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Ok, that’s it for now!! 🫡 This past week I f

Ok, that’s it for now!! 🫡

This past week I finished up the last things on the new headers, and they look awesome!! 🤠 I also finished up the coil on plug installation we did 3 years ago at Tierp Arena the day before qualifying started! 😅 I made a new set of spark plug wires and solved a little issue I had with the front brakes! 🥳👌🏻I also got some new decals in place, a huge thanks to our partners for your sopport! 🙏🏻 Can’t explain how much it means to me! ❤️😍

Dad came by and made / installed some new fuel and oils hoses, he also washed the front clip so it’s really nice and clean! 😍💎

We once again got some shop burger bbq, it’s a nice way to prepare for the coming racing weekends together! 😊

I’m not happy about my own progress this past weekend, everything goes so slowly… But the inspiration is pretty low because we spent the weekend in the shop and not at Tierp Arena… But still, this year feels way better compared to last years mess!… It’s a lot of feeling involved when you spend a ton of money and time preparing for something and then it gets destroyed so the time spent ends up feeling totally wasted… 😒

I always say to people “imagine having a house that you pay for but you cannot use it” that’s exactly how it feels working on your racing circus and then not going to the track and do something with all the preparations!… 😑

Something I’m happy about is that Nicke and Peter continued with some great progress on the golf cart, more about that in a separate post! 😃

I ended the day yesterday putting a cover on the Chevelle, it’s all done!! Only missing the crankshaft, hope we will have it in time for the Mantorp race!… 🙄

Hold your thumbs for us! 😅

Stay tuned! 😎💪🏻

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Finally, it’s golf cart time! 🥳🤩 This is s

Finally, it’s golf cart time! 🥳🤩 This is something I been looking forward to now for MANY years! 🙃 If I remember correctly the golf cart broke like 9-10 years ago!… 😬

I tried do diagnose it myself but without any luck, then I had a guy that helped my try fix it but it came back in pieces and then it’s been sitting for 7 years or so!.. 🙈

Until Friday last week, due to the latest addition in the team, Nicke and Peter spent Friday to Sunday starting to convert it from battery to a combustion engine! 🥳😎🤘🏻

It feels great to get some help in the shop again, and when we can’t go racing it’s a good chance to prepare more stuff and get things ready for the future! 🤠 Actually I’m
More disappointed that I haven’t got this project started earlier than what I am about the crankshaft, that one I knew will be an issue…. This one has just been sitting around since I got the idea to get it back to life in the end of 2024!…

It was a good feeling when we took it out from the storage and it finally came into the shop! 😃

They did a really good job and they got way more done than what I expected, they took out all the electric junk, cleaned it up, engine and engine mounts, transmission, gas pedal and exhaust are installed and pretty much all done! 👌🏻

And I made some burgers outside in the Swedish cold summer!.. 🥶🤣

We had a really good team building weekend, and we had really fun! 🤩😁 Only way to know if you work together with another person is to spend time with them, world with them and try to solve problems together! 😊 My feeling is that this will be REALLY GREAT! The future looks bright for Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing! 😍

Next step is to test drive it, must see that the engine is strong enough for what we are going to use it for! 😅🤣💪🏻?

Stay tuned! 🥳

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Moving ON!!! Again!… 😅 Restart! 💪🏻😎

Moving ON!!! Again!… 😅 Restart! 💪🏻😎

Haven’t done much on the Chevelle due to loss of inspiration the past 1.5 weeks after reality hit me hard with that we will miss out on the Tierp race because of the missing crankshaft!… 😏👎🏻

But yesterday I finally did continue on the headers where me and Sofi stopped almost 2 weeks ago!.. 😴

We did realize that the old ones were in way worse shape than I could imagine! 😅🤣 They were 2 inch lower than they should be, the pipes are so tired and soft so they pretty much did die during the last rounds in 2024!.. 🙈🙃

