Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Summertime memories
Memories from summer 2008Just about to leave, were going to Turku/Alastaro
Below, having a pause in the middle of nowhere.
Kinda reminds me about Mt. Haruna. Only thing missing is the distant sound of serious driving.
Renovated garage - blog is not dead
This blog is not dead. The autumn was pretty busy for all of us, and we didn't have time to upgrade the blog. The garage was renovated, we now have more working space and things organized nicely. Masterminds behind this were Widric and MaladarWe went full speed in, got ourselves a computer with wireless connection and some new speakers for the bass-heavy music. (some of us like drum'n'bass, some like '90 german hardcore)
In the picture, Maladar is examining the computer. We are looking for bit faster computer, emphasis on the word looking, as we are working with zero budget.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
At least 150hp more!
Finally! A major braak through in tuning industry! Dark Side Garage new Harness adaptor for passing all the systems for greater performance!
Ladies and gentlemans! Hold your pants (and panties) you are about to witness the 7th wonder of the world (What is 6th you may ask. Well don't ask me! This is THE 7th!). Silence please...
*drumming*
*more drumming*
*louder drumming*
*explotion!*
HERE IT IS: STRAIGHT FROM THE ONLY DARK SIDE GARAGE! Invented by the genious minds of Chemical Bro's (later stated as CB) (which might be under the influense currently...) Constructed from the magical components of the land of the rising sun with loving hands of forest grown Finnish CB's. THE Magical Obscure Racing Equipment of Powerful Wonder Racers HONDA TUNING DEVICE (later stated as MOREPWR)!
Please save your gasps and applauses until you have got one through our world wide retail network for installation into your mom's Civic's. Price is only, 999 999 USmfD's (United States mother fucking Dollars).
With Loving Regards
The Chemical Brothers of DSG, M&W
Ladies and gentlemans! Hold your pants (and panties) you are about to witness the 7th wonder of the world (What is 6th you may ask. Well don't ask me! This is THE 7th!). Silence please...
*drumming*
*more drumming*
*louder drumming*
*explotion!*
HERE IT IS: STRAIGHT FROM THE ONLY DARK SIDE GARAGE! Invented by the genious minds of Chemical Bro's (later stated as CB) (which might be under the influense currently...) Constructed from the magical components of the land of the rising sun with loving hands of forest grown Finnish CB's. THE Magical Obscure Racing Equipment of Powerful Wonder Racers HONDA TUNING DEVICE (later stated as MOREPWR)!
Please save your gasps and applauses until you have got one through our world wide retail network for installation into your mom's Civic's. Price is only, 999 999 USmfD's (United States mother fucking Dollars).
With Loving Regards
The Chemical Brothers of DSG, M&W
We can haz internez!
We haz the internetz in our garage! C-rock made them accesas it. ALL HAIL 1337 C-ROCK!
Now dark side garage can make live updates instantly. But first we shall haz b33r!
-M&W
Now dark side garage can make live updates instantly. But first we shall haz b33r!
-M&W
Monday, September 15, 2008
There's a New Kid In Town
K11. That's what she is.
Cute, small and tight. She likes red and gold. Wears shiny things, but don't like if it goes bling. She knows notes, exhaust notes, which she plays well. Her stereos pumps the beats that makes asses bounce and shake. Dance hall reggae is the music of next door girl for her. She likes it dirty, she likes it hot! She goes low, and shakes it like no one before.
And she's mine! My little one. Am I proud? No I am not. I am just happy to be able to say it out loud, she is mine...!
-M
ps. I dedicated blog for her. C-Rock, please add it to the links .
Cute, small and tight. She likes red and gold. Wears shiny things, but don't like if it goes bling. She knows notes, exhaust notes, which she plays well. Her stereos pumps the beats that makes asses bounce and shake. Dance hall reggae is the music of next door girl for her. She likes it dirty, she likes it hot! She goes low, and shakes it like no one before.
And she's mine! My little one. Am I proud? No I am not. I am just happy to be able to say it out loud, she is mine...!
-M
ps. I dedicated blog for her. C-Rock, please add it to the links .
