Just Get Back Up When It Knocks You Down

I fall down always including today...


Today's fall almost literally killed me...but i once again found the strength to hold on after my mom's consultation. It's not that easy to be me but I've promised some people that I will hold on no matter what happens.... 

I will honour my words.....

June 8th

Listening to some music played by a music box i think from someones blog while typing here...


June 8th is a day that once meant the world to me, and it still means a lot to me till this very day. Finally June 8th has passed...


June 8th felt like the longest day to pass ever in my life, it felt like 10 days to me, but I'm glad its gone now and I'm still surviving on this June 9th...


Will I still feel the same way by next year's June 8th? Or will some other day replace this special day?


We will only know by then.....


Happy Birthday to you....

The past is history, What matters is today and the Future ahead

These few days I really realize something.
What is passed is passed.
All of us have a choice, or have a right to choose.
Whether we want to live our lives in our past memories,
If we choose to live in our past memories,
we will be blinded and will not see whats ahead of us.
Or we can look what is ahead of us.
The possibilities, oppurtunity and the people.


The future is not about what you did yesterday
Its what you do today that determines your future
There may be countless of challenges ahead
But if you dare to dream, you can reach your dreams
So I will strive for the future and not be blind...

Changes

Hello everyone, it has been a long long time since I update this blog of mine. Finally I' m back and hopefully to stay! Since the last post many things happened. I now no longer drive a Nissan 180SX. I have switched to a Subaru Forester SF5 22B.

For the past 6 months, I've gone through a relationship that turned out bad but i have already recovered from it. No matter how hurt it felt or whatever mistakes we both had done. I would like to thank you for your Love, Time and Memories you have given me in the past 6 months, be it bitter, sour or sweet it doesn't matter because those 6 months I was the happiest man on earth.

I took merely a week to recover fully and i thought it was rather quite fast. I've got 1 person to thank for my speedy recovery though. Thank You very much! I just wanna let you know that YOU mean a lot to me! You know who you are! Yes YOU who is reading this right now! hahaha

Here I end this entry with a huge smile!

Hopefully I will see you again in this blog soon enough!

This of That? hmmmm

To Plonk In 1JZ-GTE or Not To Plonk..... To Paint my car 1st or not to paint... That is the question...hmmmmm

The Genting Time Attack Video

Here is the video I promised. Here i present you Genting Time Attack Jan 2011. Enjoy!

The Hillclimb

Somewhere in January I decided to go for a Hillclimb using the Genting Sempah old road to go up to Genting Highlands instead of using the conventional Karak Highway after much discussion with my friend Zamil. In fact the Sempah way is much much more challenging as it consists of more bends although lower speeds than of Karak and not to mention much more dangerous too. 1 mistake you will be having the leap of faith.

Introducing the Drivers:

Went up fast but came down driving gently. It was a great day so enjoy the piccies:

My Boss Takumil

I'm currently editing the Time Attack video going up from the 1st police hut to the apartments up there and it will take some time so in the next post i will post the vid up. If i'm not mistaken it took me 13minutes to reach with a bit of traffic that day. Till the next post see ya!

It's been a long time

I've been absent from all the automotive stuff and had turned this blog into a 'sohai' blog recently... I'm back now, it will be fully back to automotive from now on. hehe.... Lots of stuff happened to my car recently...

This mainly in December!

Then became this

Guess what? This Blue-ish bumper broke too. So now it's sporting a Silver Kouki Bumper. Hopefully soon I can paint it back to its former glory when I am financially better off. Brake pads need changing real bad too... Will update pics on the Kouki bumper in the next post... Till then Cheerz!

My 180SX Impromptu Drifting @ Putrajaya

Still got it after 2 months break i guess ;)

Mishaps

Approximately 2 months ago, I was given a 3 test all in the space of 2 days. 1st was Merdeka night on the way up to Genting, a Mitsubishi Pajero cut into my lane and I jammed my brake... was 1 feet away from an accident.

