Finnish race car project

boosted · January 16, 2017, 03:35:13 PM

You got this beast fired up yet?

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jynkkis · January 17, 2017, 06:13:35 PM

No Jon, havent got time yet to start it. I had last sunday some spare time. me and kids went to icetrack wherefrom japi posted some photos to fb. Was awesome day to drive with the gang. Had the opportunity to talk with Minna Sillankorva, woman who drove the group-B FB back in tbe 80s. Her daughter, Suvi was driving first time their e36 with rally spikewheels. She is talented driver, i have to say. I sat a few laps at codrivers seat. Only a couple of time she pumped throttle unnessesarly on cornering.

No rotarys this time at the track. Shit.
I think this winther goes by and my car just stays on stands.

re japi · January 18, 2017, 05:55:32 PM

Yes, we had epic weekend at frozen lake. Saturday evening my friend sorted Opels electric problems. So sunday I was able to race Opel after a long time. Had lots of fun! Also bro, my co-worker Jasmine and Janne the rallycrossdriver beated the shit out off that car

Little phone vid from Jasmine co-driving with me

http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/587faa07b67c2/received_10211031612961417.mp4

Today I went to drive few laps just for fun. Trying to figure out some driving lines and checking curve speeds with gps and RaceChrono App

Took some in-car vid too. There was some loose snow on track so didnt have best traction. Made a new camera mount so it wont flip upsidedown so much. Peace of crap camera! Funny that in this video it seems that Im going really slow even though I was trying to push quite hard, maybe 90% speed

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=9bTdwjdnFqU

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boosted · January 20, 2017, 07:34:11 PM

Congratulations i believe are in mate...Have a good day. Youll have todo as your told from know on ha ha !

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re japi · January 21, 2017, 10:51:40 AM

Thanks mate! Well, I'm fuc**d anyways...

boosted · January 21, 2017, 01:35:42 PM

Lol...i got wagging finger today...hoovering or garage...no brainer really....

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re japi · January 21, 2017, 03:36:15 PM

Lol

Well, we have been together 13 years now I think. And about 10 engaged... But marriage in our case was basically law thing for us, our laws dont protect spouses in unfortunate cases...

Im spending my honeymoon at work.

Cant even go ice racing, and its beautifull weather now. Crap...

So Im quessing honeymoon would be at July if we can come to Holland... :/

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jynkkis · January 21, 2017, 05:29:45 PM

Today I had some time and went to garage to fire up mankeli. Well it didnt to well. She Just shoots solenoid and wont spin the starter. Im quessing she wont have enough juice from my battery charchers thin capels. Cars own battery Is dead, it doesnt accept amper... I need a new one.

re japi · January 28, 2017, 06:06:29 AM

Ok, this is how to build suspension!

Our friend Seppo is a Volvo guru, and from these pictures you can see that he can do other stuff too

http://www.skautoengineering.fi/albumi/omakilpa-autoprojekti/volvo544rallycross/

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re japi · February 07, 2017, 03:27:09 PM

When we got married, I got idea to go to our castle and Mona took some photos :)Its not professional photo but I kind of like it...

Back to cars

After last session bro and dad said that engine mount is broken. We brought car back home, well to my fatherinlaws house, and started to do some quick fix. Mount and engine was hold by kind of lower strutbar, without that damages would have been bigger. Fixed exhaust, cause it was torn apart too. Repaired the heater and vipers. Fixed air intakes/maf mountings. Swapped tyres. And some little things...

Last saturday, I drove car back to lake, and had some fun. For about 6hours,I give it some beans.

it did took a beating, but it worked just fine, so I was happy

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re japi · February 07, 2017, 03:40:42 PM

Oh, and last Friday we had quests from Ireland in our lake track.

Minna, who bro mentioned earlier asked me Thursday if they can come and drive with them. I said yes, and after work I did go straight to lake and started to fix and plow the track. Minna has "driver academy" and they wanted to show what is having fun in Finland at winter

I think that other Irishman pooped his pants when sitting with Minna's go-driver. Minna is one of the best female drivers in the world, you know.

Anyways, they really had fun and its the main thing...

And I loved their accent

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jynkkis · February 10, 2017, 02:22:01 PM

When we have guests from the main island?

re japi · February 17, 2017, 06:04:09 AM

More ice racing

https://youtu.be/-rdrH2MTu_M

re japi · February 28, 2017, 08:12:24 AM

Well, 3 days of ice racing...

Saturday we raced with friends. Also we had French visitors. They wouldn't understand how we can race on lake

but they had fun, really enjoyed... Sunday was local village winter event so we had lots of co-drivers. Four cars had volunteers to ride as co-driver. Childs and adults had fun, they saw how fun ice racing is... Yesterday I went to teach two of my friends kids how to drive and race. They are 10 and 12 years old...

Well, my car performed well, took massive beating in three days. Nothing broke, I think.

My back and arms are a bit sore. But I'm very happy

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Casey · February 28, 2017, 08:09:08 PM

That looks and sounds like really good fun

At least you get some pleasure/benefits from your extreme cold weather