Archive for the 'Motor' Category



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Don’t use your mobile while driving!

I really can’t understand why it’s still legal to use mobile phones without hands-free in Sweden.
A little info about this film:

Tredegar Comprehensive School and Gwent Police (Gwent is located in south-east Wales,UK) present a half hour drama entitled ‘COW’ –The film that will stop you from texting and driving,” with SPECIAL EFFECTS [...]

Skall bli skoj! Imorgon bär det av till Kinnekulle så man är där i god tid, kl. 07:00 är det inregistrering för förarna. Hoppas man lär sig mycket nyttigt så man blir en säkrare MC förare.
Info om Sporthojskurserna hos SMC finns här.
Hoppas bara att det inte regnar.

Ronnie Peterson Historic Grand Prix 2008

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the last Swedish GP as well as honour the memory of Ronnie Peterson, and launch of a new historic race event: The Ronnie Peterson Historic Grand Prix, at the Masters Swedish Classic, to be held at Anderstorp on June 6-7-8, 2008.

Tjolöholm Classic Motor 2008

We are looking forward to having the opportunity to welcome you to an exhibition of classic cars that contains all the ingredients to be a success and a pleasurable experience. Tjolöholm Classic Motor Show is one of the largest and most important exhibitions of old vehicles in Sweden. This year’s show [...]

Some Pictures from Mantorp Park

Magnus shot some pictures of me driving on the race track at Mantorp Park this weekend. You can see some more pictures if you follow the link below, just klick on the picture.

From 120d on the r…

Jeeeeez, that was real fun, I definitely need a race car project. Well maybe there will be some 323ti [...]

A very interesting article about the clean energy scam everybody who thinks ethanol driven cars are the future should read:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975-1,00.html
The Swedish government should read this article as they feign care for the environment by subsidizing these ethanol driven cars for being “environmental green cars”. The only reason for doing so is to save the Swedish [...]

Fortunately, we have the time of single-grade oils long behind us. A single-grade motor oil is like a much too short bedspread. You must decide whether the bottom or top is covered. For the engine this means; either it has reasonable cold starting characteristics or a good wear protection at high temperature. Both simultaneously is [...]

“Mapodo” – or: I’ll buy my motor oil online from now on

I recently made my first experience with Mapodo, an online shop for motor oils and lubricants. As most of the high quality motor oils are quite expensive here in Sweden I’m always looking for cheaper alternatives. Mapodo was discussed on various automotive forums such [...]

The details of, e.g. “5W” and “40″ alone don’t say much about the oil. The first number is the dynamic viscosity, how the oil behaves at a very low temperature. Especially interesting is to what temperature the oil is still flowing to the oil pump by itself.
E.g. “5W” means that the oil is still fluently [...]

Types Of Motor Oils

A refinery ALWAYS produces mineral oil which consists of many different molecule forms. These oils are available in various qualities better ones and worse. E.g. hydro-crack oils (HC) are oils which are refinished in the refinery, the oils used for the HC oils are already of the better qualities. The oil molecules get cracked (hydro-cracked) [...]