Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing

Haven’t spent the time I wanted on the trailer lately but small baby steps are taking us forward and we are making progress all the time when we make time for it!

Feels really good that this is all ours, we are getting our circus more and more complete all the time! Soon it’s just some small final touches left like new pain and a design that makes this more “ours” on the complete rig when we are out on the road and in the pits. 🙂

One big issue that we got during last year was the air brakes on the trailer that starts to brake just a little by themselves when we are out on the roads and sometimes starts to build some crazy heat and I never got time to look at it for real during last year and during the winter but on the way down to Malmö and the first race in the series they started to give us an even bigger problem when using the parking brake so the trailer got totally stuck and it was a hell getting it to loosen up the brakes so I got really tired of it and finally put the time needed to look on it for real and right now it looks like I solved it for real because after a couple of hours driving at different times it been working just like it should! I can say that I hold my thumbs and toes that I fixed this now, soon it’s time to go to Sundsvall and Piteå and I DONT wanna spend time after the road working on stupid air brakes….

Also me and Max have been out practice driving a couple of times, start to be time for me to get my own driving license for the rig, it will for sure make everything so much easier for us to have two that can drive it and also for me so I can use my own stuff… I hate not be able to use something that I own, feels kind of stupid…. 😉

I really love the tailgate lift, it turned out so crazy good so I almost not believe it’s true! 😀



What I don’t like is when I got a flood outside the trailer and need to put a bridge in front the side door to get into it… 🙂

A mess!!! BUT! This is just empty boxes were we used to keep all our spare part etc. And that means now when they are empty the parts are somewhere else, in the trailer were they should be maybe!? 🙂

This is just awesome!!! 🙂 Now I got a crazy control on all the parts, and also I can tell anyone were to get parts when they need it and that will for sure make my tuning life A LOT easier! And even better, I still got plenty of room to fill up with more stuff, I’m pretty much in a organized parts heaven! 😀

And that is what happens when you start to organize all the trailer building stuff like bolts, screws, electrical junk and put it in a box instead!

A welding corner with a 20mm (3/4″) thick steel bench and a huge vise is something that a real trailer needs! Otherwise it’s not a real trailer….

Sometimes even the sun is shining on me…! 😉

I feel that I need to put some more time in my tuning corner to make it a bit more cozy… well it will come it will come! 

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… 

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!? 🙂 

Feels really good to start working on the trailer this early before next season! It’s possible because this year we don’t have a company that promises to much and destroys everything for us by putting us 4 months behind in our schedule… Do you remember last winter? We did start to work for real on the trailer in the beginning of February… And now we are already up and running in October, four months earlier this year!!! And yes, no promises from other companies this winter! 😉

It’s time to fix the last moisture damages in the front wall on the lower floor that we waited with earlier this year.

Looks good!

But…. 

This will take some time to fix..!

At least it did look worse than what it was! 😀 Now it just need to dry, and that can take a while..

Making plans trying to organize were our cabins and benches will be in the future 🙂

Me and Max started to work on the trailer earlier this week, the whole bottom floor is now all empty and the next step is to finish some small things that we still got left on the inside from earlier this year when we fixed the moisture damages in the side walls, so a little more plastic fantastic job just to remember how fun we had last winter… 😉

An empty bottom floor! 🙂

This is how the bottom floor did look during this season, not so funny! A complete mess… but it did work for us and we could get to the track with the things we needed! But to next year it will be a huge change, no more mess! We will get things organized with cabinets and tool boxes from our partner Treston AB and more fabricated stuff with help from Bengtssons Smide! 🙂

The upper floor was pretty ok but it will be a huge change here also! We will start to build our bathroom in the front part of the upper floor with help from our partner Anders Bremö Bygg, and then get some beds in place that we can flip up to the side walls when we have the Chevelle loaded in the trailer.

It’s pretty simple to get the lower floor empty when you can put everything on the upper floor 😀 This is where we will start so we can get all our spare parts and tools organized like we want!

We have also got our new heater pumps from our partner Panasonic Sverige Värmepumpar, it will be really nice to have them installed so we can get the temperature like we want it, guess we will use the heater part more than the air condition but it happens a couple of times every season that you want to cool down a bit! 😉

The trailer looks pretty good like it does right now but it will look even better to next season because in the beginning of next year it will go down south to our partner Kaross & Lackteknik in Jönköping and get some new paint on it, I really look forward to it, get it done on the outside so we can get all decals and stuff on it so everyone can see who’s coming! 

First of all I want to say a huge thanks to all of the people that been a part and been helping out with the trailer project during this year! Our awesome team! Max, John, Patrik, Dad! And our awesome partners 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, Janne and Isak from our own companies, Patrik Widd, Martin at Autocut! Thank you everyone you all made this possible!! 😀

Now some news, me and Max have got some stuff made during the last couple of weeks and finally the trailer got a Swedish license plate and are inspected and approved to use on the roads! That’s one big step for us after this messy year and it does feel good that one thing on the list is already done for the 2017 season! 🙂

Feels really good but it would never been possible without all the work we in the team spent on it during this year, we got a trailer in really good condition after all bodywork we made on it and now it’s time to start working on the inside and get everything organized like we want to! 

The inspection went really smooth only thing we needed to do to get it trough was a small adjustment on the brakes on the middle axle 🙂 

I want to take the opportunity to say a huge thanks to Åke Granholm for letting me rent / borrow his truck during this summer, it have for sure made everything much easier for us! Thank you very much!! 🙂

We did also unload the Chevelle and some other stuff and got it back into the shop again!

We did also say good night to the Chevelle, at least for a while… Soon it’s time to start working on it and get it ready for the 2017 season! You did good this year and you will do even better next year! 😉

This felt good, it means that we can use the trailer for one whole year before it’s time for the next inspection on it.

Time to get it back in the trailer shop again, a huge thanks to Göran at Takmakarna for letting me rent this spot so we can work inside during this winter also!

Back in the right place and back up on some blocks so we can get the wheels of it. Soon time to start working on it but first we need to make a plan where to start and what we really need to do on it during this winter.

Will get back with more info soon! 😉