Got myself a hoodie. Another emo buy rofl

Full replacement

If you interior is peeling off, time to go for something more lasting…..

Even the window switch panels are replaced

VAG fans but dayammmm this is hawttt.. the RS3 killer!

BMW M1

Ahhhh… it’s always good to spend money! Retail therapy has proven to be the best fix when you emo but that usually comes with a big regret. ROFL

Brakes are your best friend, especially when you are traveling above legal speed limit. It can save your life so if you are planning to go big on your power mod, be sure to go big too on your brakes.

In my previous post, I wrote about my experience with the Porsche 6 potter taken off a Cayenne 955 and i franken-ed it with Merc Rotors. Also shed a bit of thought on other brakes that I have driven. The post is here :  http://k3v.modyourfast.com/?p=1140

After I sold my porsche brakes, I have reverted back to the stock brakes, just for the heck of it and eventually couldn’t resist and bought a set for Ferodo ds2500 stock pads. Surprise! It was noisy. I don’t understand, I recall an AP Racing kit using a Ferodo pads and it was quiet. very strange… oh well…

A lot of my friends asked me, K04 on stock brakes sure or not? Friends, I have even gone for track day but of course you don’t expect to brake at 150m or anything like that right? My conclusion, upgrading brake pads is sufficient for daily use, track day? NO!

Nose diving is very dangerous when you are running on the B-road. Imagine driving around 120km/h into a right hand bend, and you realised that you are going into it faster than you should be, you press your brake pedal a bit harder, you nose-dive with your rear wheel getting slight air borne. Imagine if the rear tilts more than it is supposed to; a disaster is inevitable. The original plan of getting my

To be honest, there are no good/bad brake kit in general but only retrospective to the user. One man’s perfect mod is another man’s junk hence, it is very important that you identify your objective. Prior to acquiring this set of VW Racing brakes, I have ordered an AP Racing Kit but I decided to go for this VW Racing to check out all these hype about VW Racing. Is it that good or its just a hype?

Honestly, I was very skeptical because I am by nature a very skeptical person . It looks like my old Porsche calipers and what makes it so special? Is it worth the price tag it carries? After 400km of driving back from Singapore, I assure you that this is not a hype! The brake kit is worth every cent, it doesn’t give you that nose diving (some say eye popping) feeling even with the uprated Ferodo DS2500 brake pads.

Volkswagen Racing 6pots and AP Racing 4pots

No funky squeaky sound and it suits my braking style on the road. Braking styles on the road vs track is different; in the track you do not hold your brakes or risk it overheating. On the road however, you hold your brakes and not slam them when you want to stop because you have passengers on board. When I held gently on the VWR, it doesn’t give you the sudden brake sensation, instead slowly grips the rotors to halt… fantastic!! Even my wife notices it, and she doesn’t nag me for causing her neck pain! I was going to get her a bloody HANS (head and neck support) unit because she used to complaint that I always emergency – which I don’t but it happens.

The porsche 17z calipers weights around 5.5kg (http://k3v.modyourfast.com/?p=1164), I was using the 18z but since its on my car, couldn’t weight it but estimate around 6-6.5kg. The VWR calipers weight 4.92kg and together with the rotor, the entire kit weights 11.96kg, half the weight of a stock brake. The Porsche kit would probably weight around 16-17kg. The rotor itself is already at 23-24lbs which works out around 10-11kg.

Looking good...

The size of the rotor is 352mm, fits nicely onto the offset +45 18″ VWR rims. During the installation, I did take an opportunity to test fit my Advan Racing RZ 18″ offset +48 rims and it fits, but the look of VWR rims are growing on me. I hope I don’t curb it… LOL

Match made in heaven

Here’s what the kit comes with;

• 2x red CAPARO calipers (http://www.caparoapbraking.com)
• Uprated pads (Ferrodo DS2500)
• 2x 352mm discs
• 2x aluminium bells/HATS
• 2x aluminum caliper mounting brackets

Got my installation done at EUROHAUS Singapore, superb workmanship  - no anyhow replacing bolts and they asked you before they do anything out of the norm i.e. re-threading your bolt thread because some dude decided to replace my original bolts for my ARB with bigger and probably cheaper bolts. !@#!@#!@#!@#!%$^

This however, is not the only thing I did in Singapore but I will leave it as it is, feel like going for a short drive to test the air intake, the suspension and anti-roll bar… ROFL.

