Moved!

Hi tharr, I have changed the address from “donkeypowder” to “keretabapakau”, since it suits the car theme more. :)

Enjois!

200km/h speedometer

I feel that the standard 260 kph speedometer of my putra to be too optimistic, and the speedometer face is so childish looking. So I was looking to change it. This is a base spec speedometer.

Being extremely budget on this one, I managed to find one for RM10 from a nice guy from the lowyat forums. The meter that I got had a broken temp and fuel gauge, but not like I was going to use it anyway.

ROGOLLL!

The guy said that the odometer was not working, and I could see the mileage was 500k+ because of this…So I reset the mileage to match with mine. Taking it out is quite simple as all you need is to pull one end out. However you have to put the numbers back in a certain way otherwise the numbers won’t be aligned in a straight line. This will take some trial and error.

Meanwhile, I also cleaned the numbers to make them shiney and whiney.

Cleaned one on the right, dirty one on the left.

Also, do NOT lose this tiny bearing. Otherwise your speedo will be damn stupid. It is supposedto go into the white hole in the middle of the blue circle in the pic.

Now, to test the speedo whether it’s working or not. I used a drill with the bit turned the other way around to spin the thingy.

But then I found my speedometer cable, so I used that instead.

Top speed >=D

Swapping the 1.3 speedometer onto the 1.8 one was quite simple. The back of the two meters are slighty different, but it won’t be a problem. No need for mods to it at all.

Done! Notice the childish font and background of the old speedometer. =)

100km later, still running fine!

Replacing foam speaker surround

The speakers on anodder car were getting yucky. The foam has TOTALLY disintegrated. Here’s what it looks like together with one that I already fixed.

Look at it, so disgraceful. =/

Luckily, you can get it fixed for reallyreally cheap. =) I bought 2 foam speaker surrounds from pasar road, RM3 each.

Here’s what it looks like, the graceful foam.

scrape out the extra crapppp with a ruler or something…

Apply glue to the sides, PVA glue works just fine, no need to use the special “speaker glue” as the effects are more or less the same.

Glue when wet is whitish, but when it dries its almsot unnoticable.

Fixed speakers! =D