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I would love to see photos and stories of Scandinavian cars such as Anders Fried, JPM, L. Nystrom, PANK, Hakan Lundgren, etc..

Any street strip, or full on cars are welcome. I have always admired the out of the box approach of the nordic racers, not only VW but other marks as well. Lots of ingenuity.

Thanks

Oliver Frey

Here comes Lundgrens fighting face!

And his car.

JPM's new car

And in action

Awesome keep'em coming!  ;D Anyone have good pics of JPM's old S/ST car? Older photos would be killer as well.

Thats the only time I want to see that view ;)

cheers richie,uk

Better get a hair cut or something then. Prof. "Weigh Out" West will probably be able to tell you how many 10ths that's worth.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/SanchoPancho/Scandinavian%20Cal%20Look%20Classic%202006/SCC2006MS046.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/SanchoPancho/Scandinavian%20Cal%20Look%20Classic%202006/SCC206MS51.jpg)

 :)

The red 59 above is me! The blue super beetle above is JPM's.
I think I have JPM's old red prostocker on a picture somewhere.
The car on the picture below is JPM's old Super street car.

Some Very Cool Cars :)

Any more Pics ?

:)

Adele

I'd be very interested in seeing the JPM Pro Stocker personally. Also any pics of Nystrom's and Hakan's cars before being painted the new paint jobs would be cool.

Thanks ;D

Leif with the panitjob he have had for the last years.

Håkan with a very old paint job, back in -96, but it is the same car as the brown.
If I am correct it has both IDA's + turbo on this picture.

Mika Jansson in his lengthened bug in the mid 90's.

Well spotted!  :D

Anders Fridh's old ghia

And his mad squareback, I belive it is still around but now painted blue.. Anyone know any enginespecs on this car? Think it runs kügelfischer mechanical fuel injection and some kind of overhead cam set up.. Sick machine..

Some pics of the Swedish (what else?) eight cylinder type4 engine:

One of the Swedish "funnies"

The "Pank" racer belonging to Fredrik Reichel aka Frallan

Wow his Ghia was awesome. I have seen pics with all of the body work on, but never knew it was a mid engine car. That thing should be able to handle some power. Awesome Guys keep'em coming. These cars and engines are awesome!!!!

Anyone have Engine pics of Nystrom's ProTurbo.

Nothing like a nice long winter to keep you busy building stuff ;D

I know Leif has sold his engine,I bought his Mendeola and I think his car is sold as well.But he is not going to quit racing,he just wants more,check out "in progress" on his website.. 8)

http://nystromracing.com/?page=gb

My toy.. :)

tekken.. your car is so cool, can we have some spec on that engine?..

Thanks,sure you can..
Autocraft dry sump case,Flanged 78mm Scat crank,Pauter alu rods,Isky roller lifters,Manton pushrods,Pauter roller rockers,VW Paradise custom roller cam,Venolia pistons,Autocraft 4" cylinders,Autocraft 910 heads,Staggs custom ball bearing turbo and exhaust,Holley 850 carb,J&G floater with Black magic disc..

I talked to Leif like 4 weeks ago and he hoped to be ready with his new car (except for the paintjob) to the last race of the season.
Here is a picture of Jeppe Bergdahls dragster. He still has it bus hasn't driven it for 2 years as he has started a new company that takes all his spare time.

Lundgren before new paintjob.

Leifs old car.

Fredde's split. It's on its way to race again, he has waited like 9 monts for the autocraft heads.

JPM's Prostock. I was on my way to buy it, but it was sold to Norway. Who owns it now? Has it made any decent times?

Roman those pictures are awesome Thank you so much!

What's the story on the Freddie's split and the dragster? I have never seen either before. How fast and what class was the dragster?

Thanks again.

Wasn't there also a New Beetle with Delta sponsorship? I think it may have crashed(?)

Freddes split is in the 9's, but I don't know how fats it is - maýbe 9.7 - 9.8 or so, but it has potential for a lot more.
The dragster has a 2.3 liter engine and runs in super gas (9.90 index).
I have some pictures of Håkans New beetle as well, and it was crashed in the first run ever due to a very bad track. I have some photos of it somewhere.
It was a US import, but with some updates here in Sweden. I talked to Håkan yesterday and he is making the season premiere with the brown car July 11 with more boost, bigger turbo and a new Autronic EFI system.
More pics coming up later!

