Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing

5
MAY

Last weekend was a REALLY good one!!

We should have been in Malmö testing last weekend but due to missing parts to the car we never even left the shop…

But we are a team that want to move forward so instead we took the opportunity and spent it together the best way possible working on the trailer to get more stuff ready on the bottom floor, and what a good weekend it turned out to be!! Four days, three people, about 16 hours per day around 180 man hours and I’m / we are really satisfied with how the trailer starts to look on the bottom floor now! Me, Max and Patrik have made a crazy good job getting the new cabins from our partner Treston mounted, a lot of fabricated parts from our partner Bengtssons Smide have made the trailer a lot heavier! The benches are in place, the kitchens are pretty much all done, it’s sealed up really good around all doors on the outside and we got some insulation in them! We have cleaned out and I’m pretty much ready to start load it up with tools and parts and getting everything organized! This is pretty much too good to be true! Some small stuff still left to do on it before I’m gonna put it to the side for a while and only spend time at work instead, I mean it’s more than good to use for us like it is right now! 😀

Looking good!! The cabinets from Treston looks just awesome after we got them in place together with a wooden bench plate on top of it! 🙂

About 26 meters (92 feet) of rubber stripe around the rear lift gate! 😉

The doors are boxed with a stainless steel frame on the inside to keep the wrong people out from the trailer….

The Swedish license plate is finally mounted in the correct place. 🙂

All the doors that are able to open up from the outside are made stronger with some extra stuff in them, the last stuff is finish welded, we got some insulation in them and they are closed with an inner aluminum plate, so they are pretty much all finished now… finally! 🙂

What a beautiful mess! 😉

Max did shorten down our two kitchens to make them fit in the trailer like we want them to, he also put in a oven and some extra drawers.

Always need to watch people so they do it right!

Max the man!

No words needed… #norrlänning 🙂

Cabins mounted in place.

We are doing something here!

Wooden bench plate, looks awesome good!!!!

Patrik started to close op this front part with a wall so we can hide more stuff behind it 😉

Its just great!!

Part of a pretty strong work bench! Thanks once again to Erik at Bengtssons Smide for helping out!

Korv is the Swedish word for sausage just so you guys know 🙂

Hooked up for the first time’

Time to leave the trailer shop.

Finally empty!! 🙂

Back home at the ABM shop.

Doing some air line maintenance…. Just for fun… 🙂

Written by Andreas Sjödin on May 5, 2017 at 1:24 pm

28
APR

Test session at Malmö Raceway cancelled….

Since I let of the throttle in the end of August in 2016 at Tierp Arena I been looking forward to tomorrow and the first possible opportunity to test the Chevelle before the 2017 season starts for real at Malmö Raceway in less than 2 weeks.

I have spent a crazy amount of hours getting updates done, money for the season figured out, new parts, partners etc. worked out, and of course it haven’t been easy… Parts delayed, shipments messed up, people that doesn’t understand how important it is that I get the help I need when I ask for it and that messes up a lot of things for me…

But I almost got all the way to the finish line with everything… Patrik, Max, John and me together with our awesome partners have got the race car together, the trailer is good to use like it is and we even bought our own truck to pull the trailer with so we don’t need borrow, rent, wait and don’t know if we even gonna go to the races. BUT…..

I’m still missing some small stuff to the motor so this coming weekends test is cancelled for us…. I don’t wanna name persons, companies or what’s missing because that’s wrong and it won’t make anything better, this have been going on since mid November last year and the persons know they did wrong and messed up things for me!

Also after the 2016 season I said I won’t work my self to death one more year because I’m still not feeling all well after what I did during last year, so this coming weekend instead of going and make some laps on the pretty much ready to go race car… Me, Max and Patrik will spend the time working on the trailer instead… We we’re already booked this weekend so why not spent one more weekend on the lunch room floor in the shop together with Patrik? 🙂

What’s even more sad is that I don’t think I will have the parts before the first outing in the series either, so it looks like we gonna have a messed up season this year also!… Hold your thumbs for us that this problem will be solved so we can go to the first race…

That shirt suits pretty good right now!

Let’s spend one more weekend in here…

Just standing there, waiting for something to arrive….

Written by Andreas Sjödin on April 28, 2017 at 8:09 am

27
APR

The Chevelle.

The race car have been pretty much done for almost 2 weeks now after a lot of updates during the winter… And I said in the end of last year that I won’t do so much changes but that’s not the way it turned out of course… 😀

But I’m sure the changes will make the car go faster so it will be ok anyway!

She’s been standing like this pretty much ready for 2 weeks now!…

This is the proof of a winter with not so many updates…! 😉

Mocking up new custom pistons and rods from CP-Carrillo that hopefully will make us some more power in our little Chevy!

