I haven’t been updating my blog for a while just because I don’t have the mood. Its this rush feeling I’m having, returning back to KL. I miss Didie so much that I can’t do anything right these days.

I’ve shipped all my rc stuff back home. For D1-10rc, I’ve got  a big plan coming into your way once I’m back. Will reveal soon.

Right now I’ve got one 1 big report to conclude my work here and lots of other minor stuffs to complete.

I can imagine myself lepak-ing at mamak in 4 weeks…

Didie left UK to Malaysia. Its really hard to let her go (even for a little while). I dont want her to go. I thought I’m gonna be ok but I was wrong. I miss her so much… no words could explain.

Unfortunately I’ve gotta stay and finish up some work, and definitely going back next month. I just wanna go back home to Didie.

I don’t know whether this happens to anyone; remember when your lecturer forcing you to digest some formulas or making a joke out of the formula just to make sure you remember it until you die. Apparently I forgot and please not my fault! Well for the past two weeks I’ve been wondering whats wrong with my p-v diagram. And finally I did when through my lecture notes (2002)  just to recap back and found this wonderful formula (i’m being sarcastic) which I have to re-calculate all my logged figure (about 16,560 times). Thanks to whoever invented Microsoft Excel (Bill Gates is it? or some IT guy from India?) Who cares, as long as got my p-v diagram right. I think…  

Not so wonderful.

It does look weird.

 Don’t cha worry if you don’t understand, neither do I :) which clearly proofs that we are normal human-being. Its just that I’m bored in the office and need to do something…

Been looking for this model for years, bringing back my memories 2004-2007. Kinda nice to be in the champion team PROTON R3, won Merdeka Millennium Endurance race twice in a row. Its really sweet to work late all night sweating on this bloody beast. I was heavily involved with the MoTeC ecu data management/intepreter on the 3.0liter V6 engine and managing the whole R3 crews (miss ya guys a lot!) Well life goes on, at least… been there, done that…

Did some browsing (trying to convince myself) & thought I share something…

The 12A series motor was in production for about 15 years, from 1970 through 1985.  During 1974 the 12A became one of the first engines outside the US or Europe to compete and finish in the famous 24 hours of Le Mans The 12A is considered a “bored-out” version of the previous 10A engine.  Although the diameter of the rotors stayed the same, the depth was increased by 10mm (0.4 in) to 70 mm (2.8 in).  Each rotor housing had a displacement of 573 cc, combined the engine had a total of 1146 cc.

During the production of the 12A engine they started using a new method of hardening the rotor housings.  In 1974 the Sheet-metal Insert Process (SIP) would use a sheet of steel similar to a piston engine’s cylinder liner with a chrome plated surface.  They also changed the side housing coating which eliminated the problematic sprayed metal that was used previously.

With the use of the new “REST” process, they were able to create a significantly strong housing.  This would make it possible to start using conventional cast iron instead of the old carbon seals.  The earlier 12A motors featured a thermal reactor, which were similar to the 0866 10A.  Some used an exhaust port insert which reduced exhaust noise.

The fastest 12A motor produced was the turbocharged and fuel injected model.  This was used in the Japan-spec Mazda Luce, Cosmo and the RX-7. Luce, RX-7, and the Cosmo.  This engine showcased a “semi-direct injection” into both rotors at once, this technique turned out to be more successful than it appeared.  They added a passive knock sensor to eliminate engine detonation, and some later models included a specially designed “impact turbo,” which was tweaked to give the rotary engine a unique exhaust sound.  This motor produced 165 hp (123 kW) at 6000 RPM and 186 Nm (137 ft/lbf) at 4000 RPM.

Source: Wesley Mahler, [http://www.rotaryengineillustrated.com/list-of-past-present-engines/12a.html], “The 12A Series: Rotary Engine History”, 28 Dec 2009.

Checkout this TA22, one of the badest TA22 so far I’ve seen!!!

No secrets anymore, as I will be going for this look. Choosen paint: GLASURIT’s deep solid black with extra super glossy.

Link:  http://speedhunters.com/archive/2009/11/21/car-feature-gt-gt-bosozuku-celica.aspx

P/S: I’ll be slowing down on r/c as I’ve got 2 most important things coming in 2010 (wait & see….). Actually its 3!

Just recently got my PS3’s Modern Warfare 2 (sooorry Haidi, Azhar, Azman Azam & Fairuz sebab lambat), saje je beli lambat sebab Xmas sale (bought it for roughly RM200). Esok start cuti sampai 3rd January 2010, soooo excited nak main in the network, main sampai lebam… guys please add me in the playstation network as ‘azmanomura’.  Xmas eve maybe??? Email me please!

Next… Band Hero???

Its snowing at Norwich, boleh tahan jugak lebat. Its fun to enjoy snow with Didie (before this I enjoyed snow sorang-sorang je). Come to think of it kan, last time I had snow was 7-8 years ago while I was still studying in UK. I was alone that time but this time its totally different just because I have my Didie with me. Nothing better in this world to spend quality time with your love ones, nothing can ever ever ever beat that. My family has and will always be my 1st priority than any other things in this whole wide world…

Anyway we build a snowman! Its was cold (-3degC) tapi dah soooo excited sampai lupa sejuk hahahaha! Syok sangat!!!

Office dah kosong, mat salleh balik kampung cuti Xmas. And most of my colleagues (including Farraen) are going back next week. So tinggal lah me & another colleague of mine Faizal at the office until next year. The office will never be the same again, sunyi. Hari ni kita orang bawak makanan and makan ramai-ramai dalam office.

Continuation from last time, I had Front toe 0*, camber -6*, caster 4* and Rear toe -3*, camber -4*, caster 0*… and today, well it was a different story Hehehehe!

First of all, first thing I did when I arrived was to have a go on the track to recap last weeks driveability. After couple of laps, I swapped over to Yokomo rings. Amazingly it was waaaaayyyyy much better (just in case you guys wondering, I was on HPI T-Drifts). With the Yokomo rings, the car control feels intact.

But the rear was still too difficult to modulate or in other words, slight snappy. So I swapped the rears over to softer springs (now that I have done that, fronts and rears have same rate - soft) and changed the rear toe to -1*.  And the car totally feel a lot easier to drive (I might have an idea on how the rear modulation works).

Since aku ni tak terer, so I decided to start practice by familirising and understanding the car control. I did some CS runs from island to island on the track (hehehe memalukan).

At the moment, I’m quite comfortable with this setup but my run still not good. All I need to do now is just more time to practice, I hope?! It was a good and fun day today, learned a lot

So as for today…

Front: Toe 0*, Camber -6*, Caster 4*, Soft Spring, Damper Oil 250, Modded ackerman.

Rear: Toe -1*, Camber -4*, Caster 0*, Soft Spring, Damper Oil 250.

Others: Overdrive 2.03, 50g weight on front end, spur 70, pinion23, SP brushless 10.5T motor, Yokomo single ring tires.

I will probably tweek the weights & damper positions next week