Here a picture of a car who died to young. Built by Fredrik Ström and Marcus Arthursson from Sweden. I think they raced it -96 season and crached it -97. It was a very beautiful car with lots of potential.

Jack from Uppsala and his split. I think it is the ex Anders Fridh engine in it, but I don't know what happened to the car.

(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/jennybugs/BugJam%2021/jam35.jpg)

(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/jennybugs/BugJam%2021/jam39.jpg)

(http://bloggis.se/turbofastback/bilder/DSC_1686.jpg)

(http://www.phnet.fi/public/hefor1/kuvat/dragssta.jpg)

Met Henry Forsgren from Finland in NC, USA at a ECPRA Pro Stock race, while he was in the states on business. Really nice fella. Funny thing is I was checking out his site years ago.

His new dragster.

(http://www.phnet.fi/public/hefor1/kuvat/dragmoo.jpg)

His old super  streeter

(http://www.phnet.fi/public/hefor1/kuvat/nitro021.jpg)

(http://bp2.blogger.com/_PK72ALI-_i0/SFNuEsyLbnI/AAAAAAAABMo/GOsNakgCHGc/s1600/Bugrun%2B2008%2B029.jpg)

Very COOOOOOOL and fast split.

(http://bp2.blogger.com/_PK72ALI-_i0/SFNtiksLVxI/AAAAAAAABMQ/kC3VPi3c_PM/s1600/Bugrun%2B2008%2B038.jpg)

 :o ;D

Jack owns the ex fridh sqareback too and the engine was back in the typ3 a few years ago. But the car havent been seen for several years now and the last time i met jack he was with fridh and the circut racer new beetle.

Shit happens in Finland.... :(
(http://www.volkkaripalsta.com/keskustelu/files/kuva023_814.jpg)
(http://www.volkkaripalsta.com/keskustelu/files/paskanurin_162.jpg)

 :o :o :o :o

Skinne´s car

WOW WTF happened to Leif's car?  :o

Ok, I feel i need to correct this. I bought Leif's car earlier this year without the engine and transmission, and I have the chassis safely in my garage. What I don't have anymore is the car's body (the orange '64 with a split window) - I did not have space to store the body, so I sold it to a younger "enthusiast".
At the time of buying the car the plan was to replace the body with a full-steel oval window body, and a couple of weeks ago I was lucky to find a nice stripped '53. So the plan is still valid - I will rebuild it to look like an early oval street car, with a full chassis underneath. The engine and transmission may come from my '65 (http://cal-look.no/top10pics/_jyrki65.jpg), or not (TBD). This is a major project for me, and I guess it will take at least a couple of years to complete, easily. I will post a couple of pics later this year, once I have the body and chassis together.



Jyrki

I'm familiar with your black beetle Jyrki. (it was light blue a long time ago, correct)

Good luck on the new project. I didn't think the chassis in the photos from above were Leif's, just the body. Keep us posted and thanks for info on Leif's chassis. If your new car turns out as nice as your black 65, I can't wait to see it.

Also feel bad that i didn´t told in my post that, it was only the body that was hacked off.. :-\  Really looking forward of what Jyrki can make out of this project !!!  ;D

Sneak peek... ::)


-tOmi-

The 910 heads have finally made it to Sweden, saw that box yesterday.Freddes split has run a 9.70 something I think, please correct me if I am wrong. The engine seized up last season ending in a fire. New engine is being built. Lot´s of horsepower..

Henrys dragsters resides in Kotten Tallgrens garage in Helsinki without engine and tranny. I visited him this weekend, I will post some pictures later.

SWEET!

Thats 727hp right there....One day I`m sure we will see this extreme machine shine.

What is it?

A WBX with a huge turbo:

86x101,6
JE custom pistons.
5.5 H-beams
Engle tsc 20 cam wit 1.3 rockers
OEM heads with offcentre guides. Big valves, thin stems.
Dry sump.
Dual trottle boddies on custom on-off intakes.
Big Charge cooler
EFI tecnology injection.

 I just heard that it was dynoed again - 740hp / 880nm without nitrous. I hope the builder Skinne Bros Racing will find a driver for it and that they will be able to do a couple of decent runs with it this year. I do think it is worth mentioning that this car is street legal and is also driven on the streets in Norway.

what is that giant turbo???

