Young Version — August 1999
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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 18 — English draft translation
Kazama Auto is known for building four-door drift cars such as Tourer V models and Aristos. Its recent S15-fronted Sil-Eighty (1580SX) made quite an impression too. This time, surprisingly, we are introducing its S15 Silvia drift setup. Let's check the specifications. The engine, including the turbo, is completely stock. Although an HKS F-CON V controls the engine, even boost remains close to standard at 0.7. Hearing that, you might think this light-tuning menu is almost the same as your own car's. Exactly—that is
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kazama
How to build this setup!
Repeated drift laps are no problem!
Light tuning with a thoroughly developed cooling system [heading fragment].
Silvia [damaged heading].
S15 Silvia.
representative example.
Competing through response and durability!
Upgrade the supporting systems before chasing power.
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typical of Kazama Auto, which understands how drifters feel. How can you make a fun car without spending a fortune? They put that eternal drifter's question into practice with their own demo car. Even at standard boost, the radiator [continued on the next page].
The radiator is a GP Sports three-layer unit, and the Trust intercooler uses an R34 GT-R core . A Trust 16-row oil cooler is also fitted, giving so much cooling capacity that heat-related power loss on the circuit should scarcely be a concern.
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