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 45 — English draft translation
This S13 required custom mounts and a one-off oil pan to fit the engine. The transmission is a Getrag six-speed from a Supra, but its unusual ratios work best with the Supra’s 3.3 final drive. The Silvia’s 4.1 would be too short, so a 3.5 final drive from a C33 Laurel was used. Built for quarter-mile racing, it had no wing or extra body reinforcement. During a top-speed test, stability above 300 km/h became worrying, so the run stopped at 317 km/h even though the power appeared capable of more than 200 mph.
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S13/PS13 Silvia and 180SX
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A 2JZ Toyota triple-turbo engine was installed in a Silvia from the smaller class…
PS…
Because it is a quarter-mile car, it has an Auto Meter tachometer. The transmission is a Getrag six-speed from a Supra.
The 2JZ engine itself remains stock, paired with a large single T51S turbo. At 2.0 kg/cm² of boost, it produces 711 hp.
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A one-off hood was made with a bulge and outlet to clear the 2JZ.
…was fabricated.
Feast S13
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The muffler is a custom all-stainless-steel system with a 90 mm main pipe and 115 mm tail. The suspension uses Buddy Club coilovers with 6 kg/mm front and 4 kg/mm rear springs for regular driving; for the top-speed test it was set to 18 kg/mm front and 14 kg/mm rear.
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