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September 1
TV Star
My dear wife Agneta is working hard with her own business
Undermat which is growing slowly but surely. Good products and
good reputation have resultet in more and more resellers and larger
orders. It has also resulted in a larger demand of courses where
Agneta is teaching "How To Ferment Your Own Vegetables"
It is spreading like circles on water, every course she have is giving
more demand! In the picture she's packed for going by train across
the country to Gävle where she had a course on "Valbo Street"
Suddenly TV showed up! Check at 7 min into this news program:
svtplay.se/gavledala/1sept.19:15
Media famous
Three spreads in the August issue of Hälsa (Health)! Agneta is telling
all about the health effects of fermented vegetables and is backed up by
a professor in this article. Agneta is a Degree of Master of Science
in Biology herself. Sorry, not a word about the Impala SS here but
you can still pick up a copy at the stands! August issue!
(Yes, Birgitta your copy is in the mail to Autoshop!)
August 30
Hi! I'm Albert
A six weeks old budgie baby moved in and is filling our house with
loud and happy chirping! Gone are all the small silent hamsters and
the hamster graveyard is full. We hope that this little bird will
become tame and keep us smiling.
August 28-29
Broken again!
Damned it! It's just impossible to reach the starting line at the August
race at Moholmsstrippen! Last year it ended in the pit, this year it
was much better - it ended in the burnout box after a half a burnout!
I promise you a funny report from the last race of the season... even
if this experience was far from funny!
At this weekend Kent was in Piteå for his last chance of the year
to lower his personal best of 9.99 and to beat my 9.84,
but it was too cold and it rained off ...
August 20-22
Welcome Kent Edin and Gentle Giant SS to the World of 9's!
Finally! After "only" four years he nailed his first 9 second run
with
the Impala SS he built for this goal. Well, the goal was sctually to get
a quicker ET than the Blackout SS - 9.84 - but the 9.9981 was close
enough for a celebration! Phew... :-)
Proof! First run on Friday! Then over the weekend he never reached
the 9's again, but he backed it up with the unbelieveable string of
10.03 - 10.04 - 10.04 - and a 10.04!
If you feel like a target at 9.84 like me? Yes certainly...
Kent has locked in on this target and while hunting he climbs the
world list, now at #11: www.ImpalaSSdynamicTopETlist
Kent's Impala SS Gentle Giant and its Karl Ellwein built LT1 383
engine "King of Spades" has a BIG sound and attracts people
wherever it is started.
Kent lost in second round of Eliminations on Sunday but was happy
anyway. Finally he reached the 9's and is breathing down my neck!
Very noisy tree!?
"Bank bank bank Saw saw saw..." Much noise from the cherry tree!
Aha!
Axel and his young friend and neighbour Kevin building a tree house.
The view is magnificient! Our garage in the middle here.
August 13
Congratulations Kenneth!
It really happened at August 7th but then the Team North Racing
and Nilfisk ALTO was racing at Gardermoen, Oslo, Norway.
So it was celebrated on the August 13 - Kenneth's 50th's birthday!
And "everybody were there!"
And if the kids are there, some test sitting in the Altered will occur.
Axel already in cockpit here. Alexander Palmér (right) waiting for...
...his turn to put his son Hampus in there!
August 6-7
Too much Action thanks!
Bilsport Action Meet at Mantorp was our best chance of the year to
get traction for a good ET, and we also got the best performance of
the year before extraordinary and never before seen problems took
us out from the competition...again...Blackout style...
The Safety staff at the top end even came running at one time...
All about it in
my report later.
August 2
Sorry!
This website has been down since August 2 and I have no idea how
this happened, but I'm glad it's back! And I know many of you are
too. Thanks all of you for your concern! See it like a vacation...?
I'll be back soon with the latest updates, Kent's first 9-second run
would be interesting to read about, wouldn't it!? And our own
ordeal at Bilsport Action Meet that ended with a ticket from
the Police...
