Internal Combustion Podcast

We finally got around to doing the podcast with Nuke Performance that we have been talking about since the start of the podcast. We sit down and have a couple of beers while we go down memory lane and talk about how it all started out and how it ended up being the company it is today, enjoy the episode and let us know what you think!

First event of the year is officially over and we managed to end up on the podium for the second year in a row!Tune in and listen to our race report from the weekend and also keep an eye out for a teaser in the end of the episode, big things are coming our way!Enjoy and have a good one!

14 years ago I met Robin outside of my workshop and we have alot of fun memories together, but we also lean into his own journey in Motorsport and how he got into it.We also discuss his current build which is called Nuked Polo and is essentially a VW Polo on steroids and some of the key components are Tubechassi, WRC bodykit, RWD and Volvo T4 engine.Hope you enjoy the episode!

Me and Fredrik brings you up to speed on what´s been going on in the workshop during the last 2 weeks, we have definitely had our work cut out for us but we managed to push through and come out on top!But I can tell you that it was anything but smooth...Enjoy!

Our first guest of season 2 is Jake Jones aka Driftsquid from Australia, were diving into the Nissan RB platform, his different cars, his journey through Drifting and what's happening for the 2025 season. Hopefully you enjoy this conversation as much as I did and make sure to follow Jake's different social media platforms!@Driftsquid

We are back after a couple of months of silence, but rest assured we've been working on getting interesting guests to attend the podcast and we are now kicking off season 2 of the Internal Combustion Podcast!This episode is a short, raw and a little bit stressed out episode where we wanted to give you a in the moment update from our situation before the season kicks of for real.Hopefully you enjoy the episode and are excited for season 2!

Today me and Fredrik sat down in the workshop and had a little bit of a New Years Eve Special, we give you a little update from our projects as well as look back on our first year of podcasting. Thank you all for listening and see you in 2025!

This episode is a follow up to Episode 26 and this time we dive down into some really nerdy but interesting functions such as Torque Management, DBW vs Cable throttle, EMap Sensors, EGT sensors and some other goodies! We would love to know if you enjoy these typ of episodes so drop a comment and make sure to share the episode!

We are joined by a good friend of mine called Erik Nilssen and he is a very talented Motorsport mechanic who is mostly known for being Fredric Aasbo's European Crew Chief. Follow along on Eriks journey how he went from being a 3 month old baby visiting Lemans 24hrs to becoming the highly valued motorsport mechanic he is today!

Choosing which type of aftermarket ECU to run can be a really hard question to answer and that's why me and Nader from Autogruppen thought it would be a good idea to discuss the subject in the podcast. Hopefully you learn something new and got a little bit of a guidance when it comes to choosing the right ECU for your build! Also do not forget to drop your guess on this weeks engine sound in the comments!

Today we introduced a new segment to the podcast, we also call up Joakim Andersson and check in with him who just took part in FIA Motorsport Games in Valencia. We also dive into some crazy projects we've seen and follow on Youtube! Enjoy the podcast!

Time for a little update from Team Lovetap and we also give you an update on Fredriks Miata project, then we cover Vicious D-Cup which took place last weekend and we discuss the event and our experience! Enjoy the episode and give us feedback!

Today we are joined by Christian Klarkner who is the driver of Team Autogruppen Racings crazy Timeattack Evo which he managed to bring home the win in both Pro-Mod and Unlimited in the Swedish TimeAttacknu series in 2024. Outside of the racing he is also running Motospeed Sweden which is a supplier of high end motorsport products both for motorbikes and cars. So tune in and learn about his journey into motorsports and how he became the driver of Autogruppens monster evo!

How did Autogruppen end up to be what it is today and how did Nader learn his proffession as a tuner? Follow along and learn about his journey into motorsports and how he and Andreas came to become the owners of one of the top motorsports companies in Sweden. Enjoy the podcast!

Time for a little bit of a honest conversation of how our situation is as a team right now, what our plans for the future are and how we feel about the 2024 season! We also go into some details about running a team like this and how our financial situation is looking at the moment. Let us know what you think and enjoy the episode!

This time we sit down with my good friend Bastien Balmet from France who is a talented content creator who has previously worked for companies like Gopro and insta360! Now he is putting all his focus into his company called Link MX Graphics who specializes in designing and selling livery designs for motorcross, 50cc Enjoy the story of how he got into content creation and how he ended up starting Link MX that he now runs together with his girlfriend Jessica

We follow up what happened on the final day of Iron Drift King and then we move into the next part of the trip where we visit Nurburgring, Freijus and finally Calmont where we took part in round 4 of the French Drift Championship on a very special road! This is a long one and I hope you find it interesting! Talk to you soon!

