Finnish race car project

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Grant Monkhouse

#120
March 31, 2014, 08:16:35 AM
Best of luck too your brother, hope all goes well:):D

re japi

#121
April 03, 2014, 06:46:20 AM
OK, bro is home allready. Surgery did go well. (damn, I dont get those cars ;)

Does someone have FD´s wiring loom picture or something? I thought I had one but I cant find it
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/japi_laukkanen/library/Japi?sort=3&page=1

re japi

#122
May 12, 2014, 05:21:24 PM
Updates: (no pics, sorry)

Bro is slowly doing some progress. Lots to do still. Even though surgery went well, his back is not good yet.

Our dad is working on electrics to car.

Rallycross season starts within 2 weeks! Yesterday I had long talk with Janne (owner of that Lada). Lada is ready to fight and Janne is driving full season. Heard lots of rumours too. Few new cars is coming to race this season. Also heard lots of rumours about engines. Powers are so big that they are just rumours and hype ;) And few engine allready blew up on dyno :)
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/japi_laukkanen/library/Japi?sort=3&page=1

re japi

#123
May 14, 2014, 05:51:29 PM
I had awesome day!

First I was at Ahvenisto racetrack free practice day.

Then I went to Hyvinkää rallycross track with Janne to Lada shakedown. Car performed very well. Engine is great and suspension setup is perfect.
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/japi_laukkanen/library/Japi?sort=3&page=1

re japi

#124
May 24, 2014, 06:35:36 PM
Today was first round of national rallycross at Honkajoki racetrack.
Day was perfect. About 28-30 celsius, great cars, lots of fun.

Janne´s Lada was awesome. He was fast and car had no problems. He managed to get to D final and there to C final. Car was performing well, but then something happened. We dont know why and what. Engine is running bad... :confused: (Number 22 in pics)

And rumours were true. There is a 13B PP in Volvo PV544! Funny thing is that he is my friends friend. :) I talked with him alot. Car was awesome. 8 years not racing and very different kind of engine that he is used to, was quite big challenge to him. He is a Volvo fan so he is not used to rev engine so high. ;) He had a bit water temperature problems. Unfortunatly at second qualification he hitted rail, and that was it, too much damage to car...
(number 21 in pics, blue car)

Also we talked with Toni Niemi, last years champion with green Toyota Starlet 13B PP. He had no problems. Water temperature was little high but other than that, car was great. They havent done anything to car since last season, not even tested. Although he did entered few ice races in winter. Anyways, he was 3rd, so good start to season...

I will put pictures to photobucket. :)
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/japi_laukkanen/library/Japi?sort=3&page=1

re japi

#125
May 25, 2014, 03:03:00 AM
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/japi_laukkanen/library/Japi?sort=3&page=1

re japi

#126
June 08, 2014, 04:29:17 AM
Second round of national rallycross was in Kouvola 7.6-2014

Toni with Starlet managed to get third place overall. He had lots of traction problems but nothing else

Janne Asikainen with Volvo PV 544 had problems with feeding fuel to engine. They managed to fix that problem, and car started to work. Now engine sound awesome, hitting rev limiter at 9800 rpm and spitting fire from exhaust :Thumbs-up Unfortunatly, he got black flag, because he was "blocking the way too agressive". In braking he got hitted from behind and spinned. He was :censored::censored::censored::censored:ed! Judges were morons...

Janne with Lada... well, everything went bad from friday to saturday. Car has electric problem. And it has secondary engine on it, Janne doesent like it. Lada got lots of battle scars during the day. And all ended to D final, when Lada got hitted bad and spinned out of track.

Anyways, we had awesome time, and everything s**t that happened didnt stopped us to have fun. Here´s Batman and his new sidekicks Boobarella and Legs ;) I will put more pics later...
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/japi_laukkanen/library/Japi?sort=3&page=1

re japi

#127
June 09, 2014, 05:46:16 AM
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/japi_laukkanen/library/Japi?sort=3&page=1

boosted

#128
June 22, 2014, 08:30:55 PM
Theres defo something funny in the water you fins drinks...your all bonkers...looks like fun
92 FD rx7 Twins 13.5psi.  EX Track car
EAT SLEEP ROTOR REPEAT.

re japi

#129
June 23, 2014, 04:25:59 AM
lol we dont drink water ;)

The truth is that if you take racing too serious, its not fun anymore.

This picture really shows that even though Janne had problems during this weekend, he had fun. And that gentlemen with green shirt is supercar driver Janne Kanerva´s main mechanic. That man is a wizard. They had big problems too and still he did come to chat and spend time with us... :)
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/japi_laukkanen/library/Japi?sort=3&page=1

re japi

#130
June 24, 2014, 05:17:41 PM
Little update:

It has been long time since car have stand on its own. I was very happy to see that today. I was smiling like moron when I walked to bro´s garage :InLove

All those classfibre body parts are slowly finding their own place. Car looks awesome! Ofcourse there is lot to do. Fabricate brackets, check alligment of panels and so on...

Its easy to make repairs to engine when you can stand in enginebay ;)
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/japi_laukkanen/library/Japi?sort=3&page=1

Grant Monkhouse

#131
June 24, 2014, 06:36:54 PM
The engine is soooo faaaar back!!:):D

re japi

#132
June 25, 2014, 03:57:32 AM
Nah, only 28cm from original position ;)
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/japi_laukkanen/library/Japi?sort=3&page=1

re japi

#133
July 12, 2014, 05:21:18 PM
Today:

Car is out of carage, first time in two years I think.

Camber needs some adjustment ;)

Roto the dog with rota the car :)

Red Baron

Car looks good but unfortunatly classfibre parts paint "boiled". New try tomorrow...
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/japi_laukkanen/library/Japi?sort=3&page=1

boosted

#134
July 12, 2014, 09:00:29 PM
Some good progess. looking through your album from racing that orange x19 is awesome! I always wanted 1 but never happened.

Looking at some of the battle scars is it worth worrying about the paintwork!
92 FD rx7 Twins 13.5psi.  EX Track car
EAT SLEEP ROTOR REPEAT.
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