Australian Hump passing techniques

Have you encountered a lot of humps in your area? It's so annoying that you need to slow down just to pass them. Unlike our humps in Malaysia, humps height and sizing is roughly the same everywhere. Our Malaysian engineers lack common sense and standardisation. I highly applaud to what the Australian local councils has done.

When I was in Frankston, most residential area, along Heatherhill street is buggered with heaps of humps. How do I pass them? Simple, theres always a small lil gutter that is about 5 cm indented (grey area). I just slow down my car a lil bit, keep my left tyres on the gutter, whilst i bump my tyres on the right, on top of the hump real fast, normally I would do it above 60 km/h and above, knowing I'm only using 175/75/R13 tyres and its hard for steel rims to bend. I would call it a semi-gutter run technique. Sadly this technique isn't applicable to Malaysia, especially the gigantic humps in Sunway area.

If there wasn't a gutter present, another way is to crab-walk through the hump, but in a fast way, once you go close to a bump, you slow down a little bit, till your car nose drops, and then swing left and right over the hump, crossing the hump faster than normal, although not has fast as the partial gutter run passing. But these methods are tested and anyone chasing behind your tail, would be stopped and delayed for a while, till he is able to get some momentum and starts chasing you.

More pictures of my Mitsubishi Lancer

Well, I've decided to post more pictures of my old Mitsubishi Lancer. Basically, they are night shots, side shots, engine shots, dashboard shots and least but not least, the beautiful Selma, which i taught her how to get her L plates, LOL. Sad I'm not in Australia anymore though.

Australian Zig Zag Mechanism

As seen on the Frankston Tight Roads Touge on Mountain Road (Point B to Point C), this is how it looks like visually. I can't find a similar photograph to actually show how it looks like. As you can see, the road suddenly narrows into a single lane, forcing you to avoid hitting the brown round circles, which happens to be tall wooden pylons and theres no way you could drive over the grey cemented area. So there are at least 5 of them on the road. Everytime I go uphill or downhill, I have to be prepared to maneuver through it. Basically, its the same concept of maneuvering over a few cones. So, once I arrive to those tight spots, I drop my gear and slow down to pass these pylons, without my brakes being jammed and slamming the pylons.

Dromana - Arthur's seat - Red Hill Touge Route with maps and pictures

I only drive at this point, when I had extra petrol to spare. This route is basically about 20km away from Frankston City. Between points A and B is the famous 5 hairpins, similar to Mt. Akina's route. Normally if I would want to learn how to drive up and down fast the hairpins, I would only go between point A and point B.

The second longest route would be between Point A, B, C and G. I would normally go on this stretch, should I want to drive a slightly longer route, but not too long and with a medium difficulty challenge.

The longest route and the tougest would be between Point A, B, C, D, E, F and G. Between point D to F, are poorly litted road with a large dense forest. When I mean forest, it is similar to huge oak tree forests that doesn't allow much moonlight to penetrate through. The level of light is about the same on Genting Sempah road at night, although its much safer, wider and lack of incoming cars.














Picture above shows Arthur's seat at the background and Dromana town in the foreground.














I was chasing a Nissan Fairlady 300ZX Z32 uphill on point A, on Arthur's seat 1st hairpin. Due to my weight advantage, I was able to come close to the 300ZX.

Frankston Touge points with maps and pictures

This used to be my favourite playground with my Mitsubishi Lancer. I used to deliver pizzas to people living around this area. Basically Pizza Hut is located on Young Street, which is right opposite to Kars Street. Most of the time I would go drive through point 1, point 2, point 3, point 4 and then point 5, which is tecnically a loop. Every night, I pass by that road at least 2-3 times a day, giving me enough practice to control my Mitsubishi Lancer well. It doesn't have too much cops, except the route on Nepean Highway, which has speed limit of 60 km/h at the slopes (as shown on the scenery shot below) and 80 km/h on the highway stretch. Once I hit Baden Powell Drive, The high speed curve between point B and point C is a tough and challenging one. At point C, I could choose to continue either to turn down towards Nepean Highway on Humphries road or just go straight into Baden Powell Drive.
















On the Frankston Touge Tight Roads map, points A and B, B and C, forms uphill and downhill racing points. Point B is the highest and the midpoint for both locations A and C. Route A to B and vice versa would be the toughest and it would be the equilavent of the Genting Sempah route in Malaysia, except better road conditions with lesser potholes, although its a way shorter route, unless you decide to practice up and downhill a couple of times.

Between Routes B to C, although it may seem short, theres a few speed reduction mechanisms built on the road. Drivers are suddenly forced to go through a zig-zag styled one way lane, to actually slow down. One wrong mistake and you could hit on the side pole of the zig-zag crossing.














As shown above is the image that shows the slope descent on Nepean Highway.

My first ride

Nothing fancy about this car. Haha, its a 1998 Mitsubishi Lancer GLXi, with a 4G93 SOHC engine. It was my first touge car, when I was sent to do delivery rounds for Pizza Hut around Frankston, Melbourne, Australia. Full tank top up was about $25 AUD (When petrol was at $0.90 AUD per litre) So it was a pretty economical and a fast car. Only think I didn't like was that it was green and it seems green was my unlucky color. But it was a great car to practice with. No ABS and no airbag. Unladen weight of the car was about 1010kg. It would be about 20hp /per tonne lesser than the AE86, but still its a heck of a good FF practice car.

The only modification done to the car was K&N open pod filter, Kenwood MDC-4026 Headunit with Sirius Satellite radio module, Pioneer speakers front and back, Initial D (Yes, with the Initial D white and red lettering) carpet mats and Xtreme seat covers. Back then I didn't know much about performance, so it was all bling for me. It was only riding 175/70/R13 Goodyear Ducaro GA tyres on steel rims. Haha, I wasn't bothered to change as I prefer jumping over train track crossing a while ago, especially back near Mcmahon's crossing near Monash University Peninsula Campus.

As you probably have noticed the customised number plates on the car. I bought it dirt cheap for $100 AUD. The word XRIMA means money, according to the seller, who is Greek. I guess it basically matched the green characteristics of the car then.

Dato' Sagor track in Kampung Gajah

Although this happened about a week or two ago. I decided to post this up, since I'm just bored to my bone. For months I've been hearing about drag and track races in Kampung Gajah, but I never managed to find where was it located. Thanks to tougeking, I finally made my way there and took 3 laps. It was my first track-day experience, though it was wet and for a brief period of time. Learnt lots of things from Boy too. For a viewing of the full article, read this on the link below.

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