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Oni-kyan, Shakotan and Hippari - Japan Style
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Oni-kyan, Shakotan and Hippari - Japan Style Oni-kyan (Demon camber), Shakotan (car with lowered body) and Hippari (pulled or stretched tires) are some of the more extreme wheel and suspension modifications that can be seen on many cars at car shows and parking lots in Japan. Although not restricted to ‘low<b> rider </font></b>style’ vehicles such as older ハイソカー (Haiso Car) and performance cars, it’s probably these that are most associated with the tuning technique. Current model vans and VIP cars also get the treatment and are becoming more popular, even showing up at small local shows like the Sunshine Kobe Super Auto Collection. The aim of these types of modifications are not only to get the car as low as can possibly be with the most negative camber and widest wheels, but to alter the overall look of an everyday car to get it looking how the car manufacturer should’ve made it in the first place… real tough! Oni-kyan(鬼キャン) Oni-kyan literally means ‘Demon Camber’. It’s been used for many types of car modification whether it be a drift car, a 街道レーサー (’Kaidou’ or Highway Racer), or even RC cars but these days it’s mostly found on VIP cars or modified vans. For a while Demon Camber was popular with drifters but has since fallen out of favor as the negatives like increased wear and loss of overall stability outweighed the positives of having more front end grip… so Oni-kyan has become a visual style more than anything. The wildest Oni-kyan fitments are usually in the realm of VIP cars, often they run 12 inch or wider alloy wheels that necessitate a lot of negative camber in order to fit these wider wheels underneath the standard wheel arches while keeping the car as low as possible. To get the best effect the offset of the wheels are carefully chosen to get the top outer edge of the rim exactly in line with the body work with the bottom outer edge sticking way outside the body of the car, sometimes at angles of 10 or even 15 degrees! Depending on the owners budget, airbag or coil over suspension is used to get the car low while front and rear upper arms about 10mm or more shorter than standard are used to get Demon Camber angles. Front wheel drive vans (even Kei vans) with beam rear suspension use ‘camber axels‘ to get up to 8 degrees negative camber at the rear. Shakotan (シャコタン/車高短) Shakotan means ‘Lowered Car’ or literally ‘Short Height Car’. Just like any other country Japan also has its car enthusiasts who want to reduce a cars height to increase its cornering performance or just to look good. So the name Shakotan can be applied to any car that has had its ride height reduced… not only for American style ‘Lowriders’ or cars which mimic those in the 1980s manga ‘Shakotan Boogie’. The more extreme ‘Kaidou Racers’ which have huge and almost cartoon like over fenders, body kits and wings aren’t classed as Shakotan even though they use similar modifications and cars as a base to work from; older 1970s era Shakotan (to an extent) keep the original lines of the cars clean, often with much more subtle over fenders and wings like race cars of the 1960s and 70s (Gurachan/グラチャン), whereas Kaidou Racers take this general style to the extreme with a lot of original modifications as well. Lowering techniques go from big dollar airbag suspension set ups right down to the cheapest method… using a hacksaw to cut the springs to the desired height. There’s even a term ‘No-sas’ used in Japan which is a shortened form of the English term ‘No suspension’, which is exactly that, cars running without springs at all to get the lowest height possible. An overhaul of vehicle registration laws in Japan in 1995 resulted in passenger cars being limited to a ride height no lower than 90mm. Hippari Tire (引っ張りタイヤ) One thing that goes hand in hand with the above mentioned modifications is Hippari Tire. It literally means ‘pulled’ (or stretched) tires where a tire is mounted onto a wheel that is too wide for its usual fitment, for example: a 195/60/15 tire mounted on a 10 inch wide rim. The most extreme examples can often be seen on older cars where a much wider but relatively small diameter rim with minus offset is used with a high profile tire and aggressive lowering. This necessitates the use of Hippari tires so the side wall of the tire misses the inside of the wheel arch and allows a lower ride height, often right down to the outer lip of the rim. There are a few reasons why drifters use Hippari tires on their cars, one of them being that the side wall gets stiffer as the tire is stretched which reduces flex. The performance aspect has been debated over time and again though and it seems Hippari tires - just like the modifications described above - have more to do with style than they do with any performance advantage… the thousands of Kei cars and vans in Japan running Hippari tires are testimony to that. And You Thought It was some new sex moves ?? GOTCHA!!!  |
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9/12/2010 12:27 pm |
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