Saturday, January 15, 2011

when a 4 puck crack like nuts

         About 3 days ago, My friend and i planned to sent his car to the my mech's workshop somewhere in Manjung, Perak. The night before that my car feels strange. There's a misfire every time i change my gears and it feels like there's something wrong with the clutch pump (common factor ). So, before we went there, i made a quick gearbox service in the morning and when that taukeh open the gearbox, we concluded that there's nothing wrong with the clutches. He bled the clutches and, and check the clutch pump but everything's ok. So i change the gear oil but i noticed some metal dust coming out of the gearbox and from that time i knew there's something wrong somewhere. Anyway, we installed it the right way and i'm off with my friend to Manjung, 80 km from Ipoh.
        It was then when suddenly i couldnt change my gears totally and the squeaking sounds from the gearbox shatters that afternoon saying "damn it Rahman, dont push it too hard dude.".... i made an immidiate stop while my friend in his car gave a question mark kind of face, the gesture that i really want to spank him right there, totally...So, without further ado, i punch my double signal switch and kick my car, cursing real bad. I called my mech and he send a tow truck . It cost me RM 300 for the gearbox servicing and the towing. What a day...
       Later, when we reached my mech's place, we found out that my clutches damaged, but uniquely it's not broken but the center shaft are being grinded by my drive shaft gears... OMG... i will never buy any custom things ever again and from this day i pledge....anything custom..i fxxk...anything i fxxk...it's custom.





a thing you called 4g92: baby, hold on tight!!!

a thing you called 4g92: baby, hold on tight!!!

baby, hold on tight!!!

               Back in 2007 ( i think), i was hanging out with my mech in Second Link, Johor. That's where we all had fun on week nights testing our machines with all those johorean car lovers. I was with EP, my mech in his car. we had just arrived from Kluang and were having a great time whacking his silvertop MIVEC with all those 92 twincam and those 93's. Moments later, things did'nt  turn out well when suddenly a police helicopter swing above his car and to our surprise the lane was blocked. a factory bus was blocking our lane and the other side of the highway is blocked by a trailer. About 200 cars scatters all over the highway finding each possible exit that they could get and the streets were all messed up. Then the police in uniforms starts coming towards us and we were in for it. 500 people all escorted to the Police stations and we were all quarantine like immigrants without visa's. Eventually, we made it back the other day after paying the fines ( RM800) just to get his car out.

              Later that day i went home and my friends asked me "where u've been?"..i said "jail"and they laughed about it. but i dont really care coz i'm so damned tired and went to sleep. Later that evening, my friends were all shocked to see that my mech's car is in the news and tomorrow the front page of Metro Newspaper. What a night.
              As i am writing this, i kept thinking where i'm getting my skills from. how to drive and shift gears, how to manuever in lanes full of cars and how to respect rivals and make street racing fun. it was all from them, my southern friends. As i moved back to my northern region, it isnt working that way like always. Motorsports here is just about whose got a better engine and what body part you have..but it's ok..because here in the north, i learned lots about performance parts and tuning that makes the scenes here different from the southern region. Southern people tune their machine to the tuning shops but over here there are many independent tuners who tune way much better than those taukeh's...and i would like to become one of them. But really, both the northern and southern have something in common...a desire to race and RND over their machines. but because of all these, my wife to be is so fed up with me and i think it's just about time to let it go and just drive like common drivers do..hehe.hold on tight baby....

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

mineral or synthetic oil???

As i was driving through the streets of Jelapang, i met a friend of mine. his ride is also a wira 1.8 mivec with stock flat 81 mm pistons powered by a unit of VAFC. we met and have a chat about handphones and stuffs but mostly it's about cars and cheap performance parts that we could get here in Ipoh. About 15 minutes later, i found out that i have a leakage somewhere between the oil filter and the oil sump." Money again"..i mumbled out those words as i checked thoroughly the leakage. i think it's because of my car's height. With a lowered spring and standard pressed shock absorber, my chances of my bottom body kissing the tyres are high.. As i checked i noticed that there's a scratch on the surface of the oil sump cover. so, i have another chat with my friend and he asked me what type of engine oil that i used...so i said to him that i dont really care as long as it's cheap but good response...i have tried those Caviaga's, Idemitsu, Penzoil's 15- 50 w and also castrol VMX that stock mivec uses. So my friend ask me about the response of all those oils...and i said.. "ada bezakah?" (are there any differences?) And he said that he had been using a lot of Engine oils too. Torco, Wurth and all those oils that he could get out of the performance shop...and he believes that those racing oils really have an impact on the performance of the cars.. Those Q8 and torco oils are good, but not suitable on the road for multivalves, he said because it evaporates quickly..suitable for track use...Motul..as he stated, are the best, but due to cynical price, it's not worth it buying that kind of oil..so, forget it. Other brands especially the 20- 50 W's are totally a thumbs down.
       So i wondered if he's telling the truth about all the spec that's he's given me.. all these while, i just stick to 20- 50W and 15-4ow's. But it feels alright.. i think that the response are ok... so why should i change to those expensive oils? But as i was driving to my friends Workshop in Tesco Seksyen 18, i though about asking him that question. He gave me a thumbs up and said, "Good food for healthy mind." What the fxxk is he talking about? But he gave me SUMO M2 mineral oil. He said my old engine fits best with mineral oil.But he gave me a 10 -40 W and said "this is original Japan maa..."..hehe.so i tested it and to my suprise it really does give more response than those i have used earlier..feels like i'll be using this oil for a long time..hehe..the price is acceptable and the response is good, the packaging is neat but the most fun is that it's more fun driving on the road... cool...

