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Food for thought. "The ability to enjoy innovative work and the desire to work - not just for money but to cultivate a sense of belonging to the organisation and the country - are also critical." Do you think it is possible and what will it take for Singaporeans to work with a sense of belonging to their company and not just for money?

http://www.ameslab.gov/final/News/2008rel/Nanocoatings.html Found that they licensed the material to a company called newtech ceramic and they do custom coating service as well. In case you are wonder how touch is the material. Toughen steel has around 300-400 on the scale and AlMgB14 is ~800 on the scale (Diamond is ~1600). Adding TiB2 increases it to ~1000. Its even harder than other materials like Tungsten carbide, titanium carbide etc.... http://www.roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/Tri...co_of_frict.htm And how slippery is this material. The best teflon is a friction coefficient of 0.04. This thing is 0.02, this is the most slippery material in the world. Even if you lubricate cat iron, it still has a friction of around 0.07. So even with the best engine and transmission oil, your engine still has MUCH HIGHER FRICTION than this material. Btw, your torque conversion has lots of friction as well. Coating this to the torque converter will make it much more efficient. Will be communicating with them on how much it cost to coat gears and cylinder walls etc.... Very promising stuff.

Yo bros, I'm actually driving a Colt Plus Turbo (CVT) and just installed Blitz Single Solenoid EBC and sard BOV. I encountered no problems on the first day of using the EBC. Mechanic at Imperial Concepts did a few test runs and configured 4 suitable settings for me. The next day however I got into some problems. Just now while driving home at 2am, after switching EBC to setting 4, which is the highest boost, I was still lingering at 0.6 bar even though I was increasing throttle. Stock boost max out at 0.5 bar. Initial first day test runs showed that I could hit 0.9 bar pretty easily. This evening at about 10pm, I could hit 1.0 bar easily all of a sudden but after several successful attempts at getting that "throw-back" feeling in my seat, boost gauge showed turbo max out at 0.6+ bar. What could be the problem(s) here? Need help to solve this... Would appreciate any advice or suggestions... Thanks lots

Hi Guys... Just booked a Korean (Rio) 1.5 Sedan M ..... at a mediocre "hamster" power of 108 @ 6K RPM there is more than ample space for a boost .... This hamster is Pretty much what i can afford ....working in a "Khiam Kanna" company .....anyways...Mods Suggestions? Just in case any bro out there who has had experience in Korean Mods or performance parts ....comments and KangTao's are very much welcomed.. Chao!