Me and dad have done some service on the Chevelle and now the motor is like new again and ready to make some power in Q1 on Thursday! 🙂


Back in the trailer again, only thing missing right now is some tuning stuff that I will take care of tomorrow at the track.


In pieces and pretty much everything did look good!


Some new rods, rings, bearings and a piston. She’s a hungry lady! 😉


Some offers to the God of speed! 🙂


And back together again!


Loaded again, and ready to leave the shop tomorrow! 


A really fun weekend with good consistent runs and a lot of personal bests on all numbers and we ended up with making our first 3 second pass!! Personal best on the car after this weekend is 0.97@60ft and 3.95s@303km/h at the 1/8 mile.

Enjoy!! =)


New movie, TD round 4 @ Pite Dragway and The Midnight Sun Internationals 2016!
Movie by Simon Arvidsson, enjoy!! =)


Finally it was time to open up our first 3 second champagne and celebrate!!! 😀

E1 win, E2 win, personal best, first 3 second pass!! its been a good weekend for us when it comes to our performance on the car, pretty consistent and I have found a good base line! Total 4 rounds with 4.08, 4.09, 4.00, 3.95 and personal best in some way in every round, speed and time on 60ft, 330ft, 660ft!! 

60ft 0.97s, 330ft 2.63@229km/h and 660ft 3.95@303km/h! 

A huge thanks to all involved that makes this happen for us!! Our familys, team, friends, partners, sponsor!! You all are the best!!! 🙂



Can’t describe the feeling how good this feels after all trouble and work we been trough this year!


Just awesome!!!!


Nice photos by Tierp Idag!


Leaving Tierp Arena for this time, we will be back in about 3.5 weeks! I think that weekend also will be a good one! 😉


Saturday is qualifying day, hold your thumbs for good weather because there is total 258 registered teams on the entry list for this coming weekend and Saturday is the only qualifying day!
We are 18 teams in the Top Doorslammer Shootout, below you got the entry list!


Think this race will be a cool one! 🙂


A rainy weekend with some trouble for us and only two passes down the track, but Simon Arvidsson still makes a good job making us look good! =)

Enjoy!


Last week we put the Chevelle together again and fired it up, except for I realized that our oil pump is a little bit small (too little volume) for our new motor block that have a bit more internal leakage than the old one, but thanks to Sten at Auto Verdi for quick service getting me new parts and thanks to Charley Karling at Karling Racing Engines for machining the oil pump bracket we have everything together again and will sort it out tomorrow at Sundsvall Raceway, everything should be just fine now but with all our bad luck this year I won’t say too much yet… 😉

But first doing the last stuff on the trailer and put the missing stuff in it! 🙂


Together again!


Feels good!


Looking good!! 😀


Got some hours left here for sure before we are heading the road to Sundsvall Raceway!


The first two weeks in June we made a huge progress on our trailer, we went from pretty much something that we couldn’t  use to anything and all suddenly the trailer is standing outside the shop, felt pretty amazing! Just too good to be true!! 😀


I did have a great plan from the beginning with this project, but of course it went straight to hell because of people / companies that didn’t do what they said they will do… But at least I gave you a sweet looking ass and a great working lift gate that I’m really satisfied with! And reaching this far would never been possible without my awesome team! Max, John, Patrik, Dad! And our awesome sponsors and friends that been supporting this project, Erik, Lasse and Per from Bengtssons Smide, Danne, Patrik and Alex from Berga Lås & Larm, Roffe from The Parts Stop Sweden, David and Bengt from Swedol in Arninge, Johan from LSF Custom Paint, Peter and Patrik from Rörmekano, Jari from Eltric, Dolle from Nicma Tools, Kenneth at Swecomposite, Göran at Takmakarna, Åke Granholm for letting me use his truck, Janne and Isak from our own companies and of course our own companies that I steel time from working on this! Thank you everyone!!! 😀

Work pictures from the last couple of weeks below.


Isak are getting the hydraulic pipes in place for the lift gate.


Dad are fabricating some stuff.


The lift gate are finally in place and I can open and close it, a huge step forward! 🙂


John are getting some paint on the lift platform.


Finally, the frames around and the doors everywhere on the trailer starting to get in place!! 😀


All the aluminum on the outside and on the inside of the lift gate are in place! 🙂


The moment of truth! 🙂 Pretty scary moment I must say, I decided to take something cheaper and heavier than the Chevelle so I did try to lift up my daily driver and like you can see, everything worked just fine if it works fine for this it will work fine for the Chevelle!


Danne and Patrik from Berga Lås & Larm went by to mount all locks in the doors, feels good to have high quality locks in the trailer!


Roffe from The Parts Stop Sweden went by and helped us out to get a fuse box and some other electrical stuff installed.


Rear door installed.


More material from Bengtssons Smide are ready to get mounted on the trailer! 🙂


The tail light frames and the sides on the platform are in place, looks awesome if you ask me! 😀


The extension on the platform is all done!


Not much room to get out from the trailer shop…


Finally the trailer are outside and the shop is empty!


On the road again for the first time in about 6 months! 


Outside the ÅBM Racing shop, this feels so crazy good!! 🙂




 

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