Drift Tengoku — October 2013

Lighting

The spirit of modification

Four-lamp projectors using fog lights!

I used universal projector units to make a four-lamp setup. Parts cost about ¥25,000 including the clear lenses. Since the lamps are made for fog lights, they may be a little dim. I haven’t wired them into the high-beam circuit yet.

Hiroyuki Morita

Clear lenses and projector lamps for a sharp look!

Silvia

Saitama Automotive College

（S14)

Before the student drift event, he polished the handmade projector lamps and made new…

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Here’s how it turned out. The nose bra and clear markers give it a US look, while the projector lamps with angel-eye rings tie everything together stylishly. The low and high beams have different shapes, which is also…

…details look stylish.

It’s a classic setup, but…

…it’s satisfying!

When you get it looking clean…

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For the early model…

It even passed the vehicle inspection!

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Yoshihide Ushio

Projector lamps suit it!

Seinan Gakuin University

（S14）

Silvia

Seiya Sekiguchi

Levin

（AE86）

Gunma Automotive College

I modified the GTV grille and fitted Apex fog lights inside. I shaved the inside of the grille so the lights wouldn’t touch. I also took apart the headlights and painted the housings black—can you tell?

A friend gave me these headlights, so I don’t know the details. It looks like the stock lights were modified and aftermarket projectors fitted inside. The beam angle is adjustable, though, so they passed inspection as-is. They aren’t especially bright, though…

…that’s the thing.

The lip is a genuine export-market Apex part without a cutout where it would hit the license plate.

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The early S14’s headlights really change its look. Clear covers with projectors will probably remain a classic combination. The projector units fitted inside…

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It originally had a half-open-headlight setup using a homemade circuit, but after a recent front-end crash, I converted it to four lamps. I bought only the round headlight covers from a three-piece set and used four motorcycle headlights inside. I still need to make brackets to adjust the beam angle.

It looked like an aftermarket part rather than a stock part borrowed from another model.

I adapted motorcycle lights!

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Yoshitake Hirano

Clear lenses using Serena turn signals…

180SX

(RPS13)

Japan Automobile College

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…for a clear-lens look!

Use stock parts from another model rather than aftermarket parts!

Because of clutch clearance, the engine…

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…the engine swap wasn’t finished, so he arrived at the venue just for display (!?). The 180SX’s square four-lamp sleek headlights look fresh, and I wish we could have seen it driving. His homemade half-open-headlight kit is quite a feat, especially since the switch cost only ¥1,500.

He loves blue inside and out, but the…

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…the hood, shift knob, floor mats and other parts were changed to blue. Even the extra-gauge lighting was blue!

Naoki Hatano

These turn signals are genuine C24 Serena parts. Their shape is the same as the S15’s, but they’re clear. The body color is Honda Deep Sapphire Blue Pearl, another example of borrowing a stock part from a different manufacturer.

Silvia

Kanagawa University

（S15)