The Five Year Plan

Plans.

Yes, people have plans.

Everybody does.

Truth is, it's only money.

Thus, this is my plan for STELLAR.

First, it will be the floor board. I probably will need 2 to 2.5 grand for this.

Then, the wheels. Budget, 1.5 grand.

Then, I want to rebuild the current bodykit, with sheet metal instead. This one probably will cost about the same as the floor board.

Then, the exhaust. I will need to find an RC40 unit. Single box.

Then, the engine. I want to have a hill climb profile. Three quarter race cam or something. This probably will need 10 grand.

Then, lowering him. As in, very low. A-la Coyote the McCormick car. But no going under a trailer anytime, if at all. This will need some body cutting for both front and rear arch, and structural welding for the rear arch.

Phewww.. I guess that is all for a 5 year span. Yep. It is a long process. But priorities are already set.

Or I just do the floor board only. Maybe next year. Or just a simple reshell.

Since two weeks ago, there's this sound coming up from STELLAR's right front wheels.

It's a squealing sound.

Apparently my earlier session three days ago to eliminate the sound didn't really work out.

Mr Jasmie did a brake disc skim, and replaced my brake master pump pipe.

The sound did disappear for a few kilometers, but then it reappears bit by bit again, until last night.

It really gets on my nerves.

The thing is, on the straights the sound was a pulsating one, increasing in frequency as the speed increases, and a light corner augments the sound. A heavier corner eliminates it completely until you go straight again.

This morning, the sound persists until 25km, when I reached a toll booth. Then it disappears completely. What gives!?

I can only hope, coz I really do think it's the wheel hub bearing acting up.

Little Tips

If your dish sponge is too far gone to clean anymore dish, don't throw it away just yet!

Use it to wash your car instead!

The same goes for dish scrub, usually found in dark green color. You may remember cleaning your frying pan or pots with it.

Use that to scrub your alloy wheels then!

I didn't take any photos of my scrubbed wheel, but suffice to say, the silver coating has never looked better in my opinion.

Cheap And Nasty

If there is one thing I learnt today, it is this.

It is best to go straight to the supplier, to get the exact brand of whatever that is that you want.

I should have known this ever since I first own any whatchamacallit electrical stuffs, or even my past Mini by the name of SYCLONE.

If you need to repair your Sony Walkman tape player, go to Sony.

If you need repairs on an LG fridge, call LG.

If you need to find fair-price Sime tyres, go to Sime Tyres.

And exactly, I went there today. The one at Jalan Gombak, from Setapak towards Lee Rubber ex-factory site.

I got a pair of tyres for 145 each. That means 290 burnt.

Better still, than being charged 165 the last time I replaced them. Probably the extra 20 per tyre is for the short-distance shipping, or petrol fee, or whatever that I wouldn't really want to hear.

Even better, they can repair His Majesty STELLAR's bent rims. At 40rm.

I was quoted 80 at a shop nearby my office.

Yes, it pays to research. And it pays to head back to the actual manufacturer.

And, prioritize. Repair the actual reason of damage first before repairing the secondary damaged. Like, replacing the ball joints first before the tyres. But that's another story.


Mark Slaughter: If I knew then, what I know now...