Fun time in Kg. Gajah 29-12-2008

It's suppose to be a time-attack challenge in Kg Gajah, but the weather is not on our side... and we were looking at a WET track when we reach Kg Gajah  at 9.15a.m. after Mango's alternator failed during we take a rest at Bukit Gantang R&R while waiting for Suhaimi and his friends. T~T bad news.... mango might not be able to play in Kg Gajah today... 

(everyone was busy looking for the problem for the battery wasn't charging, so no one remember to take picture as we were running late)

So after calling TK and conform a replacement is available, we decided to keep going with the remaining juice available in mango's BIG-ASS battery. And recharge it with Ranger as soon as it runs out. 

But half way from Terong to Bruas, Panda spotted that then Charge indicator which was on since we left Bukit Gantang R&R turn off~ alternator is working fine again ^.^ 

After looking at the WET track, and a few attempt by some FF driver, we decided that we will shift to FR ^.^ and fun begins~ it's DRIFT time~! And i had many fun laps trying to drift mango around with AD07 at front and Ducaro at the rear. It's super slippery with higher off-set rims at front then rear. ####^.^ anyone got picture of mango drifting in track? Really appreciate if someone can send it to me thanks~ 

Somewhere after noon, while i trying to get a nap in Ranger and Ah Wei(12) knock on the window, and told me to get back up heading Kg Bota, Lao San was caught in a mishap. 

We were relief that both LaoSan and two other passengers was safe without a scratch.  We took around an hour to pull the car out using Ranger's winch. 

After that we headed back to Kg Gajah. And we found out that the track was drying up. So i switch to A048 at the back. And get ready to make some fast laps in the track. 
Now we were talking some series time~  Soon everyone start to put on their 888 and 048 and start making faster and faster laps. I was happy that mango did a big improvement since his original heart times 1.03+ on March and i manage to squeeze out 54.80 yesterday. A big leap~ hoho~ 

And soon, it's time for Ranger to get into the track again. Our All time champion Suhaimi was dashing into sheekan and ramp the tyre wall. And lot's of tyre stuck under his car. (7 to be exec ^.^) 

Good thing i bring two of my big jack and bring his car out of the tyre trap safely~  And after that, we leave the track with whole bunch of happy people on the Ranger. 

Thanks Jeremy for the photo ^.^ ~  

Thanks dude for the beautiful picture of mango ^_^ 

And i wanna pay my respect the only handicap driver of the day. Ah Tuck with his special mod-ed Kenari. He did fairly well, times at 59 second on the track that day.

Yes~! We were on ZTH (zerotohundred.com)

Finally, after much waiting and more waiting, our Kg Gajah Track day on 18th May was finally appeared on ZTH(click to link to the page). A well know car enthuest website.

lol~ and guess what i found. our panda's AE80 was in the gallery, with our TKA sticker on ^^~

And that's me driving my F.Ranger ^.^

Many thanks to Mr.Adam(was driving a BMW CSL), and his crew (another guy, a cameraman and a beautiful lady), coming over on that day to do the coverage.





(too bad they didn't took mango's photo T_T)

After-match from saturday night's touge~

what a night in teluk bahang on saturday night. a lot of "drama" ^.^ which we do like it because we weren't the "lead actors" hahaha~ we were just extras "ke-le-fe".

-> visits ScAvEnGeR's blog for more details ^^(lazy to type :P)

Our crowd sure had grown each time. There's was our famous Penang Touge-king -> Andrew Chew (Snappy one) Wei -12, Partick GUN, Raj-R3, The MECH- Chris (Fer fer) and Tommy (sin) Chan, our Dalai-lama Daniel, and others friends, which i'm so sorry can't really remember all your names. 
And this time i brought my new secret weapon ^^. GPS~
It's quite nice to look at "mini map" while touge-ing. It give me prior information on the corner ahead of me. So i can take faster corner for it's my first time driving all out (in  Ranger) on the touge. just like playing NFS ^.^  

It's a really fun night. And was quite a horror driving a tall 4X4 on a winding road where there's cliffs on your left and deep drains on your right. and not to say tight bridge. Man, it's a scary touge to run in. thanks fully this trip, everyone's car make it safely back to our home except our Raj got hold up by the police till late midnight.  

And more bad news coming up today, during the time i ask my worker to shift the front tyre to the rear, i discover two things wasn''t look right on my ranger!

My tyre -

This is how it looks like after the touge.
and this is the pic i took few weeks earlier... see the side was gone T_T....

and my spring.....

slightly bended at the end where the second spring leaves the support. (i pulled out the 3rd and 4th spring and put in a coil spring for better ride.

looks like this would be the last time Ranger would go touge-ing. Next time, it will be mango's turn to storm down  teluk bahang's windings ^_^