{For Sale} Tein HA/HR locking ring

Recently I got a few customer coming in TEIN HA/HR with broken locking rings. Seems like the material was at it's end-of-life. So i had to source replacement for them. And after some ordeal. It seems that it's becoming common that old TEIN coming in from Japan would have a broken locking rings.  

So i had to ask my neighbor who fortunately had CNC to make me some new one. And since the boss said it wouldn't be cost effective to make just 2~4 pieces. (in which it would cost more than 200 for just a pair) So i had to settle with making 50 sets - one big ring and one small ring X 50 as minimal order. 

In which after taking out some of the pre-order unit and some I would keep for my future customer. I still have 15 extra sets to let go.  The specification is 57.5mm inner hole with 3mm thread. It will fit any TEIN, coil over with the corresponding thread size. 

The price is MYR100 for one set consist of one big ring and one small ring. Excluding mailing/shipping charges.  Anyone who were interested can contact me via my company TKA Motorsport. 

Why I had been missing all this while~

Firstly, mango is going through another heart transplant. This time was because the old SVT block had some cracks (or what we think it was) on cylinder 1,4. And Mcguyver thought that the original BT con-rods wasn't up to the jobs for our 9K rpm plan for the engine. So we were still waiting for my H-beam conrods from US to arrive. 

 And mean while. I'm working on the following projects. One of it was the thing that just came in from workshop. Guess what's it's for. 

(pss. whose who had come to my shop and saw it please keep silence and let those who haven saw it give their wild guess ;) ~ 

peace-out~ 

Engine Taken out (again) ~

Finally manage to secure a place where i can leave mango on tripod for at least a month's time for me to slowly do all the tweaking and overhaul his heart. As I had a sure feeling that one or more of it's cylinder is loosing compression. 

 As expected from our McGuyver, my 4age-20v is taken out from mango within 1 hour and taken apart in 2~ XD~ buggy fast he work.

And to our~ (mcguyver said it's his first time saw this kind of condition after so many 20v he had taken apart) HORROR~! cylinder one and four have this 'crack' kinda mark on it's cylinder and both piston ring were about 0.2mm smaller. Not sure it's a lot but it definitely effected mango's hours power. 

So with the twist of event.... an engine block change is in evadable~ Good thing i had two more black-top block in spares~   

Oops~ I did it again (>_<)~~

 I was @ Ah Jian's place last week. To trade in McGuver's P1 Racing which i couldn't use due in adequate Offset. And I SAW those lying on the shelf! Watanabe F8 RIMS~! though it's only the 6.5jj version but they were extremely rare. The market is flooded with imitations and some other manufacturers same (almost) design rims. I told myself i had to have them (>_<)... *not again.  

And a few minutes and a very very empty wallet later. They were behind the ford ranger and headed back home. 

Which later i felt that i wasn't like the two with black color so i went to paint shop and look around for special paints for rims. And i fall in love with the Volk Racing color which they recently added to the list.  And while i'm doing my paint shopping, my bro was preparing the rim for painting. He cleanse the rims with solvent and taped the surrounding area which we decided to leave it as it was, aluminum color.

And a few layers of the premier, a few layers of the Volk color and a coating of hard coating later~ walla~ it's shinning like (not exactly) new. 

Hohoho~ i'm a happy dude. I'll be putting on my old AD07 on them later to prepare for the coming autocross training which after mango's major surgery after CNY.

Bored-om Bomb~! Try guessing what have we done~

Work were a bit slow lately due to my ex-worker all open up a 'stall' behind their house and start drilling shock absorbers and start changing absorber oil.

So i have plenty of time thinking up odd mods to the suspension settings XD~ this is one of them~

* Warning this mode were performed by trained professional. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME~!

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.  

KYB road show in Prangin Mall, Penang

Yesterday i was invited my my KYB shock absorbers supplier to attend their road show in Prangin Mall, Penang. So i went there with my wife and daughter. 

 The event is actually at the Atrium A of Prangin Mall. Just beside the Phone Retailer booth. You will saw it as soon as you walk into the centre court area. It's lit-up in Bright RED KYB logo color~  

 There's 3 mini games where you can participate in and if you got the fastest time there's small secret gift.

Booth showing off the internal structure of the absorbers and how it works.  

Just drop by if you were happening to be around the area. There's no loses learning extra new knowledge about our cars.