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 199 — English draft translation
Captions and page details
ap
ockheed
Loc
Performance Brake Pad.
High
Super
EX
for Street Cruising
New for late July 1999!
An ideal low-/mid-temperature sports pad for first-time users.
Type
An entry-level, economical item focused on braking performance in the city-driving temperature range.
Thoroughly suppresses the squeal that can be bothersome in street use, while… [sentence fragment]
New!
Non-asbestos
0–350°C
F/￥13000R/￥13000
PRICE
MATERIAL
Suitable operating temperature range
Improves initial bite and controllability in the 100–250°C range commonly used in city driving and short winding-road runs.
BRAKE PADS
SHP
Street use… [label fragment]
STAGE
The composition and characteristics of wheel dust have also been carefully analyzed, and the dust…
An economical-performance brake pad with improved control.
Comparison with Type EX and factory pads
0.6
Low-/mid-temperature braking performance
…particles are made as fine as possible… [fragment]
aPLOCKHEED
Friction coefficient (0.4032?; chart value OCR uncertain)
High-temperature braking performance
Dust
…so that it… [fragment]
…so it can be rinsed away easily with water… [fragment]
Type EX
BPLockhaed
Fade resistance
Squeal
…washed off easily… [fragment]
…[fragment]
Factory pad
Controllability
High-temperature wear resistance
New friction material
EX
0
0.1
Pedal feel
Rotor aggressiveness
Low-temperature wear resistance
Temperature (°C)
50100150200250300350400
EX
Factory pad
The graph at left scores a typical sports pad as 5, then compares this company’s pads and factory pads numerically… [chart explanation fragment]
for Street Sport Driving
aPLockheed
Higher numbers indicate better performance. Actual characteristics may differ depending on operating conditions.
Type SX
TypeSx
F/￥19.000R/￥17.000
PRICE
Responds to easy city driving as well as spirited runs on winding roads.
Street / winding roads / gymkhana…
Materials… [label fragment]
Suitable operating temperature: 50–400°C
STAGE
An entry-level pad focused on street performance.
Ze
Type
Street to Competition
Based on the previous ZX, the carbon-particle content has been increased further…
…reinforcing it further, improving street drivability and circuit durability… [sentence fragment]
…with improved fade resistance and wear resistance in a new specification… [fragment]
BRAKEPADS
F/￥25000R/￥23000
Carbon/ceramic composite material
50–850°C
PRICE
MATERIAL
Suitable operating temperature range
…a competition product. [fragment]
SHP
Gymkhana, dirt, rally…
…circuit… [fragment]
Street driving, winding roads… [fragment]
STAGE
…the carbon coating has been increased further compared with the previous ZX… [fragment]
The new Type ZC material has a greater carbon coating content than the previous ZX… [sentence fragment]
aPLOCKHEED
for Competition
For competition use
…it offers this combination of characteristics. [fragment]
…and offers performance exceeding the previous ZX in every respect. [fragment]
aRLockd
MT
Type
Type NR
Rear-specific pad
Gymkhana, dirt… [fragment]
Anti-lock rear pads for front-wheel-drive cars
…rear brake lock caused by rear-wheel braking… [fragment]
Required for… [fragment]
…and minimizes changes in the μ (friction) balance. [fragment]
A competition pad focused on control… [fragment]
For circuit driving in front-wheel-drive cars, it prevents rear brake lockup…
Type ZX
R/￥28.000
…ideal for preventing lockup; a rear-specific competition pad… [fragment]
…competition item
PRICE
R/￥18.000
…item [fragment]
PRICE
for Street~Competition
GC8 etc. [model fitment fragment]
Semi-metallic
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution CD / CE / CN9A
MATERIAL
Compatible vehicles
STAGE
EF / EG6 / EK4 / EK… [fitment fragment]
Honda EF / Civic EG6 / EK4 / EK9 [fitment list]
Non-asbestos
Compatible vehicles
MATERIAL
STAGE
Carbon/ceramic composite material
For production-car racing across many fields—an ultra-high-performance item beyond category boundaries!
Zenith (“the pinnacle”): an ultimate next-generation pad, from street use to professional competition.
Suitable operating temperature range
Gymkhana, rally, dirt… [category list]
CA/CJ4A
CA/CJ4Aet.
F/￥25.000R/￥23.000
N1 circuit driving [category label]
MATERIAL
PRICE
Lockheed
ap
Winding-road driving / circuit driving / gymkhana…
AP Japan Co., Ltd.
50–850°C
STAGE
…rally, production-car racing, street use… [fragment]
BORG&BECK
Wholly owned subsidiary (100%) of Automotive Products Group Ltd., UK.
An Automotive Products Group company
A wholly owned subsidiary of Automotive Products Group Ltd., UK
2-16-1 Minamikaneda, Suita, Osaka 564-0044; Phone 06-6386-6874; Fax 06-6386-6875