This post is for Mei Ng who could not tell the difference.

Before Thursday 12th February 2009
After 12th February

haiyer.....

woopeedoo

going back to that shithole on monday. yay.

Meanwhile
I have photos of minor changes to Reyhana.


tadaaa

1. Angel Eyes
2. R3 Kits (done)
3. Momo steering wheel (not quite momo, but Isotta, good enough la)

4. Michelin Pilot Preceeda 2 (done)
5. Volk Racing 6 spoke 15" alloys done (i couldnt find Volk Rays so I got Work Emotions CE28's)

Glossary continued

MIVEC
VVTi
CAMPRO- CPS
VTEC

MIVEC - Mitsubishi Innovative Valva Timing Electronic Control System
VVTi - Variable Valve Timing with Inteligence
CAMPRO - CPS - Cam Profile Switching
VTEC - Variable Valve Timing and Electronic Lift Control.


I'm sure you've heard of these acronyms before whether they are on the back of the car or perhaps in the broshure.
Some mitsubishi cars come with stickers showing off the MIVEC apparently under the hood.
VVti you'll see them on toyota's and peroduas.
Campro CPS' you'll find on Waja's and Gen2's

and of course the VTEC you'll find plastered at the back of a Honda City, Civic, Accord, CRV, Legend and of course the S2000.

Just what the heck is the V-T-E-C for? No its not Very high Tech.

Variable Valve timing
simply means that the valves (the bits that allow air to come in the engine so that fuel can burn)
will open and close variably.

electronic Lift control
The valves can be opened (or lifted) for increased periods.

Why?
Read on

When you drive at low speed, i.e. around 3000 rpm, and not accelerating much, the engine is spinning at 3000 revs per minute.
Thats 50 revs per seconds.

Meaning 1 rev takes 0.02 seconds!

Remember there are 4 steps? Push Bang Blow Suck?
the valve only gets a chance to open at Push.
Therefore the valve is opened for only 0.02/4 seconds = 0.005 seconds!!!

In doesnt take a genious to realise that, if the engine is spinning at 6000 rpm (2 x 3000rpm), you are going faster, and therefore

the valve is opened for only 0.0025 (half of 0.005) seconds!

Please tell me, if the valve is opening for such a short time, can you really get so much air inside?
The answer is no.
Without air, the engine will choke.

Therefore the VTEC is there to tell the engine
KEEP THE DAMN VALVE OPENED LONGER BUT STILL MAINTAIN 6000 RPM.

So more air comes in.
YAY!

And that my friends
is the beauty of VTEC!

Glossary of car terms

Of intercoolers and radiators

what is the difference?

A radiator appears in all cars as a means to cool the engine down. As you probably are aware, if fuel and oxygen are burned together they'd heat up the surrounding area pretty quickly. It isnt very good for the metal in the engine to just melt away so we need a coolant. The engine is surrounded by a "jacket" filled with water. This water is circulated by the radiator
in a sequence like this

radiator--> cool water-->jacket-->cools engine--> water heats up-->hot water--> radiator--and so on


Intercooler

A turbocharged or supercharged car uses the chargers ability to grab LOTS AND LOTS of air from the atmosphere and chuck it into the engine.
I would like to stress that when you grab all this air, and COMPRESS it, the air heats up which isnt very good coz hot air expands, and so if it expands, it will escape. Totally defeating the purpose of the charger.

Therefore you need an intercooler, a device usually placed where air can come in at full speed,
(hint: front of the car, or at the bonnet, sometimes you see a big whole on the bonnet)
the air flows ontop of the intercooler, and cools down the air INSIDE the charger.

Makeover almost complete

Finally, got rid of that clunky, clicking, rattling steering wheel. . . .

....for this one.

Peek inside
Finally a good sunny day to take photos.

Glossary of Automobile terms Part 8

This isnt so much a glossary, but more of a tip on how to change your wheels when you get a flat. I know I know most of you know how, and if I say that this guide is especially for the ladies omg you'll call me sexist I dont care coz most of the time its true, non of you ladies bother changing your wheel.

So here's a little guide anyway.
First grab your tools from the trunk of the car.
You'll need the jack.
First the jack is placed under the car, near the tyre you want to change. You can see the groves where the jack must go. The jack must not lift up the car yet. Instead after a few times of pulling the jack lever, grab the appropriate sized tools to loosen the nuts off the wheels.

Done?
Now you can start jacking up the car till its above ground. Proceed to unscrew the nuts completely. Now remove the flat tyre along with its wheel, and place your reserve wheel accordingly.
Replace the nuts, and screw them in but not too tight.
Lower the car, and proceed to tighten the nuts.

