guys,
pls check out point no.15 on my mods thread (link in my siggy)
some useful info on gearbox oils just incase any1 not aware yet

hahaha
my goodness
cant wait to see the wind tunnel results on this thing
i think the engineers would rather shoot themselves in the head than put that thing in their wind tunnel


This post has been edited by neosaint99: Mar 22 2008, 10:15 PM

guys
where to get the heat shield add on for lmst that has 4 2 1 extractor ar?
now only the front covered
the top all kosong can still see the pipes
hahaha
lastime i remember a few of ya'll bought rite?

got
they tampal the 4-1 heatshield onto the 4-2-1
the 4 2 1 is bigger than the 4-1 so now got big gap

can still remember how much they sell lastime?

i now in swak
kekurangan tools d
hahaha
v hard to work with no tools
looking to buy an Elora set and some other stuff...but so far kenot find good stuff here

btw
any1 1 2 bulk K&N filter?
wana get but then buy alone n new is so expensive
if any1 1 2 buy come we buy together
can save money!

erm
UTR is what ar bro?
brand izit?
sorry
noob question
hahaha

k&n kangyoon selling rm235 wor
then samo must add rm5 for shipping
so total will become rm240

This post has been edited by neosaint99: Mar 23 2008, 01:32 PM

vacuum the hell out of it
get your mum's vac that she uses for the house
fix on the upholstery head and vacuum every inch repeatedly until wen u hit got no more dust
then vacuum everywhere else in the car (carpet, under the seat, dashboard,...everything!)
do this once every 2 weeks
ur car will stay nice n clean

no lar
it works on chemical reaction
dont think it will have any effect on dust

the 'smoke' you are seeing is water condensation
basically moisture
you can see it coz the exhaust system is still cold
so the hot gases coming out of the engine cools down as it passes through the cold metal piping (the cold exhaust system acts as a heat sink)
this brings the gases down to the water vapor's 'dew point'
at this point (a particular temperature at a given pressure), gaseous water vapor starts to condense into liquid droplets
(for those of you who took chemistry, this is the transition point in the bell P-V bell curve)

once the exhaust system heats up due to the hot exhaust gases passing through it, it can no longer act as a heat sink to cool the gases coming out of the engine
so the gases exit the exhaust above the dew point and thus stay in the gaseous form, so you cant see any condensing water

say what?!....

QUOTE
a note of advice:
for those connecting cai hose directly to ur oem airbox, try not to face the inlet of ur cai hose towards rushing air... rushing air pressure coming in from outside is so great that it can cancel off the vacuum pressure inside ur intake manifold, causing it to lose power at high rpm... NA engine should be allowed to breathe normally...
for those using open-pod filter and cai hose facing ur filter, its best to face ur cai hose inlet against rushing air... coz ur intake pressure isnt sucking cold air in... u need momentum to keep rushing air fed to ur air filter.... for any queries, feel free to PM me....


the above statements (in both cases) totally go against basic fluid dynamics

the only time that the air pressure can cancel out the vacuum is when there is a turbo
and if just driving fast could force so much air into the manifold, then turbos would be designed to cut off after a certain speed
not to mention having air forced into the cylinder rather than having to suck it in would actually be a good thing as the engine does less work to suck in air
this will increase the efficiency of the engine / free up more power to be transfered to the wheels

secondly, having CAI ducts just hanging out next to an open pod will have little or no effect on it sucking in cold air
when driving at higher speeds, the air coming out of the duct will mix with the surrounding hot air as soon as it leaves the duct
the result will (at best) be air that is only slightly cooler than engine bay temperatures
there is no such thing as the air having enough momentum to jump from the duct into the filter
another problem would be that open pods suck from 360degrees
therefore unless there are ducts emptying out ALL AROUND the filter, the majority of the air being sucked into the filter will be air at engine bay temperature

this coupled with the fact that by the time the air from the duct is more or less warmed up by the time it reaches the filter, the nett intake air temperature of the filter is practically engine bay temperature once again

erm,...i was using a figure of speech
i was asking wat your entire post meant
totally do not understand what you are trying to say...except for that last part about the speaker n stuff

