12 Tips on how to make our car less consume fuel.. muSt read~

1 . Pump up your tyres
Keeping your tyres inflated is one of the easiest and most important things Saving petrol means saving money one can do to improve fuel economy. If a range is recommended by the manufacturer, the higher pressure should be used to maximize fuel efficiency. Deflated tyres run hot and jeopardize safety. It will also cause the tyres to wear out prematurely, affect the vehicles adversely, and hurt the fuel economy by increasing the rolling resistance. Tyres lose about 1 psi pressure per month due to air loss caused by the tyre hitting holes, bumps and kerbs. Therefore, the tyres should be checked at least once a month. Just 1 tyre deflated by 2 psi will result in a 1% increase in fuel consumption.

2. Drive at moderate speed
Avoiding high speeds on open roads results in safer driving and better fuel econ! omy. In highway driving, over 50% of the power produced by the engine is used to overcome aerodynamic drag. Drag and thus fuel consumption increases rapidly at speeds above
90km/h. On the average, a car uses about 15% more fuel at 100km/h, and 25% more fuel at 110km/h compared to when it is doing only 90km/h. However, this should not lead one to conclude that the lower the speed, the better the fuel economy – because it is not. The fuel consumption of an average car increases sharply at speeds below 50km/h.

3. Clean the air-filter regularly
Clogged air filters increase fuel consumption by restricting airflow
to the engine, and thus should be cleaned/replaced when necessary. Clogged air filters can increase fuel consumption by up to 10%.

4. Use thinner tyres
Tyres with thick width will improve the handling of your car. However, it will also increase your car’s fuel consumption. Thicker tyres mean more rolling resistance! , and thus will consume more fuel.

5. Start up the car properly
With today’s cars, it is not necessary to prime the engine first by
pumping the accelerator pedal repeatedly.Do not crank the engine
excessively This only wastes fuel.When starting the engine, idle it no more than 30 seconds to warm it up. An engine will warm up faster on the road. However, avoid sudden acceleration before the engine has warmed up sufficiently.

6. Drive in high gear (overdrive)
The engine runs most efficiently between around 1,500 and 2,500 rpm. To maintain these low revs you should change up through the gears as soon as practical and before the revs reach 2500 rpm. For automatic transmission cars, you should always switch on your overdrive to help save fuel. Overdrive will allow your engine to change gears at lower revs. It also puts your transmission into an “economy” mode and lets it engage the final “overdrive” gear when cruising to ! keep the rpms extra low, thereby increasing fuel economy.

7. Travel light
Avoid carrying any unnecessary weight in your car. On the average, every 50kg added load in your car will increase fuel consumption by 2%.

8. Anticipate traffic ahead
A driver can reduce fuel consumption by up to 10% by anticipating
traffic conditions ahead and adjusting the speed accordingly, and
avoiding tailgating and thus unnecessary braking and acceleration.
Accelerations and decelerations waste fuel. Braking and abrupt stops can be minimized by not following too closely and slowing down gradually when approaching a red light. It takes up to six times as much fuel to move a car from a dead stop than it does for one moving at just a few km/h.

9. Avoid strong acceleration
The fuel consumption remains at a minimum during steady driving at a moderate speed of about 90km/h. Keep in mind that every time the accelerator is hard pressed, t! he engine goes into a “fuel-enrichment” mode of operation that wastes fuel.The vehicle should always be gradually and smoothly accelerated. Using cruise control on highways can help maintain a constant speed and reduce fuel consumption.

10. Minimise aerodynamic drag
Additional parts on the exterior of a vehicle such as roof racks and
spoilers, or having the window open, Roof racks are bad for fuel
economy increases air resistance and fuel consumption, in some cases by over 20%.

11. Don’t let your engine idle
Minimize fuel wasted in idling by stopping the engine whenever your car is stopped or held up for an extended period of time. Idling more than a minute consumes much more fuel than restarting the engine. By having the engine switched off, you will save more fuel than is lost from the burst of fuel involved in restarting the engine. The net increased wear and tear from this practice is negligible.

12. Use the air-con sparingly
Air conditioners can use about 10 per cent extra fuel when operating. However, at speeds of over 80 km/h, use of air conditioning is better for fuel economy than an open window

~~ drive slow2 sudey… wat habis duet je race2 atas jalan ~ dont drink n drive dude ~ (^_^)

Actually.. its not really a track day. Wira Owners Club (WOC) was invited to join the TRANSIT 50hours non-stop music, drifting and car on the track since it was 50th Malaysia Anniversary~ This is our opportunity to test our cars capabilities to the max legally and most important…. FREE!~ However… the track is not fully accessible.. we only played on South track~

Our slot in continueing the record is on 2nd January 2007 … starting at 7 am to 9 am~ For good preparation… we convoyed to Sepang as earlier as 5.30am. After a short briefing… we parked our car inside the track… and started to enter the track by at one time only 5 cars were allowed in the track. If was really fun to drive as fast as we can in the track since it safe and legal… however… I dont seem stock car (JFN la stock/standard.. keta lembab.. hahaha) .. kinda not worthy to play around the track with insufficient power~ During the long stretch road… I was like… “apsal la cam keta ni lembab benor~ hahaha!” … if only I have Nissan Skyline R34 GTR (turbo car) that time… its really da best thing to be happen!

