Mini Charmant DIY Project

Just 2 weeks back from now, I was at Johnny’s house doing some “facial” upgrades for my 16v engine, it was all Johnny’s idea and add to the fact that I don’t even know how to start, he guided me all the way (big THANKS to him!).  First, I got to remove my valve cover, never thought it was THAT easy!

4AGE valve cover removed

As you can see, no biggie there as I’m using stock CAMs, but Johnny’s on the other hand….

HKS 4AGE Racing CAM

…is rocking a HKS racing CAM for his turbocharged + NOS’ed 4AGE, dayumn~!

After we both took out our valve covers, its time to smoothen out the surface and clean it up.. with soap!

Valve covers on the floor

After an hour of work, we finally get to apply the “VTEC Red” on our valve covers, LOL!

VTEC Red Valve Covers

Here is how it looks on Johnny’s engine after installed:

Badass 4AGTE + NOSed!

Looks f*cking BADASS I must say!  It’s a beautiful… BEAST!  Now… time to have a look on mine…*gulp*…

Charmant 4AGE 'VTEC'ed!

Definitely not as impressive looking as Johnny’s badass 4AGE, but hey I’m actually pretty stoked at the new look!  VTEC just kicked in yo! Ha ha ha!

Aside from the new valve cover paints, I’ve also had my Ebrake temporarily fixed with longer nuts, it’s still not as tight, but at least now I can use it for parking purposes, better than having no Ebrake at all.

Then Johnny (yes, him again) also taught me how to DIY the infamouse drift Ebrake level!  All you need to do is just remove the inner spring of the level, get a tiny screw for the button, and whalla! Job’s done!

DIY Drift Ebrake handle

DIY Drift Ebrake handle

I know I know… seriously ROFL!!!  But hey it works okay!?  If only my Ebrake is working properly, I would be so rocking this Ebrake handle all day long!

Lastly, my freebie spacers have finally returned to Johnny for good since he’s now putting them on his wheels to test on his fender flares, now my rear wheels are looking more pathetic than ever:

Pathetic offset

…. *cries*…..

Street Drifting is never legal, including Japan!

Probably some out there might think street drifting in Japan is fine since it got featured heavily on tons of magazines, DVDs and even youtube. But hey, here’s the wakup call, following is the article I’ve just read from Wrecked Magazine:

“Drifting reached the national news in Japan over the weekend after a huge sting was put down on street drifting. The meet was at Oi wharf over in Tokyo’s Ota ward and the police came down hard last night. Over 130 cars were busted and 64 people were arrested according to the reports we have had translated for us. The story is circling around Japan’s mainstream media today!”

And here’s the news video (very short) from Japan covering the event:

Train’em while they’re young!

This morning while I was waiting for my wife in the car, I decided to take Darren in first for a bit of fresh air cond since the haze out there was ridiculously bad.

I’ve had him on my lap and he layed both his hands on the wheel, good job there Darren!

"Daddy, what ya looking at?"

Darren got potential, he even knows how to look sideways, an essential part of drifting is that while you’re sideways, you DON’T look straight! LOL!

Darren looking sideways, aiming for the next corner.

Don’t take this seriously though, no way am I going to teach him this kinda stuff at such an age…. way too YOUNG, LOL!