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Added on March 24, 2008, 4:42 pmnot too sure about power coming late and all that, but usually front wheel cars accelerate into the corner to maintain grip
rear wheel drive cars decelerate into corners

if u notice a rear wheel drive car accelerate, the front lifts slightly, thus reducing traction on the front wheels, which are used very much for steering around corners
decelerating will have the oposite effect,...the front will go down thus putting more pressure on the front wheels thus improving grip of the steering wheels

it works the oposite way for front wheel drive cars



This post has been edited by neosaint99: Mar 24 2008, 04:42 PM

nope
still here in the land of no gardenia and 7/11


u mean centripetal force?
hahaha
that is the opposite of 'centrifugal' force, which causes things spinning to have a force component which points towards the axis of rotation

what you are referring to is actually a variation of the the law conservation of energy, momentum and velocity

your car will only 'lose power' if the radius of the curve is increasing
this means that if you maintain your accelerator at the same position (same amount of energy being supplied), your car will slow down

but if you enter a corner where the radius is actually reducing (the bend gets tighter as you go around), your car will actually speed up even though you maintain your accelerator at the same point

you can try this at the Kajang exit on the PLUS highway coming from seremban heading to KL
that bend tightens a decent bit as it goes round...not that much as some others that i've experienced, but enough to feel the effect
just make sure you are the only car on that road wen you go into it

This post has been edited by neosaint99: Mar 24 2008, 06:15 PM

hmm
like that will have a little effect
at high speed that area might be cooler due to air leaking in around the head lamps n stuff
but then not by a very large margin tho
better do like they suggest,...pull until its inside the fender hole n cover the other hole
atleast then wont get leakage from the air in the engine compartment into that cavity that you created

on a lighter note, that is a very creative idea you have there
good concept
atleast you are thinking along the right track

This post has been edited by neosaint99: Mar 24 2008, 11:59 PM

that is not true
take apart your fender
you'll c that its not an air tight box
there are tonnes of holes everywhere
all you need is that the holes all around the fender is an area equal or larger than the duct's opening
this is definitely the case (there are just so many places for air to leak into the system)
so there is no problem with restriction of air flow
if you have a very sensitive pressure gauge you can check
put the gauge in the fender cavity (away from the duct intake)
then rev your engine until 6000rpm oso can
im willing to put down rm50 that the pressure in the fender cavity wont even drop by 0.1bar
if there is air flow restriction, the fender will become a box under slight vacuum and even at the far end of the fender there will be a pressure drop

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Added on March 24, 2008, 11:55 pmholy crap!
yea
you are right!
whatever in the world is that for?

This post has been edited by neosaint99: Mar 24 2008, 11:55 PM

well, from the looks of it, the cpu fan there is there to draw in cold air for the intake
the problem here is that the cpu fan's capacity (the amount of air it can move a minute) is vastly too small to have any significant effect on the system
basically, the engine is sucking in just too much air for the teeny tiny bit of 'cooler' air that the fan is blowing in to have any effect

if at all anything happens, and assuming that point is the only air intake for the system, then the air being sucked in by the engine will actually start to drive the fan rather than the other way around
the fan will effectively then become a dynamo and start to generate electricity!
hahaha

This post has been edited by neosaint99: Mar 25 2008, 12:03 AM

as you said, the elevo uses a 'turbine'
turbines and fans are in two totally different classes
turbines are basically compressors whereas fans just move air at constant pressure

if you notice, when i do give explanations which are a bit technical, i always give another in lay man's terms
these usually starts with things like "basically" or "which means that"....

the tech stuff are for the ppl out there who are interested in the 'why' of things

p.s. the term 'cosmetic' means for 'aesthetic beauty'...or in your case 'to look cool'
for this to be true, it has to be visible
which sadly is not the case in the engine compartment hehehe

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Added on March 25, 2008, 12:16 amwow
sounds interesting
i oso tot of adding in tweeters
but hvnt been able to find a good pair yet
not to mention the damn lmst dashboard hard to find nice place to put...sighz
how you plan to mount it?
any pics?
would like to c

This post has been edited by neosaint99: Mar 25 2008, 12:16 AM

havent decided yet
any suggestions?

wahhh
this fella damn geng o!!!