Extreme Subaru Gymkhana Driver~

Saw this from my bro's blog 2851——一辆AE 92和我的故事 this guy's driving skill really is out of this world~!!! enjoy

Pangkor Touge ^.^ ~

I was in Setiawan yesterday, attending one of me and my wife's course mate's wedding. As we already near Lumut, we decided to take a tour around Pangkor island. I decided to rent a car at Pangkor island as i wan to take a round island tour and i was thinking that driving on our self would be more convinience. So i get myself a rented car at the jetty for RM60/day. And this is my ride in pangkor island LOL~

A proton saga (toy car) 1.3 with no power steering, bold tyre and no (f**K-ed) suspension. ^.^
And to my amaze, i didn't realize that we would had some touge route on the island itself~! haha here's some video i take with my camera on my tripod which was hold by my wife.




First touge route from Pasir Bogak Beach through Turtle Bay to Nipah Beach.


The toy car is seriously under power, lousy handling and brakes....
And even worst is "IT dun have power steering!!! plus the tyre is out of alignment and balancing! the steering was shaking all the time~ ^.^ darn i love that car hohoho~ you won't know where the wheels will go the next corner~



Stage - 2, from Putri Dewi Beach, through Pangkor Hill to Teluk Cempedak, this is the fun one, really get me excited driving in this part ^.^ but also get a bit 'cold' for the very tight corner and lack of braking power (plus no power steering it's hard to turn those sharp corner)



Stage - 3, From Teluk Cempedak to Sungai Pinang Kecil Jeti, this is a short highspeed route. After this you will return back to Pangkor town center.

And the next day, when we get back to mainland, and hop on to my faithful Ford Ranger and start drive our way home, i can't resist to go on a de-tour near a junction just not far from Setiawan to Pantai Remis. It written there Damar Laut, and this is what i had found ^.^ ~



We did had a lot of touge route in Malaysia. Just that we need to find somewhere with less traffic and deserted so we can train in safe and control environment ^_^ ~

cheers~

Bucket Seat installation ^.^

After tune up mango and all, one thing clearly is my mango is throwing my all over the place in my seat ^.^ So it's time to pay someone a visits ^.^ a chair (bucket seat) specialist~
CSL Cushion in Juru inter junction area.
ant this is what i acquire from him, a seat adjustment bracket for my sparco
My Sparco finally awaken after long sleep ~ hoho~ it's time for him to come in service. So i taken my sparco and the bracket and i went to Chean's shop (chean exhaust) to install the bracket on to mango.
And mango had a shocking suprise for me hidden underneigh the seat.....one of the seat's mounting point was broken, totaly broke off from the body *_* ouch~!
So a new mounting point is in order, so i went back to my factory and dig out a piece of Square pipe. Bring it back to Chean's place and had his brother to fabricate thus weld back on where the old point should be... by the time all this was done, it's time for me to went back to my factory. So i leave the work to Ah Xiang and will come pick mango up tomorrow...

With the Sparco in place ^.^

New upgrade~! mono-tube conversion ^.^ !!!

Finally, new R&D had bring result! Conversion from mono tube system to stronger twin tube design was showing good result. This is the 3rd set i had been done since month. First was GTR-R34 front shock (convert from apexi N1), second was Wira-GSR front shock (convert from Hotbit) and this was the third, Wira-VR4-4WD Rally machine (convert from Kayaba Super Rally) upgrade from 12.5mm shaft design to 22mm shaft! design.



And it's painted in our TKA green ^.^ hohoho~

Adjustable Panhard rod modification~

After setting up the exhaust, and feel the power coming back into mango i had a test drive together with Ah Wei (12) and instantly he found out that mango was turning himself during acceleration(right) and deceleration(left). 

First i though was my caster arm's bushing wasn't good. But after changing it, the problem still exist. So i call up Uncle Choi and get some opinion from him. And he ask me to check if my axle was slanting to the left. 

And BINGO~ it does! Mango's axle is slanting 15mm to the left! After looking around, i decided to make a adjustable length panhard rod out from mango's original rod with camry's adjustable rod. 

mango's original panhard rod.
camry's rear arm with toe adjuster
hybrid panhard rod ^.^
This is something i insert between two rod's inner tube before i joint them together, to make sure that they joint nicely and strong
original rubber bushing compare to camry's steel bearing bushing.
both end welded
clean joint
painted in GOLD~  :P hohoho~
installed and good to go! ^.^ with the new steel bearing design of the connector, mango's rear did feel stiffer during cornering compare to original rod. which will sway a bit during exit-ing corners. plus it's must for anyone who planing to lowered their rear-axle car, to align your axle correctly. 

Out the 4-2-1~ In the 4-1~ ^.^ For more mid end torque?

After driving mango around for a while, i discover that mango's 4age-20v wasn't revving nicely durnig 3k~5k. Than McGuyver said it might be the 4-2-1 mango currently using is not breathing well. since the cam had higher lift and more air going into the engine. So something had to be done to the exhaust ^_^. A trip to chean exhaust is indeed.

So i retrieve the custom made 4age-20V 4-1 header for FR setting with ceramic coating! 
and took out the old 4-2-1 sr20-mod-ed with 4age-20v FF-header.
everything took out fairy easy with lot's of hand space in mango's engine chamber ^.^ 
but my O2 sensor wasn't happy to go into the header... for it's from sr20.... some cutting is in order. (sorry, no photo for the cutting part :P
the curve fit in nicely ^.^ big hurry for the japs.

bending the 2.5" soft-pipe to fit into the 2.2" pipe i'm using from front to rear. 
Everything fits in and working nicely~ and mango-sings~!

Mango's Trusted Etherna Twin-port tested ^.^

left brake, good shade of purple ^.^ pass~
Right rotor, good shade of purple as well ^.^ pass~

steering weren't shaking when braking over 160km/h~ pass ^.^