Lifting is not an option! Amazing hillclimb attack by Swedish hero in a SAAB with engine trouble.
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2017
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Swede Ola Strömberg is well known for his balls out driving style in his turbo SAAB 99. In this hillclimb event, his engine blew in practice, and they swapped it over night. For some unknown reason the new engine ran way too rich, and the only way to make it to the top was to not lift. At all. EVER! The contrast between the balls out attack and the ridiculously calm voice of Ola over the intercom is hilarious! What a hero!
From Vårdkasloppet in 1983. Tons of big names on the entry list, such as:
Ola Strömberg
Leif Asterhag
Hasse Hansson
Sten-Erik Eriksson
Stig Blomqvist
Per Eklund
Anders Kulläng
Sören Nilsson
Bror Danielsson
Erik Johansson
Björn "Nalle" Johansson
Ingvar Carlsson
Bengt Ottoson
Lennart Björk
Gunnar Pettersson
Morgan Carlsson
Lars Högström
Göran Andersson
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"Anything below 5000RPM and it dies, but it goes when fully on the throttle, so let's do that the entire race!"
What a legend keeping his composure while flat footing 4th into a hard right. Narrating it the whole way.
i hope that you realize that you have two feet and a throttle and a brake pedal. connect the dots
@@ameraldas3641 Found the one that has to be a dick in any way he can. Yes i do realize that, i have driven everything from mine-enforced military trucks hauling tanks to my own little 2 door Honda Type R over the 20+ years of driving so far.
You try to stay flat out on a 500hp+ car on a rally circuit and only control acceleration with clutch and brake then come back and sound smug about it?
@@ameraldas3641 yep, 'that one asshole' strikes again..!
@@ameraldas3641 what a stupid thing to say
Man the commentary from the driver is what makes this sick. So fkn awesome
The car can stay glued on the ground thanks to the weight of his massive balls of steel
More ther gravitational forces
Great comment!
In the end he still beat out a fully functioning Celica, that's absolutely incredible driving
How am I only finding this now , The man's giving full commentary as he drives 😅💯👌 as if he's on a TV show like Tiff Needel back in the late 80s rally Cross yesrs
It's Tiff Needel you dummy!
Tiff a knee dell
@@hausmeisterengineering5952 oops haha You needa see him in the 6r4 commenting as he drives in a rally Cross race in 89 its on UA-cam Vhsrallies uploaded it .
@@hausmeisterengineering5952 ua-cam.com/video/rJpdxK9ks1Q/v-deo.html Watch the first race its BRILLIANT 🤣
hes like an 80s jimmy broadbent
Flat out during cornering and still being able to talk on the radio. Awesome 👍
He ain't lying. That thing is so rich it's black smoking like a diesel.
i love saab. will forever hate GM for what they did to that company.
Retro Spec haha! I have 4 in my garage
euroaaRON1 Did the Chinese buy them out or take control of them?
Markus Antonio the chinese bought what was left of saab after gm let it go to shit. but spyker bought saab from gm in attempt to resuscitate the company then chinese took over after spyker failed and is making NEVS ev's out of the 9-3 platform. gm used saab to gain engineering knowledge. thats pretty much it.
euroaaRON1 Are you Swede? Anyways, Tak yah(thank you in English) for the information.
Yeah - my Saab experience is pretty limited, I've only been in two, but both times they blew my mind! First was as a kid, I rode passenger in, I think, a 99? (I do remember being told it had water injection for cooling, and it had a curved windscreen) which was the first time I went in a car that felt like being hit in the back by a freight train when it accelerated, and then a few years later, I got to drive my uncle's 2.3 Carlsson, which was just obscenely quick! Definitely something a little bit special about that marque before they got turned into Vectras-in-disguise.
When in doubt, flat out :)
It might not make things any better, but at least it'll end the suspense.
Omg, I had one. Bought it from my dad who bought it new in '76. Could not stop that car. Took it out in a snowstorm (13") and l had to drive around all the other stuck cars and trucks. Went through 2 feet of standing water no problem. One of my friends wanted it so l sold it to him for three times what l paid for it and he drove it for ten more years!