Now that may sound simple. To most ladies, this isnt difficult. In fact, its a no brainer.The real problem lies in the greasy bits. The nuts are greasy, the jack is greasy, heck, the whole tire is dirty.

This is what you ladies need to have in the trunk of the car,

1. Gloves, to not get your hands and nails dirty.
2. apron, because when you remove your tyre, most likely the tyre will brush against your top and stain it. boohoo.
3. Keep a small bottle of nail polish remover in the car also. The nail polish remover helps clean up any grease on your hands or arms during the process.
To all you geeks, nail polish remover can also be replaced by acetone. But please keep the acetone away from papers which have ink on the them.
4. A big old towel you can place on the floor of the road, so you dont have to put up with the dirty road.

Glossary of Automobile terms Part 7

Superchargers and Turbochargers are not meant to make the car go at high speeds, but to make the car accelerate quickly from 0-100 kmph. Because when you're in traffic and need to overtake, acceleration is more important than top speed. Who can reach top speeds on Malaysian roads anyway?











Thats my artist rendition of what the turbo charger and engine look like in simple diagrams.
Exhaust passes the turbo, spinning the turbine,
Turbo sucks in air from outside, it collects and pushes it into the engine.


A summary of the post on superchargers and turbochargers

So we all know that
to get more power, we need more fuel, therefore we need more air.

To get more air we need a pump or a reservoir or a collection of air and hold it at high pressure. (thats the chargers job)

The air will be pumped into the engine from the charger,
combined this with ALOT of fuel being pumped in,
we get ALOT of power.

Glossary of Automobile terms Part 6

TurboChargers
and
Supercharges


What the hell is the difference?

1st we must understand

What do they do? and Why?

Why?

A car needs air and fuel to make the engine spin. (remember 1 spin = push bang blow suck)
For every 2 unit of petrol, you need 25 unit of Oxygen.
Therefore, for every 2 million unit of petrol you need 25 million unit of Oxygen.

However, this world is not perfect. So for every 2 million unit of Petrol, you only get about 20 Million of Oxygen. Thats not enough. So you dont get much power.

To get more power, we need more fuel. Therefore, more fuel means we need more Oxygen.
A Supercharger is able to collect ALOT of air (Oxygen) and push it into the engine.
Therefore a supercharger is able to increase the power of your engine. (of course that means you can go faster la)

Basically:

A charger :
collects something and releases it so it can become useful.
Eg. Electric charger takes in electricity from your wall socket, and releases it into your phone battery.
Rhinocharger, a rhinoceros from africa running at you and will kill if you dont avoid it.

so a turbocharger or supercharger takes in air from the surrounding atmostphere, collects it, and pushes it into your engine.

A simple example

If you are running very fast, you will soon feel like you dont have enough air to breath, thats because your lungs can only grab as much air as the lungs can hold. But if you put some kind of pump, it will push that air (ALOT OF AIR) into your lungs and force it in (ngehehehehe). (of course you will need that pump to pull out your carbon dioxide too otherwise you will die of asyphixiation.
(But in the real world pumps are heavy and will weigh you down, so how will you run fast in the 1st place? -_______-)

So now you know what turbochargers and superchargers can do. Lets see HOW they do it.
Superchargers.
An engine has what are called Pulleys. These pulleys make sure ALL the shafts, cams, timing belts, alternator, air con compressor all turn at the same time. (A pulley is a type of wheel attached to a belt)
A crank pulley (CP) is a pulley that turns according to the engine speed. If engine is moving at 2000 rpm, the pulley turns at 2000 rpm.
A supercharger also has a belt that will connect to this pulley. And so, as that pulley turns, the supercharger pulley (SC) turns.
The SC will then move a few gears inside the Supercharger and this creates a motion that will pull in air from the atmosphere. It will pull it at very high pressure. This air will then be pushed into the engine.

Turbocharges
Almost the same, except, a turbocharger uses gas to turn the TURBINE inside the charger. (Turbine , so thats why its called Turbo, like your aeroplane is a turbojet, it uses turbines)
Where does it get the gas from?
AHA!
The gas that comes out from your engine is called Carbon Dioxide, CO2. This CO2 comes out at very very high speed. Therefore, with that speed, it can pass the turbine causing the turbine to spin. (THE CO2 GAS DOES NOT GO INTO THE ENGINE AGAIN)
The turbine spins causing air from outside to be sucked in and this will be charged at high pressure, then it will be pushed into the engine.

Will continue later about turbochargers and superchargers.

See the shiny silver thing, thats a supercharger.
See the siput (snail) looking thing, thats a turbocharger)

no mood

No mood to blog after whats be happenin lately. Aih.

sigh. Dont worry babe, it'll be alright soon. And weesa gotta sometin nu for yu.
Be strong.

