Great Ocean Road - Part 7 (Twelve Apostles)

Final part of the Great Ocean Road series. After almost 4 hours, we've finally reached the scenic spot, where these cliffs are made out of millions of years of erosions. One of the few wonders of the world. Basically spent some time there looking at the scenery, before heading back the same way we went before, the opposite way, though it was possible to take another way, but it would be longer and further.

Great Ocean Road - Part 6 (Apollo Bay)

More pics of the Great Ocean Road expedition, as you can see in front of Apollo Bay's information counter, a Honda Integra Type-R! LOL, that prompted me to get my own DC2, hehe

Great Ocean Road - Part 5 (Skenes Creek)

Great Ocean Road - Part 4 (Kennett River)

Like all touges, you will come to have a common denominator with bikers. Haha, look at those superbikers in front of us, I bet they are happy touge-ing too. This is just a scenic pass through Kennett River, enjoy! Look, a drive on the left sign in Australia, probably to remind the Americans, haha.

Great Ocean Road - Part 3 (Lorne)

After about half an hour, we reach the beachside city of Lorne. Definitely gorgeous scenery, so I let you guys stare at it now. Haha

Great Ocean Road - Part 2 (Anglesea)

Here is the gateway that tells the visitors that we are entering the Great Ocean Road. Must be why the Ford Falcon is in front of us all the time? That's cause some pretty ladies parents and family are in that car, LOL, we only follow along. Haha.

Great Ocean Road - Part 1 (Torquay)

The Great Ocean road is one of the longest scenic routes in Australia. It probably translates to super long touge. It takes about 4 hours in total to travel to one end and 4 hours the other end back to Melbourne. So I'm sure some would appreciate how an 8 hour touge would end up to be. My first pictures are taken in the Torquay part of the Great Ocean Road. I hope you could enjoy the sceneries. Speed limit for this strecth is 100km/h (despite dangerous and bad conditioned winding roads LOL)

Grand Theft Auto IV

29th of April is the greatly anticipated day for Game of the year. Everyone else knows why. I've had hands on Grand theft auto since 1997, when I was in form 4. Although it was in a lame 2D design, it was pretty good and enjoying, though not much of my classmates heard of this game.

I had most of the Grand theft auto games series in my collection, including the rare Grand Theft Auto UK:1969.

Well, here's a review from IGN about the upcoming GTA IV, releasing soon. Sadly, I don't have a game console now, only hoping to get a copy once its out on PC or if theres only an availability of the pirate chip on the PS3

HWL Hi-Lo adjustables for Proton Wira

My friend, Joshua, has been looking for suitable absorbers to replace his stock OEM absorbers on his Proton Wira 1.3 EFI. He has been scouting for weeks, until we both had time to meet up on the same day to survey for absorbers. We initially headed out out to Kakimotor to search for available absorbers. There were many brands, such as GAB, Zerone, Tein, Koni, Eibach, Improve and HWL. However, judging on his money limitation and his preference for comfort rather than stiffness, we decided to take the HWL adjustables.

I've sat on two cars with HWL adjustables. One being the Kakimotor Sunway manager's car, it was comfortable and didn't felt all that bad. The other one was in Azuri's car, which I assume its set to the stiffest. So I guess, it isn't all that bad, that Joshua paid a cheap but undisclosable amount for the absorbers. I guess its not too bad, considering its for long term usage and its serviceable, where not all absorbers could be serviced.

After installing everything within 45 minutes or less, we decided to take a spin. Joshua was satisfied with the outcome, it wasn't too stiff and the absorbers were good enough, that he says was not as floaty as before, which I guess, helps him in cornering. Now all he needs is alignment and cambering to perfect his absorber systems. Well, I hope he will be satisfied then and probably starts to mod his virgin car.

Bukit Tinggi Touge

Yesterday, late at midnight, we (Team Kansei and I) decided to head out to Bukit Tinggi for a brief touge, right after our TT session in Damansara Mutiara. Well, they wanted a short route, plus Azuri had work on Sunday and I have never been to Bukit Tinggi myself, so I had to see for myself.

We initially met up on the foot of the hill, for a regular pee and smoke session. Then after we had our session, Azuri went first in his 4G92 SOHC Proton Satria, being chased persistently by Mizan's Suzuki Swift with a Starlet 4ETE engine.

I was impressed on how torquey was the 4G92 engine. My mom only had a similarly engined car in her 1993 Proton Wira XLi, way back years ago. Despite being a N/A car, it could still do pretty well, despite being chased by a turbo-charged car. If he were to modify his car any further, I would love to suggest that he changes it to a 4G93 block, so that the displacement could help him better when coming up the hill.

We were joined by a couple of local 2-wheeler gang, once we reached at the peak. I guess, 2 wheels or 4 wheels a like, we all liked touge-ing. On the way back, I sat in Azuri's car, all the way until the Karak Highway toll, till i switched into Mizan's Suzuki Swift, since it was 4AM in the morning and Azuri definitely needs his sleep, before the work on the following morning. Overall, I was thrilled. I guess if I had to get familiar with that place, I guess I would need as much of skill and practice like Azuri then. Then again, I believe my limiting factor to be my automatic gearbox. But oh well, I'm awaiting the next touge session

New blogging machine - Dell Inspiron 1520

Well, well, kind of unexpected today but I picked up a real treat at a reasonably good price. This is going to be my new blogging (and gaming) machine. LOL. Well, here are the specs of the machine:

Dell Inspiron(TM) 1520 Laptop 1
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor T5550 1
1.83 GHz, 2MB Cache, 667 MHz FSB 1
Label (Core 2 Duo & Intel Wireless) 1
Genuine Windows(R) XP Professional (English) 1
Genuine Windows(R) XP Professional SP2 Edition (English) CD Media Included
Genuine Windows(R) XP 32-bit Label 1
Dell(TM) Wireless 355 Bluetooth Module 1
15.4" Widescreen WXGA (1280x800) Display with TrueLife (TM)
Midnight Blue Color with Microsatin Finish and camera
2GB (2 X 1024MB) 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
160GB SATA Hard Drive 1
Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Combination Drive with 1
dual layer write capabilities
Roxio Creator 10 1
NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) 8600M GT with 256MB GDD2
Intel(R) 4965AGN Wireless-N Mini-Card 1
Integrated Stereo Sound 1
6-cell 53Whr Lithium Ion Primary Battery 1
DELL Large Nylon Case 1

All these purchased from Midvalley Megamall's own Dell Outlet, cutting out a great discount compared to an online purchase (Online price : RM 3,751, savings RM618, final price RM 3,143). I'm just waiting for the laptop to arrive soon.

Australian roundabout passing

Small mini-sized roundabouts are always erected on minor traffic roads, meeting with the main road. These are another type of mechanism to slow down your car, other than installing humps.

So to pass this roundabout efficiently, you do need to drop your gear to the 2nd gear, and then nose-diving in front of the roundabout, and then turning left and right instantly to avoid hitting the middle barrier.

Frankston 1/4 Mile Test Area

This used to be my test area for 1/4 mile time for my car. This long stretch is untolled and doesn't have any police, due to the fact that the median has a barricade in between. Normally, pursuit cars are always hiding in the median trench, which they would point their speed-gun and stop you by chasing you. So yeah, theres the advantage point. I would normally speed all my way to the next town, which is Seaford, for the 24-hour supermarket to buy snacks if I was awake. Below are pictures from the Northern part of the highway towards the Southern part where it ends in the traffic light junction near to the Mobil station. Notice the long straight untolled roads. I've managed to hit 210km/h on my Mitsubishi Lancer and a quarter mile of about 17 secs or less.