Happy Chinese New Year :D

Gong Xi Fa Cai every one^^

For us Redsuns we celebrate CNY the only way we knew how... uphill to Genting!!! xD

I just came back from Miri, just a few days missing the FC sweet throttle I was already itching to have a go... and not only that, Cloud have just started making his Clim Hazard into a touge machine^^

Cloud just installed camber adjustable screws... setting his camber to 0.5 degs and installed Bendix Metal King brake pads and Ultra Racing 3 point front strut bar^^

Finally the Clim Hazard is receiving the proper mod it needs to be a proper touge battle gear ^^

And Cloud did not just add some handling mods to his gear, but also spice it up with some Bling Bling factor xD


So we met up at our house around 11pm and prep our gears ready for the Genting trip^^
We called out Hanz to join us but it was raining cats & dogs at his place so he was rather skeptic it would be dry at the touge... but what the heck, we just move on praying for the best^^



Filling up the old Circus for the touge drive^^

Cloud lead all the way up to Genting with the Circus following behind.... its just sad these Campro engines dont have enough umph to make Genting uphill more exciting :p

alas when we reached the top it was jam packed, whether people were trying to celebrate CNY or Valentine's we have no idea... we just try to find an empty space to cool around and hang around amongst the cloud^^


Flying Circus & Clim Hazard

Redsuns Battle Gear^^

More bling bling from Clim Hazard xD

Both with a well round behind >.< We chatted around and enjoy the weather up there in the clouds and went back down around 2 am, on our way down I found myself in an exciting downhill run with a Lancer GT^^ He was tailgating me like there was no tomorrow at the bumper area and when the road was cleared a bit I let him hear the roar of a Rotary Turbo^^ Unfortunately not all good things last, I had a break failure when I had to make a hard brake approaching a camouflage bumper >.<

The brake connection at the rear left tyre burst again O.o so I had to make a slow excruciating trip back home T.T

Guess it was not all fun & adrenaline on our night of celebrating CNY xD
I guess the Circus will have to make another visit to the workshop... and also installing that new roll cage^^

Echo of the soul^^

After almost 1 month not touching the Flying Circus has left me rather restless...
until last Monday, we took the Flying Circus home from our Mechanic friend Hau^^

The rumble of the 13B rotary just stirred my soul, the touch of the throttle excites my inner side^^ immediately I floored the throttle and the Circus went to almost sonic boom^^

Keisuke and I tested the FC on the Putrajaya highway for old time sake and we noticed that since we installed the new FEED exhaust the top end speed is quite affected but the low end response I guess more than make it up^^

And as the sun falls we tested the FC at our regular ground... Bangi touge.

With Cloud driving his trusty and Bling Bling Clim Hazard along^^ we went right after midnight.

This is the FC's first touge outing since Keisuke's shocking defeat at Hanz Neo... and what we found out was that we were consistently slower by 10-20 seconds than our best times at Bangi.

What bothered us the most was the body roll we're suffering, most likely from our Sepang adventures that has literally took its toll on the old lady's chassis rigidity.

Being 23 years old, subjected to excruciating side G's at the track and numerous accidents it suffered under its 5 previous owners... the chassis seem to has suffered severely...

Compared to Hanz Neo with new chassis complete with all the Ultra Racing Bars installed and RM350++ tyres apiece... it made mince meat of our old Circus with only RM300 for 4 tyres I hate to admit it but the Campro pawned Rotary Turbo T.T

Although now the tyres has more grip at hand but the chassis just cant harness it, and with us demanding more grip level just cant chew this bitter fruit...

With fresh from defeat its time to up the level of the FC, we would need to address the chassis rigidity issue of the circus... and so far a competition grade 10-point roll cage is waiting to be installed^^

Hura!!!! and hopefully we'll get our selves a set of high grip tyres it will be back at Touge battles for the Circus, Hanz just need to wait until then ;)

The Ghost of Tekali...

