Option — Shōwa Car Tuning & Buyers Guide (2000 Edition)
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180 available scans from Option — Shōwa Car Tuning & Buyers Guide (2000 Edition), 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 16 — English draft translation
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Installed
Engine
The latest Shōwa-car tuning! A jaw-dropping engine swap
FJ20 · S13 Silvia
Duke Toyama · modified S13
The red car on the right is an S13 with an FJ20DET. The S12 on the left originally had an A18 SOHC turbo engine but has been converted to an SR20DET.
UKEGROI
The owner used to drive a DR30, but its body began to rust. He could not give up the fully tuned FJ20, so he found an inexpensive S13 body and installed it. The intake manifold was shortened and the oil pan modified—major work was required. But because inspection approval was a prerequisite, the body itself was not cut or patched.
The S13 body is one generation newer than the FJ20 engine. But this combination is not detuned at all. The owner of this car is…
Mr. Kazui of Duke Toyama. Duke specializes in airflow-meter-less tuning…
Tarzan…
…and is a shop that prefers to build a setup suited to each car rather than simply bolt on off-the-shelf parts.
CHECK!
It has a good sense of torque and is surprisingly easy to drive. With an SR engine in a GT…
A 3037S turbo gets too peaky around 5,000–6,000 rpm and can be hard to drive. This one responds well to the throttle and is easy to control. It does not surge; power rises smoothly with engine speed. Even below the boost threshold around 4,500 rpm, the engine has useful torque.
The FJ engine in a Skyline…
…was not much fun, perhaps because the body was heavy. But in a light body, you realize how enjoyable an FJ can be. The S13 body is a good match, and it does not feel old.