Product testing - Brisk Premium Silver sparks plug from CZ republic.

Last month, i was introduced a sales person from Brisk by a friend. He had show me some of their products and i'm deeply interested in one of it. The Brisk Racing Premium Silver Plug which they work out the design with Lamborghini. So I ask the sales person to give me a discounted sample set to try out on my Bro's Toyota SE Blacktop 4AGE-20V. 

It arrive shortly and we had installed the spark plug and let it run for a few weeks and it's almost a month now. Which we had felt a slight increase of torque at lower to mid RPM range. But not much increase in higher RPM range. 

Yet, this is not the main point which i had ordered the sparks plug. 4AGE-20V was an old engine engineered about 20 years ago. And it's primitive ignition system with the 12.0+- compression makes it unsuitable to run on any gas lower than Ron 97. Which is bloody expensive by now. 

As the Silver sparks plug had a lower internal resistance and a higher heat dissipation characteristic. We were able to run the engine @ a lower ignition timing and significantly reduces the knocking conditions when we run on Ron95 fuel. 

So far so good, and bro was happy with the fact that he now running on ~ 19cent/km compare to 28/km one months ago.  

A gift from Toyota~

Uncle in Ipoh found a 'relic' while cleaning his office desk. A key chain which toyota gives away with it's products.

It actually works in some way. lol~ the shaft of the miniature absorbers did retract into the body. ^^~

FIrst layer of black painted on~ >_<~

Was closing shop early today~ 60% (6 out of 10) worker of mine didn't turn out today, so i give a suprise visits to mango~ and guess what,Mango is getting his first layer of rotton color.

hohoho~ black

Already putting on the basic later which give him the black look will add more later and eventually it would turn to 'dead' black color but with smooth surface.below is some more shot~

the photo was taken using ah heng's new nikon flash SB600 on my GH1~ >_<
can't wait till mango paint job was done~ yeah!

Progress~ progress~

went check on mango just now~ see how's the progress going... most of the part had covered in anti-rust foundation paint already. now waiting it to dried completely then will start the cementing.
engine bay also clean-ed and painted with anti-rust coat. 
Ah Heng said mango should be ready to get his first coating in a few days time. ^^ if the weather is nice ~ :P hoho~ 

i can wait~ ^^ no problem~ 

Mango-2 is undergoing his paint job~

Door taken out~ hoots off, and all the available panal is going to taken out as well, mango 2 is ready for his in-out-through body paint with one layer of foundation/anti-rust layer and then will be painted with matt-black~ (my own absorber paint :P)
taking out the door to fit to mango 1, cause it's in better condition. Since mango-2 is only for 'play-ing' purposes, he will get give all the better parts to mango-1, which i will be making a road friendly model.
Ah Heng is cleanning up the rust which form in the years under the canvas which the previous owner had left it to be.
While cleaning the rust on the rear pillar, i saw something i had never seen before~ the original welding (IN COPPER~!) of the roof to the chassis's pillar.
Working hard to take out the side window which i will keep it as a spare for mango-1 and later will replace with acrylic panel, ^_^ if can find polycarbonate it's better~ fufufu~~~ more to come next week when i took mango back from Ah Lai's place~
keep the pants on firmly yo~

Dream Tacho~

Saw this on ZTH just now. An display item in Toyota history garage in Megaweb, Tokyo Japan.
It's an original Toyota 15K rpm tachometer. Dunno from which vehicle, but the red line only start from 12K rpm onward *_* darn~

wish i could put my hand on one of this babdy ^.^ and get a engine to match it as well~ :P fufufu~

No-2 is taken home... (not yet)~

I run away from work for a day just to pick up No-2 from the workshop in Bidong. By the time i arrived at bidong with the carrier, they still haven put on the front suspension so i can drag it up the carrier. So i had to wait under the scorching sun *_*~
While they putting on the thing and the front steering, guess what they did without the dash-board+bracket to hold on the steering~
Typical old-school workshop would do, tying it up using wire~! lol~ then the loading process start~
half way up the carrier, a nother unexpected even happen-ed. The cheap-lak muffler was grinding on the tarmac.... and a peek under the car guess what we found out~! NO SPRING! darn the so call brother of the previous owner had taken the spring~! 
So a lot of man power had to used to lift the rear to clear off the ground/muffler~ you can see a clear white line dragging on the ground~ ^.^ and after some really tense struggling, No-2 was on the carrier, yet the driver stated another concern... No hand-brake... he said the car would swing left and right without the hand brake. So as the result, he can't drive fast on the return trip.
And on the way back, we were going like 70km/h all the way till NT. and the funny part is the rear boot pop up when the carrier overtaken by a trailer~ lol~ the win pressure actually push the boot up even though it was without the rear glass on~ No-2 will be on going a full paint job at Ah Heng's place and prep for installing all the basic parts for my beginner drifting lesson in Batu Kawan.  

Mango's Original Tail Lamp~ ^^

I wasn't sleep well last night *_*~ reason for it ^^ you got it when you saw the title.



Mango's new tail lamp finally arrived~
It's original parts from Toyota which had been stored away for more then 10 years~ but even the box was kept in tip-top condition~

Good heaven i manage to get both side~
Original Toyota Badge molded on the shinny surface of the lamp.
Just keep the part number and you might manage to find another pair somewhere in someone's shop's store~

till then cheers~

mango's progress 6~ (put on more weight >_< )

I didn't went visit mango last week coz i wasn't feeling well~ so yesterday die die also went to Lai's place. 

And saw he already started on mango's roof~ which he show me the original pieces
Darn~ all rotten, and very obvious last owner had done some work on it as well, but really 'rough-n-cheap' job :P~
The time i arrive Lai is working on the front structure where the caster arm connected (dunno what it call :P) It not what i though he would did like he said earlier, he told me he would take a pre-fabricated taiwan structure and reinforce with L-bar. Instead~
He custom the whole bar out using something he found a few days before~ ^.^ 
An 1.3mm thick square bar came from......
Guess what~! Our very own house's Gate's support beam~ lol~
almost complete~ that's 1.5 day's work *_*.... (hope he didn't charge me too expensive for that....)
Picture of Lai at work, he's the most skilled person in using oxygen torch i had seen (after my dad :P)~ 

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. 

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 ^.^

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~ 

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~