After Iron Drift King we took the trip to Nurburgring to hang out for a week before leaving for France, luckily we met Jan-Eric and his team who were kind enough to lend us workshop space and a place to park our trailer! And we decided to sit down with Jan-Eric and have a talk with him about how he got into drifting and how we ended up buying a certain 370z from Sweden! Enjoy!

We are at Iron Drift King 2024 and we are coming to you live from the pits, we bring you up to speed on our race weekend so far and also talk about the event as a whole! We also included a small Q&A from our Instagram questions. Enjoy!

We are finally back after some much needed vacation and today we are talking about Iron Drift King and the new things their trying out and we also talk about Fredriks first trackday in his Miata, enjoy!

We missed out on making a podcast last week due to having an insane amount of work to get done before Driftmaster Round 3 in Finland, so we scooped it all up and made this episode which covers the intense 2 weeks before our trip as well as the race weekend in review! Enjoy the episode and talk to you soon!

Todays Guest is Jocke Andersson & his partner in crime Moa Svarf who are running a drift team called JA Motorsport in Driftmasters GP. We cover their life in drifting as well as get a look into Joakims journey through motorsports and we also cover his freshly built S14 and the reason he decided to build a new one! I want o apologize for not having the time to cover all the questions we got, but we will make sure he will answer them on our Instagram!

We are joined by Peder Balerado again and we talk about our upcoming driftmaster competition in Finland and discuss Swedish Drift Championship Round 1 which took place a couple of weeks ago! Enjoy!

After a hectic week we found it hard to be creative with a topic for todays episode, so we decided to make an episode for you to get to know us a little bit better! We shoot some this vs that questions and some other goodies to share a little bit more of our own personalities! Enjoy!

Talking about Vicious Delicious which went down at Borås Drift track this passed weekend, some of the cars we enjoyed and drivers! Then we also talk a little bit about the difference between grassroot drifting and competitive drifting and we round it off with some small garage updates as well as news!

To celebrate out 10th episode we posted a Q&A on our social media and this time we cover most of them, I hope you enjoy it and keep on giving us feedback on what you like to listen to! Shout out to everyone who listened so far!

Todays Episode was probably a little bit to wide in the original topic which made us stray of the point a few times, but the idea was to go into talking about social media. What we think about the different platforms and also our own journey and also try to cover some tips for you guys to use and also some of our favorite creators out there!

Our very first official guest to the podcast is my good friend Peder Balerado who has been a friend of mine for over 13 years and have previously been my spotter in drifting. During the years he have been heavily involved in cars and have tried a little bit of everything and this is his story within the automotive scene!

After missing last weeks episode due to being sick we sat down and had a little bit of a chat about our old project cars and the ones we have today! Hope you guys enjoyed our conversation!

Today we are trying out a little bit of a new format where Fredrik is asking me questions about how to get started in drifting and also what modifications and thoughts I have about his own mazda mx5 which he is turning into a beginner driftcar. Let us know if you enjoy the format!

We have Richard and Emil joining the podcast, we talk about a little bit about their background and also some news in the drift community and we also cover some Q & A that we posted on our instagram! Enjoy :)

Tune in and follow along for one of our most hectic weeks as a drift team, where we manage to go from a empty engine block to a running car in under 16 hours and then manage to dyno the car and somehow end up on the podium during our first competition of the year at Custom Motorshow 2024!

1 week later and we are kind of back to where we were during our last podcast recording... Tune in and see what actually happened during the last week!

We talk about the reasons behind the fact that a lot of the motorsports teams end up with a time crunch right before the season starts and we also give you an update on the current state of the season preperations. Enjoy guys!

Welcome to episode 1 of the Internal Combustion Podcast, we thought that the best way to go is simply to get the ball rolling, so we just sat down and did our first episode covering our current situation in the garage as well as some of our plans for the upcoming 2024 season. I hope we didn't fail miserably and that you still want to hear more from us in the future! We are going in with the mindset of trying to improve step by step and episode by episode! If you want to see more of us check out https://www.instagram.com/mstangberg/ https://www.youtube.com/teamlovetap https://teamlovetap.com/