Som svar på att det var en hyfsad tid i alla fall: "i den här trampbilen var det skitbra!" Helt otroligt. Tack för den här guldklimpen Fredrik!
He adds a pre- thank you to all the folks that helped him during the night... just in case he was not able to later 😧
Oh don't be ridiculous, this was a low-speed hillclimb. Getting yourself killed in a crash here would have taken some serious skill.
@@derp195 lmao imagine watching this video and thinking it's "low speed". Your username is fitting
@@TimlerFX in terms of car crash speeds, it is low speed.
I always get a kick out of people who use my username to insult me. Really tells me which people are so unintelligent that they think that low hanging fruit is worth going for.
@@derp195 you can still die in a low speed car crash. I knew someone who died while only going 40mph. These guys are most definitely going at least that fast. Motorsports and racing are dangerous professions and pretending otherwise doesn't make you cool.
@@TimlerFX Jesus christ, UA-cam comment people are intolerable.
I'm just saying he wasn't fucking thanking people during the race because he thought he was going to die, because the odds of a serious crash while going relatively slow on a relatively safe course with all of the rally safety gear was extremely unlikely.
I'm not looking to argue, so there is my point explicitly laid out, and if you want to argue any further, kindly take it somewhere else.
I used to thing saabs were uncool as a kid, now I appreciate those old skool cars.
Han höll så snygg linje genom loppet utan möjligheten att reglera gasen. Helt otroligt.
That's fantastic! SAABs are my favorite, especially the 900 turbo from the 80's.
jag älskar hur lugn han är man kan missta honom för att sitta och fika
Han søler litt i hårnålen der.
Wow , his car control is incredible !
Yep, straight into the ditch hahaha :)
@@Farlig69 because it died, you lose steering and breaking if the car is dead 😂
@@Farlig69 i bet you cant even keep that car alive 😂
Tack! Jag älskade det här klippet när jag var liten, och när jag nu är vuxen förstår jag vidden av hur professionellt det var.
Love the styling of those old Saabs.
Same method I had to use with my old 1,6l Diesel. The throttle had a bad habit of getting stuck at full throttle, just lucky that it only had 60hp so I just let it run and made record time going to school lol.
The guy in the celica didn't have engine troubles and only beat him by just more than a second
The Celica was actually slower at 41.86, while the Saab ran it in 41.23
I forgot the calm man giving commentary is the same maniac that's driving
"håller stumt hela tiden" hahaha vilken legend han e, hade vela sett han i en modern rallybil
då hade han somnat.
The was a hole in the intercooler from a stone,thats the problem whit the engine,
So basically it lost manifold pressure...
I don't think the 8V 99 was intercooled. I could be wrong though.
@@CardboardSliver its not a stock car either...
Weird not to have boost pressure gauge :)
@@adamhlali8106 So what you're saying is.... DANGER TO MANIFOLD?
Oh the times when cam chains were meant to last.. Double row ftw!
My colleague wondered why there was a faint rattle/clicking from my 9-5 Aero (2002). "Your car has a timing belt that connects the crank shaft to the cam shaft, which, in turn, drives the cam shaft that opens and closes the valves the valves. My car has a timing chain, which gives off a sound for every revolution."
Torque below 5500rpm was inefficient to move sheer weight of balls of the pilot
Just a guess from being a mechanic only a couple years, but that age of SAAB most likely had a "vein" air flow sensor instead of a mass air flow sensor. These older sensors usually weren't potentiometers. As a flap opened by the air coming through the intake, it would just land on a different resistor. Usually there's three. Idle, mid throttle, and wide open throttle. If the middle resistor had corrosion on it due to the replacement engine sitting for a period of time, it would make the fuel injection system think its wide open throttle, making it run extremely rich.
I seem to recall having read that they found the issue. Iirc the timing belt had skipped a cog or something along those lines.
@@FredrikSoerlie someone in another thread above said they spoke with the driver and claims they discovered a hole in the intercooler to be cause of issue..
