R4 NSW Hillclimb Championship 7 & 8 June - Grafton - VIDEOS NOW ADDED

bat69 · 2008-05-03T09:22:17+00:00

For all you north coast vw fans. Come and see some veedub action at round 4 of the NSW hillclimb championship held at Grafton Sporting Car Clubs Mountian View Motor Sport Complex. There will be some quick vw's going and the mountain view track is an excellent track to spectate at as you can see the who track. There as also some great facilities there as well (food drink etc) DATE: 7th & 8th June Sat 7th June Practice day - midday start Sun 8th June Race day - 9am start There are a few VW who have shown interest in going. At this stage me, Heath & Christine Campbel are petty much confirmed as going (thats 3 68 bugs). Along with the Durie beetle, Greg Ward (if he is australia) and possiblely Craig Torrens as another possible provided work/car permit. (thats another 3 bugs) Stan the man intends on giving his supercharged open wheeler a blast as too is the supercharged vw open wheeler of peter gumpley. That along with a few Fvees should make some good dub action. So who is thinking of going?

BeetleJuice Officially Full-On Dubber

350 posts · joined Sep 2006 · 9 Jun 2008, 6:42 pm

#651103

Craig WILL be racing this year.
If not in the red car, he has other VW products that need to support the event.
Unless he has broken legs or some other reasonable excuse that can be arranged.😁 [/quote]

I'll definitely be racing this year...Still a maybe for Warwick though.
It just depends on my Golf Tournament schedule!😁

I'm even putting on the rego sticker next week!

That'll be the 1st time in 9 years that my bug has had a current rego sticker on the windscreen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Craig

FringeDweller

POZOOM Commited Dubber

57 posts · joined Feb 2006 · 9 Jun 2008, 8:14 pm

#651132

Haven't got a copy of the splits but as I recall it your record first split was 11.8 mine 12.5, this was certainly one of our better for the day.

The new record and recored run for Natan 51.51, my best run 51.62 and Christine's 53.34. Christine was a little frustrated by having 2 of her latter runs in pooring rain where you could have run around the track faster if you could manage to stand up on the beginning section.

I came in fairly hot and didn't find the corner to have the grip levels I expected. Due to the camera angle it doesn't look that bad but the only thing keeping me from looping right around is the favourable camber, but this drops away as you progress through the corner, so despite my best efforts I had to get off the gas to get the car back under me. I think there may even be a quick left foot stab of the brake peddle. Then flat on the accelerator no fanning of the clutch. I have got a tall first gear but it would have been a bloddy big rev to shift back. The straights are second to third.

Nathan I don't no about sounding better but it certainly is louder. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Congrats again, I'm looking forward to many more events split by bugger all.

Damo your onto it, we currently have issues with getting power to the ground, primarily on tight tracks such as this. We have recenlty increased the torque and power and like most things you do, this created another problems. Having a track thats a little greasey essentuates this problem. We had similar issues whem we changed from 60 to 50 series tyres. I do though have some changes in mind to overcome this.

Heath

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 · 9 Jun 2008, 8:27 pm

#651135

POZOOM wrote:....... I had to get off the gas to get the car back under me. I think there may even be a quick left foot stab of the brake peddle. Then flat on the accelerator no fanning of the clutch. I have got a tall first gear but it would have been a bloddy big rev to shift back. The straights are second to third......

Heath

YAY!! i thought so. (as i said it was easier to tell trackside) Mabe dropped a wheel onto the painted edge or mud from where i stood?

yes overpowering. i had a ball at the rain soaked oran park with the 1776.......the hellVWrx notch scared the life out of me in the wet at Raleigh tho........uncontrolable power , or horses for courses 😎

very impressive power there Heath,

Nice to speak to both you, Christene and Nathan THANX........as usual i reccomend everyone making the effort to go see these guys when they are close enough to make it for a Sunday drive adventure.

i am going to post up a vid of one of the other non VW entrants simply to make it clear just how hard these VW freaks have their beetles going, cornering and stopping

well done to all

VWCOOL 23 Windows of Awesome

5,158 posts · joined Jun 2003 · 10 Jun 2008, 1:02 am

#651218

yeah Damo you are right. it's not just good rivalry between the Beetles; the Beetles make most other brands of cars seem LAME

Pay your debts, CxxT

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 · 10 Jun 2008, 8:24 am

#651238

heres a good one to compare, turbo sumthing for sure having some fun, but not quite the same as a flying beetle hey.

dangerous 23 Windows of Awesome

5,901 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 10 Jun 2008, 9:57 am

#651249

Sides wrote:... no limited slip diff is a real killer for that first turn !!!

😀

Shhhhhh!
You have pm and email David.

westi wrote:That's mad Alan.

fullnoise Fahrvergnugen

964 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 10 Jun 2008, 12:23 pm

#651260

Well done Nathan.

That was a good clean looking run. Both car and driver look very well behaved! I expected more rally-style heroics!

I'm not sure which car sounds the best, I know it isn't the datto.

CYA CT

esratrams

Cam Custom Title Time!

1,535 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 10 Jun 2008, 6:02 pm

#651293

Well done, good to see the VW's keeping those class records. Car looks really well set-up too 😀

reub VWRX is gone...

2,054 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 10 Jun 2008, 6:15 pm

#651297

Bloody awesome guys....

How sweet's the sound of a singing aircooled revs.... 🙂

Reub