A little miss-haps~ (>_<) nothing big~ :P

I was having a bit of fun last friday~ and i accidentally created this~ XD~ a LONG 11~ and the mark is still on the floor till today~ despite of the rain last night~ haha~   

If you were wondering what happened that day~ It was just a small 150m sprint i was playing with my worker's 4G93 wira~ :P which he said to had added some horsie to it and had won a mivec-4g93 a week earlier~ 

Though i wasn't really in the wind to drag with him for he's in a high mood~ but he's been bragging it for the whole week and when my friend fuji came on friday, he went on and bugg-ed him. So i finally took up the challenge~  (had to show him some colors :P)~

As the first round went, i was leading by moderate distance - for my worker had a bad launch~ into second round we goes~ 

In first~ i was a car length ahead. As i almost finish revving into my second gear, and i was about to lift to used both engine breaking and brakes (for the road wasn't that long :P) my throttler stuck-ed and the engine still revving at full steam. I had to cut the engine and slam on the brake hard and guess what~? (>_<) DENG rear brakes wasn't responding as it should be! Kick the brake again as i didn't had vacuums assist... the engine was cut-ed remember? 

And walla~ left brake lock-up earlier than right and the car start swaying to the right, and looking as mango closing in to the curb~ only thought in my mind was "oh no, my ONI~!!!" 

and with a small 'pop' sound mango stopped as the tyre hit slightly on the curb. Good heaven it just scratch a little on the rim's edge without bigger harm done~ phew......

Now mango will be going back to Mcguver's place for a brake re-tuning to correct it's front-rear bias~ 

till then~ happy driving to all~ ^^ and be-careful when 'fooling' around~ hahaha~  

Berry's back! ^^

Finally, Berry is back from her new wiring set-up, all 4 brakes serviced with new brake pad+brake pump, new seats front and rear(Mira L200 two door), new handbrake(mod-ed from AE101) and running like original~ ^^ and my wife was happily ever.
Berry sitting comfortably at home~

Anyone who would like to do their wiring can contact McGuyVer at +6017-4235200

Cleaning up the Twin-Port ~

While testing the twin-port's working condition using air-pressure, i discovered that one of the caliper isn't working properly, or can say, isn't working at all. So we had to force the piston out by attaching the caliper onto mango's master pump and use the brake fluid's force to push the piston out. 
And what came into our eyes was super dirty+rusty fluid and piston. this two really need a lot of cleaning to make them work fine.
A comparation of the piston, left-clean and polished, right, un-touch.
all the piston after went through my polish machine.
look at it shine, this port won't giving me trouble for some time to come ^.^ just need some rubber grease and it's good to go. 
After setting the caliper into the nitric phosphorus solution (rust cleaner) and waiting for the rubber seal and cover to soften themselves in the paraffin solution, i get my hand on painting the caliper with metallic  paint. Try to use those which is use for car's body paint, which cost around RM12~16/250ml. This type would last longer under tremendous heat condition.

Mango's New Brake ~ Part-2

It's time to take out the beauty, the Evolution II twin-port caliper. Our star of the day ^.^ 

clearly seen y it's call twin-port, coz it had 2 pod for pushing the brake pad onto the rotor. (i haven taken the measurement of the port yet, will update later)
the brake pad comparison between my old pad (above) and the twin port pad (below)
fitting the twin port on to the rotor bolt on the knuckle. it fits the rotor, since the rotor is 35mm smaller than the evo rotor, only 95% of the pad is contacting the rotor surface. So a little tweak had to made to the pad later.
fitting my 14" watanabe RS rims see if the caliper clear-ed the rim's edge. And surprisingly it does ^.^ which means i didn't need to buy new sets of 15" just for the front (plus, 14" tyre were a lot cheaper :P)
the caliper clear the rims only by mm(s) 
But 'deng' something that we had over look while looking up rotors... the rotor's off-sets was so close to the knuckle which making fabricating the bracket a "pain in the a**" *.* darn.... 

and since i was going on a trip oversea, so after two days of brain-storming, we settle with fabricating a new and (it's going to be a HUGE bracket) give them all the time of the week to make it happend ;) 

so i'll be off for the week and hopefully will see my twin port sitting nicely when i come back oversea :D~ till then.

