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 9 — English draft translation
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volumes and other measurements, there are countless places to measure and parts to refine. All of this happens in hundredths of a millimeter. That 0.01 mm difference can be likened to a 40 m advantage on a 4,000 m lap. This microscopic world shapes damper characteristics, exhaust-fluid behavior, brakes, and not just the engine but the entire car
There is much more to inspect in crankshaft and connecting-rod bearings than thickness alone—for example, bearing crush height. Among the many
To make all moving parts equal in weight, Spoon precisely weighs pistons, pins, and connecting rods in lots of 200, then machines and assembles them so the weight difference is within 0.2 g. Cylinder bores and piston dimensions are also measured to 0.001 mm. With consistent quality control, we research and develop Honda engine tuning,
we also identify combinations that cannot be ignored. Piston-ring thickness,
aiming to make the mass-produced Type R engine even more special.
ring end gaps, variations in valve-spring rates, combustion-chamber volumes, each piston's top- and bottom-dead-center positions, and cylinder
are the very elements that shape it. Engines and dampers [continued on the adjoining page].
Precision creates a Honda that makes every drive exciting.
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