Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing

Let’s do this!!

Let’s see if I have figured out the track together with some trans ratio changes and some ignition problems we found during the week that we now have solved!… 🙂

It’s Friday and time for the first qualification round in about 3.5 hour from now!

Nice program for The Main Event here at Santa Pod!

Almost ready for a warm up!

First breakfast!

It’s warm and sunny here today! =D

Today’s plan was a shower and early to bed, well… of course it did not turn out that way!….

Instead Lenco madness!… I was about to change a gear set for first round tomorrow and instead it turned out as a repair, build and service night!

Less then 12 hours to qualification round 1 at The Main Event! 🙂

Me, Sofi and dad have spent the week here between the races to service the car have some vacation, well Sofi have been working on distance also during work hours.

Almost ready to race again!

Sofi have cleaned up the rear end after a couple of looong burnouts, doesn’t it look great!? =D

Valves are checked.

Rings, bearings, wrist pins and pistons looks great! Just changed rods because it was time for it!

I like to control measure stuff! 🙂

Dad is doing his thing!

The rack is ready to get back in!

The conventional Chevy Big Block heads are back on!

It starts to look like a motor again!

Now, time to look over the transmission and do some tuning for tomorrow’s first qualification round!

When being a low budget team and having big dreams with what you want to achieve you need to make sure you are able to repair whatever you might hurt when you can’t afford buying spare parts and having them ready to be safe…

Thanks to Martin Lundquist at Autocut for helping me get my idea to a real thing, draw and water cut out some metal pieces for me so I could make me a fixture for our Mira valve seat cutter tool so I’m able to cut / change the valve seats in our conventional Chevrolet Big Block heads when we hurt something in them out on the track!!

Now we didn’t hurt them but with a lot of time between the races here at the track we of course serviced them to be like new again for this coming record setting weekend when we are going to improve our 6.04 pass at The Main Event at Santa Pod Raceway when we are racing in the 1/4 mile Top Doorslammer class!!

Must go faster! 😉

Spending the day here at a sunny Santa Pod Raceway with a beer or maybe two 😉 Putting on sponsor and partner decals on the trailer to show who the companies and people are that making this possible for us to do!

Can’t thank you enough, a huge thanks for being a part of the Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing team! 🙂

Without you all we would never be here at Santa Pod right now and never been able the get the chance to try setting a world record with our car and motor combination! We are doing this together as a big family! =D

Looking good, right?

Today after a long well needed night of sleep dad took the motor apart and everything looks really good so far!

Now I know that I can add more power and that means that we are able to go faster with the Chevelle and it’s only 4 days until we are racing again at The Main Event here at Santa Pod Raceway! =D

She is still happy after what we succeed during the weekend here at The Doorslammers at Santa Pod Raceway!

Everything looks goooood! 🙂

Dinner time at a sunny Santa Pod Raceway!

Standard bore space, conventional headed Chevrolet Big Block that I built and tune myself in a race car that I built and adjust myself!

6.04 @ 229mph and of the throttle at 5.80 because I started to go sideways a bit to much…

I prefer to make my own decision on my own car because it’s my own money and I’m proud that I succeed with what I want!

Swedish Self-Built Bad Ass Doorslammer!!! 😉

Can’t be more than satisfied with this weekend and I will be back next year at Santa Pod Raceway and The Doorslammers and the class Pro Doorslammer in 2020 that’s for fucking sure!!!

This weekend was possible thanks to the people on this picture! Max the man, daddy, Sofi the love of my life and then Mr and Mrs Monk Daniel and Elin, love you guys!!!

Also a special thanks to all of our sponsors and partners that made this weekend possible, you are the best!!

At the last, a huge thanks to Santa Pod Raceway and the crew here, can’t describe how thankful I am! You are the best!