On the track… here was da good place to show how capable you are in controlling the car and take corners at the peak speed~ Even my 1.5 Single Cam (SOHC) can tonjol 1.6 DOHC during corners (FYI : im juz using stock absorber and cheap lowered spring ). Not to brag here, but it showed car power is not everything and necessary to be fast on the track. I used to play a lot racing games on pc and PS2 … likes Gran Turismo and Need for Speed, so there you will learn and understand how to take corners at highest speed and stable~ it works~ (^_^)y

Still… I’ve seen lots WOC rides went really fast on the track especially with turbo engine (GSR and EVO3 engine) … impressive. Then we finish our track day by convoying around the track for the last time and back to da parking lot at around 10 am. It such a pleasant moment to have chance to test our rides on the track. I hope to enter it again next time… but maybe not using Wira… my ‘2nd car’ … perhaps~

Pictures :-

Lighten up my ride~ xD

JFN in action… chasing 1.5 highly tuned wira… I could chase him but cant bypass him… he was fast! yeahh!~ (^_^)y

Here so-called Pit stop and also our parking lot. Some of the rides ready to enter the track~

Videos :

Here is a short video of the event… ~ (^_^)y

Pada suatu hari… malam hari… aku dengan seRonOknyew gi makan2 Lahap2 kuNyah2 nyUm nyum SLurpp kat Puchong… kerana kemalasan tahap dewa aku nak bayar tol LDP berharga RM1.00 untuk balik Cyberjaya… aku decide drive sorang2 ikut jalan dalam.. lagi thrill.. heuhuehue~ xP

Kemudian… seterusnya… selepas itu.. aku gi jejalan balik Cyberjaya ikut jalan dalam ala Initial-D leww konon… masYuk layan corner.. heHUHEuhu!! keberanian n kebodohan aku bercampur aduk lantar menyebabkan aku speeding till 130 kmh kat jalan kecik 2 lanes…. corner amik 80 kmh… tayar pun men melodi sCrett scrett yang sungguh mendayu-dayu.. bajet cam hebat.. hampeh je coz keta busuk standard… keh keh keh~ maNYakk syioKkk !! ;D

then.. aku nak amik satu corner ke kanan… dari jauh aku drop gear.. slow down kan keta till 80-70kmh… tapi 2-3 meter dari tempat aku slow down.. baru aku nampak pasir penuh atas jalan time corner tu… aku pun bajet, so aku slow down till 60-70 kmh… aku corner…

tiba2… SUddently… celakaLy… buntut keta aku yg tak seksi tu membuang ke kiri… drift ke aper tah… aku counter balik stereng slow2 ke kanan… keta dah kembali stable… BUT… benda nak jadi laen… jadi LAGI LAEN… sebabkan atas jalan tu KAW2 pasir tebal… keta aku berpusing 90 darjah ke kiri then aku nampak terus divider… aku counter stereng ke kanan terus.. tapi keta tu degil dan sangat nakal coz dia still pegi straight.. so… aku sempat lepas genggam kat stereng takut impact eksiden tu sakitkan tangan… ehem.. then GOALLL!!!! :’(

Alhamdulillah aku tade aper2.. rasa cam langgar bantal tepi jalan.. keta wira lembik cam tin 100 plus kot… sedey gak.. so kengkawan.. nak speeding2 tu… make sure dah biasa ngan jalan tu.. jangan men Lanyak je… Learn from mistake guyz… DONT SPEED AND CORNER ON SANDY ROAD… huuhuhuhu .. cheeRs.. ~

Gambar ini diambil 20 saat selepas eksiden… keluar keta then terus amik gambo… huhuhu~ (^_~!)