I miss my SAAB, but it just got too hard to keep it serviced around here. Eventually, it became almost fun to explain to every oil change place that they had to park it in reverse or the key wouldn't come out. Oldschool turbo too, lag all the way up until rocketship-mode.
balls of steel! amazing driving by Ola! thank you for sharing, sir (by the way your driving skills are over the top)
"...If we could turn back time, to the good old daaays..."
pedalen that was stupid
masterpoop678 yeah, you are right, Sweden is a fucking utopia these days..
@@pedalen hahaha Kanske kan det bli bättre någon dag om vi har lite tur, annars fick man bo ensam i skogen
When our momma drove us to sleep, but now we're flat out
@@JoshRiolu No it's "When our momma sang us to sleep But now we're stressed out"
0:52 Full gas de är de enda han går på de vet jag! xD
He races like I played Gran Turismo as a kid
Incredible. So matter of fact. Balls of steel. 🥇 🚗 💨 🇸🇪
When you realize the movie speed is based on a true story
What an legend!
The engine wasn't wrong, it knew what the driver was capable of and pushed him to his limits!
This is one of the best rally videos I've seen
Well done Sir !!💪💪💪👍👍👍👍
The 900 has one of the strangest drivetrain layouts ever. Very weird but it worked. I had a friend many years ago who owned a 900 turbo. It was a really nice driver.
Thank God that Saab was a FF. Can't imagine what would have happened if it was RWD. Or maybe I have no imagination xD. I wonder what went wrong.
Think his fuelsystem was a k jetronic system... It has a big aluminium disk which float on the air, it regulates the fuel flow to the injectors.... Could also be the pressure regulator in the fuel distributor... Not sure just saying
@@MrRichard57000 intercooler was damaged
@@MrRichard57000
A stone got kicked up and punched a hole in the intercooler. He lost manifold pressure.
@@combativeThinker yes oke that makes sense to but you should hear it i guess???had a seal broken from the intake once,sounded like a wistle!!!haha
Thank`s for the good Video. I have like Ola Strömberg then i was a young boy!🙂💖💖💖💗💗💗💯🏁
Asterhag :) En gammal Huddingebo från Åvägen
Wery impressive with that over fueld Engine!
8v Engine with std crank and rod´s. and body, the way rally was for many yers ago..
Didn't the 99 have a DOHC engine? wasn't it 16 valves?
@@tntfreddan3138 The Official rally car before turbo was NA 16v, maybe 1976-1978.
Most Saab 99s were am 8v. The Finns even installed a hotter cam on the turbos, and played with the APC on them.
To explain: the car was only working at full throttle, so he was forced to never lift the gas pedal from the floor to even make a laptime.
That’s what he kept saying.
@@PatHaskell yes, agreed, but not in English 😉
It has subtitles in english if you turn on the CC
He said that it works in idle and full throttle. I think they maybe went into the digital era to early and forgot that it needs more than one bit.
Your grammar exposes your intelligence.
@@crawfordwice There are 10 kinds of people and I know which one you are.
Fan va coolt. 👍
Now thats a racer!
Legend!
Wwow... "SAAB-99" is beautifulll... ;)
fucking legend!!!!
That's like a racing game, no throttle, just button
legend
He wasn't joking about it running rich, when he restarted it and went to reverse out of the ditch i damn near thought it was a diesel with the amount of black smoke it shot out...
"Totally Lifted" - new title fixed it for you.
I dont know how, i havent watched this yet. The driver is amazing, just adapts without hesitation, and gets it done. Last shop I worked at, (closed now sadly) I worked on the earlier fuel injection systems for SAAB, Mercedes, Volvo, I suspect the Air Mass Meter , or the throttle position sender, contacts are burned between the idle switch, and the max position switch if its the electronic bosch LH, or the k-jet air metering valve
I was thinking maybe they used low impedence injectors with a high impedence (no ballast resistor) injection computer, and they never fully shut off, or the computer had a bad voltage supply and was drawing current through the injectors themselves keeping them open?
Apparently there was an issue with the rad screwing up the sensors and throwing the afr out of whack somehow
Hole in the intercooler, means the air mass meter lies to the ECU, and runs rich enough to sputter and die until the turbo builds full pressure to lean it out on high revs.
SAAB......♥
Ola han är ju för skön.
I miss SAAB!!!
