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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Xenta Absenta

I'd like to kick off my first post after a long absence with a hearty "SELAMAT HARI RAYA" to all my Muslim readers and I'm sure it was a much appreciated break for all non-Muslim kakis as well!
The Chinese 7th month is a busy month for us with all the prayers everywhere and temples to visit. It's blitzes past kinda like after having absinthe... It's just as blurry and hallucinetic.
Secondly, I'd like to thank my "brother from another mother", Ben, for the excellent bottle of Absinthe from Ukraine!
Let me take you back to the start of the 7th month... We started off with prayers in the office, as usual, for the first day, fifteenth day and the last day of the Chinese 7th month. As we were waiting for a couple of fellas to arrive, we thought it'd be fun to fool around with the new RM50.00 bill.

This one's a little off...

And Perfect-o!

But I still think Wei was the funniest match up.

The offerings, and our eventual dinner, had arrived and setup was crucial.

The prayers going on and Silver's sound system was used as a makeshift "ko tai" playing Hokkien songs all evening.
Our Manager chopping up some roast pork for us, which I eventually took over the job... Since all the best bits go to the one chopping. Hehe..

Our resident "sai gong" doing his thing!

Then back home to have prayers at home to honor and thank our ancestors, kinda like thanksgiving, in a morbid way.Our family heirlooms of beautifully handcrafted batik porcelain.

Baba Nyonya dishes all laid out in rows.

Fast forward a couple of days.. My girl worked up some courage and modelled for a hair show, organized by Penang Hairdressers Society (or something like that :P). The Northern Touge group was there for support and it was a PRETTY fun event for us save for a couple of guys that kinda look like "not guys". *Hehehe*
"Pai seh" for the lousy pic, I was seated wa-a-a-a-a-y back, and you can see the crowd that was present! Dang!!!
After that loud and deafening event, I decided to spend a serene weekend away from it all. I went home to my parents' place for a couple of relaxed and zen days. But a BBQ was inevitable as everyone was around this weekend. So we gathered at granny's and had a fiesta.
KL Unc's excellent Angel Hair Alia Oglio.
Big Aunt's zingy Tater'N'Egg salad

Mom's superb lamb chop... You ain't never tasted anything like this!

Our spread of standard food items for the pit... Zero level of customization here, and naturally, last to go and only after all the "specialties" were done with.

The entire family was out enjoying ourselves downright silly... And yes, Silver was utilised once again for the sounds.

We also had garden salads and a variety of finger foods for the children.

After a fulfilling meal, I went around roaming one on of my relaxing drives and came across a beautiful example of a Volvo. This has got to be one of the best one I've seen so far.

This is actually the first Volvo I've come across that I couldn't get my eyes off it!!!

I fealt unappeased somehow, then it struck me, I hadn't ridden Silver yet. I picked up my reins and "hey ho Silver, away", for a cruise along the beaches. I met a 911 Turbo along the drive and after turning into one of the newer developed areas, I caught sight of a beautiful 430 Scuderia! At which point my air conditioning "konked" out on me. But a few timely pics were called for.

Rear end raucuous, check out those pipes placement!

So I sped off to RPM, I can't live without air-conditioning (not in Penang anyway), to find that everyone was there as well. I spent a lazy afternoon at RPM only to diagnose that it was just a loose wire. Phew!
Soon was fixing some leaks and Daniel helped Soon clean up his engine bay. Daniel couldn't stand the sight of a dirt encrusted bay.

Ewe Jin was just hanging and doing some DIY on his new toy....
Which he damaged by disconnecting the air gun without holding on to it.. Hahaha... Er.. Oops, I mean... Aww.... *sad*

Finally, we had a peaceful, and thankfully, uneventful sunday relaxed and just plain chillin' at Kiong Lee's

It has been an exquisitely long post this time around and I'd just like to close by sharing with you, my dear readers, what I found at Prangin Mall a couple of months back.
A donut stand called Bloggers! How cool is that?

Silver's Ammendments

Sunday morning... Wake up... Doing my dirty deeds (purging and cleaning la!)... Fried some vermicelli for breakfast then called up the Fer for a meet up at RPM.

It was a lazy Sunday morning with beautiful cloudy weather which just invokes the "DIY-ness" in any petrolhead. So we brought Silver into one of RPM's bays and popped the hood to see what could be done.

I'd brought along my DOHC T/B for the Fer to inspect and he'd found some scum that the milling and polishing machine could not get to. He immediately got at it with some super fine abrasive paper.

Being the profecient and ever willing mech that he is, after every good job done, inspection is always warranted.The throttle body was smoothened out and all scum removed. Installation was immediate and testing went underway. Mid-RPM throttle was improved and idling was stable, high RPM power improved and on-off throttle response improved drastically.

But somehow, being the perfectionist that he is, Fer was not satisfied with the results mumbling on about how the 4G63 should be much more responsive.

After which he took a look at the crappy temporary fuel regulator I had on for trial runs. He spat at it and yanked the unit out.