 :o

Jacks red splittwindow racer is for sale at www.blocket.se/vi/17233510.htm?ca=3_s
No engine and case and a bit rugged

I promised to send some pictures once I have something to show. Here you go, a mock-up of the chassis + body. The chassis was blasted, and the body cut to fit over the chassis. They're not attached to each other yet. Also, the front spindle mount wheels are just for mock-up purposes - the plan is to fit 4 wheel brakes.

Jyrki

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/tero.virta/Rl2ubMBc8HI/AAAAAAAAAzU/wMLfFQpiwo8/s800/KottenArchives01.jpg)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/tero.virta/Rl2vOcBc8MI/AAAAAAAAA0E/xD9zyFOe-00/s800/KottenArchives06.jpg)

Here are some shots of the dragster from back in the day in Alastaro.. Apart from the dragster Kotten and his Bay Window still look pretty much the same  :)

That'll be awesome car when finished 8) Looks like the '55 needs new "cabriolet" engine lid now? There is one lid looking for an Oval in Töölö ;)

What type of engine is he running in these pictures? 16V VW?

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/487421.jpg)

Another Awesome car ;D

Hi,
The engine was a 1715 (if I remember correctly) made from an originally 8 valve 1600 engine with a 1800 stroke. It had an Oettinger 16 valve head with turbo, intercooler and a Kuegelfisher mechanical injection. It was an old rallyecross engine and did not work very well. Would have needed a new engine block or a borejob and new pistrons. I am more of an aircooled guy anyway and due to lack of funds I left the car sitting for a long time until Henry wanted to lease the chassis.

A more interesting feature at that time however was the transaxle. It was (is as I still have it stored) a Dominator Engineering constructed piece with the gearbox from a Ford Maverick coupled to a rear end with a Frameworks live axle setup through a set of Quick change gears and a chain. Looks a bit like a mutated vw transaxle, only much heavier.

All of this happened in the early -90:ies

I am nowadays working on my top chopped drag beetle that has been with me since 1978 (=30 years). I am planning on having it ready for the next season totally rebuilt to todays tech rules.

rgds
Kotten

Very interesting Kotten. What type of times did it run? Any picsof that rear end?

Thanks.

I could not get any decent runs because of different troubles with the tranny at first. When I got those figured out the engine acted funny. As soon as the boost came in the oil started spraying all over the track because of a huge blow by caused by the piston rings and oval shaped cylinders.  Made a couple of runs wit a little over 200 km/h top speed but i cannot recall the times recorded. I stopped there!

I have no digital pics of the tranny but I'll try to find the old ones and have them scanned. I will return to that in time.

Kotten

 I am planning on having it ready for the next season totally rebuilt to todays tech rules.

rgds
Kotten
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Sounds like you have spend too much time with ArabiaSlugs...

Sounds like you have spend too much time with ArabiaSlugs...
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That's next YEAR....  ;)

Kotten

Actually it's "next summer". But you really can't spend too much time with Arabia Slugs, can you? At least if the alternative is to spend some time with a Lutfisk...

Well it seems that the Aslugs tend to spend time with me. They seem to visit my garage much more often than I go to theirs  ;D

Kotten, here are smaller versions of your photos..

Thanks Tero!

Very nice rearend  ;D





On the dragster you perverts! :D

Hey now! We just come by to tell you of all the things that are going on in the New World! Also, where else do you think we could steal our tools from? Heebah's garage is too far away and you guys have better tools.

Anyway, this smack-talking of yours is not without consequence. I hereby challenge Kotten to a drag race in 2009, my restored '52 (Valtteri's Revenge) against Kotten's car! All timeslips until end of July 2009 qualify and the slower driver will have to bow down 10 times (chanting "You are the Master Drag Racer, I am not worthy!") to the faster guy at the last Krem-A-Que (first friday of August). The whole event will be videotaped and uploaded to youtube and all relevant forums! Whaddaya say, will you take up the challenge?

I love it!!

EXCEPT

The whole thing should end at SCC 2009 in front of a international crowd and the world press

 :)

OOPS! I seem to have stepped on the toes of the Sluts!! :P
Valtteri, I usually don't answer to challenges, but this I wouldn't miss for the world!
BeetleBug, this is a very lokal thing. The sluts usually challenge each other for a 12-pack of beer but never get to race for it....
I will however redo this thing at SCC 2009 as well if Valtteri shows up with his split!

