EDPS Emmaboda 16 maj 2009, was visited by 7400 persons.
It was a heavy week prior the event.
I got a monster cold, that I tryed to ignore but that only made it worse. I could hardly stand up the weekend prior but I managed to get to Katrineholm to pick up the head.
DTE Ernie had just finnished porting the new head and Hellman were just done fitting the new stainless valves. All we had to do was to adjust the valve clearance and add the size of the bolt holes since I nowdays run 1/2" bults instead of the stock m11.
Well back home I realized the 13mm holes we drilled were not enough for the 12,7mm 1/2" bolts, so I had to wait until monday before I could get my hands on a 13,5mm drill. As soon as the holes were large enough the job putting the engine together went rather smooth. Instead of going to work giving everyone a piece of my cold, I went to the garage, put the engine in the car and started her up on tuesday around midnight. Wendsday was spent trying to optimize the cooling system, and fabricating spacers to get the right ofset to the brake discs.
On thursday I was well enough to go to my regular work (where I actually GET money to spend my time)
Right after work I went to the garage to test the gearbox and cluch. Everything worked fine so I drove out of the garage and in to the garage next door for wash and wheel alignment.
Went home around 03.00 so getting up to work on friday morning 08.00 was not a fun issue.
Worked to 17.00 sharp, and went directly to the garage.
Some small issues were still to be fixed before loading.
Left the garage around 22.00
Arrived to Emmaboda 04.30
I rested for a while in the Transit's cabin while Nalle and Andersson found a campfire where they tryed to get some rest.
The gates opened at 07.00 but it took quite some time to unload. The car really drew attention, and people came from everyware to look, have a chat, take pictures and so on, wich made it to take extra long time to unload.
I belive we made it for the first round in our class, ultimate extreme outlaw.
With everything just put together and with no test driving at all we primary wanted to know that everything worked and that the car would go straight.
It did not.
It did run straight but it did not work 100%.
Someware in the run, the crank seal on the damper end popped out causing a rather large amount of oil to leave the engine and entering the track...
Unfortunally we didnt bring the tool for removing and refitting the damper, so we could nothing do but put the car on stands and let people have a look.
I heard some people even accidentally thought we were just there as an exibition.
Boneheads. =)
There were so much people around the car waching the hole day so we couldnt load it until the event closed at 18.00.
After stopping at every place possible to get coffie (and some not possible places) we entered the gates to the garage at 01.00.
We pretty much tossed the car off the Transit and into the garage so we could get home to get some sleep.
I woke up 16.30 sunday afternnon, totaly wasted.
What a weekend! =)
I got a 1/4 page in the magazine Bilsport in their next number:
Roughly translated:
With wide front. The Cherry is aprox two meters wider in front than in rear...
...nah, not really but still.
The oily comeback of the Wok.
Our favorite mad-guy "Wok-Björn" Holmberg has'nt driven on Emmaboda in modern time. 2001 to be precise. Now he's back to as he says test n tune. The engine has besides love and care gotten new valves sonce he ran 9,91 at Kjula last year.
-We started the engine up four days ago and I don't think we can run a nine sec. pass here today. We are just here to see that everything runs ok, says Björn and started out with the boost knob set to "babysafe". Unfortunally the crank seal broke wich gave Björn only one timeslip telling 11,35 - 203kmh.
A local newspaper did a WEB TV-clip.
Interview and motion of the wok:
Here's our own produced film from the event:
Clip is aprox 1 minute, 11Mb and compressed with DivX.
It is also available in poor quality on youtube via link below:
Boramannen caught the run from the side:
Photo: Peter Rosinski and Christoffer Talvis
Many thanks.
