How To Have a Fast Car Inspite Of The Ridiculuosly High TAX Cost

There are three certainities in life, Death, Tax and my office mates can’t sing for shit.A couple of weeks ago they were trying to sing Pretty women and if there wasn’t a chorus with the same words we wouldn’t still know what song they were attempting!

That aside one thing I have learnt is, buying a new performance ride in Sri Lanka is a non starter. Unless of course you or your daddy have a lot of “mullah” than you know what to do with.

So did work on a project and with the help of Dinesh Jay and Sajad from Auto force fame and of course the Zee man from I-chips campus (with apologies to KLM), to convert a standard automatic Honda civic hatch (EXI) into an awesome B16A beast.

The EXI’s come with just over a 100horses and that aint any fun at all. So the plan was to dump a B16A, the legendary Honda Doc engine into the hatch, along with the ECU (computer box), geer box and wire harness. The breaks were to be upgraded as well to all around disks. 15″ sniper alloys completed the look

After two weeks at the Auto force HQ’s down Karanasara road and a few testing runs the car was ready, well not quiet. Ready here is defined as engines running no “miss” or ECU call outs. I took the car out that Sat night and boy what a difference it was. Vroooooom
Instead of 7000 RPM cut off I had 9000 and the V-Tec, what a racket that created..

You had to hear it to believe it, the V-Tec came on at 6000 (set late) with such power and noise it was like having turbo or something. A few spins around Colombo and letting my fellow members at HQ drive the verdict was satisfactory. Stone cold killer loved it and papa Z thought it was too much power on my hands.

It was purrfect, not quite..coming down baseline I saw the color lights change to amber and thought I will break late (no one was on my tail)..hell –the rear wheels locked and the car swerved and stopped..phew –that was close to the railing. Off it went to auto force HQ’s and the boys there did a good job fixin the breaks. The fault was in the break pump and it was fixed in no time. The SIR’s were being sold at aprx Rs 1.5 million den and I had mine one for 300k less,

The SIR was a whole lot of fun and the time and money spent was well worth it..The mugen kit it certainly made it look good….

Sadly work was getting in the way and I could not maintain the SIR anymore and had to part with it. It’s been re-done now by the new owner and it’s much much more faster, neater and uh cleaner. Will try and add some pics of the hot hatch.

Bottomline – It was worth swapping a performance engine before the duty change, its
FULLY worth now as the prices for these cars have just shot thru the roof. Afterall
If you needed the new Civic now you have to pocket a cool 5 mil. See what I mean..

The key is to find a reliable and trust worthy source for the conversion.

My friend “NG” lets refer to him as that, has confirmed cost to convert a lancer into
a kick ass EVO3 with racing breaks/ Recaro seats and the works. Anyone interested?

**Just in case your ignorant about cars, I am not calling this vehicle SIR out of respect for the car or some bull shit like that. That’s the badge Honda ships the B16A engines under. The U.S market equivalent is “Civic SI”

 

Showdown at HQ 4/22 (Final Update)

Well well, sorry to disappoint you folks but the showdown has been canned. Alfaq happened to know the person insulted in the forum (actually the guys a nice fella and bought my last car;-)) and was able to talk to him and explain the posts were not to be taken literally. Doing some research it did appear some forum members have been adding fuel to fire and specultin and addin names to the elusive "WASSUP". The offended party meant business and it seems Mr Wassup has finally gotten to his senses and not posted more crap, or an innocent forum member could have been on the receiving end as you can never tell who's behind these "ID's".

Btw - the following is a response on the same subject, check it out. As you can see things were gettin heated up and there was a lot of humor and sarcasm. Luckily people just chose to remember the funny side of things..

QUOTE(SntPetersburg @ Apr 19 2006, 01:19 PM)  

"Have a life? you tellin me??

Just when I think I've read the stupidest post ever, you go and post another. Just as the strength of a solitary brick will not save a poorly built structure, your bad grammer does not redeem your craven incoherent words.

It's just as well you can type, for if you had to speak your mind, you'd be speechless. Generally, there is nothing wrong with having nothing worthwhile to say - unless you insist on saying it. Oh well, at least you only charge what your free advice is worth. Oh well, as the late Douglas Adams said: "You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

"Most repair manuals are far more interesting than you, and far less turgid to read. If you called the Suicide Hotline, they'd say: "Go ahead. Do it!" Maybe you wouldn't come across as such a jellyfish-sucking mental midget if you weren't so dumb that even blondes tell jokes about you; if your weren't so fat that when you stand on the weighing scale, it reads: "Sorry, we don't weigh livestock.", or if you didn't have a face that is registered as a biological weapon. No, come to think of it, you would.

Now, why don’t you climb onto that Special Needs tricycle of yours with the fourth wheel attached for extra-ensured retard stability and pedal your fat ass down to the sports field and do some “outdoors” stuff for a change. Hell, if you don’t like it, you can always offer to lick-clean the jockstraps" unquote

You can order your cheese rotty after all! See you on Sat. Drags on / cops off / burn some rubber. The forum itself is awesome and the folks get into some lively banter once in a while to keep it entertainin

P.S : Any bets on who posted this ;-)))

 

What ails ole blighty (storm in a tea cup, literally!)

Well as usual I spent some time at HQ (see abrevs) before hitting home, mostly we discuss all things automotive and actually its pretty much all about cars and all things essential for cars.

We get an interesting crowd and like all things Sri lankan you have the factions, now the weired thing is things are heating up over a silly comment on an automotive forum…the mafiaso are on the look out and have the sniffer dogs out trying to figure out who's been posting under the alias "wassup", my gut feelin tells me it certainly can be the weed boys from scarey movie as the grammer was appalling ;-))

Anyways there's supposed to be a showdown on the 22nd and if any of you folks want cheese rotties better hit HQ early! The need of the hour is a few Solheims and peace talks, think the coffee stop will sponsor it? Will keep yall posted provided I am alive on the 23rd as well..

 

Phones and me

Well see I have this knack for loosing things and breaking things! I have lost no less than four mobile phones w/in the last 12 months. I think the thieves have ear marked me for phone robberies, thats possible right?

My good friend Mo has this to say after the latest loss & quote "Have you ever considered a phone implant? Might be actually cheaper in the long run!!!

God in his infinite wisdom, when creating mankind did not give us detachable parts. Else now you will be walking around looking for your head!!!!! " unquote

Maybe I should take the implant option?

 

Abreviations Explained (HQ)

HQ -Head quarters, this is where the gang meets every week and sometimes every day. Depends on how much of a problem it is going home or going back to work. Situated in Galle road Hotels Hijra and Pilawoos are part of the Sri lankan night life.

My friends argue that the food is not perticularly clean - but trust me this place has a faster replenishment cycle than most top hotels and besides if you can eat their you will probably be immune from Diarrohea or denghi for a lifetime..thats a good deal or what? check out the cheese rotty ..my personal favorite..