Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Sony VAIO + Carbon Fibre Chassis?

Sooner or later i have to get a bloody laptop. Been eyeing the VAIO for many years. Prices are still sick but so far it has gone down compared to few years back. Still expensive but what the heck!. Went to the ultimate computer zone of the world, Low Yatt Plaza. Everybody seems to say its the cheapest, well prolly in China its the cheapest. Intercoolers are made in China. HKS made 'em expensive. Haha.

So far ive eyed the White Platinum VAIO. Not bad. Until las few days i got to know the TX series had a Carbon Fibre Chassis. Wow! Dang!. It's small 1.25kg, 11.1 inches monitor and hell its cute. The price is something i dont wanna talk about now. Google it if you wanna know.

I want! I want!I want!

http://www.sony.com.my/sonystyle/product/productinfo_vaio.asp?Subcategoryid=171

Important Dates 2006

Sepang Drag Battle Round 5 (Final) - 28th October 2005
http://www.malaysiangp.com.my/motorsports/drag/default.asp

Hari Raya Aidil Fitri - 24th October 2005
http://www.cuti.com.my/guide/calendar2006.htm

Looks like im gonna miss the last round of the dragbattle.

Get a Drool Bucket Boyeeeeeeeeeeee!

Hot Import Nights, LA
http://www.tunerzine.com/coverages.php?id=120

Nissei Week Showoff, LA
http://www.tunerzine.com/coverages.php?id=121

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Malaysia Mega-Sale - NIKE AIR RIFT

Everytime when theres a Mega-Sale, i dont get excited. More or less, i get turn-off by it. Last week when i was walking around, something caught my eyes. It's the Nike Rift 10th Anniversary Black Leather version.

Black Version : http://www.hypebeast.com/2006/01/31/air-rift-10th-anniversary/

Im just a Rift kinda person. I had a Nike Air Rift Plus Blue and wore till every piece were torn and snapped. I felt reluctant to ask the same old phrase again and again but something just pat me to ask the lady at the counter (nice bootay with a stud on her nose). Anyways, she said the only one remaining was size 7US. Shite! i said.

Normal Version : https://secure.demonweb.co.uk/turnbull/acatalog/Air_Rift.html

A few seconds of sorrow, i heard a yelling voice from the back, it was the sales supervisor saying, "heyyyy, we have size 12UK/13US". I know im a size 12US,13US,14US (depends on which country its been made even if its the same design by NIKE). I gave a try. Well hell yeah, it fits like a condom. Nice and smooth.

Im scared to ask the price as i know its a RM4XX.00 tag on it. Due to the sale, i get discounted and its RM270.00 with free rift socks(ninja tabi socks). Yay!. From a bloody RM450 and its RM270 now, i gotta be drunk if i dont get it plus its leather and it looks like Mike Tyson shoes.

Gotta spoil myself once awhile. Indeed retail therapy relaxes the mind. So this is my 2nd Rift shoe. The last version was the normal sport version(around RM240.00). This is the new leather version ive been eyeing for months.

When i 1st saw Rift 4 years ago, a buddy of mine wore it on track for his track sessions. Apparently i got hooked up badly since then. Ninja style shoes are cool.
Theres some history about Air Rift and you can Google up.

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

MicroTech Training - 29th July 2006

Well, what can i say. My brain was saturated for a day. My ass was freezing inside the air-conditioned class and everyone was blurred and sleepy for a day. It was a bloody long week with my own personal agendas and clashing with this training that had to be done in this particular week.

All i can say the training was good(i got no bad comments tho). It was conducted by a Malaysian MicroTech Tuner(local chap trained in Australia). For once, i get to ask stupid questions and those puny queries that ive been waiting to ask for a bloody long time. The feedback was good and i can see myself excel after this i reckoned.

The group scale was small and we had our own files and folders. 2/3 of the day we spent in the class trying to learn about MicroTech overally. Everything from wire diagram to setting-ups and to tune using Microtech. The remaining of the day we had a SR20DET and a 4G-63T as our dyno guinea pigs. Honestly, by early evening we were dead tired. We tried to absorb what we can. I was hoping to meet many friends in this simple training so that i could share ideas with them but the turnout was pretty small.

Anyways, at the end of the day, im happy to attend such a good training. I was hoping for some hotel food catering(j/k) but then again im cool with the setup. I was there to gain as much knowledge and to learn about shites that i dunno and prolly shite that i couldnt afford like flying my ass to Sydney for a Motec training. At least this is something for a start. I hate reading and browing the internet all the time. I need some real shite that i just have to sit and listen for once.

So, the favourite question of all time, "can you be a tuner now?". Im not getting any younger tho. I have to start somewhere sooner or later. I need to get the LT10 series and wire my own bloody car and tune it myself. Hopefully with the help from Innovate, HKS knock monitor and prolly a cheap dyno session, i hope to achieve something for myself one fine day.

p.s. i believe every tuner has his/her own unique style of tuning and method. these little things are the shites u dun wanna ask as they have gain experiences for many years. if i could buy experiences from a supermarket, i'll buy heaps of jars of it. so what u wanna do is just do the things correctly and with limits. things wont blow for no reason. human errors are the causes of detonations. dont blame fuel and ignition, they dont have brains like us.

Website : http://www.microtechefi.com/