Mans giving a full detailed commentary while driving the balls off this car... legend
What do you do when you come to a humpback bridge? I put my foot down in case it’s straight!
Was it ignition coil problem?
The thing that struck me the most was seeing the rear wheels of the Celica toss out dirt with me going "wait, wtf, rwd on a celica??" Then I went and looked at the different models and realized that I was only 5 when they shifted to fwd. (though for a 1985 model year, that means 1984 in the world that everyone except auto makers live in, and my birthday is in December, so more like 3.5 years old)
(Ill stick to my 4wd pickups ((not full size)) personally tyvm)
What does he mean by never lift? I'm taking a wild guess but never taking his foot off the pedal?
full throttle all the way, yes
Pierre, the car didnt run right so he was forced to go full throttle
Yep, basically using the clutch to slow down before corners
The engine broke yesterday, have you been able to fix it?
No we fitted bicycle pedals and I’m pedalling now .... 😂😂😂😂
That musta been one of those GM built SNAABS!
yes. this man was very much insane.
Did they change the ECU?
When the top work but the bottom dont... Altanator!
- Buford
#wassupGee
Spirit of a f$cking winner here
I remember my 1st day driving as well 😂, spin out in turn 1
?
@@OfDaSouth buddy thinks he's funny, that's all...
For everyone that's been curious about the problem it was later discovered a hole in the intercooler 👍
Like when Hixxy did the Rezerection with no headphones or crossfader. Heroes.
Does anyone know what turned out to be the problem?
A hole in the intercooler apparently
Literally full send
5:15 “For this pedal car it was fucking good” lol
strage, google ommits part of that translation in the CC//subtitles, lol
this is like the opposite of the brake failure action movies
Niice :D
They don't make them like this anymore...drivers aswell...
When that Norwegian AI driver keeps beating your times...
When in doubt, go flat out.
It’s the battery?
You haven’t lived as a driver until you’ve driven a Saab 99 Turbo. I’m one of the lucky ones....
I'm still trying to work out how you flat shift from 4th down to 3rd
Hard on the breaks and just keep pushing till it drops in? I don't think these were sequential transmissions
Takes some talent, we know that much
Mostly be going hard on the brakes to lose enough speed to not blow the gearbox. It’s not good for the transmission and the clutch will take damage as it slams into the flywheel at full speed, but the wheels will quickly catch up and you can keep going.
Not exactly healthy for your trans, but if you know your engine its possible
It’s the injection sequence. Someone messed it up while putting it back together
It later showed that a rock had smashed a hole in the intercooler.
The Saab chassis, full off the throttle if you want high rear rotation. You can modulate the rear under braking, turn in, purpose understeer with the gas pedal. I know I sound crazy. But if I time it right it will give me over, neutral steer, and oversteer when I want. The double wishbone front suspension is good. Today's standards it's not fast but I guarantee I am having more fun in this car than something that is computer ridden and still trying to kill me just so I can brag about a higher HP.
It makes sense to me. Having driven a few, as well as many other FWD cars, you basically have to set them up to kill you t be fast. I remember running massive toe out in the rear and 50-60psi in the rear when we raced the Chrysler Neon Cup, simply to make it rotate as soon as you were off throttle. It is tricky, but fast.
When in panic, go full throttle.
a true swedish hero
How does he slide around a FWD car like that? Incredible
Just keep it pinned and aim for glory!
By losing the grip of the rear tires
@@RayleighCriterion no no, this has nothing to do with 'actual psychics', this is pure swedish glory!
By breaking and full throttle same time
this literally 12y/o me playing gran turismo lol
”det här va ju tråkigt.. heh.. minst sagt”
”full gas hela tiden”
that it?
Sounds like a typical SAAB engine lol
I think i have pretty good picture abou how his previous engine died
DADDY!!!!!
Full send
Marcus Grönholm 2006 at Ouninpohja. Flatout for 46 seconds with average speed of 171km/h.
🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
Lifting is an option otherwise you'll slow down considerably. When you crash 😜
Hard to do when the engine kills itself under 5500 rpm and when you shift. My guy had to flatshift it through the entire course lol
SATANA PERKELE!
@340bärgarN and Saab 90
If you never lift you’re not going fast enough!