Mango is getting a new brake, definitely.

After a close call when i was 'cruising' down the flight-over in front of my dad's old shop house, (i was driving around 120, and an idiot in saga cut into my lane, out-most lane of the 3. at about 50~60km/h, so i put my feet hard on mango brake, but instantly the car went sideway, sway to the left furiously! which means my front right brake was not working! good thing the training in Kg gajah pays off plus i had a welded axle so the rear brake can do his work, with a pull of e-brake and slight throttler, i manage to pull mango back to normal line. but i only miss the bloody saga by feet~! )

so the first thing i went back to the factory is to take out mango's right brake and exam it, and first thing i saw is a black-en rotor
it's silvery shinny on the left hand side and black on the right hand side.
and a pair of worn and "fried" brake pad. it's same size as KE70, as i survey around and to found out that there aren't many ppl (or any at all) manufacturing performance pad for KE70, i call up my best friend, McGuyver and ask him to help me search for solution.

after a few days, he shown up before my factory and show me what he had in the hood, a pair of toyota AE111 levin front rotor and a pair of EVO 2 twin port caliper - with a broad grin on his face. lol~
the original ke-86 rotor is around 240mm in diameter

and 17.5mm thick
the AE111 rotor is 265mm in diameter
but with a wooping 22mm thickness ^.^ that's a good looking guy. hoho~
so without much delay, i took everything and went next door to the precision factory to start fabricating them to put into mango.

first, hook up on the lathe machine to flat-en up the surface, groove it and balance it so it will work perfectly later.

zoom in to look at the fine groove line. i dun wan a silky slick surface which result in less grip. so i ask the machine fella to grove the surface using 64lines/inches setting to make it a bit rough.
before doing the  balancing, we had to drill new holes to enable the rotor to hook onto the original hub of mango.
drilling in precision isn't easy work. it takes a lot of delicate instrument to enable a precise hole where the rotor will spin in perfect working condition. the variance acceptable here is 0.1mm.
it's how it look after balancing and assemble back on the hub and put back into the AE86 knuckle. just love the new shinny look of the rotor.

more updates after the new bracket was make and the twin-port caliper installed. ^.^ till then~

Mango is home again ^^. (temporary)

today, after bringing my grandma for a hearthy breakfast in GreenHouse Dim Sam. I went over to parit bunta to meet up with Ah Wei and Tommy from penang, with christine- his wife to be, Daniel, and Ah Sun.

Purpose of tommy and gang went down is to have a nice bowl of Pork Noodle in parit bunta, but after me and Ah wei's good persuasive skill, we manage to drag them down to Ipoh to pick up mango ^^.

An two hours later, we meet up with TK and Han, Boy (with his gf) and TK's friend (sorry, didn't catch your name). TK suggest a test run for mango in Cameron's touge. So, everyone hop in the car and start to drove happily toward the touge.

But a few KM away from the touge, At one traffic light, i felt that mango wasn't really willing to move, and his wheels feel heavy. so i ask Daniel who sit beside me if he notice anything wrong. He told me he does smell something burning. And then, Ah wei who was driving my Ranger saw smoke coming out from my rear brakes.

After some inspection at the petrol station nearby, My rear brakes jam...

Good thing we still in Ipoh, Han volunteer to check out my brakes. We slowly drove back to TK's workshop and dismantle the brakes.

Only to discover that one of the pin that held the brakepad in place was missing. My uncle who arrive later suggest that we just change the whole thing which will save lot's of troubles later on.
So there we goes, everything going out... including the tiny little pump ^.^

out the old and in the new 

And lastly, in the new breakpad and mango was happy again ^^. 

Really grateful for everyone's concern. Sorry to spoil the fun guys. Will make it up to you all next time ^^. Especially Han, i owe you a healthy meal. Remind me ya. 

And two hours later, mango was back in his cosy little parking place at home. ^.^ No more looking a empty parking place when i wake up. 

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