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 36 — English draft translation
A long-awaited bolt-on turbine, announced at the Auto Salon, is finally on sale. It's easy to handle in town and intended for drift and circuit use. Its official name is K1-380. It bolts on in place of the factory turbine without changing the exhaust manifold. You might think this kind of product hasn't been available before, but this actuator-type model for the 3S-GTE and 1JZ…