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Abg J

                        Law inforcement are so strict in Malaysia. Sometimes it kills people creativity to develop RND in Motorsports and so on. yeah, we agree that you're doing your job as a road law inforcer but dont you guys have a heart? a few weeks ago a friend of mine is on the road with his wife heading north to his mom's house. On his way a group of inforcer is making a roadblock near a toll ( we pay roadtax but yet we still need to pay for the roads...freaky isnt it?) when dan officer ordered my friend to the side...he said that my friends exhaust is loud. but the problem is that his exhaust are stock from Proton  (SAGA BLM), but yet he got a ticket and he cursed that officer until  he reached his mama's place in Sungai Petani...
                       A case like that also happens to me yesterday... i almost got a ticket because my back lamp isnt working. i tried to explain that the cover dropped inside my body but he wont listen. so, i lift my back bonnet and adjust the lamp and said.."there you go sir,like new..."..but still not satisfied he asked if my car colour are like the one in the record...and i said yeah but he wouldnt believe me...so i told him to check in his computer and that officer is really wasting my time...lastly i had to say that it's a waste of time and say that i also work for the government and the summons that he might gave me would go into our bonuses. so, just let it go....after hearing that he got leanient and he let me slip that time...
                      That night i kept thinking why do you guys try to find mistakes ? you guys keep talking about Malaysian drivers drives like fxxk and that accidents kill malaysian more than cigarettes when you should look at the real point and see it from the people's point of view.. why do we hear Malaysians die in  accidents? first, it's because of beaurocracy. Government gives tender to Contractor with enough amount of money. Contractors subs the tender to someone else and get cash for free. the sub contractors sub the tender to another low budget contractor and the last contractor makes the road not accoording to spec because the money given aint enough for them to pay their workers. so, if the road should be 4mm thick, it'll be reduced to 2 mm. After the roads are ready, heavy trucks and lorries uses the road sharing it with cars and motorcycles. Due to its weight, the road starts to crack and gotten damaged with holes and stuffs. then at night (hypothetically writing) a car fully loaded with a family uses the road unaware of the condition and hit the holes. His car got damaged. Lets say that he saw the hole and decided to evade it but in front of him another car is approaching fast...that's when accidents happen...(and it happens every months...)so... we need good road PLEASE!!!!
            Then came the safety of our cars. to help national cars sell their cars, government gives AP to imported cars. so, if Malaysians wants to buy an imported car, they need to pay the tax 2 times it's original price. it makes imported cars expensive. So, no choice, Malaysian buys national cars and Proton and Perodua got it's car of the year award every year. But during those years, did they improve the chasis and the safety of passengers inside? i'm guessing not. Maybe the answer should be 'yeah'but how much money should we throw out to those company? even today, people need to pay an expensive price if they wanted two sets of airbags for the passenger and the driver. not to mention the chasis quality like a coke tin. But yet, the price is high. We pay high price even for our national cars so that these capitalist companies make profits. Then they say drive carefully guys..but i say 'hey shit..quit making low budget cars and kill your own citizens."...but they dont understand.......
            Because of the low quality of cars...people modified their cars to ensure safety for them on the road. Good aftermarket absorbers are being selled like it's candy. people even changed engines to make sure they have enough power to overtake a car in front. Then came ABG J and kills people creativity and enthusiasm.you cant do this, you cant do that. When a wira with an evo III engine overtake the ministry of transport, they traced his engine. from that day, no wira are allowed to swap to a 2.0 engine. why are you afraid? ashamed a 14 year old car can overtake your luxorious car on the highway? People who got killed in Malaysia are not the ones with big engines Mr. Ling...it's your policies of giving a 660 cc to a compact car and a single cam 1300 cc for a sedan..those are the ones we hear a lot getting into accidents due to its limit in overtaking a car. next those bigger cc's involved in accidents and die due to good chassis, then the attitude of drivers ( drunk, too fast and so on )..if you want to make this right..change your policies and stop being a low life thug...