And again some more video. It's from junior rally championship event held 26.5 at Kotka, crash from stage two. Now we have whole summer time to build new car and we'll be back at september, even stronger than now <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> (No pacenotes and a blind crest, here's the result... Maybe a place for attention note in roadbook (there wasn't), becouse of those rocks, not becouse of the turn)

http://www.m-kracing.net/videot/ek2.mpg

what happened to your top engine cover, did you hit something, or just someone forgot to close
it?

Heh someone forgot to close it... Happily just the other side was open
<img src="/images/graemlins/hehe_.gif" alt="" />

in both cases real peace of good looking drive , please writte some more info about your
standings in this competition

I finished fourth in my class (Gr. A under 1400cm3) with one Micra Kit Car and two VW Polo's ahead, if I remember right 13 came to finish.

In Finnsh junior rally championship there are four classes, and all classes have same points-system so winner may come from any class. After three winter-events I'm in position 16 out of 70 starters, hopefully in top ten after summer <img src="/images/graemlins/20.gif" alt="" />

So three winter events, three summer events, four classes, cars from Suzuki's to Type-R Civic's and "blind" roads, meaning no pacenotes and drivers under 27 years. Hopefully classes stay the same for next year also, then we will surely try to fight for the top three finish.

Added two videos from first Junior rally championship event at Mäntsälä:

SS1 www.m-kracing.net/videot/mantsalaek1.htm
SS3 www.m-kracing.net/videot/mantsalaek3.htm

Next event 27.5 so in early June you'll have some more <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Found a good post about rallying in finland in ralli.net, our finnish rallying forum (in English):

http://ralli.net/rnet/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3533

thanks, i've found the photos - a classic, good, reliable gt - love them old school pocket
rockets is this starlet n/a? 180hp

Yes, no turbo's and best Starlet's have around 180hp, lets say from 160 to 180 on top ones.

i also spotted a white honda integra - not a common car for rallys, rather for the
Fast&Furious city show-off

Actually they were quite popular here in Gr. N Under 2000cm3 when they came to markets... Nowadays Type-R Civic's and Renault Clio's are faster though. That Honda isn't actually ours, our team member used to be a co-driver in it for one tear <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

just wondering - is rallying an expensive hobby in Finland?
from what you've said, it seems to me that it's quite popular, therefore i reckon it's not
so expensive.

It surely is just as expensive as anywhere else but maybe our history as a rallying country helps in it... Of course there are huge differences between classes, and this our under 1400cm3 class is nowadays one of the most cheapest, and because that quite popular, class.

Let's say a good Suzuki with which you can even a bit fight for the top three places, and in smaller events for the win costs about 8000e, and we have counted that driving a rally quite near to you (

Nice Could we put your videos on our new website www.swiftklub.pl ? (Sport Videos section in
Download) Members of our Club could find it in one place and download faster

Nice site you have!! Eventhough I can't understand any Polish I found lots of interesting stuff from galleries and downloads-section <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> And you surely can put videos there if you want. From http://www.m-kracing.net/videot.htm you'll find a lot more of them and every in-car video is from a Suzuki <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

thanks for the specs, but what is the approx. horse power of the evo II? as i read your posts
and look at the photos, i get more and more amazed with the Finnish rallyes and
participants (both cars and drivers) - it looks quite pro... are those rallyes for amateurs
or are they dominated with professionaly prepared cars and rally teams?
also, i've spotted a nice escort rs2000 (?) on the photos from Rallit 2005-06 - your team as
well? lots of nice classic gtis - what is this silver hatchback (on on of the photos stands
next to the suzuki)? talbot, toyota?

EVOII had about 160hp on the best days, but as we suffered some problems with the engine we replaced it with must more original engine, and now we have only about 130hp. Even if you look at the videos it seems that EVOII has a lot more hp, but actually they are quite even, or even a bit more on the EVOI Swift, BUT the gearbox makes a HUGE difference! You must have over 6000rpm all the time but with original ratios, that surely is impossible.

