He had the parts cause he knows that the racers are good customers during the race weekend. 

Kivinummi is one of the most respected automatic transmission guy in Finland so the tranny is fine now...although he's son is our opponent in the same class.

Good start because everything else is in one piece and working but the transmission. Bad because times dont start with 8.

Its too much time since the last record. Always something...trigger, tranny, boost pipe, valves, holes in the block, the team, the driver, position of the moon...duh.

Hyvinkää, FI

Did the trans guy have the parts, or do you carry around a rebuild kit? Now winter mantinance should include the trans, right? Still a good start on the engine combo.

Gary Ryan San Antonio.TX.

Last weekend was just another disaster . Two runs and on the third we toasted the Powerglide! At burn out slot, when Jyrki hit the transbrake button, car jumped backwards. Front band was worn out, all friction plates were goodbye and also couple of small parts had to be changed. We opened up the tranny and put it back together at the pits with a help of a professional transmission guy. He added one friction plate and took couple of parts off from the tranny (speed secrets!) and now it should be better than ever! Sadly we could not test it as Sunday was full of rain. But, next thursday to sunday is next round of Finnish Drag Race series and then we go....FAST!!! The times? 9.2  and 9.3 with slipping tranny was all we could do...
Videos here...

 Seppo from Järvenpää, Finland
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Our racing weekend was not the best possible again as in the first run one titanium valve stuck to bronze guide and Jyrki lifted after 6.8 seconds in the run. Still 9.1 sec with only 211 km/h. Good 1.27 60 ft. with about 1.9 bar of boost though... So, we took the head of and got the valve moving with little tinkering. Head back on and to next burn out where waters came out from another head gasket. Marchalls pointed us back to pits and then we took both head off and put new Fel Pros on. Time run short and we could not make another pass or even warm up the engine. So, our sunday started from last place qualifier and we had no glue how fast it would jump now. I put 8.50 dial on our body and Jyrki drove 9.4 with 227 km/h and poor 1.37 60 ft. and lousy 0.3 reaction time. So, we lost that run and day was over for us.... After that run we discovered that one pressure hose clamp was broken and that explained loss in boost pressure at that run. we had only 1.1 bar and that's one reason the car didn't jump from the line. Good things? Engine is still in one piece and it revved up to 7200 rpm, no issues with spark and we can change head gaskets quite quickly if needed . Next race will be 28.-29th of June, so there is lots of time to do things better. Here is a video about our journey...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72hlcTZgTm0&list=UUxZ94DRcBfpz0DstGIV1_QA
And some slow motions...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8h1UGvYnvI&list=UUxZ94DRcBfpz0DstGIV1_QA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMfYaB-NB0A&list=UUxZ94DRcBfpz0DstGIV1_QA
And under the car video from that lost elimination round...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYSGVPn97i4&list=UUxZ94DRcBfpz0DstGIV1_QA

So. looking forward to next race! We have the power...



 Seppo from Järvenpää, Finland
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Yes. MS 3.




Hyvinkää, FI

Is it still a megasquirt?



Lawrenceville, GA

And that 650 hp was calculated with E85 fuel what we are still using. No Meth for us yet .

 Seppo from Järvenpää, Finland
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Injectors what we used in last season had calculated max HP-value about 650HP, so they didnt work properly at the end of the track and old engine management system was too slow to tell us that with ~1 hz logger.  9 logging moments in quarter mile with old box vs. over 900 with new.


Hyvinkää, FI

Lighter titanium valves and retainers. Hopefully more rpm and speed at the finish line. Last summer we never went past 6000 rpm at the end. Still 232 km/h (144 mph) and 8.885 as last season best result. In 2012 our best result was 8.723 and 150 mph and even then the engine didn't rev past 6000 rpm... Industrial engine at it's best ! So, if get it to 7500 this summer... or even more?

 Seppo from Järvenpää, Finland
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Stiffer valve springs,lighter valve geometry, a new engine management system,153lb/hr injectors...


Hyvinkää, FI