I TRUST this is more than good enough.....

Over the weekend I took off the front bumper to do some repair to the cracks that comes inevitably from the knocks I encountered before and after I owned the car.....

And I encountered a pleasant surprise.....

It's in and I'm building muscle.....

It is indeed a Super Single judging by the pedal feel.....

Perhaps I'm not used to it yet but will try to get used to it as the time goes on.....

A case of a bearing giving way.....

What happens when the gearbox bearing is giving you funny meshing noise and vibrations on the interior?

There may be happier things to come at the expense money of course.....which happens to be the saddest outcome in respect to all the happy happenings.....

A new windscreen and a clear blue sky ahead of me.....

I just changed the windscreen courtesy of my insurance coverage.....

And the view has never been clearer and sky has never been more blue.....
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Unfortunately, the weather has never been hotter.....

Thanks god someone invented air conditioning and I just got to tell you this.....

The Skyline air conditioning is the best I ever experienced.....

Which is better.....

The Torco SR1 I purchased has 2 versions, a street version and a racing version.....

So which one is better?

Never mind, mix them and use both......

It's time to lower the temperature.....

I learn it the hard way that any issues with a force induction motor cannot be ignored in whatever way and must be dealt with the soonest possible.....

I had a ruptured water hose under the throttle body and it was replaced however I did not address the other one which connects the 2 sides of the engine block.....

True enough it ruptured on me and this time I was stranded and car had to be towed.....

Minus side is towing fees, plus side, the wow factor of my car looking like some car going to a track session on a carrier.....hahahahahahahaha.....

Anyway, I intend to address this permanently and I finally got an oil cooler from jdmautolink. Of course it goes beyond a simple bolt on. There is some modification on the adapter as this is 180SX kit.....

I just copied this from jdmautolink.....the cooler comes with steel braided lines with HPI and Earl's fittings.....

Unfortunately it can't be fitted to my car as yet.....once modified.....I hope this solves the cooling issues.....

And I have complemented the oil cooler with a SARD Low Temp Thermostat and of course the ruptured hose has been replace by a SAMCO hose.....

When the oil cooler finally goes in, the water lines will be bypass at certain points and cooling duties are shared by the water channel and of course the oil cooler.....

Nuking the tank with almost 30ml of Excel for 3 days in a row.....

This is the aftermath.....

RON97 a high performance fuel indeed.....

Looks like RON97 is a performance fuel judging by it's good price acceleration.....

At December 10 last year it was hiked 10sen to from an already steep RM2.20 to RM2.30.....

By early January, I supposed it was riding high and upped to RM2.40 promoting it from a mere Gunung Tahan to Mount Kinabalu.....

And now it is claiming the title of Mount Everest with a peaky price of RM2.50.....

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I just can't wait for the business folks to raise their price by 10sen.....as they claim "saya punya van bawak ini barang pakai RON97 la....."