Saturday, December 03, 2005

ellO! another DIY weekend!! most probably my last for the year!!

Last night!! what a coincidence!! I down to autobacs after school and to my surprice I saw michael's car in one of the parking spaces! I didn't expect to see anyone I know... Well, from there I bought car sponge, metallic antenna and anti slip mat!! nothing much actually!! Michaels vehicle was in pretty bad shape from the back!! I know! lady drivers right?!! /tsk tsk!! lolX!!!
Ugly uglYY... =P








Woke up this early morning, fine weather! I thought it might be a good day for cycling!! But I have a backlog of stuff to do! Sound proofing the rear doors was one of them!! I have to start working on my 3 pieces of cable hunter SP material which bought online for 70 dollars!! What a deal! =] All in all, I spent 3-4 pain staking hours doing and refining every detail of the SP material!~.. yes and I was slow.. taking my time to measure and cut...!
Took out loads of news paper and lay it out on the floor. For templates, I use Urban newspaper(wednesday issue), which have a size just right for measuring the doors! I placed the newspaper into the door, fold to the shape it fits and get back, using it as a template to cut out the sound proofing piece!
It took many toos and fros and I think I had spent quite good effort on it, piecing the puzzle making it as neat and compact as possible...






yepS! I did abit of the floorpan because I still had about 3/4 piece of SP material left!, So I shared the 3/4 at both sides!! ANd really! now I can't feel the vibes of the bare metal below the accelerator no more!! It's definately not a placebo!. Upon removing the carpet, I must say that Toyota has done a great job SPing the floorpan, they have lots of boxed styrofoams and wooly SP material below your feet! Tom Yam Car isn't that bad afterall! =]
The last picture was a bad job done by AE where I installed by sound system... Installation had been good and professional, but they had overlook on the mid bass rattle in my car~, remove some unwanted plastic of the plastic door and placed it back as good as new!!
Now.. My hand are full of scratches!! thanks to the sharp edge of the metal doors!! It shreds the same like paper cut!! ouch!!


Back from Poh Heng with nice whites!! I think except for the rim caps, it looks pretty alright right? They don't look really compatible to me!! I need some of your comments!! Can be a critic too! Don't worry about me! I need honest comments!!
I chose white because I didn't want it to become a fierce vehicle.. Like every other car on the street that wanna be fierce(sorry). I saw nice SSW black matt rims that will look real aggressive... I decided to tame mine with white...
It's a taiwan rim, from TOP Racing, no money really =~ from the pocket okay!!
It comes with Falken ST115 performance tyres for an additional 50 bucks!!

I had these tyres on my list
Eagle F1 --- cannot suit my budget
BF GoodRich --- bad for SP, real noisy tyres
Bridgestone G3 --- wanted to ask but too late! they had installed the falkens!!
Pilot Preceda --- Had this in mind all along in the first place, but Justin told me that they are made in thailand(tom yam) and I had for fork out additional 100 bucks!! WTH!!
Falken ST115 --- I chose this because it's Justin recommendation and also the tyres are made in japan!! So far so good.. it's quiter than my old stock Eagle NCT 5 =]

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