July 29 - August 1
Insane Rain
I now think the days are over when Swedes are trying to make funny
jokes about rain and Santa Pod, England? I think Mantorp Park in
Sweden has at least as unstable weather!? This was not the first time
the big FIA race rained off on the last weekend of July. But this time
it was of "biblical proportions" as Tog wrote on Eurodragster.com
Above picture is from the web cam at the finish line, minutes after
first round of Top Fuel on Sunday!
This is the web cam from the 1/8 mile! This new live multicamera web
broadcast of Nitroz.se was the good news of this race! Cameras were
edited live along as the cars and the bikes moved up the strip! And the
feed from the speaker's PA came along it on the web! This really put
forward the coverage standard of all FIA-races (at least). This together
with the Eurodragster.com detailed live report - which you can't be
without either - makes us happy! Us - the viewers who couldn't
attent in persons.
Most of the days rained off but they managed to get at least one
qualifying round in all classes. On Saturday evening first round of
Stock/Super Stock eliminations was executed and Rick McCann
from London in his Heaven & Hell As Well 1984 Camaro was up
against wellknown class star Ari Körkkö 1969 Camaro - who was
pushed back after the burnout! So in this bye-run Rick set the
Eurodragster.com/Speedflow Perfect Light Award with a 0.0006
RT! And drove a 10.2762 on a 10,27 dial in! I think Ari had been
surprised? The English are very good on dialing in their cars, racing
many weekends in a long season. Rick and wife Carla normally
races their Camaros in PRO ET in UK. Next time it's Carla's turn
to race abroad - in her Heaven & Hell Camaro, at Hockenheim.
Hope you had a safe trip driving back to the UK!
If you click this picture you'll see the web TV page in full size. And
you'll see Jonas Alholt in the burnout box web cam, dressed to the
teeth with his camera equipment, tri pod and high speed cameras.
(Looking forward to see his result!) And again, on this Nitroz.se web
TV page you are not only presented with a lot of web cams angles
but also constantly updated qualifying lists in all classes and
finally the ladders too! But again, you must also enjoy the nitty
gritties of all the facts and the highly professional notes of each
and every run done by Andy "Tog" Rogers of Eurodragster.com
And, you can always go back to these
pages to get your info!
Thanks to both Lelle Olsson of Nitroz.se and Tog at
Eurodragster.com for your work!
July 18 - 30
Le Big Mac Tour de France
I will soon be back with a short report from this remarkable 505 mil
- 3138 Mile - road trip in the middle and northern Europe. That's
actually around 300 Miles longer than between NY and LA...
Among other very important things I can then reveal what the burgers
at McDonald's in France are called... Is it "Le Big Mac" or not
- as
said in the motion picture "Pulp Ficton"? Please have patience...
July 18
Une pause bien méritée
Look what my wife came home with! Just load and GO!
We are looking forward to this long planned vacation around France
including walking in Paris. An adventure for the whole family with
Agneta's parents as well. Agneta and her dad Thore have their big
birthdays coming up and it was their wish for us to make this road
trip. We have made conservations on campings that provide Wi-fi on
the dates of Veidec Festival at Mantorp so I can follow the Live
Coverage at Eurodragster.com. Yes, I'm an Eurodragsterholic.
Our party consist of five where four is chefs and one just a lucky
consumer / driver - ce moi! =)
Agneta has packed piles of her cookbooks that shall be packed
inside the kitchen cupboards in our hired mobile home.
SEE - EXPERIENCE - RELAX - DRINK - EAT
Will I gain or lose weight?
TBDGIT report
A quick spy raid into The Best Damn Garge In Town!
BOSS will be back at Mantorp! Patrick Wikström is presenting a new
engine with new Quain Stott heads and his own new blower with
further developed design. I was forbidden to take photos of the new
Crown Jewels, the new pistons! Wow! New here and new there.
We hope that Patrick soon enough will find the new set up tune
for all these goodies - to make One big harmonized goodie of it!
Tommy has started his 467 engine! All OK! He's welding his exhaust
system for the moment (when not working on Patrick's car). But
Tommy's Lincoln Mark V is that close for a first show, maybe at
Säve Depå July 24?
Don't miss Mantorp!