Kotten

Well you know there's nothing to race for if all of it has already been drank, eh?

Just to get the facts straight, you do accept my challenge, first and foremost domestically (including the global humiliation) and if we both show up at SCC 2009, we'll have a heads-up race there?

"Do not underestimate the power of the dark si...erhm the Slug Side!"

Looking forward to the heads up race at SCC 2009!
Kotten

Holey Moley Valtteri  :o

I think you just woke up a sleeping bear!     :)

Now this is a race I cant wait to see.

Best rgs
BB

Looks like I may get to spend some more time with the 'slugs and 'sick ones, as I'm working getting another biz trip to Finland scheduled for next spring (http://cal-look.no/lounge/Themes/babylon/images/post/thumbup.gif) (http://cal-look.no/lounge/Themes/babylon/images/post/thumbup.gif). I'll let you guys know when plans are finalized.

Here are a few more pics of some Finnish drag cars, for you Ollie (others in this thread (http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,6813.msg101582.html#msg101582)):

Kotten's
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Finland/Volkswagens/IMG_6849.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Finland/Volkswagens/IMG_6847.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Finland/Volkswagens/IMG_6850.jpg)

Jyrki's
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Finland/Volkswagens/IMG_6873.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Finland/Volkswagens/IMG_6863.jpg)

? ? ?'s
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Finland/Volkswagens/IMG_6874.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Finland/Volkswagens/IMG_6875.jpg)

Jussi's
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Finland/Volkswagens/IMG_6981.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Finland/Volkswagens/IMG_6983.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Finland/Volkswagens/IMG_6971.jpg)

What ever happened to the J-Team Racing car (Johan Dryselius and Jörgen Ek) that was out of Sweden?

I lost track of Johan some time ago, after trading emails with him for a few years, and would like to know what he's up to now and/or catch up with him again.

Here are some old pics of the J-Team car:

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/VW/asst/j-team_racing1.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/VW/asst/j-team_racing2.jpg)

I know the car is sitting unused in a Norwegian garage...  who knows, maybe it will roll this summer?

Just for your information Valtteri.
Yesterday I started up the engine and run in the camshaft. I also ordered the ticket and depot space for SCC 2009. See you there!

Kotten

Mika`s old car is for sale here in Norway;

http://www.autodb.no/cgi-bin/car/requestframe.pl?nr=2045869

Here is Håkan Norenius street/race car. It made 6.90's on the 1/8 mile in 1994 with a type 4 turbo engine.
I visited him last week and he still has it! In 1995 it was backhalved and a new, bigger engine was under construction when he decided to buy a house. It's in a shed now under a lot of dust, and it is for sale.
The bad thing is that the cage is not up to date for todays NHRA/SHRA standards.

If someone is interested, drop me a PM and I will give you the contact information.

He also has a type 4, 78x101.6 engine with drysump, turbo - T04 AR60 , 48 x 40 heads etc in pieces, all for sale. I would have bought it if I wasn't a N/A type 1 guy!

For some reason I love this car  8)

why ???................. oh yes black car rocks  ::) ::)........................... ;D ;D ;D ;D

Making fun of my BLACK car are we Fabian?  >:( ;D ;D

There's a black car there  ???

I think its because the red car is fast and runs in the 12`s  :P ;) ;D

Looks very much like mine  ;D

Hoping for a 12 by the end of the year too  ;)

.....Hope to try it at scc,1835 with turbo :)

So what´s happening here?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WcLvzMgArhQ/Sn1pGm0f2sI/AAAAAAAABFg/dw3ANuQHYfw/s1600-h/IMG_2050.jpg

Hey now! We just come by to tell you of all the things that are going on in the New World! Also, where else do you think we could steal our tools from? Heebah's garage is too far away and you guys have better tools.

Anyway, this smack-talking of yours is not without consequence. I hereby challenge Kotten to a drag race in 2009, my restored '52 (Valtteri's Revenge) against Kotten's car! All timeslips until end of July 2009 qualify and the slower driver will have to bow down 10 times (chanting "You are the Master Drag Racer, I am not worthy!") to the faster guy at the last Krem-A-Que (first friday of August). The whole event will be videotaped and uploaded to youtube and all relevant forums! Whaddaya say, will you take up the challenge?
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    what is the host for this beast of a motor?


