Qualifying Day (QTT)

Qualifying Day (QTT)
all tekno tuner guys went to sleep, Loqy from Riverside sent one of his electrician, because the rear 3rd brake lights was removed from my car and not being put back in...

so i helped until 3am before falling asleep... i slept for 4 hours woke up 7am, i drove by myself to my friend's garage, Posma @ PAG, to borrow his fire extinguisher... thank you for this bro... really appreciate it! and drove straight to sentul....

QTT 1 @ 10:20am for BMW Race
QTT 2 @ 11:40am for Super Touring

massive traffic jam on the way and i managed to get to sentul around 10:15am.... spent 5 minutes lowering the tyre pressure to 28psi cold and went straight in....

i followed one of my idol, Gerry Nasution... a year ago all i can do was just reading about him and admiring him and his achievement from articles... and now i am driving with him... i felt like i am dreaming...

we drove together...
i got 1:59 for warming up the tyres
1:57 for 2nd lap...
2 lap of 1:56
and then 1:55...

but the lap after that i blew the engine.... i was still driving it 80%... as i only been to sentul 2 times before when my car was stock and my car never lasted more than 8 laps each (clutch problem 2:08s and gearbox problem 2:06s).... so i was paranoid...


i have to settle with 1:55s @ sentul on 1st time out and miss the 2nd QTT on 11.40am... but now i am worried about the engine...



i call indra santoso from Tekno Tuner and said "if you can make me another engine tonight, i can win tomorrow"

so he rushed to sentul and inspected the engine...

turned out his prediction was right, the rocker arm that was grinded by previous workshop broke... the valve shoot of and collide with the piston number 4 and fused... and the intake port that was ported abit too close by previous workshop cracked and caused the water to enter the combustion chamber...







bent valve


left normal rocker arm, right is the grinded rocker arm... the previous workshop excuse was "to avoid hitting the valve"... wtf! i know other people with the same engine and setup with mine and they are fine without grinding the rocker arm! &#$#@$^#@^$@#@$&!!!



so we remove the head, then rushed back to tekno tuner's workshop to start working on the rebuild while the car stayed back to wait for towing from PAG.