hello any nice mountain roads near Kaohsiung area? wanna try out my awd wrx but dont’ know any…thanks
I bought some maps from Sunriver which have been of great use for exploring. I went to an outdoor gear place on Sihwei lu called Jiu3 jiu3 (99) and asked for “Gao1 Shan2 Di4 tu3” (high mountain maps). I thumbed through a couple of them, and then bought M20, M23, and M24, which cover most of the high terrain in Ping Dong county. These are some very handsome maps, and very detailed. They’re all in Chinese, and my reading isn’t so great, but it doesn’t really matter that much because what I’m really looking for is topographical info.
The “South Cross Island Highway” is quiet nice. It should be a little south of Kaoghsiung. I am sure it would be a lot of fun in a WRX.
It’s north of Gaoxiong, but it’s a great ride.
There’s a fair bit of driving before you reach anything interesting, but not too bad.
[quote=“Mr He”]It’s north of Gaoxiong, but it’s a great ride.
There’s a fair bit of driving before you reach anything interesting, but not too bad.[/quote]
Sorry, it has been a while since I took this road. Mr He, do you remember the number of that highway, was it the #11 or the #9?
EDIT:
I just looked it up, it was #9 I took, maybe this is not the south cross island highway, but it was a fun little road, and if I remember correctly, there were plenty of other little roads going into the hills that one could explore.
You could go out to the mountains on expressway 88 to the end at Chutien (竹田), then turn north up highway 1 for a couple of km where the local Pingtung 187 cuts off to Neipu (內埔). Nice view of the mountains on your right, but the road is mostly straight. Go north another few km and that merges into the 185 at Shuimen (水門). There are good roads heading into the mountains from here, but you need a mountain permit. From Shuimen north the road hugs the foot of the mountains, winding along until Tajin (大津) which is the entrance to the Maolin scenic area. Lots of twisties to explore in the park area, hotsprings to soak in, tea gardens etc.
Heading north of Tajin highway 27 is a narrow, nasty tarmac / gravel stage until Liukuei (六龜) where it opens up again. Great views here as the valley narrows. There are some pretty cool temples in Liukuei if you’re into that. From Liukuei on you’re in a narrow valley but the road is good and it climbs up and down the valley side for a change of scenery. At Laonong (荖濃) you meet the southern x-island highway, the 20. You could go up that all the way over to Taidung if you wanted, or down through km after km of sweet twisties to the outskirts of Tainan, and back home from there. That would probably make a nice loop for a day out, or take some company and stay over at one of the many hotsprings. Lots of great places to camp out there too.
Some maps:
thb.gov.tw/hw/guidemenu/taiwan7.zip
thb.gov.tw/hw/guidemenu/taiwan6.zip
Please be careful out there. Plenty of surprises to be had at the hands of rural road users. Park a 300kg pig in the middle of the road right after a blind corner? You bet.
A few times now I’ve headed straight east on 88 and then picked up county route 110, which takes you into Laiyi Township. I’m near Linyuan, and it takes me about 30 minutes to get up into some nice roads and views. There’s a great number of roads which follow the river valleys up into the hills, narrowing down into double track dirt, and then into singletrack as you go higher. The approaches to Nan2 Da4 Wu3 Shan1 and Bei3 Da4 Wu3 Shan1 are up in that vicinity.
20 is the cross road to the north, never rode that one, but 9 and 199 south of Gaoxiong in the Hengchun peninsula are very nice. You could do some good drivin’ there, mister.
hmm excellent, thanks guys, wish I asked this question during new car break in heh…took forever to break in!!!
how long have you had the car? your OP was only 2 days ago
I believe Ironfist’s had his Sub for some months now… I’m sure she’s all ready to go by now…
ya about 3 months now…got it March 10th…got it on its first shipment 
oh yeah she is all ready to go…as soon as I break in the engine I took it to drag strip…haha this older modded wrx kept racing me but just can’t beat me it was kinda funny…I did 13.88 in 1/4 but that’s with Gtech…man they don’t give you no time slip or nothing in the strip here…and the timer thing they use only give you ET and that’s it!! no RE, 60’, trap etc…sucks 
. they say it’s the same thing its used for go kart if I heard it correctly…the put a thing on top of your car and when it passes a sensor thing the timer goes off…and another sensor at the end of track
I was pretty happy tho that I did a 13.88…car is totally stock…I think I can do a lil better…haha that night I did like 6 consecutive runs one after the other…shift at rev limiter, rev limiter is 500 rpm pass redline…launched at like 5k rpm…haha kinda rough on the car I should take break in between runs.
yo in the street if people wanna race you…they just follow you real close? or they are in front they just floor it…no honking, no line up side by side…once awhile they just use BOV but they are directly behind you how are you suppose to race liek that heh…
[quote=“ratlung”][quote=“Mr He”]It’s north of Gaoxiong, but it’s a great ride.
There’s a fair bit of driving before you reach anything interesting, but not too bad.[/quote]
Sorry, it has been a while since I took this road. Mr He, do you remember the number of that highway, was it the #11 or the #9?
EDIT:
I just looked it up, it was #9 I took, maybe this is not the south cross island highway, but it was a fun little road, and if I remember correctly, there were plenty of other little roads going into the hills that one could explore.[/quote]
yo #9 where is it near by? can’t find it in map