SPRCD 2nd camp

It was a camp from 24th to 25th Oct 2009.

Started smoothly at 4pm, where we took about 30 mins moving tire markers up to the Camp room, namely T2266 to T2267.

Then went for seoul garden.

Camp Part 1

Here are the photos.

This is from my friend andy, who took all the photos...

I lazy upload, but i'll find time to do so.

Lets continue, my table consisted of John, reuben and Shiyong aka Hulk.

Took a HUGE AMOUNT of meat, seriously.

imagine about 10cm high of meat on the normal dinner plates....

Which after, we went to the arcade, i went for Maximum Tune 3 DX, renewed my car..

OMG, from undefeated highway dominator to WTF,,,,,, Wangan beginner?

rubbed my eyes, and WOW, its real...

Nvm, at approximately 9.30++ we went back to SP and moved the rest of the stuff to camping room.

then it was time for practise for trial run 1 at the Senior's Myamsterious room.

I scored average for clipping point, but i was engrossed in it, forgot almost all flow.

I then changed setting using shock spacer.

Played till I was satisfied, went to rest.

Then at around 1.13am, We went out..

Came back at 2am...

Watched Tokyo Odaiba D1GP, and was the first time i could fell asleep watching my favourite show.

shows how tired one can be at 4am....

Slept for 4 hrs, when i woke up last. Red eyes and a disoriented head is bad for drifting.

Pack up, then go to basket ball court.... 12.30

Oh my god, the surface was good, but my car wasn't set up for it.

practised till 2.30pm....

Single run: (in my prespective)

Practise run - flow is there, 4 out of 5 clipping point. score average 3 on clipping point.

1st run - clip all 5 on 3, i killed my flow by half. possibly at the dori-dori section.

2nd run - clip 4 outta 5, Improve flow by full throttling into dori dori with no brake. (i grew bigger balls, yay, Jk!)

Followed by Tsuiso:

Vs Jim, Win.

1st run(Me leading) - Advantage

2nd run(Jim leads) - Advantage

2nd round Vs Andy,

1st run(Me leading) - Advantage

2nd run(Andy leads) - Andy wins.

Let me tell the whole story. We started with the first hairpin, which we entered with same speed, shorly after by a huge sweeper. This is when i took the inside line with faster speed.

i thought i would cut him off, guess what?

I was tricked, what i did not realise is that i tuned his car for slight understeer, meaning, he can straighten out easily. ( i tuned that car, ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!)

So just at the end of the sweeper, his car shot up with speed, cut the inside line, i was caught offguard, and had to brake.

understeer occured at end of sweeper and the beginning of the dori section.

That was how i lost. I felt a little shock though.

That even though Tsuiso may seem easy and calm, but it is full of tricks and psychological challenges.

Day ended with this:
SP Competition
Overall:

5th: Jermyn Eng Jie Ming

Top qualifier:

1st: Jermyn =)

Promise to do better!

Heres the rest of the phots:
Camp part 2

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A Newborn....

Hello, here is the promised update. 2nd can of PS-4 paint.
Urethane Bushings(Most of them have gone black)
And the long-awaited TB03D Direct Coupling(aka Spool, Solid Axle)
I Acquired them all at stargek, then cleaned up my whole TB03, and vacumed the dust off.



Here it is! The Newborn Yokomo Droo-p AE86! Completed!

New PVCs... :P, 3rd set in 5 mths.



Reverse stickers Lol.
Looks good eh? well, of course i had help with it.

Big thanks to Gamble of Team Drift Force for the CF hood and most of the stickers, and Xanda for the reaming of the perfect 4 holes. This shell would not have been possible without them.

(Come claim ur rewards next week! A Drink of any choice)

Next stage, TRF shocks and Light buckets!

See you guys next month!

Got a new shell from Street Revo

Woot. My New shell is here!

Its a yokomo.

and its Droo-p

and an AE86

not Levin, but a Trueno.

Its the Droop AE86 Trueno!
Haven taken it outta the packaging.
Shell, stickers, muffler mount.
This is what it will look like when finished.
Sprayed it with Tamiya PS-4 Blue,
ran out on me at 2nd coat. Devil_grin helped to do a little light coat of PS-1 White.

Turns out to be CMI, which means the white can be seen throught the blue, need another can i guess....
here you go Guys,

This will probably my WIP for the next 2-4 weeks.

My plans for Friday.

I won't be going for CCA, i will be heading down to Street Revo for a new shell,

And maybe a spool, and other accesories.

My stuff is getting a little boring. Such as the black syline shell , that can no longer be repaired anymore.

My shell may take choices from here:

HPI Vertex Mark II Chaser

Tamiya S15

Tamiya R34 Skyline

Tamiya R32

Yokomo Bee*R B324R

Interesting Tutorial...

Wow, i was thinking of crossing a Yokomo PS13 with a S13 to get a sileighty...


Dunno whether i have the balls to cut two yokomo shells away to do this....

maybe ill get a HPI Soarer, or a Tamiya 32....

More Stuff..

Ok, here you go guys... Recognise this? Yep, my New Tamiya Super Stock TZ 23 Turn Motor.
Here it is, mounted on my TB03... I would say its pretty cheap, for a motor that is maintainable, and have much more freedom in cleaning.
time for some maintenance, This is Silicon based oil at 50w, i changed to shock oils, which have turned from yellow to black....feels very diffrent, as the amount of weight on the shocks have decreased, the bouncing effect increased in front, causing less grip in front. but for the rear, i get more drift angle as a result.

Ugh.... because of the rebuildable motor, dust and dirt gets in more easily.... so i used this to clean off the dirt, i found a piece of muck inside just after my first run with the motor...

It sort of eats off the dirt, leaving behind shiny parts, which i am more than happy, to assemble it back together...

Pretty much all, for this month. I'm going to buy a spool next week...

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 !!!!!!!

Piece of VERY GOOD NEWS!

MY DREAM SHELL HAS BEEN RERELEASED!!!!
Credits to Side.fx for the news.

Tamiya GT-R33 (re-released)

by the wind on Aug.16, 2009, under RC News

So, Tamiya has finally re-release the most wanted bodyshell by RC drift community, the Nissan GT-R33 originally from TA01 kit Loctite livery. Even though it is a limited edition spare body set, we are very sure it will be a hit among option project lookers as well as collectors who may not even build or paint it.

Currently only available in Japan market, spotted via Yahoo site, the bodyshell is available as in the original state, that is without light bucket or any other addons. There was before, some tips that ABC Hobby is working on Street type Nissan GT-R33 bodyshell, beefing up their drifting line products. We also have reason to believe that HPI is in the same bandwagon, tuning their mold to release R33 before 2009 ends.

While these hearsay can’t be confirmed by respective parties, most of the time they emerge as true. We hope that bodyshells especially those which are street, which are meant for drifting market, should be accompanied with standard issue accessories as complete setup.

We look forward to reviews, as well as walkthru, howto, and tutorials, following this magnificent beast. Thankyou to sources of news namely from, driftercentral.com user SNPY.

Gives me hope and some dissapointment.... but i'll try my best to get this...