Thursday, May 15, 2008

Preparing for Kg Track part 1 ^^

Actually, i had went to Chean Exhaust to fix my exhaust due to my "original" exhaust was too restrictive, too small, too much bend, and yet too noisy :P ~ (sorry folks, i dun really like noise)
So out the old 1.6" and in the 2.3" ^.^ let's the operation begin~ finally, the EK9 centre bullet and the HKS muffler i buy over from McGuyver had finally found it's used.
Taking out the old exhaust. it's dunno what mid bullet and 5Zigen-copy muffler, which is extreme noisy in high rev. and yet, it's diameter was just too small the car feels heavy during 6~8K rpm.
5 minutes into the work, with 3 ppl working on mango, come an extra "hand", but this one is not a helping hand :P he just point and use his voice and help. (Mr. 12) 

chean is even-ing the edge of the bullet using only a oxygen torch, yikes~ darn he is good.

After 3 hours of cutting welding, arguing and so so~ it's finally done ^^, see how straight the flow is. perfectly matching the car's under carriage. (if you wan the exhaust to go under the axle, you gotta had a very short stroke absorber- in my case, 4 inches, 2 inch bounce, 2 inch re-bounce)

And guess what, the tire can't grip on the road anymore (in high rev) so the first thing i went back to factory, is install the 4 watanabe RS with RS2 on to mango. ^^ he really look handsome in those new shoes. 

So the thing is, when we playing with our rides. one upgrade would lead to another upgrade. in my case, after installing the new tyre, the rear absorbers+spring wasn't good enough for the current setting. Good thing i was an in this field. 

Taking out the absorber and upgrade the duty to around +30% for the bounce and 60% for the rebouce (for a much stiffer spring is used) and i found a pair of un-used E36's rear spring lying around. a few tweek and it's in mango's back already. (sorry, no photos, my secret :P shhhh)

And what i get is a happier tail and steadier front. ^.^ a happy mango he is.

3 comments:

Touge King said...

Wow, it must be sweet to drive your car now!!!

Kae Huang Tan said...

lol~ not as nice as riding yours 11.5K monster TK~ ;) maybe you can give me a point or 2 on how to improve handling on my mango later on sunday ;)

印奴 said...

弄回家要一年了。。。

终于都有用了!!!