Bumper Skyline R32 terbelah dua… sebelah masuk parit… sebelah lagi sekarang kat balcony rumah ~ xP

The legs who accompany me during that hard time… thanx guyz ~ (^_^)

kena Tow… to shah alam dude ~ (^_~)

At da workshop… in da pic is my big bro… he’s da one who help me to settle up all this thingy… thanx dude ~ (^_^)y

After waiting for 1 week… finally JFN REBORN~ yeahh… Alhamdulillah…

Setiap kejadian yang berlaku.. ada hikmahnya… aku dapat Crystal Headlamp.. yiPPieee~ ;D .. so far what I see… kereta yang accident.. lepas repair, keta tu lagi cun.. he he he ~ (resource : member2 aku pun eksiden gak ~ xD)

Here is the fast and furious back track what I’ve done to JFN ~ (^_^)y

To be more interesting in involving world of car modding.. I joined a car club for Proton Wira called Wira Owners Club (WOC : http://www.wiraownersclub.com). Here it is… juz after sticked da WOC sticker (da 1st and only till now~) under da sun and beside da main road.. huhuhu~

At last… got sets of 15′ JRD rims… gift from my big bro since he wanted to sale his car.. huhuhu.. and also da rempit exhaust~

Due to lack of financial.. here are some budget mods that I did by myself… see any diff? hahaha~

Behold… my 1st ever customized bumper… da original idea is to customize C-west Silvia S15 bumper.. but coz of my stupidness, I aim for express fast mod.. so I simply chose R32 Skyline bumper (wira mold) then customized it… kinda ugly actually ~ it cost me… total around RM600.. heuheuheu~ (^_^!)

Sadly… (not really sad though.. hahaha)… i’ve been in an accident… my car spun… hit da divider.. da bumper broke into 3 pieces… still.. I keeping 1 piece of it in my house.. buat kenangan.. hahaha~

After a week of restoring the car… I was confused to choose wat bumper to use for temporary… then I found out.. one of da bumper which affordable… PROMOTE.. heee~ And also… I planed to use Wira S.E. smoked headlamp.. but it cost RM500++ per original set.. wataheck! so then.. I chose crystal headlamp, cost me RM400… really satisfying~

Next… getting a SPOILER!! wUrff!! Since I want somethin different from other wira (different ke? haha.. kinda.. that time ) , so I bought a GT-Wing… and also my 1st ever ever after till now spoiler.. hahaha..

Currently that time.. I used thick tyre … Dunlop SP08 195/15/55 .. very good tyre.. luv da grip.. tested on genting touge n Sepang circuit.. miss it ~

But I do prefer thin/low profile tyre… coz 55 looks kinda rally look to me.. so I changed to Dunlop D01 195/15/50 … looks neat… but… grip.. sigh ~ LOL~ (^_^!) …

And then… comes to new era of my car… haHAHa~ da side skirt and rear skirt fitted in my car… was not satisfy me enough.. thats why I didn’t spray it till I took it off.. . So, I’ve made my decision to redo da side skirt and rear bumper.. plus da fender arc, cost me around RM700. But somehow… it doesnt turn nicely… need to redo back again later.. dono when.. learn from mistakes (^_~!)

Then… I realized… da front bumper doesn’t suite enough to da whole bodykit… so I decided to change to another bumper… then I found a C-west Integra bumper..~ . But still, I need to customize da grill part and to suite with the fender arc.

And again… I found out.. da bumper not so garang.. I wondering why? Guess wat.. I changed to other bumper.. the OTHER C-west Integra… steal from WOC member, Amal’s ride… haHAHaha~ . Juz kiddin’ … I bought from him. Amal’s C-west looks nicer.. bigger.. bulkier.. ~

The next step… was to customize da bumper to suite with da current bodykit especially da fender arcs part~ (^_^)

After few days… I sent it for spray. The output… see below~ (^_^)y

The modification doesn’t end here… will be doing some improvement of da car from time to time. Stay tune~

Year 2005, I have been offered by my beloved parents to choose a car to buy since I’ll be transfer to MMU Cyberjaya. If you study there with no car…. susah wey (alasan? ho ho ho xP). Initially, I was aiming a so-called bujang car a.k.a Satria. However, da decision been changed.. frankly because of my older cousin. He said, buying a Satria is kinda waste because you cant use it for long time… relevant isnt it? So I made my mind to choose… PROTON WIRA.

Why Proton Wira? What I found out,Wira is one of car that could be easily modify since the parts are cheap and ease to find, lots resources i guess. Wira also is like a copied of Mitsubishi Lancer where some of Mitsubishi parts can be use on Wira. Moreover, I dont want to burden my parents to buy high price car, so I’ve been seeking around JB to find cheapest 2nd hand Wira.

I found one… BINGO! Price… not really cheap but wise, RM32,000. It is Proton Wira produced in year 1999 (FYI, Wira which produced earlier than 1999 is using Mitsubishi parts, so kinda good quality). So its been decided, I bought it a week before starting my study at MMU Cyberjaya~ (^_^)

I still keep this pic.. hahahah.. this was my 1st draft on wat to modify on wira… its was half year before i bought my car.. then got simple edit (add plate number) after i bought da car… juz for fun… kinda LAME.. LOL~ xD