July 29 - August 1
The largest race in Sweden. The FIA sanctioned race that is third in
turn in the European Championship before next FIA-races in
Hockenheim, Germany and the European Finals at Santa Pod in
England. Now Mantorp Park has new asphalt, new Time Tree timing
and new scoreboards and a giant field of racers from all over Europe,
and tuners from USA. If you can't be there - you're lucky that
Eurodragster.com is there for you!
And accept that you are an Eurodragsterholic!
It will probably be the best live coverage ever from a euro drag race?
Beside the excellent service from Tog & Team at Eurodragster.com
there will be LIVE VIDEO FOOTAGE AND SOUND from the race
and you can find all of it via the hub of
European drag racing:
eurodragster.com/live/2010veidecfestival
You can already now go here
to read that enormous entry list!
11 Top Fuel + Monica Öberg I know!
35 Pro Mod! Fun to see Patrick Wikström again!
13 Pro Stock! Jimmy is back from USA in his own car!
42 Stock/Super Stock! One is from England, our friend Rick McCann
of course, in his converted Camaro '84. Carla and team is there
to back him up in his dream-come-through - to race in S/SS!
Good luck to all of you!
July 17
How was our racing at
Moholmsstrippen?
Well, we had some blackouts allright! Click the red framed bar
underneath to follow to the page that will give you the story
July 16
Beware of the Camaro man!
David III remember the story from 1979 when I bought my Camaro
and made a collage of pictures of myself and the Camaro. Then I
printed a bunch of papers of that and distributed them in person to
all owners of streetracers that I knew in Umeå, posted them on
garage doors and so on. This proclamation had some headlines too:
"Beware of the Camaroman - he's looking for you!
Last warning - clotted blood!"
Now David III Johansson has his own Camaro and thought it would be
proper to repeat that ol' favorite warning. One of his boys, Emil,
followed dad on this important mission when showing off the car with
an orginial LT1 and all. We can only congratulate you David III.
And I'll try to find that original warning-poster...
July 10
Power Meet
My brother Sune who lives in Västerås sent this picture from the
cruising at the
Power
Meet which is the largest car meet in Europe
with more than 10.000 cars! It's also the largest meet in the world for
American cars! Visitors from around 25 countries. But I haven't seen
these three visitors there before - Hans, Maggan and my sister Inger!
Hans is married to Inger and Maggan to Sune. You know that Power
Meet is really adopted when you see visitors like these! =)
No straight deal...
It wasn't just to mount the renovated ProCharger in the SS and take
it from where we left off. At Moholmsstrippen
we had our hands full
with new riddles to solve. It's difficult when two or more problems are
appearing at the same time. One day testing with four runs wasn't
enough for us. I'll be back with a small report ASAP.
This time no tow truck from Moholmsstrippen! I proudly drove back to
Gothenburg in the SS which is short for Super Sport. I took this
picture during the ride, it is Jonas in his Volvo S80 - which is
short for Smile.
July 5
Woff! Woff!
Jeezus engine is started with the ProCharger F1R V.2. It sounded
terrific! Click on above picture to see a short clip of it!
New internal gear drive makes the ProCharger sound smoother, with
less "rattle" than before. Click on above picture to hear it!
July 4
Outdoor gocart premiere
An exciting moment for Axel waiting for the gate to open. This is the
first time he could drive gocart outdoors.
He's been driving outdoors before but only with small gocarts. This
time it was a big gocart! What...no socks...?
He easily kept the grown ups behind him. Weight advantage was of
course part of it. I also believe Axel got a new personal record in
"own-generated" speed. 50-60 kmh (30-37 mph) with this machine is
faster than both his moped and 4-wheeler. And he loved every minute
of it, every lap on this beautiful, long, open and hilled Torslanda
track. Congratulations Axel and "welcome to the grown up world"!
The Two's Club
Congratulations also to Micke Gullqvist (right) who became the
second member of the European Pro Mod 5 Second Club with an
astonishing 5.911 in "his" R2G2 Camaro! But it didn't back it up,
so
Mats' 5.988 from last year is still the European Record standning.
