Monday morning blues

Monday morning blues... Blue skies that is. Or at least that was when I left for work early Monday morning. I decided to have a drive up to Tun Sardon's vantage point to keep Silver's strides in check.

I arrived to wonderful scenery and crisp morning air filled my lungs. At that point, it all felt right, it felt as if its going to be an awesome day ahead! *amazing what a little touge and clean air does to ya*

I drove by idly Balik Pulau and decided to take the Teluk Kumbar way to the office just to see how the elevated highway was going on. I got loads of earth on my car from the construction going on there and everything is coming along quite briskly.

Took a photo at my favourite spot, where you can see the old road that'll be closed once the new highway is done.

I got a call at the office and met up with Kang at Smart Tint in Bukit Jambul to check out his new baby after selling off his L200 Kancil. His new project is a luxuriously large Nissan Cefiro in silky black paint.

We got his tints chosen (legal spec of course) and installed and I intro'd him to Chian Soon Tyres where he'll be getting his 18" rollers installed this week.

And yes... That badge tells it all... He got the 3.0 V6 model with the full shebang! See the owner standing proudly by his babe in black?

Cheers buddy!

And a great week ahead to all my readers.

Tyre Promo at Chian Soon Tyres Bukit Jambul

The good folks at Chian Soon Tyres have extended a tyre promo to all Snappyscav.blogspot.com readers. There are various sized tyres and batteries on promo, and while you're there, check out their new selection of rims.

Just print the coupon above and present it to the helpful staff there when placing your order for a new set of rubbers. Enjoy!

Northern Touge Race Day 061209

Venue: Dato’ Sagor Track, Kg Gajah, Perak

Date: 06th December 2009

Time: 9.00a.m – 7.00p.m.

Fees: RM150 per Participant

Category: 1300cc, 1500cc, 1600cc, 1800cc & Open class

Rules & regulations: helmet & sport shoes are required
Rewards: Champion – RM150 cash prize; 1st Runner Up – RM100 cash prize; 2nd Runner Up – RM50 cash prize;

Hamper, trophy & NorthernTouge T-shirt will be given out too
Each participant is allowed to race in their own category & the following 1 class upper. (e.g. cars that qualify to race in the 1300cc category are also allowed a second race in the 1500cc category only).

All participants are required to reach the track by 9.00a.m. sharp for briefing and practice runs.

We are limiting the participation to only 50 participants & confirmation will be based on a first come, first serve basis upon payment.

NorthernTouge T-shirt is available for sale at RM30 per pc. We'd be grateful for early orders, before the 15th of October, if you’re interested in allocating one of these limited NorthernTouge T-shirts for yourself, your spouse, or your grandma!

Contact Person:

Leng – 016-4430016

ScAvEnGeR – 012-4077575

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our sponsors, participants and all those contributing towards the success of the “NorthernTouge Race Day”
Our Sponsors Include:

- FEDERAL Tyres

- Ultrex Brake Pads (Brake Pads sponsorship)

- Camo3

- Nidastudios

- RPM Autowork

- Tommax Sticker

- Tit Luen Exhaust

- Kean Auto Cooling Services

- Car Magic Car Wash

- TWC Car Audio

- Evo Car Audio

- Chian Soon Tyres (PG) Bkt. Jambul

- Kiong Lee Exhaust

- Soon Yee Exhaust

- Northern Garage

- M Power

Participants:

1) Daniel (Honda Civic – PDV8663)2) Lee Chin Hooi (Civic EF 1.6 PCW 7323)3) Soon (Wira gsr- KAK8209)4) Suhaimie (Wira mivec- PCU6181)5) Jackson Foo (Satria 1.8 PDJ 8395)6) Shazwan (DC5 V-Tec-WKH3266)7) Hazuha bin Hussin (Satria 1.3 WGE 7791)8 ) S.Mathan (Integra 1.8 JGB 7200)9) Chun (Waja 1.6 PDF 5107)10) Hong (Subaru v.7- WNU2894)11) Hin (Myvi PHK1511)12) Pin (Wira PDU9686)13) AK (Satria 1.6 PDB5948)14) Roxes (Civic V-Tec PCW6128)15) Kenny Chan (Wira 1.5 PDC127)16) Sunny (Kelisa AES 6570)17) Loo Boon Tat (Civic EG 1.6 JCW 3122)18) Kwang (Kelisa 1.0 PFE 5342)19) Khen (TX3 WFT 7263)
20) Azhar (Wira 1.8 PDP 3389)
21) Mohd. Faizal (Wira 1.5 PEQ 7596)
22) Muhammad Khairul (Waja 1.6 PGM 2983)
23) Ezwan (Iswara 1.3 PEW 8108)
24) Nizar (Kancil L2 IFB 45)
25) Muhammad Syahrul (Satria 1.6 PDD 7115)
26) Adi Azman (Wira 1.6 WFM 3595)
27) Shahril (Kancil L2 WFL 3415)
28) William (Wira 1.8 PCN 9762)

