My Charmant is finally at HOME!
Damn right! After 2 months of waiting, my car is finally out of the freaking paintshop, now parking elegantly (LOL!) in my house, rust free and looking sexy clean! (but my dashboard still looks crappy, will post pictures up soon)
I first drove my car out of the paintshop on last Sunday (18th Jan) at 7pm, first thing I did was to test drive the car at the nearby industrial driveway (naughty naughty~), I have to admit, I care more on how my car drives instead of the paint job quality! So how was the test drive? well it didn’t went well as the car doesn’t seem to respond as it used to be, must be due to the spark plug changes at the previous week, and what disturbs me the most was that the LSD doesn’t seem to work at 1st gear! I drove to a wider area, and attempted to donut just to try out my LSD, 1st gear, dump clutch, rear tires started to spin as expected, but when the rev reaches 5-6k, it felt like clutch is slipping and the rev started hitting the redline, bra bra brap~~!! The donut tidak jadi, tried 2 and 3 times, still same, was scared that the LSD already given up, then started driving the Charmant out on the roads again, the clutch seems ok though, then drove back to the wide area again, this time using 2nd gear, dump clutch, surprisingly, the car donuts swiftly, what I don’t understand is now my 2nd gear felt more powerful than the 1st gear? Weird~~~
Anyhow, I’ve also changed all four door panels yesterday, which costs me another extra RM250 including wrapping and installation. Lemme summarize the changes which I don’t really like about after I got my hands on the car:
1. LSD doesn’t respond the way it was
2. Seat rail has been redone and welded, but now my seat is HIGHER! And non-adjustable! WTF!
3. I still have awful offset wheels at the back LOL!
4. Dashboard is falling apart.
Other than that, I’m happy with how the car looks now after the repaint, especially after I’ve applied all the DCM stickers onto the car last night. Can’t wait to do some photoshoot of my little Charmant, which I haven’t, blame it on the weather these days, non stop rains! Stay tune for more updates.
Sibu Dorifuto! 
January 20, 2009 at 8:01 pm
For one thing, it sounded louder than before…and it seemed to be striggling to pick up as you were driving off! Maybe engine not warmed up yet! Wah…got put on blanket on cold nights even hor! Hahahahahaha!!!
January 20, 2009 at 11:43 pm
walauweh~ STP! You can identify something’s wrong with my car by just hearing, I’m impressed! You are right though, the car appears to have some problem with its engine, gonna do some checkup tomorrow.
The ‘blanket’ got too many holes already, thanks to my 2 little puppies, haha!
January 29, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Sounds like your clutch is slipping. Never encountered clutch slip myself before. But I think if LSD is worn, even low rev it’s difficult to drift. Maybe clutch cause it can’t handle the high rev torque, hence it slipped. My 2 cents. But hey, let me see the car re-vamped on the outside. pics man!!
January 29, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Oh BTW, it’s using std clutch… from exedy…