Will update post with more pics after I washed the car and more updates on the brakes when I have done more driving around with it.

Today I had a chance to sit on a stage 2 Scirocco and I know now I am not pushing my car hard enough.

2.52 was the official lap time … without brakes! Yes, brake pads gone and still do 2.52. WTH!

And from behind came the real monster

Drop by at Sepang for a short while and saw this hotty…

Fully loaded with Eurohaus goodies…

Strange, the Scirocco R running on TSI engine instead of the TFSI? hmm..

Seen it live at ATP Motorsport, a rare SLS. I used to ogle over it but it seems like it has aged a bit? Or is it just me…

I decided to pen this down. Why?

1. As a journal

2. As a learning experience so that I can continue to remind myself of the success and failure.

A few keywords that I will use very often throughout a series of post will be VWClubMalaysia (VCM) and Modyourfast (MYF). Names of the parties involved will likely to be masked for privacy (:P) and items stated is at my best memory and no intend to defame and this is not about whose right and whose wrong.

MYF was born 2010, soon from the death of my very dear brother, Jae-sen who was very into cars and so is my youngest brother Ken-Ny. In fact, I am the worse between them two, my conversation when it comes to car were limited to point A and point B. I never serviced my car frequently but I was fortunate enough to have the least break-down, perhaps just good car-ma (pun intended!).

I still recall back when we were younger, teenager and working adult, my brothers and I slept in the same room and our night discussion often focus on DOTA (a game) and what we ought to do as a team. You see, since we were young chikus, my dad had already brain-washed us and the whole united we stand, divided kind of concept. Nothing new but definitely a strong influence to us.

Jae-sen was an aspiring accountant following my mom’s footstep and Ken-Ny at the age of 18 was already following my dad’s footstep. Me? I am neither one but the conversation went on and on about how we are going to form the best team to build the ‘empire’ that my dad aspire to but unfortunately we never did continue that talk after we started working and everyone has their own life especially Jae-sen was the first to tie the knot. Well, you don’t sleep with your brothers after they have a wife, right?

Jae-sen’s death back in 2009 was a big impact to the family – a fortune teller told my mom that she will only have 2 sons to send her off and he/she described the person pretty much similar to me. Everyone thought it was me that was foretold but fate has its own way, and only at his death, we all knew that Jae-sen was the one all the while. It was quite an irony that he consistently reminded me of the taboo of owning a blue car; yes it was part of the prophecy and he somehow repainted his BMW to blue, just before his accident in a car which bear similar number plate that almost took his life when he was 19. Believed it or not, its just too bloody coincidental…

After his death, I have moved into lakefields to temporary keep my sister-in-law company and it is this time that everything about Jae-sen that I have been missing was put in front of me like a Big Breakfast set. In a gist, he was one of the founder of Bimmersclub.com together with a group of fantastic friends and he was dealing in spare parts! Days gone and the more I get myself involved in his life with his friends, I miss him more and I am beginning to live his life; managing the bimmersclub.com, hanging out with his bimmers buddies, washing his bimmer everyday and that sort of thing.

In his house, I was residing and in front of a Singaporean guy who for the longest time I did not bother to make friends with, because he was trying to hard-sell me some stuff at the VWGolfClubMalaysia’s TT session which was quite annoying for a while.

How he ended up being my partner? He came for the funeral and that’s how we became friends and the talk about starting up MYF. I have zero idea about cars but through my experience, I do have a sense of what ticks and what doesn’t, in fact I have told my partner that I will likely to provide the capital only and the rest of the hands on stuff will be his responsibility since he has been doing this for the past 2-3 years or so.

Couple of weeks back, I ponder, then realised that MYF could be a ‘gift’ from Jae-sen, why? I missed him so much that I began to live his life. Through my short tenure of staying in his house, I have acquired his passion for the industry and I even went on to join a GRA and won a prize (don’t ask me to do it again!), the track days and never ending workshop session, all happened while I was residing at his place.

I wouldn’t have spoken to my partner (now ex) then he wasn’t staying in front of me because he was just too hard-sell and I suck at saying “NO” but he is possibly the best salesman in town. I was having the best time in my life painting the town red and I can’t be bothered to settle down or even think about what’s next in my life. His death changed all that and that’s how I got myself into this whole MYF and VCM – sometimes I do wonder why I bothered! *GRIN*

As the saying goes, you never know what you missed till they are gone is very true. I believe he would have wanted to build something like MYF (he was trading small time himself) but missing the puzzle and I don’t have to do this myself. I had never intend to turn MYF into a family driven effort but I guess you can only trust family.