Yes that silver one is a Toyota Starlet, around 180hp and very hi-tech, also made to group F. Ford also belongs to our team, you can find more photos of it at "Tekniikkaa"-page.

And about Finnish rallies... They're very popular here, in the same event there are even some prof teams, and us who just drive for a hobby <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> And the spirit is unbeliviable. For example if you have some problems in service, you'll get help not depending if you are driving just for a hobby or more serious. And as the rallying culture here is very different, even those cars build in home garage in own time are sometimes amazing when it comes to quality of building.

Dla tego taki szybki...

As my Polish is bit in rust, I really don't know what you mean but from smileys I thing I have a good guess <img src="/images/graemlins/hehe_.gif" alt="" />

Long time since last visit... But here again. I couldn't even find the old topic anymore so had to start a new one, sorry. a Lot has happened, but no, we haven't stopped using Suzuki's

All the previous videos were from Swift build to national group F, which allows a bit wilder technic (for example we had GTi Golf brakes and gearbox with almost perfect ratios, not the ones homologated). Now since i moved from rallysprint mainly to rallies, I have driven a group A Swift, and here comes again some in-car footage. Notice that we don't have pacenotes, and we drive as we see... Only dangerous places are marked with !-marks, and junctions also. On this event, result was fourth out of 13 starters, so very good actually (class gr. a under 1400cc) as we have those 160hp kit-car Micra's and 150hp VW Polo's against us.

In-Car from stage four: http://www.elisanet.fi/merja.kupari/videos/mantsalaek4.mpg
And some clips: http://www.elisanet.fi/merja.kupari/videos/mantsalatapahtumia.mpg

It is actually quite slow road for Finnish rally, specially at the end of the stage. If you want to know bit about the speeds, the calculated speed when changing from third to fourth gear is about 150km/h (yeah, great ratios :D)

You can find some more videos at http://www.m-kracing.net/videot.htm (sorry, new site and not in english anymore... but maybe coming). Also for some pics, go to http://www.m-kracing.net and after that, select Kausi 2007 (few pics from this years events) or Galleria, and from there something under the headlines rallit or rallisprint.

Some of you asked for some specifications in last topic, and here comes some mainpoints:

GR. A Suzuki
-1300 G13B engine
-Own injection system, some changes to ECU though
-Totally different cams for this use.
-Just slight modifications to cylinderhead, mainly just cleaning the ports and shaping them
-A bit taken out from the block (some 1,5mm) to raise compression ratio
-Own (but bit modified due to lowering the block) pistons.
-Compression ratio around 11
-At the moment still original gearbox with Gripper diff, and ratios surely don't fit for this use and for summer events, there's coming a dogbox with homologated ratios.
-Own brakes with racepads
-Bilstein suspension
-770kg

Gr. F Suzuki

-1300 G13B Engine
-Dellorto carberetors
-Totally different cams for this use.
-Just slight modifications to cylinderhead, mainly just cleaning the ports and shaping them
-A bit taken out from the block (some 1,5mm) to raise compression ratio
-Own (but bit modified due to lowering the block) pistons.
-Compression ratio around 11
-5-speed dogbox, with great ratios, top speed aprrox. 170-180km/h
-GTi Golf brakes
-Bilstein suspension
-790kg

lots of really good stuff and at least I understand whats going on thx alot

And now added some general info on Finnish rallying.

as usual real feast for ears and eyes , i'm looking forward for english version of your website

And now some info in English also (more to come) www.m-kracing.net

That would be great The vids are awesome as usual. Where did you get that 6-speed gearbox?

There are few companies in Finland who produce dogboxes for racing use, that gearbox is made to original gearbox shells, but what's inside is... well... it's a bit different <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> As Suzuki engine works only on very high revs (>8000) when you take the final horsepowers from it, it important to have gearbox which allows you to keep engine running those revs <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> But now it's bit easier drive and works great in 5000-6000rpm too (but you don't have so much top horsepower).