29) Mail (Iswara Aeroback 1.3 PDW 9738)

30) Ivan (Satria 1.8 PDF 7308)

31) Yee Mun Hong (Wira 2.0 PDI 2508)

32) Justin Cheah (206 1.4 PHL 2827)

33) Robert Loke (Satria 1.3 PDL 6567)

34) Low Yong Fook (Toyota AE80 1.6 SS4889B)

35) Baharum B. Mat (Kancil L2 PDD 1085)

36) Chan Khai Pin (Wira 1.6 PEM 9488)

37) Nazrul (Wira 1.6 PCY 8530)

38) Dicky Ramfatiwi (Wira 1.6 PDW 7076)

39) Erik tan (Proton satria 1.8 ADW 8887)

40) Albert (Proton satria 1.8 WXX 8178)

41) Shahrul Hisham (KE70 1.6 KN 2427)

42) Mohd Noh (Saga 1.5 WCH 5040)
43) Jan (Saga 1.5 JCJ 5746)

44) Bob (Wira 1.8 PDM 6668)

45) Saw Kah Chun (Honda City 1.3 PDT 3738)

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Federal Tyres offered at Chian Soon, Bkt Jambul

We, the Northern Touge crew, have continuously strived and bargained to bring you the best from Federal Tires. In this final leg and with tremendous support and effort, Federal Tyres have offered their top performance tires for our event at a bargain price.

The 595 RSR series 205/50/15 tires will be selling at ONLY RM300.00 each... What a steal... and it's only at Chian Soon, Bukit Jambul!

Orders will have to be placed ASAP as delivery of the tires will take a week or more. Cheers all!

Rubbers!

One of our sponsors, Chian Soon Tyre Battery at Bukit Jambul (right behind Kayu Nasi Kandar), is offering performance tires for all Northern Touge "friends and family" (and participants).
Just provide me with the make, model and size of the tires you need by 15th of October 2009 and Chian Soon will get it for you at a promotional price! You can place your orders with Leng or the Snappy one himself.

Leave your order in the comments section along with your name and phone number or you can contact us at the numbers below:
Leng: 012-575 7555
ScAvEnGeR: 012-407 7575

Cheers and happy motoring!

Eagles of a Feather

I paid a short visit to Fer at Chian Soon Tyre yesterday to resolve some alignment woes and Chan (Fer's boss) approached me, utered to me some gibberish and to follow him. Seeing his ever willing-ness to help out us enthusiasts, I gladly did.
It turns out his new shipment had arrived that very day and he was bragging about his brand new F1 Asymmetrics to me.

Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric on the left (upright) as compared to the Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD3 piled up on the right.

So I proceed to check out the tires and these seem extremely solid and made for cornering grip. Stiff blocks all around and aggresive threading are the composure of this tire. After the perusal, he made me an excellent offer.. And I'm honestly tempted!

Drop me a thought...

Fly like an Eagle!

I'd experienced massive undulations and a whole lot of vibrations the past couple of weeks since I got my car and something was just not right. However, I soldiered on until the instability of the tire got quite dangerous, especially in light of current weather conditions (Malaysia has its monsoon season during its third quarter, or July to September)

So I drove on over to Fer's place (Chian Soon Tires right behind Kayu Nasi Kandar and Kiong Lee at Bukit Jambul) to have my tires checked. Tire pressures were all spot on... but upon removal, the threads were worn all the way through and I was already driving on the thread markers and my tires were already bulging (the worst condition). Fer got me an excellent deal for the Goodyear Eagle F1's, his shop is one of the largest Goodyear dealers in Penang. As the Eagle F1's have been rated and reviewed to be the best wet handling tire on the market, and our current weather, I grabbed at them hot off the bench.

I was just observing the difference in thread depth between the two, and the disadvantages of running a heavy car rears its (figurative) ugly, rubber consuming head. I just love the aggresive thread design... Dang, the thread looks awesome!
After driving around a while, I found that these tires are indeed a great all rounder with excellent grip in the dry and unbelievable grip in the wet, very progressive loss of traction, not as much road noise as my Kumhos and fantastic high speed stability (110km/h in a straight line of course).

Plus line tracking (tracing) and all round stability was up from the Kumhos.There's no doubt as to why it outranked all other tires as an all round performer on multiple independant tire tests.

Two thumbs up from me!!!