good bye

i didnt have time to say goodbye to my enkei wheels since everything happened all too quickly......

sigh i really like them very much....

GOODBYE.....

important gap

oh can you see that minute but important gap that could hold the line between life and death...????

i really need to plug this gap.......

Bigger bite

Let's see if these are going to BITE HARD....

no more 2...??

as the mileage draws close to 30,000 km, it's also time for fresh oil and fluids.......

while i was trying to book an appointment with the service centre, i had to look at the screen a few more times to know that there is no more saturday service days...!!

why is that so...??? i'd been booking saturday services for quite some time......... and it's the most convenient day for me..... need not take leave at all, only needed to wake up early....

is it a system glitch or is this a perm arrangement...???

closing shop....

oohhhh....

ralliart is shutting down their business operations.....

well no more racing means no more business......

bye bye to ralliart...!!

and what will happen to outlets like the ralliart pit.??

will they be hanging around?

obese..??

this is what i call a FAT EVO...

yeah this is what happens when a mitsubishi evo had too much fast food i.e. burgers and fries haha.....

what works for the lancer, lancer ralliart and evo obviously dun work for the outback...... so it's time to go back to the drawing board.....

OUCH... !

cap's ON... more on ralliart's radiator cap...

will using a ralliart radiator cap make any difference to the car...??? that was the question bothering me as i sought to find out impact of replacing the original cap......

after a simple 1-minute job to put it on, it was left to a on-the-road test....... alas the weather was cool and breezy..... and it wasnt representative of a typical HOT afternoon in singapore....

in the end, the car felt pretty much the same......

except the aircon.... which became more powerful yesterday ....as to why??... i have no idea.......

top cap

10 dollars????

yeah not bad at all............ quality and feel is good and although it comes only in red, it's a value-for-money buy.....

just a ralliart CAP....

out of curiosity i decided to take another look at what the ralliart pit is offering this weekend.... in case i missed out the goodies last week so here's the last opportunity ....

oh my there was a good lunch-time crowd already there when i arrived....... but since i was no longer interested in apparels, i could stay away from the hungry beasts who gathered around the t-shirt and polo-short areas.....

after a couple of rounds, i'd settled on 2 items..... the radiator cap at $25 and a bright red lancer ex cap at $10......

cheap cheap.......

more ralliart...???

on the papers today: the ralliart warehouse clearance sale is still on....!!

from what i saw last week, it was quite a disorganised mess so i wonder if they worked on it to improve for the coming days....

too bad there wasnt much on offer for the lancer ex....... but if you are driving a cs3, there are some goodies there.... i especially like the fuel cap cos it looks like a thousand-dollar accessory haha....

if you have the time, might as well go down today......

keep warm with ralliart.....

to keep warm at work, i have a generic and non-descript windbreaker in the office....... but it never hurts to be able to keep warm with a little style.... so i got myself a ralliart jacket at the ralliart pit warehouse sale on saturday......

there were a few models on offer..... some $30 and others $80..... as i browsed through the selection, i realised that the ralliart japan jackets are at $80..... but there's no substitute for quality right.....??

saturday's round-up....

on saturdays, i always wanna sleep more and wake up late into the day but i cant today......

what a pity.... but then i was the one who booked the car servicing today .... !! haha

after slightly over 6 months, the mileage is approx 10700 km and that makes this the 3rd service.... and with the change to synthetic oil, i'd expect the fuel mileage to improve a little, well hopefully for most times i cant resist prodding throttle more just for fun haha....... so that might negates any fuel savings synthetic oil can bring over mineral oil....

in terms of throttle response and the fun factor, the lancer GT is a right step ahead........ but when it comes to handling, my cs3 and coilover/struts combo is still a more confident and potent companion to deal with curves.....

since the appointment was at 0900 hrs, i had set the alarm to go off at 8 so that there was sufficient time to laze around and get ready....... in the end, i slept till 0830 and managed to reach the workshop only at 0910 hrs...... well, only 10 mins late so i was fine....

in the relatively quiet and secluded thomson neighbourhood there are only trees, petrol stations and traffic lights, there was nothing much to do except to wait..... i did walk over to the nearby hawker centre to have breakfast but i was not gonna stay there for a couple of hours huh.... so it was back to the air-conditioned waiting area.....

a 10,000 km service is not really a big or back-breaking job but in the end, i left the place only 3 hours later..!! didnt understand what took them so long but this seems to be normal at dealers' workshops.........

perhaps there is no incentive to work fast .. so they might as well take it easy....... sigh at least now i do not have to go back there until the next 10,000 km......

something did bring a smile to my face ..... and it felt good to not have to pay a single cent for car servicing haha.....

smooth friday....

work was busy.... but fortunately traffic was light and i had a clear run into changi flyover this evening....

thank you......!!

for more than 7 months i have sorely miss the chance to get through this old favourite flyover...... AHHHHH....

so HOT.....!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when i alighted from the car this afternoon, i saw a very FRESH and DEEP SCRATCH on the LEFT FRONT WHEEL...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...........!!!!

and i knew WHO DID IT ---------> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok ok the discovery surely made my afternoon very very miserable.... and being the impatient sort, i just have to visit the tyre shop immediately after work..... i cannot wait till saturday, not at all.....

the uncle who directed me into the shop was very kind ... at first he said i might have to leave the car there till monday ... but oh come on, how can i live without a car till monday???? so he offered a very new lancer GT 18 inch wheel as a replacement for mine during the repair.........which is a one-to-one swap for the alloy wheels........

so i was thinking i gotta use this GT wheel for a couple of days and he would just mount the tyre and put the wheel on the car.... but he didnt.... even though it's for 2 days, he put the wheel on the machine and had the freshly mounted wheel/tyre balanced...... very nice of him to do so without me asking.....

i'll let you know what happens when i get the evo x wheel back......... it's not going to be cheap but i hope it will look as good as new....

PLEASE DO NOT SCRATCH MY WHEELS ANYMORE...!!

off the diffusor...

saw a very new mitsubishi lancer ex that came with some look-good and go-fast bits........but of all the little bits, i like the exhaust da most...........

as for the diffusor, it's only so-so........