17 February 2011: Service Day

Went to Formula MB last week to service my Blue Hippo. I was so excited and nervous before arrived FMB because I knew Mr.Ohura was there ^_^ When arrived there, I pass my key to Han and told him this time I want to do alignment for my Blue Hippo as well as change my engine oil.

When my car is being jack-up, suddenly a man came out from the office, he pace back and forth of my Hippo, and YES he is Mr.Ohura!! I feel so nervous and not dare approach to him until one of the foreman introduce me to Mr.Ohura, at the moment I feel so happy and honor to shake his hand~ Mr.Ohura is a very very friendly person and he know very well in many cars, modification and of course his specialist ECU, HKS FCon VPro!

This time he suggested me to use Motul 300V Le mans 20W60(previously was using Motul 300V 15W50), the reason is because RB engine normally will go for high rpm, high load and with our country hot temperature, a "thicker" or more viscosity oil is a better choice~ I asked him to double confirm my Turbo, he said I'm still using stock turbo and ask me don't boost above 1 bar. Although I knew this but at least this can show he really know something and will remind the car owner to prevent any problem occur at the future. Besides, he said I should go for bigger wheel *shame me*.....

After some chat with Mr.Ohura, he went for lunch and I took some car pictures there while my car was doing alignment. Hope you guys enjoy all the pictures below~

Great to see this Subaru Forester STI, its so clean~

Clean engine bay~

This car was using STI Genome muffler! Which is my 1st choice last time!

Two Godzillas was there..... no! is total four!!

The heart of Godzilla > Racing Breed (RB)

I purposely took this picture, AAC valve with the part number for reference...

This BNR34 was installed the Tomei oil baffle plate~

I bet this car was doing some upgrade for oil system ....

Few pictures of stock turbo~ Correct me if I'm wrong...

Nothing change on my car.....

20W60 for this time, suggested by Mr.Ohura to suit our hot country temperature. Anyway, it required longer time for warming up the engine before drive~

Doing Alignment....

Got total 4 Godzillas that day and this was the last arrived and the most scary and powerful Godzilla~ Adil, founder of FMB's CBA R35~

Formula D Garage

21-12-09(Monday), I success take 1 day leave from my work and decided to bring my Blue Hippo for body check. Because I want to be the 1st car serviced at Formula D, I leave my bed at 9am and just grab a piece of bread as my breakfast then straight away head to Formula D.

After I arrived there, both 2 main spirit of FD(Adil and Ah Meng)is not around, and the worker told me both of them will arrived within 1 hour, thus I go into their customer lounge to watch Batman while waiting them whereas my brother stay outside take pictures... The movie just finish not long ago, Adil arrived and come in ask me whats I gonna do to my car. I told him I just bought this car 2 months ago, so I need suggestion from him.

This is my first time service my car at Formula D- a huge power house garage.

Here is some shot of my ride while waiting Adil arrive.

This Evo8 just done her engine overhaul at Formula D.

There are many drift car done by FD, this is one of them...

An "old lady" is placed outside, will it be the next demo car?.....

Some shot of the garage.

This Silvia is belong to one of the worker there.

I have been told that Adil own many cars, this Supra is one of the list.

This Silvia also belong to Adil, but now is used by Rudy(drifter) to participate the drift tournament.

Where her front and rear bumper goes?

Straight away, Adil call up few workers to prepared and 1st thing to do is to test my car performance by run the dyno test before choose which grade of oil is suitable to use. When I see the result, I feel a bit upset because the power is totally different from what the car dealer told me, my car is only 330whp(I have been told by car dealer said is 450whp) -_- He suggest me to re-tune the HKS Fcon V-pro and said can easily make my car reach 400+whp, but I not gonna do that. The reason I declined is because I haven't fully handle this car now, I worry it will be worst for me to handle if my car have higher HP. Maybe after I can fully get in used with current HP, then only plan for higher upgrade.

Adil's CBA-35, look at the multi-mixed color he used, wow~

Picture of Dyno test....

My Blue Hippo's front and rear diffuser is removed before the test begin...

Since my car show 40000km travel distance, thus he suggest me to change the engine oil, gearbox and LSD oil. Within this operation period(Ah Meng arrived), I was hanging around with my brother Joe and take as much as their car pictures until my car was done. Due to this garage is located just beside the main road and some part of the road is under excavation for piping work, it cause my car covered full with dust(heartache to see this), thus after paid the bill, I faster head back home to bath my Blue hippo and just call it a day.
  

After know my car performance, Adil suggest me to do a medium service(engine, gearbox, LSD oil change) and few type of oil is suitable to use.

  

Few couple of pictures when my ride is under operation.

  

Here is second main spirit of FD's car> Ah Meng's Lady! *thumb up*

  

Rudy's FC

  

Initial D???

Here is some other pictures of Adil's 35