Next up is a rollcage, the rollcage is an essential part of a drifting car as you’re not allowed to enter any higher level drifting event without it. This mechanical structure that offers great safety is nothing but familiar to Teemu as the w123 was pretty much held together by merely the rollcage.
The guys have not been working a lot on building the rollcage, but the results are stunning, how can one make such progress in just a few days? We’ll as we know Teemu gets stuff done very fast. With a little help he’s even faster.
As the second picture might suggest, any car looks a lot better with a front bumper. Ours is a ABS plastic, perfectly fitting (don’t mind the picture…)Ā C-class AMG bumper kit, mercedes sure know how to make a bumper. The bonnet is also new as the one that came with the car was quite damaged. Both the bonnetĀ and theĀ bumpersĀ were provided byĀ MB-Specialist,Ā one truly great partner!
As you’ve probably read before, we really did not predict that the engine would fit so perfectly into the engine bay. It really took us by surprise! (:
We’ve always thought that it’s not about how it looks, the real focus should be onĀ if it works.Ā In Finland someone rarely asks “did it turn out well?”, the most common question is always “how many hours did it take you”.Ā This is not necessarily a good thing since one might think that everything is done “too fast”.Ā In this case the guys made an extremely high quality rollcage and it didn’t even take them that long!
RegulationsĀ in the BDC say the the main frame should be a minimum ofĀ 45×2.5mm or 50x2mm, we chose the 45×2.5mm. As soon as the inside is ready we should get it painted too (no surprise there…)
Oil coolers for both gearbox and engine were bought and these beautiful Setrab-babies should do the work just fine!
New seats and belts too! Gotta love everything that’s fresh and new!
MB-Specialist has a very special place in this particular garage!
This was all for now, on the last picture I’m holding a new steering wheel! Hope it turnsĀ out well, hehe… (: Stay tuned for more news!
In this episode we visit the basement (secret tech laboratory) of Kokkolan Autohuolto. Jesse Haapala is interviewed and explains in detail what is going on and what is being done to the engine.
Team BLACK SMOKEs first competition 2015, Gatebil at VĆ„lerbanen, Norway. Teemu also attended the NM series competition and got to Top 16 but no further. NM competition results: 1.Ismail Salih 2.Fredrik Myhre 3.Kenneth Nornes In VĆ„lersladden Teemu qualified 8th, the finals were not attended as we had to leave for the ferry. VIDEO BY PICTUREFACTORY.FI…
We’d like to mention that we’ve had our sprinter for a while now and this year we upgraded to a 12m bus, a MAN Carrius. A lot of you probably knows it already but it’s a big thing for us and worth a post on the website also! We made the interior and the car…
