Monthly Archives: August 2010

Top Fuel’s Drag AE86 in Malaysia!!!

Knowing that I am an avid AE86 fan,Ah Kok called me over his shop, saying that he has a hatchiroku that I might be interested in seeing. ‘Drag spec’ were his exact words. So I dropped by later that day and was shocked to see what laid before me! It was TopFuel’s famous  AE86 Drag car…in the pink ( pun intended)

According to the Hyper Rev magazine which it was featured in, this corolla is running on a 3s-gt engine with a T04R turbo. Pushing in the region 580BHP, this car had apparently ran a mid 10 sec quarter mile in the famous Sendai drag strip!! The car is now sporting a different paint job and will be competing here..so do keep a look out for it. Anyway, I’ll allow the pictures do the talking but do check out the rear mounted radiator and interesting rear live axle mods done to this car !!

As the saying goes ” If you’ve done it , it ain’t bragging”

Having the radiator behind allows the intercooler pipping to be even more shorter

HKS T04R just in case you’d missed it 😛

The fire wall wasn’t spared to make room for the engine

A spartan cock pit

Running on Power FC..my favorite 🙂

“err where’s your spare tyre bud?'”

Definitely not drag slicks…:P

Hmmm..I wonder if….

Borneo Motorsport Carnival ,Kota Kinabalu .5th-6th June 2010

Kinabalu Sports Car Owners Club (KSOC)  held their  two day Borneo Motorsport Carnival at the Kota Kinabalu Port  last June . With Car shows, Audio shows, Race Queen pagents, Autocross and Drift demo/session, this event promised to be the biggest car related event, to date in the Borneo region!! We were fortunate to be invited by Tony Wong, President of KSOC to be a part of this prestigious event!

The first place we actually went to was the port where we did the track set up and also to test the cars that we were to use during the demo. I was really impressed with the selection of cars that they had offered us; two S15s, one S14 and a 180sx. These cars were immaculate, almost show car like!! All running on bling out 18″ which is almost unheard of in drift car back in Peninsular Malaysia!!. After a few laps it was decided that I would use Steven’s well prepared 180sx while Jane would be on Mah Lau’s wide body S15. They were incidentally both black , which I think is hows Goodyear cars should be colored in the first place :p. After deciding on the cars we will be using , it was off the the nearest Goodyear dealer which was called Bintang Ramai .

The first thing in order was to fit fresh new Goodyear  Eagle F1 Asymetric tyres on the cars! Those are 18x10j on the fronts!!!

Obviously a little fender knocking was in order 🙂

After doing the alignment and a quick bite to eat, we went back to the site ,just in time to watch the Race queen pagent rehearsal ..yum yum

Anyways, the two days of event went by so quickly, as it would always do when you are having  fun. It was a pleasure working with the KSOC crew and all the people we met during our stay there..sorry for the lack of photos of the other events as I ate up my memory space on the Race Queen pageant..;)

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ZeroToHundred: Sepang Time Attack Rd2; 25th July 2010

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I couldn’t believe how slow I was. No doubt it’s my road car  and short shifted at 5000rpm due to the worrying knocking sounds I heard ( Excuses #1 and #2)  but still ,I had expected a better time. I must have held back a bunch of drivers during my run ..sorry guys …  2’59” WTF????

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time-attack

Jane did better with a 2’54” placing her 4th in her category; all this  on drift setup!!

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But the one that impressed me the most was Nas; it was his first time on the track so he drove at a fairly leisure pace , with the air con on ,with me ridding shot gun, and he posted a 3’8″!!! wow!!

Yoong posted the fastest time of 2’31” on his S13 which is no suprise as he is fast no matter what form of motorsport discipline he enters .Another  person that inspires me is a friend of mine Megat ‘kalau-time-you-bagus-you-masuk-front-page-hall-of-fame-itu-yang-kita-nak-tu’ Arizal (ari7474). He got himself a FD2R and managed to clock a time of 2’38”. His advice for me that day was ” Make sure you trim your arm pit hair when wearing asleeveless t-shirts!!”

ari-daphneMegat Arizal and Daphne..bet he gave her the same advice on arm pit hair

Now I can’t wait for round 3 where I aim to break into the two forties time zone…wish me luck