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 28 — English draft translation
though it originally had front-end and engine damage. If I had the money, I'd really like to repaint it. Another point is that when converting it from automatic to manual, reconnecting the reversing lights was a hassle, so they don't light up when reverse is selected. I fitted a manual switch instead! It came from something else, so the lettering is…
Basically this isn't a car suited to drifting: it's heavy and lacks power. This one has a T04E turbo at 1.1 kg/cm², with balanced pistons, connecting rods, and crankshaft, for 320 ps in total. Making it unnecessarily wide made its behavior peaky. Adding front and rear anti-roll bars transformed it so it no longer behaved like an 81! Body reinforcement changes this car a great deal.
Captions and page details
The engine, which had been pushed back a little in the crash, is a completely stock JZ. The intercooler is Trust and the air cleaner is Blitz.
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Manual reversing lights!?
He likes the Garage Ogawa original exhaust, especially its ringing high-pitched sound.
The wheels are factory R33 items.
The mismatched body colors are the part that bothers me,
A senior friend and I rebuilt this accident-damaged car to this point!
The backup lamps [opening description damaged] and the boost gauge dangling without a fixed mount are apparently distinctive features!
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Tomokazu Kurata .
Cresta
Tourer V
1993 model year
I have six friends who also drive 81s,
Satoru Tominaga .
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Heat
kazama
My [heading fragment].
TUNE
The T04E normally runs 0.9 kg/cm² boost. The intercooler is a stock R32 item, the blow-off valve is Trust, and the wastegate is HKS.
An incredibly rigid body!
Cresta
Twin turbo.
1989 model.
With a thirteen-point roll cage reinforcing it, the interior looks like a jungle gym!
The heavy body moves sluggishly [caption fragment].
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Pursuing outright speed!
JIC suspension uses front 12 kg and rear 10 kg springs. The LSD is TRD and the clutch is OS Giken twin-plate. BBS wheels are 8.5J×16.