Piping Reroute & De-Lip.

After surviving 1 week plus in the campus, the piping decided to crack at a point because of too much tension when having contact with the hump. Sounds like a rotary engine, but slower than a Myvi. Decided to swirl around in the Skudai area, and arrived at an exhaust shop + workshop. Which happened to be the workshop for JB Drift Club.

A mechanic then helped me to fix the piping. What he did was heating the extractor so that it can be bend more upward and re weld all the exhaust piping so that it get closer to Rolla's floor board. In other word, if you look from side now, you wont see any exhaust piping popping out from the bottom. All you see now is the floor board. Clean.

After the job was done, only then I knew his name. The man who did the job is the one who drove the A31 for Drift Zone JB, Mr. Shairul. A well known group and team member in JB was doing my car. Now that's improvement.

Then, while on the way to Majistreet Court (I will elaborate on this in a very very long writing to tell what happened when the case is settled. Suing people is a lot harder than I thought), there's new road and old road joint on the way to Danga, which I didn't saw it and just cruise on the joint. Which caused?

Rolla's a bit too low for daily usage actually. The front spoiler hit the joint, which caused nothing to the spoiler since it is a FRP. BUT, the lower panel was damaged. You can see how the impact had change the lower panel's shape and it didnt stop there. Even the front grille, and the left headlamp cover were affected too. And to add some spice, the right lower panel screw joint were detached. Need to weld it back to fix it. That bad uh the price I pay for having such low ride. And I wont raise the height back coz tall is lame. HAHA.

As for now, my old lip was sold. Sold to a very close friend of mine. Hope he'll success in his new project. All the best buddy! How bout Rolla? Well, Retro Bodykits which is one of my sponsor for Rolla, will send a new front spoiler which is the latest product of Retro Bodykits.

Some car with the similar front spoiler. Taken out of JNC and Uncle Google.

And finally, something is on the way to JB. I am very skeptical with the function or maybe its me who cant differentiate the difference of a car that does not have an anti-roll bar and a car that have it on the axle. We'll see. But since it is a bargain price tag, I just bought it. Will fit it. Theoretically, it is plug and play since I am using the AE86 LSD, which already have the bracket to hold the ARB.

Rolla's Exhaust.

Okay so my house area is filled with this extra tall hump. All of sudden there's a dozen of new one when they resurfaced the road. So I was really like WTF coz Rolla's stance is pretty low, especially the flex pipe and the piping which sit lower than its body. Talking bout stupid workmanship at a lousy exhaust shop.
 

See? See? Cant even make the exhaust tip aligned with the tunnel.

So I am back in town this weekend, yeah I'll be in town once in two weeks. New rules coz my Dad said even if I am back home every week, I am not physically at home at all. Hahahaha. So got some free time and finally some effort to visit an exhaust shop. Shop called Wei Yip in Balakong. Been there since was with Bee last year. Wei Yip is known for its cheap price tag and I think the workmanship is good.

Going up and cut em all.

Rolla had been running with a 2.3' piping. It was the left over from the Silverturbo engine and yeah, I didn't swapped it when doing the conversion. The noise? From a silent turbo engine, suddenly it became a loud N/A engine. Very loud to me. So why do I need a new set of piping?

Because of this!

A torn flex pipe. Been scrubbing a lot of hump with this. And yes, it leaked. So higher fuel consumption and extra noise from the bottom of the car. Told the worker to make a new set of piping from front till back coz I'm downgrading to 2' pipe size.

Bye-bye rusty pipe.

Took the opportunity to checked Rolla's under carriage. Engine area, no leaking. Good. But this thing concerned me coz the car's making clunking noise whenever the road is not even or going hump. Only right side. Yep, the beam had cracked thanks to the rust. Will fix it at a body shop soon. Meanwhile, I'll just be extra careful with the steering. As you can see, I am using a new set of steering rack for KE70 model and the rack end (Or whatever it is called) is from the Toyota Unser. Just to share. Really no knowledge to explain further so pardon me.

Checked the axle area, and some leaking detected. Definitely not from the axle coz there is no oil stain. Maybe the brake line. Any idea where it came from?

And yeah, the rear adjustable coil over had been set to its max lowered stance. Cant go any further. Wanted to try to adjust the soft-hard setup but I don't know which one is for extra soft of extra hard. Current number is 2.

Weld here and there, and its done. Here's my current exhaust layout. Sit pretty close to the body and yes, it does shake the floor. But for the sake of not scrubbing the hump, I'll just ignore it.

Asked them to make the exhaust to be straight with the tunnel and positioned a bit inside into the body. And yeah, I like it this way.

And its done. So my feedback and conclusion after driving the car for this few days?

• With 2' size, the exhaust note is 'deeper' and less 'decibel' compare to the 2.3' size. Its quieter lah in other word. Only a bit. Car is still loud if you ask me.
• Low end RPM improved significantly! Now the acceleration from still to 3000rpm is smoother and I can feel the delivery is better than before. So weak lemau low end RPM is solved with this 2' size. Combine it with 3.5bar of fuel pressure, it is a perfect setup to me for a good acceleration and high speed cruising. Also helped when sideways.
• Fuel consumption is better after I fixed the piping problem. Other than because of the large diameter of the pipe that contribute to the problem, its the leaking that worsen it. So 2' does improve my mileage.

Long, Hard and Bent.

Anyway, today decided to check out the power steering fluid and found out it was almost empty. So I bought this power steering fluid from a local spare part shop and top it up.

And finally, my front lip were traded with this exhaust. Gosh I love bent tips at the end of an exhaust. Question is, does it suitable for my car? And is it loud? It is quite long and according to the owner, the brand is 5zigen and it is suitable for turbo instead of N/A.

Here's a scale of my phone and the exhaust's length.

And here's the exhaust on previous car. Does it looks good?