did you check they fit with those big brakes???? When I checked my new 944 arms and discs with the twin pot calipers they rubbed that why I got the 16" wheels??
I did a bit of cheating, I had my calliper adaptor brackets milled down 2 mm so that the calliper sits closer to the rotor centre, it always needed to move closer but I never had a reason before to do it.
I need to use an 8mm slip in spacer, they are only 6 inch wide and with my alloy arms they just fit inside the rear guards. Front will use 19 mm bolt on spacers.
7s on the rear would have made for worse clearance, I tried Leighs 7inch Cookies and they were worse that the 6 inch one.
Funny thing is my 15 inch alloy 944 space saver spare clears the brakes fine.
Lou shoot us reminder before Warwick so that we dont forget your wheels.
Pre Warwick dyno today, made 253 kw on 20 psi, we were ready to go for more and the MAP sensor shit itself, so train home from Gosford going back up early in the morning with the trailer and another MAP of my sons drift car.
Hope so, combined with the 15 inch wheels and more kW it should pick up some time and kph, just hope it stays on the ground, I think I might put the whale tail on again
Its so overgeared I will never run out of gears so running the 15s should lower the final drive enough to get into 5th on the 1000 I hope and that will still be good for 299 kph which I dont I will reach.
I went down to Cooma and ran my Beetle at the Snowy Mountains 1000, it’s a bit like a drag race but only a single car at a time and at over 1000 metres on Cooma airport runway, it’s much longer than a traditional ¼ mile which is only 402.336 metres.
There was an amazing variety of cars running, even an electric Radical race car and a strong contingent of VWs. Wayne Penrose came down and ran his beautiful Karmann Ghia for the 1st time and was awarded a trophy for fastest normally aspirated 4 cylinder.
This year I had a bit of completion in my class, I guy I work with ran his immaculate Datsun 1600 powered by a 350 kW SR20 engine, he was about 1.5 seconds quicker than me and took the class win, I came second. I finished at about 50th out of 135 cars.
This year I did few things to my car to make it run faster and I managed to go a bit quicker, last year my best time was 22.513 seconds @ 226 km/h, this year I did 22.3247 @ 236.7 km/h, I had 4 runs, two where I went from 2nd gear to fifth gear one were my coolant overflow sprayed onto my ignition coils and the one where I got my best time which wasn’t a very good run as it was late in the day and I had a lot of wheel spin off the line, so car is going great, driver needs more time doing angry gear changes. Can’t wait till next year.
The VW/Audi times
SALLY-ANNE HAINS AUDI RS6 0:20.5470
SEBASTIAN NAJDER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:21.7327
STEPHEN MULLER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:22.1637
STEVE CARTER VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 0:22.3247
GRANT HAYES AUDI S4 0:23.1235
MARCO MAK AUDI S3 0:24.0880
KEVIN ATKINSON VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R 0:24.4159
KRISTOPHER MULLER VOLKSWAGEN GOLF PIR 0:25.3367
TOBY FINDLAY AUDI S5 0:25.9065
MATHEW CAMERON SKODA FABIA RS 0:26.1783
WAYNE PENROSE VOLKSWAGEN KARMANN G 0:26.3953
MADELINE MOLNAR VOLKSWAGEN POLO GTI 0:27.3311
GLENN TORRENS VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 0:27.9867
DARREN RANSON VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 1.4 0:28.2414
MICHAEL MOLNAR VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R32 0:28.3278
Thanks car felt great even with 12 psi in the rear tyres.
Ive finally sorted my intake temp issue, I've been short circuiting my ice box so that ice water goes from the ice box and back to the cooler then back to the ice box, didn't see intake temps over 40 all day, I taped up the radiator intake and it still ran cool, loving E85