2nd was the scariest, I went into oversteer mode at 160km/h due to suddenly the road turned from dry into wet on Karak. Half of Karak was wet and the 1st half wasn't. Somehow a month later someone died in Karak with a Honda Integra DC5. I look back and think if I had hit anything it could have been fatal because after oversteering I spun my car 1 time as well. I always think about it and thank god because I seriously felt that day there was an angel protecting me and surrounding me but I admit I was reckless to take corners at those speeds on the public road.

Finally 3rd time at OUG. Maybe god decided to give me a small punishment due to my reckless driving. I was hit by a camry at the side. Luckily the impact wasn't very big so my whole driver side doors was dented. I thank you god for the punishment, I have learnt my lesson and I thank you for protecting me and not letting me get hurt in the 2nd incident.

These 3 are the mishaps. We chinese say that sometimes in life we will be put through the paces by god with 3 unfortunate events. If we've been good then we will pass all three with no problems but well I guess I had been naughty XD...

p.s Well not that naughty... :)

Temptations

Arghhh....I now want a RX7 FD3S... It was always my no.1 dream car and until now it still is... arghhhhhhhh......

I'm Back!!!

There's been lots of stuff going on since my last post in June but I'm really really lazy to update my blog but I guess i'll be back blogging again more oftenly....hopefully :)

Since then my ride has changed its shade to a more subtle or classy colour I would say. It's gotten its long awaited LP2 Midnight Purple colour. I don't know bout you guys but i think those red, white, yellow is somehow too common and the colours are too loud for me. My life has moved on and things have to change to suit my life currently.

I really need to thank 1 special person because currently my passion for photography is revived and the fire burning is getting hotter and hotter. Photography is creativity and I love creativity always but to get my car I was forced to sell my DSLR back then. Now the time has changed and i've been spending way too much on my car. Gonna save up and buy a DSLR so on hopefully something full frame e.g D300 or D700.

I just came back from a trip to Genting. It was super fun. Before this i've been actively going up to Genting as well but mostly for touge sessions. This time its different because i went up there to do some photography and have fun in the theme park. It wasn't as packed as school holidays but getting on the Corkscrew would result in a wait of maybe an hour or so. So didn't get to play the major rides. But played the Spinner twice and as well as the pirate ship and the pirate train LOL.

Then there were those fun fair games thats mostly are cheats but there was 1 particular game that just needed skill to win which was gun shooting down three small plastic bowling pins. I had to get a prize for her no matter what before we go home. Before that I played some coin tossing game which was kinda impossible. I tried very hard on the gun shooting game and after 2 tries I wanted to wave the white flag but no no no I must win that Teddy Bear! I remained focus for my 3rd attempt. 1st shot hit the centre 1 down but it did not fall from the platform SHIT!!!, 2nd shot missed everything!!! I thought I was doomed but we were given 4 bullets. So now its 2 more shots with 3 more to be gunned down, seems like an impossible task. I close my eyes for a breif second and the 3rd shot I shot 2 pins down OMG and with 1 more pin to be gunned down I sealed the win with a manificent shot. I was in heaven and relieved after winning.

This victory I hope is a start of something great and more great things to come. I hope you like the teddy bear very much if you are reading. I had a great and wonderful time.

Car photography credits to: Kalvin Khoo

New Banner for 2010!

For 2010, My friend Zacque decided to make me a new banner as the old banner is already getting boring. Thx a Million Zacque. I owe u alot.

Not 1 nor 2 or 3 but 4!!!

I made a mistake of saying that my car shot fire 3 times. Just now I just realize after assessing the video in slow motion that it actually shot 4 times. haha... I did a sequence of pictures of the fire popping just like what EJ did in this http://er34.blogspot.com/2010/06/great-balls-of-fire.html

Hope you don't mind EJ... hehe

Here goes:

ONE!

Anymore?

TWO!!

Is that all you got?

THREE!!!

COUGH COUGH*

THE BIG BANG!!!!

