Sunday, August 29, 2010

Visit FMB For Clutch Installation

After received those item, I bring my Hippo to Formula MB immediately to install my ORC clutch, as well as overcome some problem occur to my car during last few weeks ago. I'll elaborate the what is the problem at my future topic....

Arrival FMB at afternoon with all the items prepared, and this time Han will fully handle my case. After tell him what is the problem occur to my car, I was busying capture some picture and pace up and down around a super car "Lamborghini supperlagger" as well as a Nissan Skyline R33. Then I went back shop to continue my work....

Some shot of Lamborghini supperlagger...

 Hello brother~

 Some picture of R33.

My Hippo.

Unfortunately, I received call from Han and told me that the clutch I'm using now has been converted to Push type which can't fit the ORC Pull type clutch, I felt so desperate and can't wait to know what is going on.... GTR34 is suppose a Pull type clutch system but why? Head back to FMB at evening, then only realized my car was actually converted and house with a TRIPLE PLATE R3C OS GIKEN, its a Push type clutch..... At the moment I don't know how to describe my mood, happy because I trained to be a "Kam Kong" leg driver, sad is I wasted my ORC clutch, I always love ORC because of the "kringggG" sound. And now I have to source the stock Pull type adjustment release kit, and I know is difficult to get. Anyway, Zai willing to help me source out this item and hopefully he can found one. Otherwise, I have to sell my ORC P559D clutch and buy a new set of Os Giken STR2CD (NO MORE TO 3 PLATE!)... Headache man....

Mid-pipe was out....

My 6-speed Getrag.

Os Giken R3C triple plate clutch... no wonder so ON/OFF.

Arrival Of Nismo Clutch Hose

A late update here..... Finally, my Nismo clutch line had arrived at Monday morning. Actually this item should be arrived 1 week earlier but at the moment Japan was having a summer public holiday.....

Finally, has been waiting this for 3 weeks long...

Part number for my car~

Is good to change yours in order to prevent the stock rubber clutch hose swell from high pressure.

Together with this items...

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

New Z-tune GTR34

Last few weeks ago, I found this from zerotohundred and felt so impress when reading this topic, those pictures wet my pants, especially the alcantara interior, I'm wondering when I can turn my Hippo into this beauty monster.....

"A Nissan GTR R34 is still one of the most desirable machines to come out of Japan, high up there with the NSX-R, R35 GTR, and other iconic Japanese machines. Sadly, they are aged and finding a used example in near perfect condition is close to impossible. Well almost impossible.

New Z-Tune featuring with carbon eye-liner, look great!

German tuner JAPO Motorsport is offering a near brand-new R34 GTR NISMO Z-tune for those willing to fork out the cash for it. The Essen-based tuner bought a stock 1999 GT-R and spent a lot of time and money tearing it apart and restoring it as close to the original as possible.


In putting it all back together, the tuner used original Z-tune parts (like the front skirts, mudguards and rear wheel housing) and original sil "KY0" paint which was exclusive to the Z-tune back then (only 20 Z-tune's were made). Also part of the package are NISMO Z-tune five spoke wheels, Toyo semi-slick tires, alcantara leather upholstery, an updated multifunctional display, and a revised speedometer that now tops out at 320km/h.


The exterior is completely stock but the German tuner could not hold back from working on the internals. Power from the 2.6-liter straight six is now up thanks to GT RS turbochargers, a new intercooler, a racing suction/chamber kit, enhanced fuel injectors, and high performance spark plugs.

Clean and neat engine bay setup.

These mods contribute to the 516hp and 597Nm of torque that the new Z-tune now boasts. Just for the record, a standard R34 Skyline GTR churns out 327hp and 392Nm of torque while the standard Z-tune boasted 493hp and 540Nm of torque.

ARC Muffler a.k.a my dream muffler....

Other upgrades include a HKS clutch kit, an ARC strut bar, and StopTech brakes. There's no indication of how much the entire restoration process costs but the restored GTR seen in the pictures here is available for sale for a princely sum of US$116,960."

Source: JAPO Motorsport GmbH
Copy from: Zerotohundred

Monday, August 2, 2010

Air Filter Changed

Yesterday knock off earlier, thus its the chance for me to change my Hippo air filter. Although is easy and straight forward but took me about 1 hour to finish this..... I've read few forums before when I was fan of Subaru Impreza, most of them complain about HKS filter pod is very fragile, because they fully tighten it. Need to know, HKS filter pod is made of plastic thus must NOT fully tighten it otherwise the pod connector will crack....

See how dirty is the old filter..... -_-"

Gonna replace it with the new one. HKS 150 3 layers sponge.

3 layers of air filtration.

Greeny became browny, lol~

Now look much comfort than previous. ^_^

Getting Nismo Big Operating Cylinder

Some late update caused by my busy work.... Last Saturday went up to Drift House to purchase the Nismo Big Operating Cylinder, thanks to my Garmin otherwise I'm sure I cant manage to find the place ^_^
Subsequently, I head up to Sunway to look for ORC clutch line, but life never turns out the way that I expect, none of them available for this item.... So I need to continue source this item? OR just install my clutch without swap the clutch line.... *headache*

Nismo big operating cylinder I bought at last Saturday.

This item is come along with warranty card...

Item part number for BNR34.

I wonder how much pedal pressure reduce after install this with my ORC P559D Twin clutch?