Yup, the title says it all... i met the ghost of tekali >.< haha... last thursday night was a real eye opener :-p I got home a little late from the office, and while entertaining a guest at my home, around 11pm i got a msg from our good old buddy pal Hanz, inviting us for some touge fun :-) an offer i could not refuse.. X-p After setting out from home around midnight, i reached the agreed rendevous place about 20 minutes later at the heart of KL. About 1 am, we moved out... :-) Our group consisted of 4 cars, the FC, Hanz's impeccable Neo, Farizz's sponsored-laden Neo, and Halimi's fancy and impractical Neo X-p (apparently he had tinted his headlamps, rendering it almost utterly useless.. X-p cool, but useless.. X-p) Halimi just wanted to tag along and witness our touge fun we've always been talking about X-p Farizz is practically still new, so he'll try to keep up; we don't put much hope to it X-p (he's an old hand in the drag scene, but touge is a whole different ball game :-p) the only serious player is myself and hanz... We scouted the road, all conditions are near perfect :-) dry road, pack of dogs running out of the way, and hardly any traffic X-) the only thing missing is a full moon (unfortunately, there was no moon that night... O.O so things were very VERY dark...) then we started off with Hanz leading the way (since the FC is notorious for throwing off stones to any spirited pursuers X-p Hanz wasn't yet willing to sacrifice his paintjob for some ego-bloating bragging-rights of pawning the FC X-p) The uphill section, due to power difference, wasn't really a problem for me to keep up (and tali-gate Hanz X-p).. nevertheless, Hanz was taking it easy since when we reached the downhill part, Hanz didn't really push it, so i still didn't have much of a problem in keeping up... Farizz claimed that he wasn't able to keep up because his engine 'conveniently' died just before we took off.. X-p Then we swapped positions... i got the advantage at first when we took off because Hanz mis-shifted into 2 gear and fell behind a considerable distance entering into the first turn, but an incoming traffic made me slow down and gave Hanz the opportunity to make right the mistake he did... On the uphill, due to sheer power, i pulled away a bit on the straights.. X-p but being a noob that i am, Hanz just makes the difference at the turns (sheesh... being pawned day in day out is really taxing on my self-esteem...) Things turn for the worst on the downhill... Hanz, with very good road-hugging tyres (potenza re-01s) and very stiff chassis (he had fully strengthened his chassis, making the car handles like a go-kart X-p) just jump in the corners (without having to worry much about unsettling the weight balance of the car) and sticks at my behind like a stubborn tick.. Even the FC's flame-spouting anti-tailgating exhaust system wouldn't stave him off his evil course.. X-p (and apparently, his ego got the better part of him, rather than saving his paintjob, he finds it more satisfying to beat my ego to a pulp.. X-p) I must admit that i'm a coward, and driving a car that is not mine makes me even more cautious on these dangerous trips... coupled with the FC's rather inadequate stiffness and tendency to oversteer, is a recipe for a sunday cruise through the downhill part X-p But with Hanz's xenon headlights and knight-rider LED just sniffing my butt (nearing licking it X-p) i couldn't escape from the pressure it creates... i tried to push the FC a bit more in the corners, and armed with cheap-o second hand tyres, went into a massive oversteer (just like the last time when our highly-skilled friend Aaron kept on incessingly pressure us on the downhill X-p) The car's wide drift angle caught me quite a bit by suprise, so much so that i almost thought that we're going to spin out X-p but somehow i didn't really panic :-p just simply corrected the angle and try to keep the car from spinning... but as usual, the drift ended pretty badly since i missed the exit the tail just whipped about X-p Of course Hanz was so full of himself after the run... :-p couldn't blame him, i would have myself X-p Farizz came along afterwards... :-p Then we went another round.. nothing extraordinary... But i cannot but notice how Hanz would enter a corner more faster, and carry more speed throughout, as i would just have to restrain myself from pushing the car further because it is as if that was its limits (which later on i would find i was disillusioned :-p) and watch him crept away at the turns, only to be caught up again at the straights.. X-( We did another round, and this time Hanz leads again (i think... we did quite a number of rounds that night :-p couldn't really remember how much...) this time Hanz went all out on the lead.. i could keep up with him on the uphill (but he doesn't even brake O.O the guy's suicidal...) but it is the downhill where he truly shines.... X-( He hardly brakes and jump into a turn, and just floor the throttle till the exit.. his control over the car is phenomenal, any slight anomaly was quickly corrected with a jab of steering correction input... his driving instinct is extraordiary... O.O since downhill neutralizes any power difference, Hanz pulls away... X-( I couldn't bring my balls up to his standard to push the FC the way he does... i could barely hang on to him, and if the touge had run a bit more longer, he'd definitely disappear from my sights.. :-( i've never seen anybody attacking the downhill part as fast and aggresive as Hanz did that night... O.O (i believe even Aaron never did pushed as fast as he did...) i put my hat down, truly Hanz is leaps and bounds ahead of me, in terms of skills, instinct and pure ball-ness... X-( Farizz was riding shotgun with me on that ride, and he saw how fast Hanz was going, and commented at the end "padanla aku tak dapat ikut korang... laju giler.." X-p of course i wasn't really that fast, but Hanz, he's a different story all together... On the way back, we decided to do some joy riding X-p with the camera in Hanz car, i was suppose to do some drifting with the FC X-p but because i was a noob with balls the size of peanuts X-p i would inadvertantly brake too hard, killing the speed, and try in vain to power-over the FC out the turn.. X-p which didn't work because the speed was too slow and it was too dark for me to see the exit (thus wasn't really brave enough to just swing the car X-p) The last run was a pathetic attempt to look cool :-p but i noticed, that the FC actually has quite a tremendous amount of grip O.O more than i had reckoned... when i was trying to power over the car out, the rear just wouldn't go, instead the car would just propel out the corner with suprising speed O.O it suprised me a bit, and made me realize how much i've lost touch with the FC... i need to get things back up to par if i'm ever to tame the Ghost of Tekali.. X-p i can't wait for another dose of action like that... X-) we went round after round, and because Hanz was barely using his brakes, his brake could actually sustain such abusing continuous rounds at Tekali :-) couldn't wait for more... X-) anyway, here's the vids.. the video quality is really bad :-p (bcoz it was a phone camera X-p) and the FC's chase sucks about half the vid bcoz they got the camera out of focus X-p (or perhaps Farizz thought that i was going to leave Hanz in the dust, so he zoomed in the camera by default to see the FC clearly :-p obviously we know what happened.. X-p)

