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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The fabric for the shift boot and handbrake cover came from the Dream craft store and cost about 600 yen. The door trim is made from an air-conditioner cover I bought at a recycle shop; the material cost only 60 yen! I painted the panels too. And there are three boost gauges! Even if one breaks, I can still get an accurate boost-pressure reading from another one.

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You can get the material for German cars at Daiso!?

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SOUL OFGAKUDRIFTER

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I couldn't find a spinner knob for an M3, and unlike Japanese cars, which use M5-size threads, it takes M4. So I attached a cabinet handle sold at a home-improvement store! I don't know the thread pitch, but it fits. There are lots of handle styles to choose from.

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It stretches really well

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It's the material itself!

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Not paint! It's all black suede!

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Using a cabinet handle as the spinner knob…

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Spinner knob!

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Shizuoka Institute of Automotive Technology

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Seiya Iguchi

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College

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M3（E36）

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So he really went to Daiso…

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…to tune an M3! Even with a spinner knob installed, drift is still a challenge for Iguchi, who's only been drifting for six months.

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Ayumi Okada

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（S15）

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Silvia

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Momoyama Gakuin University

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It sticks better than other products…

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The suede seat material is from Automax Izumi and costs 3,000 yen per meter, but it stretches incredibly well! It's completely different from cheaper material!

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I'm from Kanagawa, but I went with Naoki's colors!

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Yasunori Tanabe

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College

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Nissan Yokohama Automotive College

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Cheap seat covers tend to stretch and tear, right? The floor mats are red-and-black checkered too, and the…

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…is something to brag about!

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Even the license plate…

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Silvia (PS13)

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The seat is perfect too.

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MITRA

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The purple glitter panel was painted by Naoki Nakamura for 3,000 yen! We met through Mixi and arranged it, though we'd never met in person. I later added stickers from Summit Racing and Vertex, who have been helping me out. Also, the license plate matches my girlfriend's name, Minami-chan…

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Sewing…

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I'm good at it!

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I'm proud of it!

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SUMMIT RACING

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Ryosuke Ueda

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Triple boost gauges

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College

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Nissan Kyoto Automotive College

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The stickers really show his Kanagawa pride. At Tanabe-kun's request, the license plate was specially…

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…it was shown off publicly, and Minami-chan seemed happy too. Everyone enjoyed the treat.

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180SX（RPS13）

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Easy to see…

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Using a bookend…

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…as a phone holder

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…was the priority!

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easy to remove

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Toyo University

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Takuhito Kitamura

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RX-7

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（FD3S)

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I use my smartphone for navigation, but in an FD there's nowhere to mount a holder where it's easy to see. I don't want to attach anything to the dashboard except gauges, so I mounted a phone holder on a bookend from a 100-yen shop. It just slides in, so it's easy to remove too!

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PAS

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Qmeyal

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It was inserted into a gap beside the audio unit. This…

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The cover is so well made it could be called three-dimensional tailoring! The Blitz boost…

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…you can place the smartphone where it's easy to see. This could be useful for other car models too.

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The boost gauge and the A'PEXi boost gauge apparently show the same reading. That's one reason…

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That's quite a difference!?