In memory of a dear brother, MYF is dedicated to you and how this all ends up at VCM? In the next post…

Grandma stopped breathing this morning- she is actually my wife’s grandma, sort of an inheritance but I have grown acquainted to her and today remind me a lot of Jae-Sen, the sleepless nights and most annoying beep of ICU support unit and subsequently that fateful night. It was indeed painful to recall, never failed to bring tears to my eyes and to see my wife going through it, its almost dejavu.

What is more interesting is, coming home to find yet another VW Club was born; well its not like we didn’t expect it, in fact I was already aware of it but didn’t know they would take a cheap shot for their so called launch event.  Nevermind, I am already tired fighting this battle but what was intriguing is how far we have gone and how much effort was put to copy what we did and as the saying goes; you know you made it when you find pirated copies of your work in pasar malam.

No offense guys and I sincerely wish you all the best – this war has no meaning anymore. Why? because when I started building VWclubmalaysia.net and now VWclubmalaysia.com as well, I was overzealous, yes so much so that today I looked back at the milestones, I couldn’t imagine the amount of work that the team and I put in, but for what? World domination or just plain ego. It is obvious that serving the club requires time and money which is both equally exhausting.

A few days back, I sat on the coffee table, planning, plotting the path for the club and again I looked back, 10 months old 2800 members from ground zero, average 9.5 users registration per day, averaging 50 users online per day with 12 commercial posters on board and plenty more to come. This is 10 months work, can we push further? Yes! but at what expense? whose expense? The thought is scary, but it is true what the Chinese says, its easy to start, its not easy to maintain.

Perhaps what really scares me is the fact that this whole club thing – despite having a flat structure, 6 partners, I am often regarded as the President and often the guy who takes the rap. Honestly, I don’t make the call all the time, we operate on council basis, matters tabled, decision by all including the moderators but I am often the one takes the bullet and after 10 months, I am a bit weary. A successful CEO once told me, “kev, you are here to do a job, not kiss some butt… so you can tell the auntie with skimpy glasses and ugly shoulder pads to move over or get squashed!” Time changed, aunties retired, you are the uncle now. Generation Y is the new work force, so I guess I learned it the hard way.

I have a feeling all these will never end but of course I don’t expect it to, after all I am still alive *GRIN* but I am definitely not going to do anything, its just amazing how every single thing I do gets a comment some how i.e. I can’t even frigging complaint that I got annoyed with people making change my schedule so that they can get their key chain from a group buy! Its just amazing…

People tell me that I write well, some say I am good story teller – I don’t know but in the past 3 years of owning a VW, I have definitely a lot to share, not just mods and maintenance stuff which I usually write but a lot more things, in fact the newest thing to add on is Club Management! Its not easy and I salute the people behind clubs like BMW, ZTH, RX8Club, MLOC, JCOC, IA and etc who has been around for the longest time for doing a great job. I was thinking, I should start a series of post on these too, maybe I can make some pocket money..

Someone asked me just now, “wah got new club wor… how?” My take is, congrats on your launching, i wish you all the best and I don’t intend to retaliate because I tired but out curiousity, so now you have ZTH VAG Club who just re-launched (after the poor job done on VWKaki.org) and VW Owners Club which is about the same vintage which also happens to be friends with each other and they are all going for the same market share?

I mean seriously, you guys didn’t just create  a club for the sake of creating right? What’s your plan to grow from here? Concurrently attack VWclubmalaysia? or merge into one club? Another name change, new branding, new sticker? It will definitely be interesting to watch as two clubs (because I refuse to play this game) pan out their strategy to gain memberships.

I leave you all with an advise as a friend (ex-friend, in case you decided to delete my facebook link), get your branding and strategies correct, make milestones and go for the deliverables and also, Maxis and Digi (Ada Maxi, Ada Digi?) cannot co-exist without cannibalization and it will be your biggest enemy, well that is if you are planning to go somewhere with this, other than just pissing k3v and soundman off.

Good luck and all the best.

Added a Forge 1.4tsi intake to our project car and achieved 5hp on wheel.

Other mods

a. REVO tuned
b. S3 intercooler
c. S3 bush
d. Forge DV
e. Forge Intake