Update...

Hmmm.... it seems the blog has been dead for quite some time now... xD

Considering the extreme busy-ness of all the crew as of late it is no wonder.
I have been missing in action on oversea assignment for a couple of months, Keisuke has been busy with his marriage (Congrats^^), Jr Turbo has suddenly become an important personnel in his company and has been on and offshore in succession for the whole year >.< and Cloud.... well he is always busy xD Anyway, lately I have just been back from outside... and first thing first is to check on the FC (and send my congratz to Keisuke on his marriage^^) The FC havent been driven or cleaned for almost a month because Kei was extremely pre-occupied with his wedding so I just woke up the old lady and clean her as thoroughly as possible for the track day on 20th Dec^^ Hahaha.... I came back on the evening of the 19th and 20th was already at Sepang^^ all fired up and ready to have my fix of adrenaline after long month of hibernation xD Unfortunately the FC only lasted for 5 laps at Sepang before the brake connection burst... I lost the brake at the final hairpin, luckily the FC was already sliding at that time so all I had to do was just to maintain the slide and slow down the car naturally... We had to drive slowly back home limping with a leaking brake (since I was already broke paying RM200 for a 5 lap excitement I just cant find myself paying a few more hundred bucks for the tow truck xD ) Now the FC is alright again, with new brake connection... new front brake caliper and brake pads (it seems my previous pads has worn out already O.o) Oh oh and the new (used :P) front caliper is from RX-7 FD^^ and the pads are Project U (Mew :P) We've just run through the bedding process with Hanz (since he just changed his pads as well for his Neo) and now its 2 am in the morning and I'm getting sleepy :p I guess thats just the update from us for these couple of months... our personal life getting the better part of our automotive life ^^ Until then, probably we'll be going for our usual touge session again after everyone has settle down again ;) AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!!!^^ HOPE YOU HAD A NICE 2009 AND 2010 WOULD HOPEFULLY BE BETTER!!!! ;) Good night >.

Having fun at the East Coast^^

Well, being bored in the East coast with nothing much to do except work can be quite boring...

Until one of my friend, "The Doctor"^^ brings me along in his classic 1973 Toyota Celica ST^^

Wicked sick! He has just gave the old 'Dato' a new heart transplant... a 4AG^^ with AE86 Tranny all the way to the rear axle with limited slip diff ;)

So the car has become extremely fun to drive... if I were to rate the 'fun factor' of this car it would definitely be 10/10 ^^

Here's a vid of us having some FUN FUN FUN with the old Dato' ^^

SHIRO SUISEI IS BACK!!!

Finally the FC is done X-)

well, about 99% :-p it still needs to get polished one last time... X-p

now that the FC is beautiful again, can't wait to start putting up decals to beautify it even more X-) especially the all important Redsuns vinyl... X-p

But one drawback with the FC being so beautiful, is that the slightest stain drives me crazy up and down the wall X-(

i'm starting to miss the old facade of the FC, being that ugly at least makes us coy about the looks X-p turning a blind eye to practically any stain on the car.. :-p

being white in colour, surely doesn't help in hiding any defects... :-p haha... anyway, it looks like we'll be postponing any drifting practice indefinitely X-p until the shiro suisei (white comet) gets dirty enough for us to finally have the heart to make it dirtier.. X-p haha..

until then.. enjoy the pics ^^

TOUGE JUNKIE!!! X-D

Yup... tonite was another nite of back-to-back touge adventure X-) GOD!!! Haven't had this much fun for ages... X-p

I called up our good old buddy pal mechanic whether i can send the circus for a repainting today, and he suggested to send it tomorrow, so ok... another night to squeeze out some more fun X-p

sent our good old buddy pal aaron a msg, and as usual, he's always game X-) his squeaking pulley will just have to wait if it wants to act up X-p also goes the same to the circus's leaking gearbox oil.. X-p