Bottom end put together and ready to Rock n Roll!

Transmissions rebuilt, updated and with some machining shorten down one case to lose some weight in the car and also we got parts together to have 4 complete units with different ratios, how great is that!? 🙂

Good stuff, good people, priceless service!

Time for a new helmet because the old one went out of date…

This season consumption of oil, Amalie Better Than It Has To Be!

More power in the making!

Some new stuff, or maybe a lot of stuff! 😉

New gear set in and the third member are like new again!

Converter, Bruno trans and Lenco’s all done!!

Fire bottles moved to the front and front struts serviced.

Short block all done and back in car.

Bruno drive, shortened Lenco and new carbon fiber drive shaft mocked up in the car.

Really felt I was in a big need of a better looking steering wheel! 🙂

Heads serviced and back on motor!

New drive shaft tunnel / front loop fabricated.

All done and warmed up!

License and medical card and everything else is under control! Only thing right now is that we are missing some small stuff to the motor…

Written by Andreas Sjödin on April 27, 2017 at 5:35 pm

26
APR

Moving on big time with the trailer!!

Three weekends and one whole week of work and we got A LOT of stuff made on the trailer, we even got some stuff mounted in it that makes it start to look crazy good!! 😀

A huge thanks to Max, Patrik, John, Johan from Lsf Custom and Erik from Bengtssons Smide for spending all this time to make this dream come true! 🙂

In the end of March we started over again for real on the trailer, we finally got some time and money to spend on it and now in the end of April I must say we spent it really well!!

Patrik, John and Johan from Lsf Custom did sand down the roof and got some new good looking paint on it,

We got some steel profiles welded in in our coming cabinets that will hold the shelves in place above the wheel boxes.

Me and Max have finally made the last glass fiber repair in the trailer… now it’s really enough, no more plastic fantastic! 😉

Patrik got some wooden plates mounted on the wheel boxes to insulate and also close so we will get somewhere to mount the cabinet doors.

Patrik also got a blanket up on the walls, it looks really good doesn’t it!? 🙂

And then some frames and doors for the cabinets fabricated by our great partner Bengtssons Smide!

Now how about that!!? A couple of weeks ago we got all our new cabinets / boxes from our awesome partner Treston to put in the trailer! This feels so crazy good, finally we can get the trailer organized with all our tools and spare parts this is just too good to be true! I want to say a huge thanks to Göran at Treston in Arninge for believing in us and for supporting Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing the trailer starts to look really great!!

We have also tried to put together Kermit and The With Hell, everything went so simple and smooth with the lights and air system so something must be wrong 🙂 …

The lift gate is sealed up and pretty much all done! No more Gorilla Tape here!!..

John went by and got some fresh black paint on everything I have been fabricating.

Max, what a awesome great guy! 🙂

Of course we found some more garbage, pretty amazing that it never ends…

Written by Andreas Sjödin on April 26, 2017 at 3:47 pm

16
MAR

Last weeks start over on the trailer project, and we have our own truck now!

It’s pretty much been 5 months without anything at all made on the trailer… but time and money have been spent on doing updates on the Chevelle to make it work even better and also make the maintenance between rounds smaller due to rocker arm updates etc. But Saturday last week me and Max started to look at the trailer again and the plan is to get some cabins in place and some new paint on the walls on the lower floor before we are leaving for Malmö Raceway in about 6 weeks from today for our first outing this season!

At least it’s not hard to make it better than what it is right now! 😀 But what a hell, we can use it and that’s kind of awesome! 😉

Also, we have bought us a truck to pull the trailer with! So for the first time ever we have a complete rig that we own ourselves, pretty cool right!? 🙂

Written by Andreas Sjödin on March 16, 2017 at 12:48 pm

12
MAR

Partners that are ready for the 2017 season!

The companies below are our partners so far that will support Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing during the 2017 season, I am happy to say that pretty much all of our old partners still have the interest to continue to be a part of our team and I am happy to welcome Jonnie Lindberg Motorsports, CP-Carrillo and Manton Pushrods as new partners to join us for the 2017 season!

Interested to be a part of Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing? Contact me at andreas@abmracing.se or +46 70-419 54 54 and we will talk about what we can do for you and your company together as a team!

/Andreas.

