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 175 — English draft translation
Captions and page details
POWER
NING
TU
GTS-t Type M.
1993 model year
Keisuke Keida: I made all the stickers myself, including the front OR-X, Mugen sides, and HOZ rear… I unified the aero with a Mugen front bumper, side steps, and rear under spoiler. Next I want bucket seats and an LSD… (name/part OCR uncertain.)
Write your specifications and comments on the entry form (p. 185), and include a color photo clearly showing your car (you may appear in it too). One car per letter. Photos cannot be returned. Contributors will receive an original YV sticker as a gift. For submission instructions, see here!
Electric facility design and construction.
Yusui Electrical Works… (company name OCR uncertain.)
2 years old, Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture. (Age OCR may be incomplete.)
COCKPIT tS
POWEPEDBYCOOAPTT8
SCRATCH
1990 model year, SiR.
Front/rear: … (part fragment.)
Wheels.
Main exterior parts: front spoiler…
HONGTEA
F/R:M7R
5ZIGEN Border III; HKS Super Power Flow; front/rear: HKS…; front/rear: K… (parts list fragment.)
Tire
Air cleaner.
Exhaust
Mugen.
Mugen.
Front grille
Side steps.
Spring
Seat… (part fragment.)
Mugen.
Rear spoiler.
Rear under spoiler.
…K. Do not send poor-quality photos, such as ones taken at night. Enclose your entry and mail it to YV Editorial Department, “My Tuning,” Kotsu Times Sha Co., Ltd., 101-8524.
GT wing…
COCIGTtO
SCRAICH
ADVAN
SUPER CHWRGER
My tuning… (feature title).
ADVAN
My favorite!
Main exterior parts: front spoiler, front grille, side steps, rear spoiler, rear under spoiler.
Nationwide reader submissions.
Unknown lip + modified stock part; stock modification; K Works one-off GT wing; front SW388 / rear…; front/rear: …; RS-R Exmag GTI; HKS Power Flow; front/rear: Tein HA coilovers. (OCR parts list incomplete.)
GT-Z
1991 model.
21 years old, Togane City, Chiba Prefecture.
Tatsuya Takahashi.
Wheel
Tires… (fragment.)
The body is painted in Advan colors using spray cans…
I painted the body myself using spray cans in an Advan color. My favorite part is the one-off K Works GT wing made just for me! It’s the only one in the world. You don’t see many AE92s this heavily customized, so it really stands out.
Exhaust
Air filter
Spring
Kawa… (name/part fragment.)
F/R:
Shocks.
24 years old.
Yuji Morikawa, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture.
With the stock turbo, boost is held at 1.2 kg/cm…
I drive comfortably while cruising at… km/h. It’s set up for the street, but after switching to an ATS 1.5-way LSD, it drifts beautifully too! I also like the full aero setup coordinated from Bomex, Nismo, and East Bear. Main exterior parts: front spoiler, front grille, side steps, rear spoiler, rear… (OCR clipped.)
Nismo.
Bomex.
Factory original
Shira Zone… (brand name uncertain.)
Main exterior parts…
21 years old.
Koichi Iwanaga, Minami-Takaki District, Nagasaki Prefecture.
” (layout quote).
East Bear; front/rear: Works RS-E; front/rear: M7R; Apexi GT Spec; HKS Super Power Flow; front/rear: HKS Hyper… (parts list OCR incomplete.)
Factory original
C-West
Front grille.
Rear spoiler.
Side steps.
LSD replacement.
Muffler.
Tires…
Wheel
Front/rear: Paru RS; front W-10 / rear G-Grid… (part names uncertain.)
Shira Zone.
Wheel
Tires… (fragment.)
Rear under spoiler…
I’m proud of its appearance! The front…
The front bumper and rear under spoiler are from Shira Zone, and the rear wing is from Sea West… I haven’t seen another car with this wing yet, so it really stands out! (1997 model year, Type S.)
Air filter
Spring
RS-R
Front: unknown / rear HKS; front/rear: HKS…
Exhaust
Air filter
Spring
” (layout quote).
F/R:
Shocks.
Shocks.