Start Shipping~! yeah~

Finally~ after much tuning and testing~ i had finally finalize some of the specs for my custom tune-d absorber. And already received several orders from all around peninsular Malaysia. Here's some candy for ya all~ 

 TKA - Tuned custom absorbers for KE70/AE86/Charman/KE20/KE30/Starlet 

2.5~4 inch short-strok-ed 

with three different specifications to choose from~  

For street (slight tuned car) - Touge Spec~

Those who love winding roads~ - Touge X2 spec~ 2 times harder than touge spec

And those who burns tires and go sideways - Competition Drift spec~ 

And this is for Toyota Vios pre 2005 model~ And just a little secret, the owner had something with black-top and 4 throttler body put inside his tiny vios~ hohohoho~ he's gonna kick some a** in Karak Highway~

stay tuned~ more to come i am working on something to damp my engine 'twisting' problem and rear axle hopping issue~ will post it as soon as i had the time~ 

till then~ cheerio~ drive safe everyone.  

new button for mango's e-brake~

Last month, during Kg Gajah's Time attack (which turned into drift day) TK

show me his 'non-stick' e-brake button from cusco. a replacement button which enable you to took away the spring which lock the e-brake in place, which will cause the e-brake to release automatically after pull-ed. And will only lock after we push the button out manually.   

So i took some measurement from a few car and draw out the design. Then send to my customize precision shop to make a sample. This is what i get for the first sample (with 峠 engraving on it) made with 6061 top of the series aluminium aloy. This baby would resist a small hammer impact without problem. 
install-ed perfectly on mango's e-brake.
closer look of the engraving. it's only sample, so it's a bit off centre. 
another side look of it ^_^, dun you just love the shine of it. It will be available soon at TK's new shop in Ipoh parade and also in TKA Motorsport's factory in Penang. 

Pangkor Touge ^.^ ~

I was in Setiawan yesterday, attending one of me and my wife's course mate's wedding. As we already near Lumut, we decided to take a tour around Pangkor island. I decided to rent a car at Pangkor island as i wan to take a round island tour and i was thinking that driving on our self would be more convinience. So i get myself a rented car at the jetty for RM60/day. And this is my ride in pangkor island LOL~

A proton saga (toy car) 1.3 with no power steering, bold tyre and no (f**K-ed) suspension. ^.^
And to my amaze, i didn't realize that we would had some touge route on the island itself~! haha here's some video i take with my camera on my tripod which was hold by my wife.




First touge route from Pasir Bogak Beach through Turtle Bay to Nipah Beach.


The toy car is seriously under power, lousy handling and brakes....
And even worst is "IT dun have power steering!!! plus the tyre is out of alignment and balancing! the steering was shaking all the time~ ^.^ darn i love that car hohoho~ you won't know where the wheels will go the next corner~



Stage - 2, from Putri Dewi Beach, through Pangkor Hill to Teluk Cempedak, this is the fun one, really get me excited driving in this part ^.^ but also get a bit 'cold' for the very tight corner and lack of braking power (plus no power steering it's hard to turn those sharp corner)



Stage - 3, From Teluk Cempedak to Sungai Pinang Kecil Jeti, this is a short highspeed route. After this you will return back to Pangkor town center.

And the next day, when we get back to mainland, and hop on to my faithful Ford Ranger and start drive our way home, i can't resist to go on a de-tour near a junction just not far from Setiawan to Pantai Remis. It written there Damar Laut, and this is what i had found ^.^ ~



We did had a lot of touge route in Malaysia. Just that we need to find somewhere with less traffic and deserted so we can train in safe and control environment ^_^ ~

cheers~

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. 

ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz...............

Mango is recovering - 2 ^^~ Singing again.

1st may~ labour day. factory closed, i decide to pay mango a visit. see how he is recovering. 

So i hop on the ranger with my wife and we hit the road. 1.5 hours later we were at Uncle Choi's workshop, and instantly i saw mango parking in the front of the workshop.

The first thing i open the hoot and see mango's new heart. Everything was done nice and clean. I just love the work of art perform by Uncle Choi. It's worth it to "hospitalize" mango for almost 2 months. Somemore he even gave me some of his previous KE70-20V's part, the custom make air intake box, his slight "banana" 4-2-1, his BIG mushroom air filter. Thanks a lot Uncle Choi~!

(sorry mite. had to remove the photo of the intake box due to request from Uncle Choi tm thingy).The dunno what slight "banana" 4-2-1 with thermal wrap~ ^.^ yeah~ 

Later we meet up with TougeKing and have a tea, as well as picking up a box of Red-Line gear oil for my friends back in penang. after a while of chit chat, i had to leave to drop by a visits to my puppy's friend. They haven meet each other for a while. So i part with Tougeking and arrange another meeting later to take a ride in his Black Knight to see how to customize a set of rear suspension for him. 

At around 6.15PM, we were on our way. Blasting up simpang pulai. Tougeking was driving bit slow (with air-con on, it's a hot day after all) due to the traffic on public holiday and with concern that my puppy cannot take the G-force of touge-ing. 

Picture of his Beautiful Black Knight on the check point.

After a short rest and some routine check on the car, we head back down. This time, Tougeking turn off the air-con and open the windows. He drive a bit faster for my puppy is ok with the g-force. (probably due to our few trip up teluk bahang in my Ranger. which has more body-roll) 

This time, the rear suspension system show it's weakness. it rolls a lot during sharper corner and shift all the weight to a side where even the black knight was on AD07, the car was going over-steer and under-steer, but with tougeking's skill, he manage to make the car follow the lines he want it to go. overtaking cars while under-steering. Man, he can drive. 

(check out the video in tougeking's blog 

When we reach the lower checkpoint, to our surprise, a Avanza drove into the opposite lane where there's divider in the simpang pulai course. We quickly overtake him and warn the car a head about the Avanza coming over in wrong direction. Thankfully, no coming vehicles was driving fast. And the avanza make it back to correct lane safely.

After a hearty dinner in Woolley Food City,

 we headed back home. I'll come to ipoh again next weekend to pick Mango up to prepare him for the up coming Kg. Gajah Open Track Day. 

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 ^_^