Åkes Bil & Motor • Birka Motorrenoveringar • Sjödin Motorsport Race Cars • Swecomposite • LSF Custom Lackering • Swelube Amalie Motor Oil • Sjödin Network • AGA • Winassist System • Anders Bremö Byggnads • Panasonic • Simon Arvidsson Media Service • Bengtssons Smide • The Parts Stop Sweden • Nicma Tools • T. Grundström Plåtslageri • Pro Tools Peter Hult • Stockholm Gourmet • Dragracing24.com • Rörmekano i Vallentuna • Eltric • Pesz Power Performance • Composite Specialties • Berga Lås & Larm AB • PGphoto • Loggamera • Treston • Neal Chance Racing Converters • Kaross & Lackteknik • Tolson Maskin • Manton Pushrods • CP-Carrillio • Jonnie Lindberg Motorsports

Written by Andreas Sjödin on March 12, 2017 at 4:03 pm

9
MAR

2017 schedule!

The complete 2017 event schedule for Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing!
See you all out on the race tracks during the summer, please stop by and say hi to us! =)

Event	Date	Location	Info
Test & Tune	28-30.4.2017	Malmö Raceway	SRIF
Top Doorslammer Round #1	12-14.05.2017	Malmö Raceway	EDRS
Sponsor Event	20.05.2017	The Parts Stop	Warm-up
Top Doorslammer Round #2	15-18.06.2017	Tierp Arena	Tierp Internationals
Top Doorslammer Round #3	30.6-2.07.2017	Sundsvall Raceway	Dragracing EDRS
Top Doorslammer Round #4	7-9.07.2017	Pite Dragway	Midnight Sun Internationals
Top Doorslammer Shootout	29-30.07.2017	Tierp Arena	Racestar Summer Nationals
Top Doorslammer Round #5	11-13.08.2017	Sundsvall Raceway	Top Doorslammer Finals

Written by Andreas Sjödin on March 9, 2017 at 12:26 pm

3
MAR

Back home from USA, 8 weeks to the first outing in 2017!

8 weeks from today we will be at Malmö Raceway for the first outing in 2017 for some test and tune before the first race in the series 2 weeks later.

I’m also back home in the Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing shop after 4 awesome weeks in USA on a well deserved working vacation, the two main reasons to go over was to help my friend Brandon Pesz to mount a new body on his 58 Vette and also organize my own stuff for the coming season when it comes to spare parts, updates etc. Just like always when I’m in the US we spend a lot of time on the road, I would guess we ended up with 6-7 whole days…! 😀

Best thing with going over is that I always learn new stuff, see new things, meet people I been talking to for years but never met in person and of course makes new friends! A lot of friends, and some of them will be a big part of my future racing business! Fun things is about to come, that’s for sure!

I would also like to be able to race my car in February, that’s for sure!

Always that way expensive beer and shrimp sandwich at the airport back home before leaving to the states, it’s a must do!!

Brandon’s car turned out good with the new body that is removable of course, guess he will take it of just to check the valve lash from now on! 😉 I look forward to see the new design on it after the wrap, cool things to come I promise!!

We went up to Larry Jeffers Race Cars in Missouri to get som last things done on Keith Haneys radial car and bring it back home to Keith’s shop in Tulsa Oklahoma. Must say that the Jeffers shop was bigger and did hold way more cars than what I thought, cool place with an awesome crew working there!

Just a typical day at the office in the Reid shop in Wichita Falls! Would be nice to have the garage door open back home like this in February….

About being on the road, well here in Sweden people complain when it’s more than one hour to the track, Brandon says if it’s only 12 hours it’s almost home for me! 🙂 Well me Brandon and his wife Kimmy took the little 15+ hour trip to Valdosta and the Lights Out 8 race at South Georgia Motorsports Park!

At least Brandon got a pair of good help drivers that makes the trip a bit easier! 🙂

Lights out 8, what a crazy deal!! If you haven’t been there so just get there, you need to see it for yourself!

But this looks crazy, that’s all I have to say about that!

Keith and Enigma did good, new personal best and also the fastest nitrous car on radials this weekend with a 3.815@198.76mph! Just awesome!!!

Did meet up with the Menscer Motorsports guys for some awesome at track service, the picture shows Craig and John service, revalve and dyno testing my struts and shocks, thanks for your help guys!

One thing that makes me really happy to being a part of now when I was over was when Brandon, Chris at Frankenstein and Jeff Jones decided to team up. Smart guys that will do really good stuff together, that’s for sure! Happy for you Brandon, this will be more than awesome!! And if you ever need LS heads and other parts Frankenstein is the place to get them, contact me if you want to buy it in Swedish! 🙂

And like I said, I did arrange all the parts for my coming racing season here in Sweden, about 250 kilos or 550 pounds in this shipment! The updates on the Chevelle will improve the ET that’s for sure, really look forward to the test at Malmö Raceway in the end of April!! 😀