(with fingers crossed) we both headed out to our favorite playground ^^ at first the traffic on the way there were horrendous.. X-( Aaron suffered the same fate :-p so neither of us got there not too early :-p

Had a little chat, and went off to scout the road... the road was a bit damp (as it seems it had just stopped raining a while back) and the downhill part was drizzling a bit...

not surprisingly, i have forgotten how the touge twist and bend X-p it was like "heh? i never remembered the road was like this.." X-p haha... i've really lost touch with this lovely hobby X-p

once we reached the other side, since there were a few droplets of rain, i thought it was starting to rain again, so we didn't want to waste any time (nor wait for any deluge to come along X-p) so just as we were about to get going, a wira turned into the touge...

I was divided whether to let him pass first, or quickly get up to him and pass... i decided the latter X-p so we headed off, with me leading... after a couple of turns, we caught up with that wira...

i prayed, closed my eyes, and took him on a blind turn X-p hoping for the best.. X-p haha... aaron unfortunately wasn't as lucky (nor as suicidal i suppose X-p) he got stuck behind the wira for quite some time (with the wira driver not really being a sport, thinks he is a match to Aaron, and decided to take up the length and breath of the road, not giving way and trying, pathetically i suppose, to outrun aaron... big mistake X-p)

since aaron got stuck behind the noob wira, i quickly build up a comfortable lead :-p so much so, that i thought something had happened to aaron O.O i mean, either he has really lost his touch (which is next to impossible X-p) or he finally had a date with the ditch (God forbid!!) still, even with that nagging thought, i didn't really let up on the speed X-p though i didn't really fully press the throttle (since my knees were shaking more than my teeth X-p) but i can say i was going through the touge at quite a considerable speed... so i thought X-p

once aaron got pass that noob wira, he teared the touge apart X-p and caught up to me O.O when i saw his headlights on the rearview mirror, so was my self-esteem X-p being pawned twice in a row, back to back, night after night, is not really good for mental stability... X-p haha... man, aaron is still a speed demon through those twisties.. X-(

then we parked at the side for awhile, wait for the traffic to die down again, and headed off... again i was leading :-p the uphill part as usual, i began to pull away on the straights X-p (yes, i'm a noob.. i know X-p) but once we pass the peak and began the descend, aaron begins to eat up the distance X-(

with each turn, every bends begins to bend even sharper... the sharper it is, the closer he gets.. X-( i started thinking to myself "IMPOSSIBLE??!!! is my TURBO WORKING??!!!" O.O (haha... yup, i couldn't resist acting up that initial d dialogue X-p if you know what i mean.. X-p)

then when the turns really started to turn sharply, aaron was right there X-( i tried to go a bit faster, but lost it at the exit X-p the car lost traction and i had to struggle keeping it on the tarmac X-p so oppss... haha...

even with me trying to push the limit that more further, aaron was that more closer... X-( and everything ends all too soon... :-(

well, i must say, aaron is as sharp as ever (with me getting more and more dull by the day X-p) but still, the whole thing was GREAT FUN!!! X-D alas it was again a lonely affair for me, so no camera nor vids :-( just my tall tales.. X-p haha...

to aaron, great run bro ^^ you're always that much more quicker on the downhill... how i envy you X-p and to myself, NOOB!!! you got pawned twice in a row!! X-p haha...

can't wait for the circus to get a new paint, and some more adventurous fun ^^ oh, and today i paid that guy who the circus whacked the night before :-p RM250... >.> aiyo... money money money... X-p

Tonight was really more fulfilling than the genting excursion yesterday ^^ i was able to push the fc a bit more (since my heart couldn't take much more X-p) and played with someone who's not too much world apart X-p (but if aaron gets a better car, and with his skills, i don't think we'll be on the same plane anymore X-p)

Once i got back, i decided to try out some drifting :-p so got to the local drifting ground and started doing some donuts.. i tried a new steering technique (after watching the drift king in the drift bible again X-p haha.. basically it's a hand-over-hand steering technique and with enough finesse, one can cope with the speed required to counter steer the car preventing a spin ^^ though i still have to occasionally let go of the steering if the angle became a bit too big :-p) and it seems to be working... at first it was a bit hard to cope up with the demands of the counter steer, but after a few spins, i got the hang of it, and what a breeze it was to control the car ^^

i tried to play with the exit but it seems the playground wasn't big enough :-( the moment i wanted to exit, the drain was right there in front X-( need to find a bigger space if i want to practice my exits :-p so far it seems i can have a better control on the angle of the car and the direction with the new steering work, but from my experience at the track, making the exit is as crucial as controlling the car from spinning X-p

anyway, wouldn't want to waste too much rubber before ryousuke gets back ^^ haha..