Friday, May 9, 2008

Sincerely, xnox.

So I didn't get to school today due to my leg, hari tu patah so aku off for a couple of days from school.


Seriously? Inda caya?


Errr okay, nadalah. Teachers all went for convocation and the school's off. I get to woke up at 3.00PM, and I guess it was enough rest for me. I had to send my assignment by tomorrow and I thought I decided to do my assignment. But I didn't! Instead, I thought that I would fiddle around with 1M again. So yeah, supposingly to go at Qam's house to do the assignment together but I didn't (AHAHA) .. I went down to kaybee and bought several stuffs to start my project.

=== Airfilter Box Modification ===

I was thinking to update my engine bay this time, as I actually already modded my Airfilter Box few days back. It's a homemade CAI-style airbox modification of which, you drill holes (before the filter element intake) and allow more air to draw into the airbox.

The original airbox.



Oh before I move on, I got this idea from the forums. Just to make sure that you're not thinking that I'm just damaging my engine by doing this. Moving on, the hole point of the mod is to allow more air. Obviously, I need to drill several holes. Took my dad's electric drill, and made several holes away.

Teh knife, cutting excess plastics bit made by the drills:


And the final product:



Once done drilling several holes, I used the sandpaper (1200 Grits) and shaved off several plastic bits and smooth out around the holes. This to ensure no plastic bits are still left and you don't want the bits to go inside the engine! I also sprayed the airbox around the holes to make it look a little bit cleaner.

I fitted back the airbox into the car and bolted back all down, and went for a test drive. So what difference does it make? .... Engine sounds good now. Gives out the darth vader-like inside your engine and it's loud! (Making bypassers look at you when you're accelerating), and power wise.. probably a little more, but not really that noticable. Anyhow I'm quite satisfied with this mod until I get the proper CAI Kit (And that's the Neuspeed P-Flow Airfilter kit).

=== Engine Dressup Mod ===

The next mod I've done was dressing the engine up. I bought a Red Spray Can and a roll of Carbon Fibre Trimming sticker. A Razor-blade knife and double-sided tape. I was looking for a aluminium tubing to feed cold air to my airbox. Unfortunately I can't find any of it at the local hardware store.

Here's the stock engine look:



And the tools (Uh, Luckyspot it's for me to eat while working on it):


First I undo-ed my battery cover. I painted the cover to a Brilliant Red/Orange look. I didn't had any Primer, so yes... I had troubles getting the paint on. It was dripping, and had to spray several layers, and I think I overdone it too, LOL. Then I cut the carbon-fibre sticker to fit over the usebox cover and the airbox cover.

After carefully measuring and cutting, I put the stickers on. Since the engine compartment has quite a warm ambient, I layed down the double-sided tape for the carbon-fibre sticker to stuck on. I guess it would help a little bit more.

Sticking it up:


Final pictures:



More mods to come soon as usual again. I wanted to do the door pillars for Carbon-fibre trimmings aswell but it was already dark after I've done the fusebox and airbox cover. I guess that'll be on Friday (that next day I'll be having Software Engineering paper! .. Uh, Sunday then). Xnox, out. :))

P/S: Sorry for the shaky images btw. The camera phone sucks really.