate School
I call it…
[S180SXJ!
Yusuke Matsuda
He calls it ‘heat-resistant paint’ himself…
The biggest advantage of chassis-black paint is…
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I wanted to repaint it matte black…
…so I looked around for different paints. In the end…
…I found the cheapest, easiest option…
…and sealed with expanding foam insulation.
He cut into the body with a grinder and fitted taillights from a Mercedes-Benz S-Class. The gaps were filled with expanding foam…
Shiga Prefectural University
…no sanding or prep needed—just spray it on…
…at about 350 ml per can, six cans weren’t enough…
…the paint I found costs ¥600 a can…
…it’s chassis black. Using school lunch breaks…
…but somehow, in the enthusiasm, the whole body got decorated…
The rear window has a bamboo-blind look that adds a cool, breezy feel, though thankfully it hasn’t rained…
180SX
(RPS13)
…so it came out a little uneven…
…did it?
…I worked for two days in total and used six cans…
…finishing the job for a total of ¥3,600!
…it’s a ¥4,000 brush-painted full respray!
…so it was lucky it didn’t rain. The body and interior together cost…
In the extreme custom-car scene…
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Ibaraki University
Akihiro Hanawa
At the Exciting Car Showdown, he fitted tires as bumpers and drove around in this unusual machine. He says he received it as a token of reconciliation after a clash with the Shiga University auto club next door.
…he drives it himself, a proud eccentric. His beloved…
…after a feud with the neighboring Shiga University auto club…
（S14）
Silvia
…apparently it was handed over as a peace offering.
It naturally evolved into a crocodile-skin look…
Has it evolved!?
Three-piece
…of the spoiler…
Takuma Akao
…was used!
Only the center section…
Somehow it looks more upscale
BOSX
180SX
(RPS13)
Nagoya Institute of Technology
…luxury factor went up!
This car’s surprising…
Doctor
A three-piece spoiler for a JZX100 Chaser somehow matches the width of an S14 trunk! The sides are just covered with duct tape, a shortcut treatment, but I like the ducktail look.
…but I like the ducktail look.
It matches the trunk width! The sides are simply covered with duct tape—a shortcut finish.
The width is a perfect fit!
The car looks…
Three-piece spoiler
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He had applied an unbranded carbon-fiber…
Take a look at…
…the way it’s made is excellent!
…pillar trim.
…but after sitting in the sun…
It was a low-weather-resistance product…
…the resin had softened in the direct sunlight…
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…had gone soft from the sun’s heat.
…the width is just right…
…and even the rounded trunk corner…
The surface has…
…warped and bubbled. The rough black paint was applied over it, so it ended up looking like crocodile hide—surprisingly cool!
…it does look a bit like crocodile skin.
…but now that you mention it…
…fits perfectly. The side…
…and the curved corner…
…the finish could be a little cleaner…
…it ended up looking kind of like alligator hide…
…so he painted it black because the finish was poor.
…or rather, crocodile skin…
…once someone points it out, you start to see it.
…someone said it looked like avocado skin…
If it were cleaned up, it might…
…look like a Silvia-specific part…
…which turned out to be a lucky bonus!
…that’s what I thought at first.
…it softened and sagged.
Hatanaka’s Chaser shines with clever parts-swapping! The grille is…
A full-on glitter paint job…
Shunsuke Hatanaka
The lip is from a late-model JZX100 Cresta, and…
…is from an Aim Gain JZX90 Cresta…
…the grille fit is a little forced, but the lip…
King of DIY paint jobs!
Chaser
（JZX100）
Keio University
…it looks as natural as if it were made for a JZX100. The sides are…
…and the front and rear fenders are pulled with N Sport parts.
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GAKUDOR PUCCI MODIFY
Both cars were first painted Nissan Super Black (KH3)…
…painted, then covered with tons of red glitter! The glitter had previously…
*PICKUP*
For the student drift event…
…I used a cheap one from Yahoo! Auctions before, but within a year…
…after less than a year it peeled and was useless. This glitter is from Okinawa’s Material House…
Good-looking student custom machine
…setup!
Just in time
…it’s good quality and inexpensive at ¥3,000 a can! Including that, a full respray costs about ¥40,000 per car!
…started peeling and was no good. This glitter is from Okinawa’s Material House…
Even the bonnet…
…is flashy, right?
Chie Komurasaki
…painted it just before the student drift event, but the courier delivery…
After last year’s gold glitter, this year brings red glitter! Hatanaka…
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Keio University
…so they reordered it by express delivery.
…they realized the glitter ordered by mail would arrive too late for the event…
（C33)
Laurel
The bonnet on Komurasaki’s Laurel…
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…the glitter flakes are fairly coarse…
…has rainbow glitter…
…the particles are clearly visible…
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…and the aero is…
…the front and side…
…the rear was finished with a soldering iron…
…the 30 mm wide overfenders…
…match the bumper…
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…really suit it.
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