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.
Page 60 — English draft translation
At the last Tsukuba run, the rear behavior especially concerned us. In corners, the outside suspension seemed to collapse suddenly under load. Because the engine has so much power, opening the throttle on corner exit overwhelmed the suspension, reducing traction and tending toward oversteer. The inside suspension had the opposite problem: rebound damping was too strong, so it would not extend fully and the tire remained unloaded. This also reduced traction...
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Tsukuba circuit attack after the specification changes!
F=10/R=8 springs unleash the power...
H1... RX6B turbo (TCW15/P18)...
With the camshaft and metal head gasket, maximum boost was set to 1.0... This time, we also installed A'PEXi's Strut Bar Carbon (¥26,000)...
Rebound...
Use stiffer springs and softer rebound damping!
First, increase the spring rates from the standard front 8/rear 6 setting by 2 kg/mm at both ends. The aim is to reduce pitching and rolling during braking and acceleration, even slightly, and stabilize the car. Then, the rear shock...
...was made to respond faster. The stiffer springs naturally made the ride harsher on the street, but it remained within the normal range for coilover suspension—not so uncomfortable that street driving became a problem. More impressive were the stability on the highway and the rear's ability to stay planted under full power.
Even drifting was fine that night...
We softened only the rebound side, allowing the inside suspension to extend...
Control remained excellent even while drifting. We could use all 400 PS for spectacular...
...smoky drifts. This was probably one cause of the problem. So this time, we changed the setup to improve it. Specifically...
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