However, Micke enforced a new European Record speed that will
erase Mats' 388.81 kmh / 241.59 mph and that is a fantastic
395.52 kmh / 245.76 mph! Micke drove this Camaro to a NHRA
victory earlier this year (also the same Camaro that Melanie Troxel
drove at Main Event Santa Pod). Micke did the tuning calls in
Alastaro himself and won the final over Johan Lindberg and you can
read all about it at Eurodragster.com.
Micke and Johan are
now also No 1 and 2 in the Championship going into Veidec
Nitro Festrival at Mantorp Park at the end of this month...
Martin Lundqvist also bettered his performance of his turbo powered
pick up truck to a 6.907 @ 325.41 kmh / 202.2 mph!!! That is a neat
1.193 second under the 8.10 index, and yes, Martin won
Competition Eliminiator at Alastaro in Finland.
You can find also this story on Eurodragster.com
Hooray!
Also congratulations to the USA and to all
my American friends!
July 1
ProCharger mounted
Went to Kenneth Feldthusen at his work Nilfisk ALTO to have a cup
of coffee and his help to heat the hub so it could be slipped onto the
shaft. This hub is something new from ProCharger since I bought
my F1R-model in 2003. The pulley sat directly on the shaft before.
My own bracket was of course cleaned and polished before it was
mounted to the supercharger with a new set of flat hex 12.9 screws
Gulpa gulpa...burrp! Also bought more ProCharger oil which
comes in 4 oz bottles. One bottle for each change.
More about this here: >BLOWER_MOUNTING
"Six & Martin" Lundqvist
301 cubic inch small block Chevy! The turbo is somewhere in the
back of the pick up. A rather low turbo pressure...30 psi. Martin
Lundqvist is of course No 1 qualifier in Competition Eliminator at
Alastaro in Finland...with above ET to the index of 8.10. And No 2 is
an old military buddy of mine, Per-Erik "Perka" Lindgren in his
altered powered by a 2.1 L four-banger alcohol-drinking engine with
a ProCharger with an 8.459 @ 255.58 kmh (158 mph).
Fantastic cars built by their owners and drivers!
Tog in Finland
Dragstrip is a 21 letter word in Finland! That didn't stop Tog and his
team at Eurodragster.com to find Alastaro Dragstrip to do their
live coverage from the 2010 FHRA Nitro Nationals this weekend,
starting today Thursday! This is the second race of the FIA
European Drag Racing Championship. Tog's eurodragsterholic team
this time is Christer Abrahamsson (pit notes) and photographer
Markus Ek. Link below will take you straight to the coverage:
www.eurodragster.com/live/2010FHRA_Nitro_Nationals
June 30
My weapon is back
Back from repair and overhaul at ProCharger with some new updated
things. It's now like a completely new supercharger with all the new
modern items, like the hub which goes on the output shaft to mount
the pulley wheel on. Back in 2003 when I bought my F1R the pulley
went on directly on the shaft.
A change from my old 38 tooth pulley to the new 40 tooth pulley is
absolutely necessary to take down the spin / boost pressure of the
supercharger a bit, since the new internal drive have a ratio of 5.40
(instead of 5.00 before) And we want to avoid to spin the ProCharger
above 70,000 RPM, right? =)
June 28
On its way back today!
My ProCharger F1R is factory repaired and on its way back to us!
It was indeed an intenal wear of the 6 gear drive wheels so a whole
overhaul was needed. In that process it also has been updated
with today's internal gear drive which ratio actually make this
model spin 4000 RPM more! That together with a new external
pulley and some more new accessories from ProCharger
points towards even more power delivery!
...thanks to Queen Birgitta
It was Birgitta Bergqvist at Autoshop Racing Engines - my high
performance supplier - who again pulled some of her strings within
the American Automotive Industry! This time she managed to speed
up this deal with ProCharger so it went through in no time! She has
been well attached within the industry since when she and Bagarn
opened Autoshop in Orlando in the mid 80's and made a lot of friends
like Top Fuel driver Joe Amato (left) and late NASCAR-driver Neil
Bonnet (right). I don't remember who the guy in the middle was?
Anyway, thanks Birgitta for your awesome string-pulling!
(Photo above is on the wall at Autoshop)
