New Challenges

After racing my Eunos for two year, I decided it´s time to move to a faster car. I took a flight to the UK and drove home a Honda s2000, more to come...

Falkenberg Classic - WIN!

Last races for the year, new track, fast and short. And new to me. See me WIN!

SSM 2012 Knutstorp Race 2

The raceweekend of the year, SSM!

Good start again, but then almost hits the Lotus, which are unable to get into 2:nd gear.

My first podium, and I VERY proud to have the fastest laptime of all cars in this race on lap 7.

SSM 2012 Knutstorp Race 1

The raceweekend of the year, SSM!

Race 1 was a wet race, without any wet practise. I haven't had ANY wet driving with this car all year :)
Watch and see my DRIIIFT!

SPVM Kinnekulle 2012 Race 2

Race two on the first race weekend

Reversed top 6 grid gives exiting first laps. This time I didn't want to get stuck behind Per, so on Lap 5 Im going for it. After that I hunt Ronnie for the rest of the race. Big thanks to my sponsors.

SPVM Kinnekulle 2012 Race 1

First race of 2012

After a slow start I get stuck behind Per Oleskog, who defends hard. After some fair side-to-side racing, I get by him and cruise to the finish line. Big thanks to my sponsors.

Ready to race!

Photo: Kristian Moström

Driftkarts AB sponsors Lejban Racing

Lejban Racing can produly present; Driftkarts sponsors Lejban Racing!

Driftkarts has by the far the most technical track, the most powerful karts and the most fun you can ever have in a indoor gokart arena! In addition to all that, you also get helpful and knowledgeable instructors. All of this, and still manage to be less expensive than the competition. check it out!

• http://driftkarts.se

This is specially exicitng for me, as my passion for driving started by indoor karting, only 2,5 years ago!

Big thanks to driftkart for the help, see you all in the karts!

2012 Shakedown Sala Racing Park

Practise lap around the small circuit Sala Racing Park

Initial testing with all the winter changes proved good, cars work fine and has a little oversteery tendensies, which makes it alot of fun to drive! This in combination with 10% more torque (and even more then that at low revs) make the car so much more fun this year. Looking forward to go racing on a real track!

ECU Crystal mod with Dyno Results

Hi,

I own a 1995 Eunos Roadster 1.8L (Mazda Mx-5). Engine is unmodified except a cold air intake and different exhaust. This Swedish winter I have worked on improving the engine, and had the opportunity to also the to get bottom of this Crystal ECU mod. Here we go...

Last summer, I changed the crystal in the ECU, to raise the rev limiter by 5,75%. It worked good, but alot of discussion where whether it also gave some performance gain. Today I got results from dyno run with and without the crystal mod.

• I have two ECUs,
• The first one is an unmodified ECU from Japan (orginal in the car).
• The Second one I bought on ebay for ~€10. It from a 1995 Mx-5 sold in UK.
• I ran both without modification on the road, without any difference in feel what so ever.
• I replaced the original 8MHz crystal for a 8.47MHz crystal in the UK ECU.

Original ECU (Japan) dyno run

Crystal Modified (UK ) dyno run

As you can see, the result is quite clear, I did get more power. 

The only uncertainty in this test is that we didn't test this with the same ECU hardware, but the software in the ECU was checked and is identical. 

Conclusion

Either the hardware is different (unlikely) or the Crystal mod does work both for raising the revlimiter and give you some extra horse power, almost for free.

References

• http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=145076 
• http://www.mx5racingclub.se/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2071 (Swedish)

Note

If you liked this article, follow my blog or youtube channel. Have fun modding and racing!

Big thanks to Claus Aichberger at http://www.turbocenter.se/

Picture from summer

Practise Mantorp

Practise lap around Mantorp Park

Practise Sviestad

Pactise lap around sviestad

SSM Ring Knutstorp Race 2

Second race, after a slow start I managed to pass some cars :)

SSM Ring Knutstorp Race 1

Exciting race on Ring Knutstorp twisty circuit. Despite beeing in the back of the pack, I had alot of fun and learned a thing or twelve.

Practise Gelleråsen

Drove 250km to Gelleråsen near Karlskoga in Värmland to try their nice track. Hade nice company of fellow MX-5 racer Daniel. See some of the fastest laps below:

First Race

Here is short summary of my first race weekend.

Qualified 9:th out of 18 competitors.
Finished 11:th in race 1 and 9:th in race 2.

Track: Kinnekulle Ring

Introduction

Let's get started!

We @ Team Lejban Racing are proud to present "Puliga Paola" our brand new 15 years old race.. hmm racing street car! It will succeed in having fun and place well below top 3. With that we have hired the zero experienced unknown master driver Tobias Nyström, well... me to drive this car without great finess and quite slow hopefully to the end of this season.

It all started as a great idéa last year. As nothing in the world is impossible (prove me wrong if you dare!) I set out to build a race car. Six month later, ready to race!

Thanks to

TWS Däckservice
Conoa AB
Pophunters Productions
J&M Kvalitetsbygg i Ljusdal AB

Klara-Maria Bollmark
Lena Nyström
Benny Nyström
Jimmy Visshed
Staffan Norling
Mats Stenberg
Daniel Jonsson
Timmy Lundin
Anna-Lena Beutgen
Jonas Holm
Andreas Åkesson
Magnus Johnsson
Conny Lundell
Andreas Halbig
Thomas Pihl
Robert Serwanski
Henrik Pihl
Magnus Claesson
Hans Drangel
Torkel Kristensson
Paola Torres (gave the car its name!)
Yasmina Suhonen
Johann Gustavsson
Philip Jurdell
Mats Möller

Petter Schanche

Anders Dahlgren (SSK Racing)

MX5 Racing Club
Svenska Miataklubben
5100.se

And every one I forgot!

See you on track :)

Träning Kinnekulle

Ett varv runt kinnekulle under första riktiga träningdagen.

Testing Mantorp

Vi byggde klart det sista i depån, så det fann ingen tid att ställa in nått, så dämparna är aldeles för mjuka, bilen understyr en hel del, och jag var fruktansvärt trött efter att jobba heltid och jobba en heltid till i garaget för att få ihop bilen. Dämparna kom 18.30 på tisdagskvällen tex...

Så oinställd bil, oskärpt förare och fullt med standardbilar och en läskig draracingbil på banan samtidigt blev det lite spännande.

Men bilen höll och vi hade riktigt jävla kul! Belöningen efter allt slit i vinter och jag har fortfarande ett leende på läpparna nu två dagar efteråt!