Young Version — August 1999
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About this issue
The August 1999 issue of Young Version explores drift setups versus grip tuning through 22 shop demo cars, including S15 Silvias from Mine’s and Kazama Auto. Features cover front-wheel-drive builds taking on high-powered 4WD rivals, choosing a first drift car, and reviving a used AE86 Trueno on a ¥1 million total budget. Suspension fundamentals, engine-oil selection, rotary maintenance, new-parts tests, and reports from Hiroshima and California round out this look at Japan’s late-1990s tuning scene.
242 available scans from Young Version — August 1999, 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 13 — English draft translation
Publisher: Yoshiki Miyaki. Editor-in-chief: Hiroaki Kihara. Deputy editor: Koya Noda. Staff: Nami Matsumoto / Ken Terashima. Cover illustration: Tadao Abe. Cover art direction: Masahiro Ogawa (Design Space Zero). Writers: Keiichi Tsuchiya / Eiji Yamada / Yukiharu Komagata / Kenji Iwata / Manabu Orido / Shingo Murao / Yasutoshi Tsuchiya. Illustrations: Tadao Abe / Masakazu Tsuzuki. Photography: Yoshio Moriyama / Masakatsu Sato / Takao Yokota / Masanobu Ikenotaira / Katsumi Aoyama. [Name readings are drafts.]
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Design Space Zero.
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Managing editor: Yu Yamamoto .
Sekidosha / emk Design / Eriko Matsumoto .
Osamu Kozakai / Shinichi Tsuchiya / Yasuhiro Sakakura / Katsushi Hori / Hirotada Yamada .
Proofreading: Nobuaki Chino .
Noriyuki Morioka.
Monthly issue.
Typesetting: MM4 / .
Dai Nippon Printing: Takashi Izawa / Mikito Ayabe .
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Demon fast.
Testing the hottest parts.
On the verge of a major breakthrough!
The latest demo cars from major manufacturers and shops.
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Drivers and their machines gather from across Japan.
The road to becoming a drifter, starting with choosing a base car.
Scramble!
Tests and reports on intriguing, freshly released items.
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Latest parts. Explosive acceleration from the FF brigade. Suspension A to Z. The road to becoming a drift champion. Trying an S15 turbo swap. Engine-oil master training course. Today's drifters and their sideways-driving stories.
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Bring on the high-powered 4WD cars!
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Drift King Keiichi Tsuchiya Special & Super Hotline. This month's readers and their pride and joy. My Tuning Power. Latest demo-car scramble! AE86 Super Fine TUNE project. RE Power Supporters! Tuning Wave Hiroshima '99 report.
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Do you really understand suspension?
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SPORTSSARAGE
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Beat Orido!?
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You're sure to find information on your favorite machine.
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A spectacular project to revive a bargain used Hachiroku on an all-in budget of ¥1 million.
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This is the YV Hotline '99 style!
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Packed with events!
News you can't afford to miss [fragment].
Checking the remarkable potential of the new FD3S.
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A generous helping of useful information .
Information.
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Well-known tuners explain how to choose the right engine oil.
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128 New-product news.
104 Q&A corner.
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Readers' pages.
Battle by letter! 139 RED ZONE. New information corner.
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Exploring the front line of tuning in California!
Street. Meet remarkable women working in car-related jobs. Drivers' Girls Academy. The YV plan for modifying an old-man sedan. This month's featured shop. Reader giveaways.
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Heisei-era drivers' friendship directory.
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153 Track-day and event information board.
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Make it sporty!
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Fierce wheel-to-wheel battles in road-registered tuned cars!? YV editorial staffer “Marimo” reports on entering Sunday races.
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Looking for bargains.
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Find distant companions and nearby friends.
159 Buy-and-sell PLAZA.
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Thorough parts-testing laboratory.
Testing on your behalf.
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184 Pen-pal corner.
He looks tough, but you can rely on him. Beginner Tuning Factory. Rotary maintenance and troubleshooting.
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Entry form. Editor's afterword.
185 My Tuning Power.
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