A little bit of everything~

Was @ Gurney drive - Penang yesterday for one of my good friend's wedding dinner~ went there quite early for afraid parking space may be scare during peak hours (6pm~11pm)~ I park me car just beside the restaurant and walk 350m down the lane to Gurney plaza to get myself a cup of nice Cappuccino Frappuccino  and playing my PSP to kill off the time before heading back to the venue. 

And this beauty catches my eyes.   

The bridal car is actually belong to Raymond, who runs a petrol station around Butterworth. I last seen it was a year ago and wasn't this complated yet~ And blime, what a beauty it had became~ 

To the left, ah-sou, Arthur~  

And his best buddy, who i share table with, Kuhan of Monster Garage~! You will understand the meaning of monster once you meet him~ XD

When the dinner was done~ and i take leave. As my puppy had instructed me to get her a McD burger for breakfast, so a detour to  Autocity is in-avoidable~ And never cross my mind that i would meet Fujiwara83 there~ As we sit down and take a nice chap~ hence his friend rush over and told us a news......

 Mc-D is closing down in a short while~ and DARN! i haven order my puppy's burger! A quick knock at the locking up door and ran to the counter...... there's only two burger left, one mc-chicken deluxe and another mc-chicken(she wanted a BIG Mc...... looks like she would be really disappointed). What would i said? TAKE BOTH~! lol~ 

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This morning~ i received a call from McGuyver~ (i was still sleeping XD) and ask me if i were free this afternoon~ he's going to pick his car up and needed a ride. (WHAT?? what is he getting?) And a good friend never say NO~! lol~ most of my brain was giving the 38 sign btw~

So i pick McGuyver up and went all the way to Bukit Mertajam~ okok, not really far away~ lol AND the moment we were close to our destination~ i was like~ NO WAY~! he's getting a TE72 (KE70 in malaysia for it's 4K engine)~~~ another new member in da club~!

 The body part looks all still sticking together well, and the engine roar in a single twist of the key~ just a bit to Mcguyver's dislike was the welded axle~ 

 typical McGuyver's movement.... inspection~ looking at any flaw and start making a to-do list~ 

 standard 4K engine~ not much to see here...

and pretty old-n-worn tyre~  

 Ah~! a hole~!

 one of the tyre was leaking air faster then we can pump-in~ 

 today only i learn the goods of having a rear wing~ 

 Anyone interested in getting some nice rims (mostly 5 lug with 114.3 hole~ 

 can contact here~ ^^

 mango side by side with his new friend~ ^^

 McGuyver's new ride come with some sweet goodies~ really classic old school rims~

Just fitted the only one with tyre on to replace the one which was leaking furiously~ and set we go~ 

mango is recovering ^^~

finally, my uncle came back from ipoh, bringing me news on my mango. he also take a few shots of mango's new heart to show me. so far, mango is recovering well ^^~


the old 4k engine was taken out from mango's engine bay~ can clearly see a square hole had taken off from the firewall to occupied the distributer.

how many te with power steering you saw out there? ^.^

the engine which is going to drop into mango~ 4AGE-20V ~ aka silvertop. see the original 4K with K50 gearbox lying behind??

this is y they also called 4AGE-20V 4-throttler, this is why, it had 4 independent throttler body. lol~
and last but also the best part of it~ ^^, come from my generous uncle. this thing almost keep me up all night~

walla~ TRD power plate with 3 spoke racing clutch~ ^.^ hurry uncle~

mango was now running on it's 4 wheels already. but still need a lot of tuning work to do before he can sing~ happily.

Kg. Gajah Open Track Day -2/3/2008

Day One~ really had to remind myself that i wasn't coming over to have fun but to promote my products. ^.^ coz i'm all into bringing mango for a spin in the track. with Ah Ann-Go as my instructor.

(finally got the pic and video from my brother)


waiting at the "pit" exit


and my mango went out extremely slow *.* (gosh~ 50+hp really is little)

it looks as if i was giving chase :P but actually i was being overtaken ^.^ and i was on my 3rd gear at 5000rpm through the corner (mango's 4K-c max rev was only 6000rpm) so i'm only going about 100 around that corner. wonder how fast they went during overtaking me ^_* but still~ i like this pic a lot thanks bro.

Dr. goh overtake me in just one corner ! @_@ dam he is fast.

only 5 laps out in the track then i was being flag out. because they saw lot's of white smoke coming out under my car.
so we had to stop and check the engine. after much check up we conclude that maybe the engine oil pressure is too high during high rev which cause it to over-flow into the combustion chamber. thus burning engine oil causing it to spoof white "cloud" lol~
after a few minutes rest, we went into the track again ^^ this time with ann-go behind the wheel, darn, his racing line really is accurate and fast, i think his lap time in mango is certainly 5~8 second faster than me @_@. then he show me a few other line which i can take in mango, different line give different speed and handling feeling. thanks a lot ann-go, really learn a lot with you behind the wheel. we run around 12 laps or so, and i saw the mango's temperature is shoring high, so i ask ann-go to stop and get out from the track.

back to rest in our little booth where we display our products ^.^ home made TKA absorbers. a few (fast) cars in the track was using my modified absorber. and certainly i would say they was quite satisfied with it ^.^ ~ *(you can saw the BC-M ppl was taking my ranger out for a spin to clean the track for debris ^.^)

After the islam friends afternoon prayer at 1.30, we begin our free for all track "training" this time i manage to drag our BC-M-12 - ah wei as my instructor. this time we tried a few new racing lines. as i start to feel that i was going faster on the track (coz i manage to up-shift earlier and earlier ^_^) suddenly white steam puffing out under the bonnet. i quickly stop the engine and slide the car into the service lane.

i think we just boiled the entire radiator *.* darn~ in just a few minutes puppy come charging in the ford ranger with bro on top of it. Love you puppy~ thanks.

tow bar on~ with ah wei on the wheel, we slowly cruise back into the pit... T_T

mango is home

ta da~~~ my mango finally reach home after 3 months stays in "ward" hahaha~

mango got himself a new set of front leg (AE86 arm and suspension system consist of tein spring, tka modified trd absorber with cusco pillow-mount) and tka special made absorber for the rear. a set of new power steering system, (steering leg taken from S13 combine with original tie-rod-end with camry coupling and a ae101 power steering pump), a new air-con blower and a new car alarm system.

oops~ sorry, all this talk and so rude of me forget to introduce you all to mango. he is a 1980 made Toyota TE72, aka corolla hatch-back. with a 4K（1300c.c. OHV engine) heart and K50(toyota K series 5 speed manual gearbox) transmission as his artery and standard rear axle.

mango is my first car (under my name) i have driven a toyota ae92 and currently driving a ford ranger. But for some reason i fall in love with old-school car, and some how get to know the guy from TeamBC-machine and from there saw Dr. goh's touge machine. a TE72. by the same time one of my friend's brother is selling off his yellow TE72(mango) coz some reason, so i took it in and start my mango project. too bad i didn't have my camera back then(it's with my girlfriend in KL) but hopefully i'll slowly record every growth of my mango and share with you guys.

cheers~ happy valentine days.