The Crack!

As I mentioned in my previous post, Black Mamba's windscreen was cracked during the Pasir Gudang track session last year. It was just a small hairline crack but since it wasn't treated right away, the crack grew damn long one day after my brother left the car under the sun for hours haha.

Since the windscreen is insured, I made full use of it with a claim. Took the workshop 3 days to get the glass. Unfortunately it isn't Japan made..coz if I were to get OEM Honda windscreen, I would be forced to fork out another RM2,500 and have to wait another month for it to arrive. So, China made glass worth RM1,500 is good enough. After all it is also double-layered.

Check out the size of the crack.

The replacement glass

Made by Fuyao Glass Industry. Apparently they are the OEM supplier for Cadillac, Audi, Peugeot etc.

Oh by the way they didn't install the side panel properly so it flew off @ 120kmh. What a letdown. Had to go back and get them replaced with a new one worth RM350 a piece (!)

Rollin'

Happy new year peeps! I have been pretty busy with work this month but managed to arrange my time to fix some stuffs on Black Mamba. Last couple of weeks I installed a set of 6.5mm spacers to make the stance go wider on my car. It looks pretty ganas but however due to lack of negative camber at the back, the tires were scraping the fender arch. Argh!

Before the arch starts to eat my tires, I had to list out the possible solution for this. So after talking to some friends, the cheapest and fastest solution than changing to adjustable rear camber kit would be rolling the fender arch. Knowing that some of my friends had done this before, I went to Craftmotorsport in Sunway to settle this issue. Took Ah Loon less than an hour to get the fender rolled with the, um, fender roller. Problem solved with just RM100+!

If you want to get your fender rolled nicely, get it done with the fender roller. The conventional method of knocking the fender like pissed-off Thor is just too primitive in 2011 and can cause damage to the bodywork if it's not done properly. With this fender rolling, just a little bit of gentle knocking needed to bend the fender then it's all good for rolling. The paint might chip off a bit on the inside but was later covered with anti-rust spray.

Where: Craftmotorsport, Sunway - http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=t.698732602#!/CraftMotorsport

Cost: RM1XX. Discuss with Ah Loon.