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 38 — English draft translation
The target is a time around 10.3 seconds. This is a dedicated quarter-mile setup with suspension tuned around HKS Hyper Dampers; spring rates are about 5 kg/mm front and 3 kg/mm rear. Most high-power builds use SR engines, but this Silvia aims to prove in 1999 that the CA engine still has plenty of potential. It should produce its target time very soon.
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Subtle brilliance!
CA
Although the intercooler is large, the oil… is why its temperature tends to rise.
Heane
Raoshg
The engine is a modified 1,950 cc CA18DET using Tomei crank and pistons. It has a Works Okudera suspension and Scuderia cams. The turbo is a TD06…
S-20-10cm
T
COCKPITTE
…finished in an original color.
The body color is Mazda’s Bordeaux…
Modern turbo technology for a Showa-era car
Paddy S13 Silvia
A hybrid of old and new
The front tires are 205/55-16 Dunlop 032R and the rear tires are 245/50-16. The rear hubs have been converted to five-lug. The exhaust is an original 90 mm system, and the differential is a Secret Sports limited-slip unit…
…locking differential.
C
The engine has only just been assembled and is still being tuned. It is running more than 1.9 kg/cm² of boost and over 500 hp, with a quarter-mile time of 10…
Garage Paddy continues to build high-power CA-powered quarter-mile cars. This Silvia…
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