Finnish race car project

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re japi

#135
July 13, 2014, 04:26:54 AM
Yes, finally coming together. And she looks awesome. :) No need to do a showroom paintjob. There will be battle scars. ;)

Ya, that X19 is quite rare nowadays. That orange has been around some time now. And he has been in top 5 for years now.
Guy who drive it and built it is a wizard. He uses Honda engine. Its safe to say that 330 horses from "home made" 2litre NA engine is quite good ;)
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

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re japi

#136
August 18, 2014, 04:09:40 PM
Little update on last rallycross event. I wasnt able to go there because back back is still hurting...

Well, Janne´s Lada was okay but just didnt manage to get to finals unfortunatly.

Toni´s rotary Starlet was working well too, but he just wasnt fast enough, so no bodium place this time.

Rotary Volvo wanst racing because they found little crack on engine. Dunno what happens now, they are sorting that problem...

Also in Super cars, heat was on. One of the biggest crasches in our series:
http://youtu.be/NDmHqZpf_ms
Driver is ok, but car was destroyed. I heard that he has new bodyshell now
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

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Casey

#137
August 18, 2014, 04:50:39 PM
Wow, that was some crash, and amazing the two following cars (just) managed to avoid collecting him - great driving by those two in not making the incident even worse. Glad to hear driver OK!
RX-8 230 Bridgeported: Racing Brake Disks & 4 pot front calipers,Full Racing Beat (RB) SS Exhaust system,RB ARB's F & R,RB REVI intake,Tein MonoFlex Coilovers & front strut brace.
RX-7, KIMI 1, 1st Gen S2, Silver,1983 - SORN
RX-7, KIMI 2,^^Ditto - now sold
RX-7, KIMI 3, 1st Gen S3, Red,1984

re japi

#138
August 27, 2014, 10:10:27 AM
http://youtu.be/ZiWWPtIOVhg

Very good video Rotary Starlet at action! :)
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

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re japi

#139
September 14, 2014, 05:10:33 PM
Well, next weekend is final event of our rallycross series! Cant wait

Rotary Volvo is ok now, and ready to fight. She had scratches inside rotor housings. :( Guy tested it few weeks ago and said that she has massive power :P I really hope that car is working good at seasons last event...

Janne´s Lada is fixed too. Janne said that now he is going flat out and gives no mercy! I wonder what kind of battle scars he manages to do now...

Rotary Starlet had engine problems at last event. They opened it and found that side seals were gone but apex were okay...?  But I dont know hows that possible? Overheated? My brother talked with Toni today, he was testing at Hyvinkää. Toni said that little bugger has more power now that ever! So, we are expecting Toni to go FAST! ;)
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

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Casey

#140
September 15, 2014, 06:45:49 PM
Sounds like you are good to go - hope you do well in the last event of the year :Thumbs-up
RX-8 230 Bridgeported: Racing Brake Disks & 4 pot front calipers,Full Racing Beat (RB) SS Exhaust system,RB ARB's F & R,RB REVI intake,Tein MonoFlex Coilovers & front strut brace.
RX-7, KIMI 1, 1st Gen S2, Silver,1983 - SORN
RX-7, KIMI 2,^^Ditto - now sold
RX-7, KIMI 3, 1st Gen S3, Red,1984

Clarky

#141
September 15, 2014, 10:31:10 PM
Great Video
Lead me not into temptation, I can find it myself...
But i can always do with some help now due to, my advancing years!

re japi

#142
September 21, 2014, 06:07:50 AM
Well, yesterday did not go as we planned. Lada was making weird noices and caught on fire. Those minor problems were sorted and then... car was destroyed. Janne rolled car over. But Janne is okay...

Toni with Starlet is doing well. He said that it is awesome to drive when you have massive power :)

Volvo PV with 13B pp isnt working! They wont race it now. It doesent rev smoothly after 6000rpm, it just farts and goughs. Also he noticed that exhaust temperatures wont rise, 1st rotor 700 celsius and 2nd only 500... All components have been changed, fuel system, ignition and so on. They have tested and checked everything like 3 times. Also engine has been rebuild about a month ago. What could be wrong????

I will put some pictures later
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

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re japi

#143
September 21, 2014, 05:03:02 PM
Janne´s Lada. Actually its not too bad. And seems like that all expensive parts and components are ok. And safety devises worked!!!!
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

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re japi

#144
September 21, 2014, 05:08:15 PM
1st pic: Friday night. At this point everything was okey. Then everything started to go south...
2nd pic: Toni´s pit bike :)
3rd pic: What a... Superman with Honda Monkey??? :D
4rd pic: Reaper
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

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re japi

#145
September 21, 2014, 05:11:58 PM
1st pic: Autocross C final
2nd pic: Autocross B final
3rd pic: Supercar C final
4rd pic: Supercar final
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

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re japi

#146
September 21, 2014, 05:17:21 PM
1st pic: Volvo has 5 dudes working on it :)
2nd pic: And here she is, Autocross champion 2014. I´m very happy for Vesa, he really deserved that title!!

At final Toni´s Starlet´s gearbox destroyed. He was super fast before that. And he was disapointed, he really wanted to fight. He was 4th in series.
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

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Casey

#147
September 23, 2014, 02:28:44 PM
Well, that was certainly eventful! Sorry to hear of the rotarys having major issues though - but as long as no-one hurt, everything can be fixed :)
RX-8 230 Bridgeported: Racing Brake Disks & 4 pot front calipers,Full Racing Beat (RB) SS Exhaust system,RB ARB's F & R,RB REVI intake,Tein MonoFlex Coilovers & front strut brace.
RX-7, KIMI 1, 1st Gen S2, Silver,1983 - SORN
RX-7, KIMI 2,^^Ditto - now sold
RX-7, KIMI 3, 1st Gen S3, Red,1984

re japi

#148
September 24, 2014, 04:32:07 AM
Toni´s run at final. Damn that thing is awesome! :P and Toni too

http://youtu.be/5-Lg8TRhLKA
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

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re japi

#149
January 05, 2015, 08:09:23 AM
No major updates. :/

Bro´s car still needs wirings, windows and some other stuff. And he started to do front suspension all over again.

Janne´s Lada is slowly coming back together. Even though hit was quite big, majority of expensive parts was not harmed. Few days ago we changed a roof to car. Yesterday we did put in a new engine. Well, actually its just mode of new engine. Janne desided to change Opel engine to a "bigblock" Volvo engine. Also, he is making changes to rearend too.

Dont know what Toni is done with his rotary Starlet, but there is some rumours that its for sale :(

Last thing I have heard about that rotary Volvo PV, is that its running again. Every problem that it had, it was because of ECU. It was crap. So I´m happy that they managed to solve those problems :)

And here is some FB brab brab video I found, B group action! :)
http://youtu.be/N-hMT3iIMQY
Power is nothing without control. Weight is enemy of performance, handling and braking.

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