1. Angel Eyes
2. R3 Kits
3. Momo steering wheel

4. Michelin Pilot Preceed 2
5. Volk Racing 6 spoke 15" alloys

Glossary of Automobile terms Part 5...coming up

RPM


This means revolutions per minute. This is not how many times your tires are turning per minute, but its how many cycles the engine is going through each minute. i.e revs per minute.

1 rev = 1 push-bang-blow-suck.
when you step on the accelerator pedal, you add petrol to the engine, the petrol mixes with the air and burns and causing the engine to spin more. The further you "rev" the faster the engine spins. I.e....the higher the RPM.

You'll notice some cars have a huge RPM meter (its called Tachometer if you didnt know) especially in sports cars. This is because to a car enthusiast, the rpm meter is much more important than the speed meter. An average car user doesnt care about all this because car is to get from A to B only.

Monitoring your revs is important because it lets you judge and decide how to use your petrol wisely and also it lets you command the car if you want to drive fast for some particular reason.
You'll see a red line, this is called the er....red line region.
Normally in racing mode, you change gears just after the red line.
But for normal everyday driving, you change gears at where your torque peaks. I'll get back to that later.
For even lazier grandma driving (depends on who's grandma) you shift gears at around 3000 rpm.

Speed meter (or Speedometer)
kinda self explanatory. The speedometer gives you the current speed of your gearbox and hence, gear.
So if you are travelling 100 kmph, the particular gear you are in is "travelling" 100 kmph.
Not so important for racers, because speed isnt important. The most important thing in a race is to be infront of the pack, Michael Schumacher was good at this. And so is Valentino Rossi. Speed is just a number.

Throttle body

Throttle pedal


Throttle valve


Exhaust Manifold

Exhaust Pipe

Exhaust Muffler

Place holder

just a place holder

Glossary of Automobile terms Part 4

Power :

A measurement of how much work (Energy in the units of JOULE) can be done in a period of time
Example, 1 watt = 1 joule per second

1 kilowatt = 1000 joule per second

If you push a bag of rice that weighs 100 kg in a distance of 1 meter in 1 second,
your body has 1 kilowatt of power!

Horsepower:

in those days, heavy work was either done by cows or horses or donkeys. So when 1 horse was used, we say the work was done with 1 horsepower.
in modern terms, that work = 0.746 kilowatts

so i.e

1 HP (horsepower) = 0.746 kilowatts
My car has total of 105 HP on the engine i.e it has 78.33 kW power
My bike has total of 15 HP on the engine, so it has about 11.19 kW power.


Torque:

Torque is a special type of energy/work. It is the energy used to spin an object that has mass.
Example
If you open a door, the door is spinning at the hinge. So you are doing TORQUE (pronounced TORK)

When you use a screw driver to turn a screw, you are doing TORQUE by spinning it.
Your engine can do torque as well,
The PUSH-BANG-BLOW-SUCK cycle in the engine turns the gears, and those gears turn your axles, and those axles finally turn your wheels.

If you drive a heavy vehicle like those tractors, with large torque, you will start to move (slowly la)


BUT if you drive a light car, with large torque, and you slam on the gas pedal, your head will snap back possibly causing paralysis,
i.e. old uncles stay away from performance cars or at least drive like a ninny with your performance car and bald head.

Glossary of Automobile terms Part 3

Engine

- contains all the bits and bobs that make the car go vroom

Combustion
- fuel + air + spark--> carbon dioxide + water + global warming


Cylinder
-a chamber that holds fuel and air ready to be burnt.

Piston
-a block of metal that goes up and down in the cylinder chamber.

Spark plug
- peers into the cylinder chamber igniting a spark X times per minute. X = the rpm of the engine at any particular time.

Valves
-on top of the cylinder we have two types of valves, intake and exhaust.
-the intake valve allows air to come in so it mixes with the fuel.
-exhaust valves allow carbon dioxide and water vapour to storm out of the engine.

Carburators
-see Fuel Injectors ....jeesh only old cars use carburators.

Fuel Injectors
-electronically controlled, they inject a precise (very very tiny) amount of fuel into the cyclinder chamber.

