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.

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Page 33 — English draft translation

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People with early models switch to projector lights, while later-model owners go for square headlights, right? Don’t dismiss the later-model projectors! I took apart later-model square headlights, removed their outer clear lenses, and combined them with the stock lamps. The stock lenses have cut patterns that aren’t ideal, but this makes the projectors extremely crisp. The road is brighter at night now!

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Clear lenses alone…

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LED tuning is my specialty!

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SOUL OFGAKUDRIFTER

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Tokai University

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Tatsuya Nagano

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…aren’t enough!

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Mark II

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(JZX90)

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I fitted Super Made clear lenses to change the look, but I was completely wrong to think they’d make it brighter! It was dangerous and dark on mountain roads, so I added low beams and two fog lamps—for six discharge lamps in total. I also change the light color among white, green and pink, not just brightness.

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Clear lenses with six discharge lamps!

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…thank you.

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Turned a broken corner lamp into an air duct!

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Without the lens cuts, the light spreads out and gets dim, you know? It’s nice to claim more light output with discharge lamps, but I was worried about brightness over dress-up…

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Kazutoshi Kawaguchi

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…and I like that it doesn’t stick out. I do worry about oncoming traffic, though. The 17 Majesta’s bumper fog lights are the same as last year’s.

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Junior College

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Nakanihon Automotive College

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After breaking a corner lamp on a mountain road, I made a fiberglass cover and built an LED turn signal. I also molded in a duct connected to the air cleaner. I’ve added a homemade LED taillight circuit with about ten different lighting patterns, too!

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（HCR32)

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Skyline

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For the later model, projectors are still the way to go!

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Teruaki Kunimori

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Rather than simply repairing what broke, he kept refining it to improve its function…

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Silvia

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Tokai University

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Comment

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…but the setup looked stylish. The back lamps had a relay circuit built in, and the white LEDs flowed on and off like a truck’s turn signals.

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(S14)

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If you drive a later model…

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N’s 5…

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…the later-model look is…

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I took apart the headlights and painted the inner housings with heat-resistant black paint. That alone sharpens the front end! Few people have even fitted the genuine optional fog lamps, and a real Nismo bumper is unusual, too, right?

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Satoshi Miura

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College

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Nissan Kyoto Automotive

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…if you do…

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The fog lamps are something I’m proud of, too!

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（BNR32)

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Skyline

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For projectors, lenses without cut patterns may be best. He bought a complete light set on Yahoo! Auctions for ¥16,000 just to get the clear lenses. It’s a subtle point of pride—other later-model drivers recognize it right away…

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…and he quietly boasts that fellow later-model owners can spot it immediately.

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These look especially good with projectors!

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Combined large and small angel-eye rings!

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The inner housings are painted heat-resistant black!

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Flashing fireworks

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It takes more work than painting the lenses and has a high modification factor. Miura started drifting in a BNR32 and bought an HCR32 because it was cheap and easier to work on…

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…he was surprised how much easier it was. But he says his main drift car is this fuse-removed GT-R.

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Turn signals converted into corner markers!

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Nishitetsu Automotive Maintenance

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Takuho Tominaga

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The LED conversion took three weeks!

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Vocational School

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Silvia (S14)

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Tatsuya Shin

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(S15)

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Silvia

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Osaka Sangyo University

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The angel-eye rings are LEDs. He bought two for about ¥3,000 on Yahoo! Auctions. He forgot the diameter, but fitted them after shaving the chrome from the housing.

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…how could he not know the crucial ring diameter!? Maybe he thought, ‘It’ll probably fit…’

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Apparently he has met Nomuken many times, and…

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He installed LEDs in the turn-signal section to make corner markers, added genuine Crew turn signals to the front of the bumper, and fitted stock Integra turn signals on the sides. He’s also proud of trimming an aftermarket early-model bumper to force it onto the later model!

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Every time they see him, they tease him that ‘our bumper is ugly!’ But they’re close friends, and Nomuken has a big heart!

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…or something like that?