After making a fixture with the old ones me and Sofi started to mock up the new pipes, and like I have said before, details MATTERS!! When building zooming headers correct you have 4 bends with different degrees on the bends! 👌🏻 You do NOT just use cheap lazy 90 degree bends… That’s the way half assing people makes it!… 🤣😅
They will make the zoomies wider from the front to the rear and that makes the car look bad! 🤢🙊 Just do it right, spend the money and time and make your car look good when you build stuff for it! 🤠👌🏻

Today I finished up the headers with all the supports between the pipes and to the chassis and took them off the car and made them ready for the finish welding that I will start on tomorrow morning! 👨🏻‍🏭🤘🏻

Does they look GOOD or do they look AWESOME!?!?!? 🥳

Stay tuned, we now got a lot of time in the shop to make things even greater and better before it’s time to go to a race track! 👊🏻😎

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Throwback memories, got this picture sent to me a

Throwback memories, got this picture sent to me a couple of days ago! 😃

My old Chevelle 64 race / street car 19 years ago! 🤩

This was back when racing was just simple and fun, and I could use a little better aftermarket cast crankshaft! 😅🤣
Built a simple little 355 Chevy with a 6-71 blower on top of it and used it as a daily driver and raced with it!.. 😎 Best ET was 9.37 on the 1/4 mile, really fun car and great memories! 🥳

Sometimes I really do miss it!.. Really didn’t wanna sell that car but I needed money to start build the Top Doorslammer Chevelle 65 that same year! 🤑💵💰💸💸💸

Time really flies! 😅 But the memories stays, I’m grateful for that! 😍

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This is how it feels when you spent a crazy amount

This is how it feels when you spent a crazy amount of time and money on your race car for the past 6 months or so and you falls short on one important part and you have to give up the hope just 2 weeks before the first event of the year! 😅🙈

Well, soon back on it! Just need a little more time away from it!.. 😴 I’m half assing right now like a lazy person that don’t know what it takes to own a race car! 🤣 But just wait a little, I will be back soon!! 🤘🏻😎💪🏻

Stay tuned! 🥳

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Tierp June is canceled for us! 😒 It’s time to

Tierp June is canceled for us! 😒
It’s time to face the truth!. I will not get a crankshaft in time before TD round 1. ☹️

I been keeping a positive mindset about this issue from the start because it did look bad already when I ordered the crank, I did check with Bryant to see how far away it is. Only 2 weeks to when I must have it! 😅

Answer was:
“Crank is in Rough Grind - best guess probably 5 more weeks. We have a few slow downs out on the floor and a lot of cranks in production - doing everything we can!”

When I ordered it in January I was told 20-25 weeks as estimated time, but it might go faster! It’s 18 weeks since I placed the order so they are still in the estimated time schedule. 😊👌🏻

I’ve been hoping for the best and continued working on everything around to make sure all stuff will be done in time if the crankshaft would arrive in time! 💪🏻🤠 So the Chevelle is back to it’s former greatness even that the car is 15 years old, I have serviced, repaired, done updates and changes I’ve been thinking about for many years now! 💎🥳

Next thing, it wasn’t like I didn’t know about it could end up like this! I been aware that this should not work out!
Many have asked why I’m not more disappointed about this, well compared to 2024 I knew this was coming! Last year got destroyed by something I wasn’t prepared for!

Crazy part about this is that I in November last year was thinking about letting the Chevelle sit for this season, but after 2024 I felt that I want to have some fun again so I changed my mind and started to work for the fun 2025! 🤩

Well, all I can hope for now is that the crankshaft won’t destroy our plans to go to Mantorp in July also!… 25 weeks from order date will be the week before the Mantorp race!…

For the first time this year I really lost the spirit to work on the racing circus and instead of spending 4 whole days getting the truck and trailer ready for the yearly inspection and finish up the new headers me and Sofi started on last weekend I went home to do something without racing involved!

The racing season is already over for me because I miss the first event, so 2025 will just be a testing year for the coming 2026! 💪🏻😎🤘🏻

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