4 stroke combustion cycle
-A piston in the cylinder goes up and down up and down X times per minute where X = rpm of engine.
Stroke 1 = Piston moves downwards, intake valve opens to allow air and fuel to come in - Suck
Stroke 2 = Piston moves upwards and squeezes (compresses) the air and fuel until it cannot be compressed anymore. - Push
Stroke 3 = Spark plug does its job and produces a tiny spark. This causes fuel and air to EXPLODE!!! Creating super amounts of pressure and heat that moves the piston downwards with hellbending strength. - Bang
Stroke 4 = Piston moves upwards again and exhaust valves open. All the carbon dioxide and water get blown out. - Blow

So the 4 strokes of combustion are PUSH -- BANG --- BLOW ---- SUCK

Glossary

Alright now part 2 of glossary of car terms.

Brakes: to slow down your car la. haiyo.
Brake pad: these are the grips that clamp onto your brake disc so it slows down the spinning of the disc.

Brake disc: attached to your wheels, as the disc slows, your wheels slow down.

Brake hose: contains the brake oil. Oil compresses very well, so as you step on the brake pedal, the oil compresses all the way to the pads hereby pushing the brake pads to clamp onto the disc. wtf

radiator: contains a battery operated fan that channels cold air coming from the front of the car to the grill....cooling it down.

coolant: Inside the radiator grill we have coolant. This coolant is blardy hot but once it passes through the grill it cools down coz of that cold air. Its normally green colored liquid.

Steering wheel: the round thing that is directly infront of your chest in the car. Its what Malaysians use to cause accidents by moving into any random lane at will.


Horn: used during emergencies. When you need to alert a car of danger or to let them know to look out for you at a parking lot.
Malaysians use it at traffic lights to wake up the person sleeping at the front of the lights, use it to call their maid out of the house to open the gate coz they are too lazy to open the gate themselves.
Egyptians use it to change lane,
to get the person in the front lane to move aside,
to scold,
to swear,
to alert the person walking on the street coz they are about to be run over if they not careful,
to say wasssup to their uncle, aunty, son, father in law, mom, brothers goat in the car next to them.

Glossary of Automobile terms

Next time dont la say bodoh kereta,
not nice. (bodoh = stupid)
If you dont know it, it only means you werent taught. It doesnt mean you're stupid.

When we are clueless about something we say we are blind in malay.

Saya buta fesyen.
Direct translation I'm fashion blind.
I am clueless about fashion.

Maybe to help those who just want to know what these terms are in simple english, I'll type out a little glossary.

Car = Autocarriage.

2wd = 2 wheel drive. The engine spins two of the wheels. Either the front pair or back pair.

4wd/Awd = 4 wheel drive. The engine spins all 4 wheels together. This equals ALOT more grip and more tyre replacing.

Gears = The ones on the bicycle that attached to the chain. Yah, those are gears. Sometimes we say "cogs".

Gearbox = Its a big piece that joins to the engine. Inside got gears/cogs, sometimes 5, sometimes 6, sometimes 7. Lorry mostly have 12 gears!!!

Transmission = all the stuff in gear box, gears, manual, automatic, 2wd, 4wd.

Springs = imagine just the car body, sitting on tyres. Without springs, all the bumps and humps, potholes, dead roadkill will transfer a huge JERK when you run over it. Causing your ass to hurt and head to hit the roof. Springs help take the jerk so you dont have to.

Absorbers = springs are awesome at taking up the JERK.......BUT they are lousy at jerking off. eh...I mean....loosing the jerk....(i shall replace jerk with jolt now).....so the springs pass the jerk to the absorbers. slowly, and carefully. Like those doors that close slowly instead of slamming shut.

Bonnet/hood = the front portion of the car that opens up. Not necesarrily containing an engine.

Boot/trunk = the back part of the car that opens up.(not necesarrily containing luggage space/engine whateva)

Sound proofing

This is what you get when you open the satria neo doors. no doubt you will get this on most cars. As only cars above Rm 100 000 only really get sound proofing.










This will soon change as I attempt to install sound proofing onto my car doors. This will not only reduce road noise, but it also means i dont have to blast my sound system. As some of you may know, I am notorious for my temper. I cannot drive to work as morning traffic jams and road noise will elevate my blood pressure to levels undesirable. Which is why whenever possible, i will take public transportation. You may also realise that I have become more and more impatient. So a late train = pissed off Jun. I dare say I speak for the masses.

WE ARE TIRED AND ANGRY. PLS IMPROVE OR PACK UP.

so late train........
or traffic-jams -dirtying -the- air -with -unburnt- hydrocarbons -caused -by- insufficient -flow of -air- into- the -car- intake -manifold- not- to- mention- paying- for- toll.



sooooooooooooooooooo
I shall see what i can do about sound proofing my doors 1st as those are the parts of the body of the car the get used the most *bang*thump*
*slam wtf! can close softly or not?*


oooooh my hair is so soft tonight. interesting......

my new rims :P

as promised, photo taken at night. so this is kind of a teaser