Traction Bracket installed and test-ed~

Finally after 3 weeks of CNY hassle basle, i manage to squeeze out time to work on my mango this afternoon. First i did was install the traction bracket which already delivered to me before CNY. 

here's two comparison shot, right side i had installed the bracket, as you can see the traction arm is almost as low as my rear disc rotor. 

as the left side which i haven install, it's level with my caliper which is almost level with the chassis when the car is lowered.  

another angle of view~  left 

Right~  

from rear~ left 

right. As you can tell the different of the traction bar's angle. It's 60mm lowered from it's original position on the axle.

As i took it on a test run afterward, directly can tell the axle is not 'hopping' as it use to be when launching the car from stop position or kicking clutch @8000RPM from slow rolling start. And it's more predictable during sideway actions as well. Not as they said it's harder to slide the tail out with traction racket installed. 

Will send a few sample unit to my drifting friends to test out once the foundry start pumping out my production units for me. Will post more review later~ cherrio~ stay tuned. 

AE86 rear Traction bracket prototyping~ V.09

When i was in KGC last week, some KE friends approached me and ask if i can made them something which catch-ed my interest. 

A traction bracket which installed under the axle where adjust the traction rod lower to point downward which will  help pushing the axle on the ground during acceleration. 

So after coming home and done some homework later~  i decided to made a prototype first to try on mango. And since i had a spare axle lying around. So i take it as my 'model' to fashion the brackets.

 After much consideration i decided to work it out from 6mm think of steel (which is the thickest metal i had in my factory) for it would take up a lot of stredd during hard cornering/drifting~

 Steps by steps measure out the holes on the axle and precisely drill the hole out to screw on to the axle.

final testing before weld them together with another piece of steel to add strength.  

Finally them become one~ i only use normal arc welding here for my MIG will only be coming in January next year~ so the final products will have stronger bond~ 

finally give my prototype V0.9 a bright RED coat to make it stand out from the dirty old axle~ :P lol~ 

Will do a test report later when i fix mango's axle, yet again~ 

stay tune~ chao~ 

"Drift Playground" Report~

I arrive at the scene as told by Arthur by 6PM and what come into my eyes was a set-up-ed parking lot with all the fencing on     =_=||| ⋯⋯

 And they had already begun playing from 3PM ~ by the time i reached there, Arthur had already finish 6 pieces of tyres. Changing into his 7th and 8th~ deng.

 First action i saw at the playground~ An unknown engine KE70 VS SR20 TE72

 Zam's 16V KE70

 "dunno what engine" KE70

 Arthur's 4AGE-16V TE72

 waiting for the turn to go in~

 he manage to play the whole hours on those two tyre only~ sweet~

 Shake down of the two 180SX

 Mouse (the playground organizer)'s 180 in action.

 And i spend 1.5 hours driving from Simpang-empat to Jawi via highway~ Had to take a stop at jawi R&R for the racing clutch is killing my legs.

A view where the traffic was "crawling" slowly like.... 3.5KM/H on my GPS =_="  

After a small test on the playground, only to find out that mango wasn't set-up to play in a place so small. The gear ration wasn't responding well on the small space. Where everyone was drifting on 2nd 4000~6000 rpm. Mango can only pull around 3500~5000 at the same corners, same speed. Well under mango's power band.

Now i've had a wild idea to build a 4age-20v KE70 if my friend can spare me his car~ hahaha. Stay tune.

Testing new drift 'track'~

Hola~ everyone~ I'm going to butterworth this sunday evening to test out a new place my friend Arthur had search for us to train our drifting skills~  A big-o car park (should be⋯⋯)~ 

(image taken from google earth)

It's just behind the Public bank on Jalan Bagan Luar~

And we were looking for static 'share holder' who can share the cost of renting the place for a long periods~ 

Contact me for more info ;) and stay tune for pic and videos after this sunday's test drift~ 

cherrio~ 

Start Shipping~! yeah~

Finally~ after much tuning and testing~ i had finally finalize some of the specs for my custom tune-d absorber. And already received several orders from all around peninsular Malaysia. Here's some candy for ya all~ 

 TKA - Tuned custom absorbers for KE70/AE86/Charman/KE20/KE30/Starlet 

2.5~4 inch short-strok-ed 

with three different specifications to choose from~  

For street (slight tuned car) - Touge Spec~

Those who love winding roads~ - Touge X2 spec~ 2 times harder than touge spec

And those who burns tires and go sideways - Competition Drift spec~ 

And this is for Toyota Vios pre 2005 model~ And just a little secret, the owner had something with black-top and 4 throttler body put inside his tiny vios~ hohohoho~ he's gonna kick some a** in Karak Highway~

stay tuned~ more to come i am working on something to damp my engine 'twisting' problem and rear axle hopping issue~ will post it as soon as i had the time~ 

till then~ cheerio~ drive safe everyone.  

Mango's progress 5

Finally, meet the culprit which had made so much noise since Dec 2008 track (drift) day. 
Torn rear wheel fender arch. lol~ this bugger had been clinking noisily and the fact which force me to send mango in to fix it's chassis. 

And Lai fix it in a jiffy (one week of work actually :P)

At least the inner part of mango is almost done. The other part should be able to complete in one months time. 

I wanna learn how to DRIFT~!!! (in a TRUCK!)

saw this just now, it's totally awesome, really nice to know how to drift ^.^

13 July Track Day-Part 2

So~ continue on the photos~
Ah Xiangs' "original" wira 1.6 manual(also auto converted)
The 2 TE meet each other~ man, i like his front lip
mango was chased by Tk's KE70, (later spun out after 3 laps under tremendous pressure)
then giving chase to lao3's vios. darn he is fast
i just like to make lot's of dust in that corner :P
andrew chew (snappy-scav) grining happily after driving mango (for 3 months he had been bugging me)
and the power steering fluid over-flowed after the harsh driving condition
happy soul on a happy ranger (me, jay, lao3 and tommy ^.^)
Chean's Wira-lution-GSR
i was attempting a drift move, it seems nice at start..
then something went wrong, my tail snaped :S and i lost control of the stearing...

lao san's gf manage to get the footage untill before lao 3 push her away when my car went straight to the grandstand.

(thanks lao 3 for the video, and so sorry that i nearly crash into you all.) which drifting is a very dangerous driving style, never try it in any area which not dedicated for doing such driving and NEVER EVER try it on road.

the after match
Later after the rain ease, ah wei went in and play~
his car does perform well in semi wet condition using my custome made TKA asorber and Hero Milanza tyre.
Snappy and Ah wei's perdana giving pressure on the waja ^.^
(more in part 3) ZZZzzzz......