Showing posts with label Wira GSR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wira GSR. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Of the Black Bitch and Doughnuts

The Hairy One's (Ah Soon) Black Bitch had been MIA for some time so I popped on over to check up on him just to see if all's well. What came to me was a half empty engine bay...
And a disassembled tranny (transmission/gearbox) laying sprawled across the shopfloor.
Soon did a DIY gearbox bearing swap! So proud of him! Upon completing the process, where else to better test the fittings than at the T_ _G_.... C'mon, you guys know where :P
All's well and fine and Soon was brimming from ear to ear.
Something completely irrelevant: I was at Pranging meeting up with secondary school friends last weekend and I came across this doughnut shop called Bloggers! I hadn't had the chance to try it out yet since we were passing it on our way back from lunch.
This place would definitely be a place I'd like to visit some time. We're too full of Big Apple and Krispy Kremes :(

Friday, October 17, 2008

The Hairy One - Refurbished

Soon's car had recently just got out of the workshop due to the prior mishap at "the twisties". He has since encouraged and motivated himself to get back on the proverbial horse to attempt faster lap times and has been making lots of corrections since.

As such, he'd found that if there's one thing he needs, it's more and sustained grip from the tires. The previous set of 15" Duro tires were just wearing thin and wearing him out reining them in all the time. In preparation for the track days and touge sessions to come, he'd changed to a beaut set of OZ Superleggera replicas, and upsized to 17". The size increment will help prohibit some of the effects when he gets on boost.

It's an intriguing yet gratifying feeling to watch a turbo'd front wheel drive take on the twisties of Penang, which the local authorities built without any thought of putting in straights. All Soon needs now is a decent set of tires and he'll be ready to blast off!

Monday, September 22, 2008

Friday Night Fright!

Touge people, hey!, it's alright... We've been waiting Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Hey!, it's Friday night!!! Or so the song goes... (adapted from S Club 7)

It was all fun and games when a friend from mainland visited us and joined us for the usual touge session. We had a super long TT until around 2a.m. then super fast touge to the Teluk Bahang Dam. After a short "kap-ster" session, we'd decided to gun the Teluk Bahang-Balik Pulau stretch with much bravado and all us speed cunts were super high in spirit!

I took lead and Daniel was giving chase, hastily mind you, right behind me. I was having so much fun sliding the new tires (still kinda waxy.. Or I didn't get the pressure right yet :P) till Daniel started to flash a series of highlights to alarm me of a . Dang!

My heart pounded as I anxiously waited to hear his news.... Daniel pulled up alongside and my worst was confirmed... No one was following him! The worst thing to happpen in a touge session , albeit with extremely low frequency, is to suddenly find no one trailing you. Only a few things could have occured- i) A breakdown. ii) Lost of direction. iii) Accident!

Daniel and I turned around and sped hastily (albeit cautiously) in the reverse direction fearing the worst... Daniel had informed me that Soon was right behind him, further escalating the sense of dread. We turned two... Three corners and fear had caused trepidation within me, and our worst fears were brought to bear!
Soon looking for ways to remove his front lip, which he eventually did along with the driver side fender, and side skirt.
Everyone was extremely helpful and we got the car out without much hassle. Thanks everyone, we couldn't have got it out without all the help.
The damage was luckily minor and we managed to drive it back to a safe location (Tommax compound) for storage until the panel workshop got here the next morning.
The lower arm was bent so bad that the negative castor almost rendered the car immobile. Luckily I had a smaller sized spare tires compared to Soon's 195/60/15's. So we installed those and drove back with only this tiny clearance you see here.
Soon is very clear minded about this incident and agrees that this is the consequence we face when indulging in such activities. I salute him for his calm approach and undying spirit (as he was up in the touge with us again on Saturday!) for the sport.

Cheers mate, to all the times we will further have! Kampai!!!