Ends with a cloud of smoke with some fire still visible in the exhaust

ONE word = EPIC!!! haha

Flaming Dyno Runs!

The vid is finally ready. It consist of 2 Flaming Hot Barbeque Runs wrapped together in one video. The 1st run shows a short bullet like flame like a shotgun shot. The 2nd run is the epic one, with 3 continuous flames just like a gattling gun or a machine gun hahaha

Enjoy!

Jon's Nissan 180SX Dyno Run from Zacque on Vimeo.

Credits to Zacque a.k.a Hypercool for editing this video ^v^

This one is unedited Raw Video hehe

Finally It's Done

I know i've been missing in action writing on this blog for a very long time. Been pretty hectic and lazy at the same time whilst having some funny, bad and good things happening lately. So today I'm gonna tell you she is finally done. She has hopped onto the treadmill yesterday. She gave us her roar and she spat out flames. Don't ask bout the result of the dyno but it was up to my expectations. To those who knows me personally, you can ask me if you want to know :P.

Here are a few pictures:

Where are the flames did i hear you say? haha... there will be some vids posted up on it in the next post so stay tuned. :)

Unheard Voices

When I heard her say that,

I was happy

but at the same time my heart was literally torn into pieces.

I don't know what to feel......

ERFOLGKEI

DORI DORI!!!

Wiseco Forged Pistons

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Piston Engineering / ArmorGlide™ Coating

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Wiseco Forged Pistons price is almost identical to CP Pistons price but somehow Wiseco gives you a feeling of quality and precision over their products after going through their website and their product lineup. It just feels like you're getting a bigger bang for your buck so I would highly recommend Wiseco for those who want a cheaper option than HKS, Tomei or etc. For more info go to http://www.wiseco.com/Catalogs/Automobile.aspx

Little Updates on my car. Just gotten a used Trust Oil Cooler Kit. Its just been installed behind the intercooler.

If you look properly, you can see the Trust word engraved but I guess Blogger lowers the quality of the pictures a lot so some of you might not see it

Finally my mech changed the driver side headlamp motor and the headlamp now is able to open again. No more One eye blind! The thing that caused the old motor to malfunction is because of a simple thing, guess what? The plastic cover. It didn't have one so sometimes when it rains heavily and the water splashes and on it goes into the motor. I can confirm that because my mech told me that when he took out the old one, all the water came splashing out. LOL

It's Down, Polished and Everything Nice

Has been a long time since my last post because I have been pretty busy with work and my car as well. So far the modifications has just started. My 1994 SR20DET Blacktop is being rebuilt at the moment with some goodies going in of course. Well this in kinds a big project for me as everything from the head till the tail is almost all changed to make this car a reliable and a mean piece of machinery.

Engine's out!!!

Engine Head That's Fresh From Skimming and Polishing

Stock Pistons

If you look carefully at the top of the piston on the right, it is actually damaged caused by detonation in the engine therefore you can see some of its metal has chipped off and it left a black burn mark.

Crankshaft

Polished Valves

Valve Springs and etc

On Monday, I received a call from me friend Jerome(S15 owner) at midnight saying that he found a Nismo Super Coppermix Single Clutch that he thought it was for the S15 6 Speed and but after consultation by his mechanic, it is actually for the S13 and S14 5 Speed. So he offered to me whether if I would wanna buy it for a very very good price. After close inspection by my mechanic, he said that the Coppermix Disc is still quite thick and for the price, it is very worth it as it is indeed a rare item. So without hesitating, I bought it. Enjoy this rare piece of Beauty in RED!

After much thoughts, I decided that might as well change the worn pistons into forged ones since the engine is disassembled. So i got this!

Wiseco Forged Coated Pistons

It is 87mm bore which literally strokes the engine up a little bit from 1998cc to 2045cc. So basically my engine's gonna be a SR20.5DET when its done hahaha

Till the next update. Have a nice weekend ahead guys!