Fer went and got one of his old Nismo (I think was done ala HKS design) units to be fitted on. This beaut little mechanical contraption made a beautiful tapping noise when its started up.
Looks like one ugly mutha, but who am I to argue with the top teams?

Fer then found that the air/fuel ratio was immensely rich and retrofitted a modded stock regulator for Silver.

Silver then revved smoothly and the RPM climbed without hesitation. The AF ratio had also improved and ran a little rich at high RPMs just as I'd requested... For engine longevity and all :P

Still unappeased, Fer started to play around with the ignition timing and further improvements were realised during on road testing.

Oh yeah... Norther Touge's highway monster had found a new pair of shoes! Looks beaut dun it?

Ooh... And I finally get to install my beautiful Mitsu strut bar, which I had in storage, after installing the modded DOHC T/B. Pics to come later.

Scooby Dooby Doo

Another Scooby visits RPM for an intercooler swap. This version nine belongs to my very "painted" friend whom traverses the N-S highway often. Good choice on the car to be making all those trips in. I just love the awesome bodykit. Those little carbon fibre lips are just to die for. Even so, just the little front lip costs RM1,300.00. Yikes!

The intercooler is removed along with all necessary piping and prepped for the install.

Anyhoo... His weary old I/C had battered fins and loads of other "battle" scars. See how much ink he has on (himself I mean)?

Another STi unit is installed and ready for blasting.

This is the first time I've actually watched the Defi VSD in action.

This is where it all happens.

Ooh... Version 9 has the DCCD fun button for some "slide-ways" action.

Awesome STi keychain made from actual carbon fibre, every Scooby driver's necessity! You dun even wanna know how much this costs.

Finally, a Ganador item to complement the outrageous body kit.

We talked and drank the afternoon away whilst Chun tried to manage 1.5 bars of boost on his Kancil. But that's another story, for another time. 'Till then, see all you readers again.

Ciao~!

Refreshed, Revised, and Reeeally Fun

"R3?", you read??? I could only imagine Proton's "heffer-of-a-car", the Perdana, being improved by Proton's R3 division. But heck, I just couldn't resist using this title/connotation, with all the "R" abbreviations in our daily automotive banter. A summary and continuation from my Cuore Sostituzione posting, Silver (as the Silver Banana will now be known) has been refreshed with a new breath of life, running on a revised heart and it truly is much more fun to drive.


The old heart sitting at RPM, tired and weary.
With a failing crank and trouble breathing, Silver was refreshed by RPM with a 4G63 DOHC that promises gains in more ways than one. The initial "drop-in" was completed in a hardly believable day (since everything is plug and play), with the wiring taking just another day to complete.

Here's Chun and Joe checking out the head after opening it up in god knows how long.
It still looks "ponna" clean with no residue or gunk to be seen anywhere.

I'm not one for painted valve covers... So I got down to stripping the paint with some paint stripper and Joe did the finer crevices.

The valve cover all shiny and.. er... blank!

I got this awesome Mitsubishi strut bar from a buddy in Sg. Petani. Fits like a glove, and I ain't seen anything like it before.

Engine hoisted up and locked down.

An original Mitsubishi oil cooler came with the engine, so heck, anything that comes with, goes with right? So Joe hooked it up without a single hitch.

The DOHC sits in nicely with loads of room for them to work, still.

Here's Chun doing some final inspections and prepping for the initial crank. Some simple maintenance was done to ensure everything was running smoothly and off we were for tuning!

This is my first experience going for an on road tune and Fer (my mech) offered to drive whilst Mael (my tuner) did all the fiddling on his device. I just sat back and enjoyed as they pulled gear through gear en route. First round of rough tuning were completed and I was told to putter around to feel and feedback on lacking areas.

Finally, here's a pic of Silver at Kiong Lee to revise the piping diameter as the engine is suffocating from the stock exhaust system from 14yrs ago. Honest! I'm not really one for changing pipes. Kiong removed a restrictive resonator and retained the stainless steel reflective one (yes, I run 2 for noise reduction), and a new 2.2" pipe was installed in its place up front. Bring the noise!
Touge sessions were inevitable to test out Silver's new and hefty heart and how it would affect handling and control. After just an initial session, I found that acceleration has been much improved and I needed to increase the amount of steps in my throttle control to reign in the wheelspin mid-corner.
After 3 weeks of driving Silver, I can't wait to book Mael for my next tuning session with him for fine tuning and hopefully improved driveability and fuel efficiency. Not that I'm complaining though, I'm getting gobs more power (esp. torque) and only 2cents more per kilometre. I guess hitting 2 out of 3 of my initial targets (referring to the Cuore Sostituzione post) ain't that bad. Now I just gotta wait it out to see how the durability of this lump holds out.

I'm just loving this new lump of metal right now as its a whole new bag of tricks and I just can't perform enough to match it. Time to tighten up my lines and increase the level of pedal control.