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Alastaro track day
Some pictures (at last) from Alastaro track day, featuring some Hondas from Åland. :)
Monday, July 21, 2008
First Track Appearance of the EK
Finally it's done! Long long waiting has ended and the EK has been tested at the Finnish race track, Alastaro Circuit. Lovely track btw :)
Car was easy to handle, lovely to drive (if you wanna call that racing "driving"). It was faster than many other vehicle on the track, even though the driver, I, had never been driving on that track before. Few issues came up while racing and after long discussion in the phone I have agreed with Widric that some parts must be ordered )some of them have been waiting on the list for a long long time). Yup, never ending project :D
The most annoying problem was with the brakes. The pedal was totally soft. I thought it was soft even after the new brake lines were installed, but sense there was too much hassle I totally forgot that issue before it was too late. We must try to leak the brakes again and hope there was a mysterious bubble hiding somewhere while the leak was done last time. Hmm... now that I'm thinking of it... We've leaked the brakes many times and the softness has never gone away. Fluid doesn't leak out, air doesn't come out... Maybe we must work with the ABS unit next if the next leaking wont bring any solution. Need to ask Beldin to loan Honda tester to test the ABS systems again (already made the test with the tester during the week - test passed, all functions as they should).
Coils were adjusted a bit on the track. The track is a bit bumpy and I think it went wrong direction. First the front end was set to 6/15 and rear 3/15 (15/15 as the softest position and 0/15 the hardest) after the adjustments FR 3/15 RR 2/15. I prefer softer, at least in dampening.
We also found some mysterious electrical problem. It wasn't all that serious, but I thought to stop in the first session as I noticed AEM UEGO to go out and speed meter to go mad with some nasty smell in the cabin. I guessed the smell was only brakes, but one should never take too many risks. The problem has been tracked to be most probably grounding problem. I'll keep the blog updated once it's been solved.
LSD. We must get LSD. There is no way we can continue for long time with out it. Even though the vehicle runs out of a corner like a arrow from a bow, it could do it much much faster :) Also it will ease the wheel spin that has increased with the super light Rays Engineering Volk TE37 wheels. One cannot do anything more than just love them <3 Back to serious business --> LSD will be Kaaz. 1.5way is good 2way is more aggressive. Must read a bit and make some serious consideration on this.
Our lovely friends from Åland promised to arrange tires for us from Sweden, meaning that the traction problems will between steering wheel and seat for next few races. Yup, R888 will grip in totally different level than the basic street tire, Toyo Proxes T1R. Thanks a lot Mange :D
I wasn't pleased with the coils the car has, but then again I had so much issues with the braking, that it broke my concentration. After the brakes has been fixed and chassis been tuned I shall give more comment on the coils.
The exhaust note was lovely, but I believe we are gonna have some issues to enter some of the Finnish tracks.
Steering wheel needs to be replaced for two reasons. First it doesn't feel good. Second It is a safety issue with the SRS System in it. I just am not interested in witnessing broken nose or neck of a guy who has strapped one self to the Bride seat with Takata harness. s
One funny thing must be mentioned. We had issues with the OEM lambda sensor. Heater circuit broken, told the error code to us. So we installed the AEM EMS into EK4. I put in the basic calibration that basically is good enough for starting the engine, if you are lucky, and starting the tuning. Well... The engine started after few checkins and adjustments like with OEM ECU but was running close to 10 in AFR. All guys were crying, not from joy, not from sadness, but from unburned gasses. That moment felt like:"Fuck, we're never gonna make it to the races in time...!". But we did. Some quick fine tuning and of we went. On the trip I monitored the AFR readings and tested the vehicle in most of the driving conditions I usually use. I threw the lap top into Vili's arms and told him what to do. The map ended up to be pretty nice as we noticed on the track. :D But this was only hte beginning - the real tuning will start from here!