(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5586.0;attach=17727;image)

"what is the host for this beast of a motor ?"....

http://ultimateaircooled.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=1921.0

I am bringen this car home from the US to race next seson. looking forword to go racing.

And this one!!

It will be forsale when it come home to Denmark, without engine.

Christian

Awesome!

This car is in Trondheim Norway.
Harald.

As some of you know, I divested the ex-Leif Nyström chassis due to differences in the rules between Sweden and Finland. So there I was, parts for an engine, a transmission, brakes, wheels and a body, but no chassis  ??? Luckily Ron Lummus Racing was able to squeese the fabrication of a chassis in their calendar. The chassis was finished in mid January, and yesterday was the big day; the container arrived and with the help of my friend Jukka we took the stuff to my garage. I must say that RLR does very, very nice work!
Last night I spent a couple of hours installing the suspension, transmission, brakes and wheels to the chassis. Well, I also put in a seat and the shifter, and sat in  ;D

Here's a teaser picture; RLR chassis #0128

Jyrki[attachment=1]

NICE!

Congrats!

I had some photos from Mantorp around 1990:

The "Hotshop" car really was a work of art.. and still is. To bad they won't sell it  :'(

Indeed, they don´t even bother to race it.... Looks exactly like when they built it, and in 100% "like new" condition.
Back then perhaps the best detailed vw racecar in Scandinavia, and since it really hasn´t been used it´s still up there with the best.

always my favorite ,what a bummer that jussi sold the car

Great photos love to see cars I have not been able to see in person

Love to make it across the pond some year and watch them

Sounds like SCC 2011 would be a good time for that :-)

More Scandinavian cars (got more on my disk somewhere):

Bjørn Rognlien (Norwegian record holder for many years)
(http://www.speedfreak.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Rognlien.jpg)

Not many Volkswagens on the drag strip in Norway when this picture was taken (believe it was only those three)
My car first, previous Swedish Turbomania, Jee`s turbo wasser next and Stig Sæthers green bug:
(http://www.speedfreak.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dragracers.jpg)

The Turbomania as it was when we bought it in Sweden:
(http://www.speedfreak.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/HoorDragster.jpg)

Dont remember the name of the owner at the moment, but this motor later was to see and heard in Kormis green -59/60:
(http://www.speedfreak.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/bakdel.jpg)
(http://www.speedfreak.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/framdel.jpg)

And finally some oldschool pictures of Jee`s old car  ;D
(http://www.speedfreak.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/JeeRacing4.jpg)
(http://www.speedfreak.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/JeeRacing9.jpg)
(http://www.speedfreak.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/JeeRacing12.jpg)
(http://www.speedfreak.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/JeeRacing11.jpg)
(http://www.speedfreak.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/JeeRacing.jpg)
(http://www.speedfreak.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2.jpg)

I dont know the story of this, but i've heard that it never ran....but maybe some of you have guys know:
(http://www.speedfreak.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dragboble.jpg)

Nope, the SC extreme thing never ran.
I do not rememeber the details but it was discussed maybe a year ago on a forum.
I rememeber seeing the car on display on a VW meeting in 1993 were I was with my car.

hello,


Anybody know or have info on the Jörgen Eriksson turbo Karmann (tubular chassis, fiber body).Found an article in a 2001 french VW magazine and I would like to know more about the engine of this car ..a 1835cc

thks

hello,

nobody?

(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/811/k5xk.jpg)

1835cc, 350 HP (without nitrous), 8000rpm, nitrous, MAHLE pistons and THIN cylinders....

Find the mistake.. :o  

really surprise that Mahle P/C can withstand much abuse...

Never underestimate a Swede  ;)

 :D

Jörgen still owns the Ghia and he is planning a comeback.
He has ran 1835 turbo for the last 25 or so years so it works...

some really cool cars for sure !!!!

So does it count if your using there parts and you live in the U.S.A. PLease like check out my blog build on  youtube .KrazyKafur is my handle  SUB if you like what you see . Thanks !!!

https://youtu.be/pO2pSSMGCeY (https://youtu.be/pO2pSSMGCeY)