Drift Tengoku — September 2004 · Page 23
Page 23 — English translation
Using one higher gear gives you amazing tire smoke! I'm another step closer to my ideal driving. Starting with the last D1 round at Ebisu, I changed the car's specification.
I had been running a TD06 turbo; now it's a T67. Peak power jumped from 380 to 500 horsepower. Keeping an extremely deep angle through a corner requires speed—in fact, that unusual angle is possible because the entry speed is high.
That's the relationship I've recently discovered, and why I added power. A bigger turbo can feel sluggish, but you just keep the revs up. It climbs through the revs quickly, so you can use the next gear up.
That raises road speed...
...and creates huge clouds of smoke. HKS driver Taniguchi's Silvia is fast, carries a large angle, and makes masses of smoke: that's power at work. Combining an entry speed that looks certain to send you off the course with an angle that looks certain to spin you means deliberately venturing into difficult territory.
People often say, 'Moderate power is enough; I'll compete on angle!' I think that imposes a limit. Understanding the relationship I've found might change their minds. Oh, and another thing I noticed after adding power...
Equipment list, partly damaged in the OCR: upgraded fuel pump; 740 cc injectors; metal catalyst; Infiniti throttle; Trust intake plenum; Blitz SUS Power intake; Trust V-SPL intercooler; exhaust with 76.3 mm main pipe; RG three-row radiator; sixteen-level adjustable suspension; Power FC with vehicle-specific tuning; Trust boost control. Verify exact brands and specifications against the scan.
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Turbo swap
The T67 turbo produces around 500 horsepower at peak. With the turbo change, the transmission was upgraded to an HKS five-speed dog gearbox. Internal engine components, including gasket and cams, are unchanged from the previous TD06 setup.
Going all-out!
specification
400 ps
...was weight reduction. I thought a powerful car wouldn't need much attention to weight, but the opposite was true. More power makes reducing weight more important: you're faster, so stopping becomes harder. The same goes for alignment. A powerful car cannot be set up carelessly; you have to learn how to make the power work for you.
High-powered cars need an appropriate setup! More power raised entry speed and dramatically increased angle and drift distance. Stopping that motion became harder, so he began paying closer attention to alignment. Wheelbase and caster are key areas he is studying, using the HKS Silvia as a reference. He also changed the final-drive ratio...
...makes spectacular driving...
It isn't simply that having power...
...possible.
The thing that brings my ideal driving to life...
...is this power!
180SX + T67 turbo; maximum power
500ps
HKS 1.2 mm head gasket
T67 turbo
ENGINE SPEC
Tomei
Infiniti
HKS cams, intake/exhaust 256 degrees
Boost pressure: 1.5 kg/cm²; OCR requires confirmation
I stopped using stretched tires! His preferred rear tire is the Advan Neova. The wheels are 10J wide and wear correctly sized 255-section tires. Mild stretch has traditionally been considered stylish on drift cars, but he chose this fitment to maximize contact area, put the power down, and stop where he intends.
...according to his explanation.
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ドリフト天国 (Drift Tengoku), September 2004, is a Japanese drifting magazine. This archive preserves 316 scanned pages in their original right-to-left reading order, including the covers.
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