C-Rock shall add some pics and thoughts. Won't you C-Rock? And please do write down all the happy and unhappy moment of our trip. We shall laugh for them after some time :)
Car was easy to handle, lovely to drive (if you wanna call that racing "driving"). It was faster than many other vehicle on the track, even though the driver, I, had never been driving on that track before. Few issues came up while racing and after long discussion in the phone I have agreed with Widric that some parts must be ordered )some of them have been waiting on the list for a long long time). Yup, never ending project :D
The most annoying problem was with the brakes. The pedal was totally soft. I thought it was soft even after the new brake lines were installed, but sense there was too much hassle I totally forgot that issue before it was too late. We must try to leak the brakes again and hope there was a mysterious bubble hiding somewhere while the leak was done last time. Hmm... now that I'm thinking of it... We've leaked the brakes many times and the softness has never gone away. Fluid doesn't leak out, air doesn't come out... Maybe we must work with the ABS unit next if the next leaking wont bring any solution. Need to ask Beldin to loan Honda tester to test the ABS systems again (already made the test with the tester during the week - test passed, all functions as they should).
Coils were adjusted a bit on the track. The track is a bit bumpy and I think it went wrong direction. First the front end was set to 6/15 and rear 3/15 (15/15 as the softest position and 0/15 the hardest) after the adjustments FR 3/15 RR 2/15. I prefer softer, at least in dampening.
We also found some mysterious electrical problem. It wasn't all that serious, but I thought to stop in the first session as I noticed AEM UEGO to go out and speed meter to go mad with some nasty smell in the cabin. I guessed the smell was only brakes, but one should never take too many risks. The problem has been tracked to be most probably grounding problem. I'll keep the blog updated once it's been solved.
LSD. We must get LSD. There is no way we can continue for long time with out it. Even though the vehicle runs out of a corner like a arrow from a bow, it could do it much much faster :) Also it will ease the wheel spin that has increased with the super light Rays Engineering Volk TE37 wheels. One cannot do anything more than just love them <3 Back to serious business --> LSD will be Kaaz. 1.5way is good 2way is more aggressive. Must read a bit and make some serious consideration on this.
Our lovely friends from Åland promised to arrange tires for us from Sweden, meaning that the traction problems will between steering wheel and seat for next few races. Yup, R888 will grip in totally different level than the basic street tire, Toyo Proxes T1R. Thanks a lot Mange :D
I wasn't pleased with the coils the car has, but then again I had so much issues with the braking, that it broke my concentration. After the brakes has been fixed and chassis been tuned I shall give more comment on the coils.
The exhaust note was lovely, but I believe we are gonna have some issues to enter some of the Finnish tracks.
Steering wheel needs to be replaced for two reasons. First it doesn't feel good. Second It is a safety issue with the SRS System in it. I just am not interested in witnessing broken nose or neck of a guy who has strapped one self to the Bride seat with Takata harness. s
One funny thing must be mentioned. We had issues with the OEM lambda sensor. Heater circuit broken, told the error code to us. So we installed the AEM EMS into EK4. I put in the basic calibration that basically is good enough for starting the engine, if you are lucky, and starting the tuning. Well... The engine started after few checkins and adjustments like with OEM ECU but was running close to 10 in AFR. All guys were crying, not from joy, not from sadness, but from unburned gasses. That moment felt like:"Fuck, we're never gonna make it to the races in time...!". But we did. Some quick fine tuning and of we went. On the trip I monitored the AFR readings and tested the vehicle in most of the driving conditions I usually use. I threw the lap top into Vili's arms and told him what to do. The map ended up to be pretty nice as we noticed on the track. :D But this was only hte beginning - the real tuning will start from here!
C-Rock shall add some pics and thoughts. Won't you C-Rock? And please do write down all the happy and unhappy moment of our trip. We shall laugh for them after some time :)
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Making hole in the garage
Maladars ED9, currently under construction. This car doesn't weigh anything at all! Widric and I lifted the rear end easily off the ground.I'm waiting to see this car on the road again.
Maladar and Widric organizing the shelves. Plenty of bumpers, lips, spoilers and other stuff.
Short pause. Some stuff have been moved out of the way so the garage can be cleaned.
More space! ED9 has moved a little bit closer to the side wall and some useless stuff has been pushed out of the doors towards garbage bin.
Widric upgrades the garage. It's nice to have a certified Toyota and Ferrari mechanic, a certified electric and a certified lunatic under the same roof.
Night has fallen and EK4 is going back in the garage. Widric checks that the bumper and front lip doesn't hit the concrete.Front left tire is empty and the old OZ's are not so round anymore.
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