Suspension problems?

That's what we thought and tried to find the reason for two days (two events in two days)

The real reason was quite unbeliviable.

There comes a hose from fuel tank which allows air go to the tank. It's normally taken up, but now for some reason it had came a bit down. As the tank was full and grip is so great on asphalt that it throws the fuel in tank, it came out from that pipe straight in front of right rear tire! UNBELIVIABLE <img src="/images/graemlins/sciana.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/sciana.gif" alt="" />

BTW I have thought I should make an English version of our website, as there are many foreign visitors... lets wait til I get that finished <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

And here we go again, two videos from this summers asphalt events,

http://www.elisanet.fi/merja.kupari/videos/raisio.wmv
http://www.elisanet.fi/merja.kupari/videos/savo.wmv

On second film bit problems turning left <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

And someone asked for specs long time ago, here's some:

-1300 GTi engine, little modifications (cams, intake, exhaust system, injection changed to Dellorto's etc.). Now somewhere maybe 130-140hp. Used to have somewhere near 150 (don't have exact figures) but engine blew up and this one is quite original compared to it. Altough a lot easier to drive <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
-5-Speed Dogbox, has been 6-speed but since rules changed sixth gear was taken away.
-Weight 794kg

Some newer pics:

http://www.m-kracing.net/images/elmerikuvat/suzuki6.jpg
http://www.m-kracing.net/images/elmerikuvat/suzuki5.jpg
http://www.m-kracing.net/images/riihimaki200506/HPIM2349.JPG

GTi Mk1 na rajdowej trasie:
Mk1 rally_1
Mk1 rally_2
Milego ogladania

And again some more, on bit different sever now but lets hope it works:
http://www.elisanet.fi/merja.kupari/videos/kannonkoskiin-car.wmv

Now a little break before summer and some asphalt events.

Very nice piece of Suzi action thanks alot and we waiting for more soon

And herecomes some more again:

http://www.m-kracing.net/videos/toivakka.mpg . Engine doesn't sound very good and it actually didn't alst the second run anymore... Nwe engine being built and it should be ready in two weeks. And some pics also from same event:

http://www.m-kracing.net/images/elmerikuvat/toivakka062.jpg
http://www.m-kracing.net/images/elmerikuvat/toivakka06.jpg

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Nice Especially this car in the ditch Wipers is dead?

What's this thing which fly ahead camera?

My hand just wasn't fast enough for wiper switch <img src="/images/graemlins/gris.gif" alt="" /> Thats plug for helmet phones flying front of camera, forgot to tape it as there ain't co-driver and it isnt plugged to helmet <img src="/images/graemlins/niewiem.gif" alt="" />

GTi Mk1 na rajdowej trasie:
Mk1 rally_1
Mk1 rally_2
Milego ogladania

And again some more in-car video at http://www.m-kracing.net/videos/iisalmi.mpg

And some pics with new color in interior and engneroom:

http://www.m-kracing.net/images/elmerikuvat/projekti.jpg
http://www.m-kracing.net/images/elmerikuvat/projekti2.jpg
http://www.m-kracing.net/images/elmerikuvat/projekti5.jpg
http://www.m-kracing.net/images/elmerikuvat/projekti4.jpg

So, We are waiting for new fotos

You don't have to wait anymore Barti, here's some after taking engine and gearbox out:

http://www.m-kracing.net/sekalaisetkuvat.htm

and we have two Rally Swifts, here's another:

http://www.m-kracing.net/suzukievoii.htm

On that MK1 only some little changes to engine, gearbox is original. And ofcourse rollacage etc.
Hmmm... Maybe I should make Polish version of our site
<img src="/images/graemlins/biglaugh_.gif" alt="" />

speak english. Our friend may be watching this topic about his car, and he won`t understand a
word of your discusion

It's okay, I'm getting quite good at Polish <img src="/images/graemlins/biglaugh_.gif" alt="" />