Buddy-Buddee.

a night of meeting the 1st year students...i feel a bit old honestly amongst them. like there's that mentality gap or something. childish, that's the word. but who am i to judge eh?

anyway,some quick pics for those who didn't attend the event like a certain short ah beng named timothy. haha!

the winning tower (screw the other team that won due to miscommunication)


dear's brother acting out his lewd fantasies with kon 'chibai' wai luen.


my group's drag queen, a freshie named ervin. he really acted the part of a fussy feminine super-model, voice and all.


ms. 'forgot to shave leg hair' melvin


ms. 'fergie look at my lumps and my humps' charles


sorry to the rest of you whom i know not your names but have tainted my mind as the most horrid set of drag queens ever. :P (a tribute to your sporting-ness)



our lovely panel of judges


*shudder*


ms. 'chibai', a winner and most of all a man amongst women


if anyones got pics of me after i climbed the roof top terrace's roof, please let me know ok.

Teaser Beemer.

it's finally here. and here's a small teaser of what i have sitting outside my house waiting to be done up. it's in better condition than the cortina and the interior is in very good condition. the downside? the car can't start because the keys don't match! so will have to get a locksmith to settle that part and then fill up the oils and stuff to see if it'll start.

i don't think this car has run since 1989 though. :P but what the hell, free car what.

the VIN is still intact!!! :D


all the memorabilia found in the car. not listed is a durex condom which dates back to the 80s if i'm not wrong haha! threw it away unfortunately...but it wasn't opened though.

Not As Bad As I Thought.

first day of life as a 4th year uni student...nothing has changed much aside from the scenery.

well anyway, since the putra505 is more or less problem free for now (been 5 days since engine rebuild) i decided to get it dyno-ed so that i could have a baseline for any future modifications done to it to compare.

first feelings after getting the car back from the workshop was that there was definitely an increase in power and the engine revved without hesitation. it's 0-100 kph timing (timing provided by my trusty k750i's stopwatch) before the rebuild was ~10.8 seconds whereas NOW, it's ~9.3 seconds.

from these figures, i could derive an estimate for the horsepower that i could achieve since the car needs to overcome air resistance and as it gets faster, air resistance increases so you'd need more power to overcome that resistance and more power would equal a lower 0-100 timing yes?

ok, i did some hand calculations based on the manufacturer's claims regarding engine horsepower (which i converted to estimated wheel horsepower based on average losses experienced throughout the drive-train) and from there...(long boring theory stuff that most of you won't be interested in)...i got my estimated horsepower BEFORE the engine rebuild which was about 105.89 wheel horsepower(WHP) and i had predicted that due to increase losses due to friction from the crankshaft bearings, connecting rod bearings, etc, my actual WHP should be around 115.91.

i did try to calculate the actual work done via a stoichiometric combustion process but i didn't have actual data on the petrol i use (shell) so i just used the standard value for gasoline given in my thermodynamics text and let's just say the value was pretty close to my other calculation.

back to the point of this post. after getting the result sheet printed out, i was rather disappointed with my WHP as i only got 115.7 WHP but happy because my hand calculation was 99.8% correct. and here's where i have more work to do.

ok, the green line represents the torque(Nm), blue is the Air/Fuel Ratio and red is for horsepower(HP).

just to give you an idea of what the problem is, notice the blue line. in an ideal case (ie. stoichiometric) the line should be a straight line across the page at around 14.5 but in the real world that is not the case and also due to the fact that at stoichiometry, the engine will operate at higher temperatures and has a higher chance of detonation/pinging occureing due to the octane levels we run at(higher octane fuels can run at closer to stoichiometric a/f ratios because a higher octane rating denotes it's susceptibility to detonating at higher temperatures/higher compression ratios). a good air to fuel ratio would be between 13.1-13.8 for most naturally aspirated engines, but mine goes below 13! and drops to around 11 at peak horsepower...which is very very bad.

the guy who did the dyno warned me that i would have to correct this or else my car would overheat on track somewhere around the 10th lap. so, i might not be ready to compete just yet. have to settle this hiccup. can't risk destroying this engine now. so i'll be hunting around for a good piggyback ECU to help my fueling because that is what i need. more fuel to increase the A/F ratio back to a healthy 13.x. if any of you could help me out further on this, i'd be glad to listen. so let's discuss this in the comments ok?

Finally.

so i got the putra back after 9 days of waiting. i can say that the car is pushing at least 115 whp at the moment. hope to find out soon after i get a few runs on the dyno.

but there were hiccups along the way. everything was find until i discovered that my clutch pump was not installed properly or something (has not been diagnosed and probably will never be) and that caused 90% of the clutch fluid to squirt out as i engage the clutch. luckily i made it back right to my front gate when i lost all gear. called the fuckhead mechanics and ordered them to come fix my car now. they did.

but it wasn't until 8.44 p.m. that they finally fixed the clutch pump. their remedy/reasoning was that my clutch pedal was too high, bullshit, it was fine before i sent the car to them now wasn't it. idiots.



after they left, they didn't bother looking for the cap for the grease nipple/zerk fitting, so i have to go to the workshop tomorrow and order them to give me another one. hey, i fucking paid for it man. also, my front brake heat shield was in contact with the disk brake so it scrapped off quite a lot of metal from the shield leaving a small step. so, i had to get this fixed by knocking and bending that metal sheild back into shape, that was around 10.30pm earlier.

i just hope my car doesn't fall apart tomorrow.

that would suck.

