Really nice AE86 model~ Limited Edition

I was in Ah Wei (12/TanV6)'s place to get my mango's insurance done, while waiting for the bloody slow internet connection, Ah Wei cheer me up with a present he receive from his Hong Kong friend.
OK, you will sure know what's that already right ;)

Another look from further away~ It's a Model car made to a precise which i didn't sure about the actual proportion. But believe me, it's very precision~
A look from the front. you can turn the head lamp either open or close, but the wiper won't move. Now~ pop the hood...
The detail of the model is so good~
This is the base/back bone of the model, the wheels spin freely and it's height and caster adjustable.
Even the Rims was Watanabe-RS style with a really 'huge' disc rotor
The interior was a bit simple, but still bring out the original layout of AE86
Even the gear knob and e-brake was out in together with the 3 padels~
and Darn they were good, the dashboard was printed with actual meter reading and the rear view mirror had reflection! I told Ah Wei if he got contact his friend, gonna ask him to get me another one! I WAN ONE~!

Tyre Frenzy~ ^.^ i think i'm mad...

Jian from Yita Auto Service Centre called me up yesterday, told me that my tyre had arrive ^.^ hurray~ So i went to his shop is Kulim immediately with my Works  Ewing 15" rim.

Jian's very professional shop in Kulim, you would be stunted by the amount of rare second-hand rims he can get his hand on.
Jian(left) and I inspecting the works of his worker, dun wan to scratch my 2K+ worth piece of art :P
The tyre we were talking about, legendary AD07 (price drop a bit due to new range of AD08 out in the market)
All 4 pieces lying nicely behind ranger ready to bring home.
Compared to my 185 RS-2, 195 sure had much larger contact surface.

Testing to fit all 4 new tyres into mango... however only the front succeed, while the rear tyre was pressing directly onto the fender... think i would really need a fender re-work after 29th's Time Attack.

Mango with his new look ^.^ 
Second trip today to PohNee Tyre to take out the old RS-2 which will be sold to my cousin and put in the 195/60R14 Yokohama A-048 which i purchase from Japan. 
Semi-Slick for mango's rear.
Look nice in my Watanabe RS (6" really is a bit small, wanna get my hand on 7" or 8" RS ^^)
The best part of tyre changing hoho~ balancing. 

In search for better traction~

While others was happily driving around in Kg Gajah Track, i wasn't really feel right about mango's rear wheel... my 185/60R14 Hancook RS/2 keep on sliding all over the place as soon as i step a bit deeper onto the throttler. 

So i ask around for advices, and the answer is almost the same, i need better traction on the rear a.k.a. wider and stickier tyre~ 

This is what come over my mind at first~ 

Yokohama Advan Neova AD-07
Then i remember my friend Yus told me he had some of this~ 

Yokohama A-048

So i call him up and hook-up the deal ^.^ and i get a good price for 4 piece of 195/60R14 hoho~ perfect for my Watanabe RS rims~ 

But i keep on searching and finally i landed on one of this~ which make me drew.......

The all new A-050 newest in the semi-slick tyre line from Yokohama as well as  the new AD-08

And if anyone interested in the new AD08's can check it out on the official website~ Yokohama Tyres

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.

Monster E34 - 13B under the hood~!

Today, my friend Farid from penang came over for a visits while on his way to KL. and he drop by in his Owsome E34 (going to get a paint job next month)

And some reason i was curious about his engine sound. not like anyone who were using SR20-DET or the original 6 cilinder engine would be. So i pop the hood and O_O~!!!
he had transplant a 13-B rotary engine into the car! and very nicely done as well. big WOW here.
Some more he manage to get his hand on a rare watanabe 2-piece 15X7J rim. darn i like those watanabe look on old-school car ^.^ (told him i book the rim if he wanna sell)

After some chit chat, and he was on his way. Might drop by after he done the paint job ;)

Preparing for Kg Track part 1 ^^

Actually, i had went to Chean Exhaust to fix my exhaust due to my "original" exhaust was too restrictive, too small, too much bend, and yet too noisy :P ~ (sorry folks, i dun really like noise)

So out the old 1.6" and in the 2.3" ^.^ let's the operation begin~ finally, the EK9 centre bullet and the HKS muffler i buy over from McGuyver had finally found it's used.
Taking out the old exhaust. it's dunno what mid bullet and 5Zigen-copy muffler, which is extreme noisy in high rev. and yet, it's diameter was just too small the car feels heavy during 6~8K rpm.
5 minutes into the work, with 3 ppl working on mango, come an extra "hand", but this one is not a helping hand :P he just point and use his voice and help. (Mr. 12) 

chean is even-ing the edge of the bullet using only a oxygen torch, yikes~ darn he is good.

After 3 hours of cutting welding, arguing and so so~ it's finally done ^^, see how straight the flow is. perfectly matching the car's under carriage. (if you wan the exhaust to go under the axle, you gotta had a very short stroke absorber- in my case, 4 inches, 2 inch bounce, 2 inch re-bounce)

And guess what, the tire can't grip on the road anymore (in high rev) so the first thing i went back to factory, is install the 4 watanabe RS with RS2 on to mango. ^^ he really look handsome in those new shoes. 

So the thing is, when we playing with our rides. one upgrade would lead to another upgrade. in my case, after installing the new tyre, the rear absorbers+spring wasn't good enough for the current setting. Good thing i was an in this field. 

Taking out the absorber and upgrade the duty to around +30% for the bounce and 60% for the rebouce (for a much stiffer spring is used) and i found a pair of un-used E36's rear spring lying around. a few tweek and it's in mango's back already. (sorry, no photos, my secret :P shhhh)

And what i get is a happier tail and steadier front. ^.^ a happy mango he is.

My Banana Rim is home~ with RS-2 on it ^^

finally, after 2 weeks i finally got time to go down to pick my rims with tyre up.

I got my banana rim from this shop in Kulim, Kedah. He did offer me a reasonable price for both the rims and tyres. Thanks Jian.

all four of them lying nicely behind my Ranger.

Just love the banana like spoke of the rim, i know it sure will look good on my mango ^^ he will look even handsome.

This is what we were talking, HanKook Venture RS-2, performance tyre, those RS would possibly enable me go a few sec faster in Kg Gajah.

All stack up nice and clean in my factory, waiting for mango's arrive to put them on...
T_T darn i miss you mango~

AE86~ ^.^ always a legend.

I bet lot's of ppl never knew one 20++ years old car could get so popular when it's launch during the era. for years, AE86 had been know as one of the worst handling car. but still, it's name was being "clean" by our Jap DK, 土屋圭市(keichi tsuchiya). just the time i go get my banana rim from a friend who own a tire shop in kulim, kedah, i saw his AE86 parking behind his shop, so i quickly take a few snap of it.


he completely copy the look of takumi's 滕原とうふ店 AE86 ^.^


the car is still in it's very original stage, but i do like his rear "duck tail"


even the engine is still stock~! darn.