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 42 — English draft translation
The owner loves rotary engines and fitted a 13B into the Silvia himself. The engine is rigid-mounted. Rather than reworking the complicated wiring, he installed the entire FC instrument panel. The change in weight distribution altered the car’s behavior: instead of the Silvia’s usual deep drift angle, it now delivers a faster drift at a shallower angle.
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Inventive
Tejima 180SX
A roll bar made by wrapping urethane around a toilet-paper tube. It looks a little bent… or perhaps drooping.
My own way!
World’s first!?
…style
Whistling blow-off valve!
This CA18DET-powered 180SX is finished in an original cobalt-violet color. It uses about 50 toilet-paper tubes in its construction…
twbo
Owner Kenji Tejima says the 180SX is nearly finished…
…joined together to make the roll bar. It also has a homemade air-horn made from a pump and trumpet, plus a remarkable blow-off valve that can be heard from 20 meters away. The ideas are in a league of their own.
…he says.
The suspension uses Tein coilovers with 7 kg/mm front and 5.5 kg/mm rear springs.
TEDSP
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A drift setup with an S14 turbo and K-Style computer, producing about 260 hp.
Nakamura 13B · S13 Silvia · A rotary-powered S13 that revs to 10,000 rpm
A side-port modification and T04B hybrid turbo are used. At 1.0 kg/cm² of boost, the 13B rotary turbo reportedly makes about 360 hp. The engine is rigidly mounted.
For outings, it wears a J-C original stainless-steel exhaust…
Ōsaki 180SX
Cute and cool for going out
Owner Richi Ōsaki. She was known for a pink, glittery red Silvia; it has now been repainted red and replaced by this 180SX.
The bumpers and other panels are treated like skirts or accessories and changed using TPO. This 180SX reflects a fresh idea: one setup for drift practice and another for going out. That kind of separation could certainly be convenient.
Takayuki Nakamura is so skilled at engine swaps he says he enjoys removing and installing engines more than eating. He prefers not to show his face, perhaps because he is considered a person to watch!
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