Bitchin’ Video: Ride Along In A Swedish Built, Ice Racing, V8 BMW With A Gnarly Sequential Gearbox


Bitchin’ Video: Ride Along In A Swedish Built, Ice Racing, V8 BMW With A Gnarly Sequential Gearbox

Let’s introduce this video with a geography lesson. Who knows where Morjarv, Sweden is (other than the guys who read BS and live in Sweden…yes there are such dudes!). Great, no one knows. If no one knows where it is how the hell are we supposed to get there and participate in the full-tilt, balls out, no holds barred ice racing that happens in the miniscule town with a population of only 200 people (per the 2010 Swedish census). Morjarv is in northern Sweden and we’re not sure if we have ever shown you footage from a more random place on the globe but trust us, this is worth the watch.

Because all of the videos on this guy’s channel are in Swedish we’re kind of going on what we have seen to tell you what you’re about to see. The car seems to be an e36 style BMW but instead of the typical inline six that it would normally be powered with, this car has a V8 in it. We hunted through the guy’s channel to see if we could see some under hood action (that sounded perverted, eh?) and we did find a video of him firing up and tuning the engine. It appears that the mill is a BMW V8. You’ll hear it in the video as it sounds great with the driver constantly on and off the throttle to modulate the wheel spin and direction of the car. Louder than the engine is the sequential transmission you can watch the driver shift up and down by pushing and pulling a very tall shift lever in the center of the cockpit. Both of his hands are constantly on the wheel as he’s a steering son of a gun!

We failed yet again to go ice racing this winter. After seeing this video we’re super pissed at ourselves. Not that we’d be anywhere near as fast as this guy but hey, we could have the same level of fun with not nearly the same level of skills. This is AWESOME stuff.

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE THIS DRIVER DOMINATE ON A COURSE OF FROZEN ICE AND SNOW WITH A SCREAMING V8 AND LOUDER SEQUENTIAL TRANSMISSION – 


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