Showing posts with label Chassis Strengthening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chassis Strengthening. Show all posts

Monday, June 22, 2009

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. 

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Mango's progress 4

Went to lai's place with Mcguyver and my brother ^^. They said they also miss mango. So we went to see how mango was healing. Seems they had start working on the rear bumper mod.
More work on the rear.
Rear floor panel done
front floor panel done.
Engine bay and distributor setting hole done.
The front end now look tough and feel tough too. The fender won't flex and bend like last time.
I'm a happy man ^.^

Monday, June 8, 2009

Mango's progress 3

Go on check mango again and what came into my eyes shocked me O_O~ 
the whole side panel was re-build-ed~ holy gosh~ as Lai said he cannot bare with the 'rotten' part. As he promise me a 10 years road going chassis.
And more panel at the rear were chopped off as well... 
They even looked inside the main structure and had it strengthen with bars to support the cross-member and the engine's twisting power.

so far for now, looks like mango's period of stay in the 'hospital' would had to extended. 
Tsuchiya(DK) please blest my mango ^.^ hohoho~ 

Friday, May 22, 2009

Mango's progress 2

Visit mango again yesterday. I was happy to see more work had been done ^^~
the bottom
From The story of dennis the menace and his mango.

(before)
The metal bar use for engine bay reinforcement.
Side wall reinforcement
Fender reinforcement
From The story of dennis the menace and his mango.
(Before)
Main frame structure reinforcement
Firewall reinforcement~
Crossmember's frame structure reinforcement~
And the internal floor panel change in progress~ ^^|||

lot's had been done and for sure i was in really tight budget this year~ T_T........

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

mango check-ed in~

The first time i saw my naked mango in the morning light, he seems so miserable. I feel so sorry for letting him staying under the hot sun for so long - exposing his front chassis in the hot sun and rain T-T~ 
Finally i had time to pick him up and send him to 'hospital' to fix his wear-ed and torn body. 
hooking up to the tow truck (with a 'ke-po' indian child who we dunno who's watching dangerously close)
tie-ing up mango's axle to the support beam, so mango won't accidently fall off the support beam.
checking the steering lock and tie on the 'evo-style' side tow plate ^.^ 
on the way ... 
after 2 hours of slow drive (i ask my uncle to drive slowly, make me heart-ache listening to mango's cried going over hump and bad road surface on just two wheels...)
We drop mango off at Ah-lai - Lai Kian Spray Painting : Ah lai - +60164025519

The boss Ah Lai was a really good dude. (compare to his brother :P - just plain rude) he slowly discuss with me on what's suppose to be done to mango, as i wanted mango to be able to survive harsh track day condition. He give me some idea of places to strengthen and places needed rebuild and so. 
At least i had found someone who was willing to take mango in to work on the complex and time consuming re-work. 
Will update  soon after i finish building mango's fiber mudguard. ^.^ till then~ 

cheers~ 

Thursday, February 12, 2009

mango strip-ed down~

Two days after i send mango to Mcguyver's place, i got a SOS from him. So i went and saw this~ 
and this~ 
and this~ 
Mango had completely strip-ed down. all the interior was taken out, wiring were out as well and the last thing to took out is~
the heart of the sweet mango~ ^.^ 
Since we dun have much proper tools, so the only way we were to get the engine out was jack up the empty chassis and drag the heart out under it. 
and few minutes of extreme labour, it was out ~ *_*  4age-20v sure was heavy.  
and now mango was ready to send to the body shop for a make over. i doubt most of his panel needed changing and reinforce. lot's more to do on the body. * we stop for cup of coffee before putting back the cross-member.

mango's strip-ed down~2

After having dinner, we start putting back the essential thing for mango to move ^.^ his front leg.
McGuyVer at work~ ^.^ (actually he almost did all the work.) When mango was able to roll around again~ the fun start ^.^
Mango's naked front~ (fender was taken out to send for making fiber body part.2009 first edition Recaro sit >.< haha~ 
Mango's ready to swim in bali's nice ocean~ his is naked~!!! 
imitating takumi's dad when showing his friend the new engine to put into 藤原とうふ店-AE86
(getting his deserved rest after pushing mango around all year long)
McGuyver showing off mango's "new" engine, which was able to produce 1PP (panda power)
Me sitting in mango's new "recaro" sit (replace by an old ammo box, the basket break under my weight) with "OMP" glove and "adidas' racing shoe.
Rest well~ soon mango will return with a fresh body and soul. 

Friday, January 23, 2009

Chassis Strengthening

I'm planing to rebuild mango's chassis since it had already endure 29 years of wear and tear from Malaysia's Rally road condition. So i start looking over the INTERNET and come over this clip on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHEdtAVlbBw

too bad i can't link the video in, it was disable by the person who upload it.

hm.. wonder anyone know anyone who can did this around penang area?