Young Version — April 1998

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238 available scans from Young Version — April 1998, 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. Capture img018 is absent from the supplied folder; the exact missing printed pages have not been established.

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Page 35 — English draft translation

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A four-wheel-drive car is difficult to tune; careless changes could make it slower than stock. This is my first time driving an Evolution V, and its response is excellent. Torque delivery is flat from low to high rpm, making it easy to drive. It has only intake, exhaust, and ECU upgrades, yet power is already ample. After passing the apex, you can immediately go full throttle and accelerate hard. A powerful rear-wheel-drive car cannot do that as easily, because it takes delicate throttle control to apply traction. With this car, you just turn the wheel and apply the throttle, and the front end pulls the car through. In other words, no wasted inputs are needed…

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Once the suspension is fully dialed in, it will be frighteningly fast. The fitted setup was still a complete prototype based on the Evolution IV, so I noticed some understeer on turn-in. There was also too much nose dive under braking, loading the front excessively. Both springs and dampers could be tightened. This may have been its first circuit test…

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Light…

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New…

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Because the rigidity of each component has improved so much, a suspension based on the Evolution IV setup is now slightly inadequate. That shows how much higher the stock car's potential has become.

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Part 5.

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New car, quick response.

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Modification!

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Part 1.

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Mines.

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Lancer RS.

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Evolution V.

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Original

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With flat torque delivery…

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…there's plenty of power, too!

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Mines brought in an Evolution V so quickly you'd ask, 'Wait, it's already tuned?' I've recently become very interested in Lancers and Imprezas. They're almost frighteningly fast even stock, and remarkably well engineered. This class of four-cylinder car…

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Parts

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…each.

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You can feel the quality of its underlying design!

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ONZR

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MiNes

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Suspension!

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RECARO

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Both driver and passenger seats are Recaro SPA full bucket seats.

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Ohlins-based original coilovers, the Esta Professional Edition, are currently being tested for release in early spring.

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Sab012

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A

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Muffler!

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…and the front end pulls into the corner. In short, no unnecessary operation is needed.

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The Silence VX muffler has a 70–80 mm main pipe and 115 mm tail, and is made entirely of stainless steel. Price: ¥148,000…

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Considering how refined Mines' previous Evolutions have been, the suspension kit…

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…should have tremendous potential by the time it goes on sale. Then there will be little left to fear. Even now, its cornering speed is extraordinary; at Tsukuba's final corner, even I could keep the throttle down farther than expected!

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AMITSUBIS

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(Manabu Orido)

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And one…

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The lower-arm bar (¥15,000) and piping kit (¥49,600) can reuse the existing Evolution IV parts.

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