"An Affair To Remember"

just got back from a wedding reception at subang national golf club. simple wedding, nothing fancy. just couldn't stand the half-assed singing and lame 'jokes' from the MC.

it was my baby-sitter's son's wedding by the way. she's the one responsible for getting me hooked on to indian food! haha. i basically spent the first 10 years of my life at her house while my parents were at work. so yeah, thanks aunty bobby for bringing me up and to love indian food :D

couldn't recognize most of the kids that she had looked after until my cousin pointed out who's who and i was really shocked at how much they've changed. like there's this brother and sister combo who's i probably 4 years my junior; well the brother looks geeky but the sister's hot! she's got that indian model look, the high cheekbones, the nose, the whole package la put it that way. sorry guys, no picture but if you can dig into my head then you might be able to find it there.

i sat there feeling old. how many of you have felt that eh?

here's the couple walking down the red carpet:


dinner by the Big Rajah




shake that thing...glen(right) is putting on his 70s/80s dance moves


and amidst all the chaos, a kid runs on stage and starts dancing! i swear, it's the funniest thing i've seen in a while, made me feel older though. because if i were to do what that kid did, i'd be seen as an idiot, not that i'd mind la but these are ppl who might get a heart attack if they knew my 'extreme' side.




the star of the night, totally oblivious. kids and innocence i tell you, something none of you readers including myself have anymore.

Temporary Disappointment.

I finally got my chin up bar fabricated after 2 fucking months. but the blardy genius of a welder didn't follow my design. he added U-shaped hangers for the handle bar to be placed in. and this is stupid because when you try to use the bar, it's gonna cause a moment/rotation around the U-shaped hanger! so the bar will be spinning around as you try to pull yourself up! damn pissed off...not only that, they painted it the same green paint you see on fences...i dunno exactly what green to call it but i'll call it 'school fence green'.

anyway, the good thing is, this is a temporary fixture as after many a complaint to the fabricator, he will make another one to my design and in stainless steel at no extra charge. will take approx. 1 week. so we'll see how it goes. but in the meantime, i'll be using this.

my only mistake was that i mounted the bar 1 inch higher than i initially wanted it. forgot to take into account the 1.5 inch box section. sigh.


seconds after i mounted the thing onto the wall


road to sparta (it works see!)


officially my gym

Busy As A Bee 2.

well, i finally decided to not procrastinate any longer so i finished porting the intake manifold in a record time of 1 hour! thanks to lessons learned from porting my old intake manifold.

test fitted it with the throttle body and it is 99% a round 60 mm inlet :D


i then set out to grind of the excess weld that was covering about 5 mm of the Powerzone extractor that i bought about 2 years ago. that's the problem with mass produced stuff, they don't really care what it looks like on the inside, as long as the exterior looks good. ah, fuck it.

so i ground the welds till they were flush with the surrounding region. ah, looks alot better and would most probably improve flow of the exhaust gases. i then decided that it needs a colour before it gets put back into putra505, so i decided to go with a flat black high temperature capable paint. bought a can from ace hardware for RM26.90. to help me paint it, i did make a painting stand/post or whatever you call it to get a even coat of paint throughout the object painted. it's the same device that aided me in painting my 'pimp my vice' vice.(refer to previous post).



see how much easier it is to spray the undersides and also a good stand to leave it while the paint flashes. flat black is cool...look for more flat black items coming this way.

the end result:


to end the day, i decided to beef up my painting stand/post/frame/thingy by bracing the legs (something i should've done when i first built it but had no time to). and we end the day with a glorious view of my empty garage/driveway.


now, most of you know that i've got a cortina being restored...but wait, i'm just so itchy that i've found another car. an old BMW 2000 sedan apparently. now i won't say more but here's how the car looks like:


hmmm, tempting no?

Busy As A Bee.

been occupying myself with a whole list of stuff that needs to be taken care of.

but first, a ridiculous pic i took while in ss2 last week with my dear. it's ome abstinence walk bullshit thing.

i think if this is the kind of sex-ed they're teaching in schools nowadays, we have a very misinformed generation in the making.

one item that i've restored the past week was an old vice that my grandpa gave to me. was rusty and all but quite good in terms of build quality. so i decided to get my wire brush point attached to my handy drill and grinned of most of the heavily rusted areas. then came time to prep it for painting. and i decided to go with a colour that wouldn't normally be used on a vice. black and fluorescent orange. tell me what you think.


another item on my to-do list which is probably the most consuming, financially and time, is the rebuilding of the putra505's engine. i decided to get the help of the workshop near my house (~3 minutes walking distance) to rebuild this engine closely to the workshop manual that i have. so i commute by foot about 3-4 times a day to supervise the rebuild. and now, the engine's out.


following the removal of the engine (i'm not gonna start with the number of things that need replacing) i can now finally port my intake manifold to match the 60 mm outlet of my MIVEC throttle body. from porting my previous intake manifold, i've learned that having a jig to keep the manifold in place is vital in ensuring a quality finish. so here's the jig i made to hold it in place and work shall commence tomorrow.