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VW Portland 2011 - Another Great Weekend!

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Lucky Phil Wolfsburg Wizard

480 posts · joined Aug 2010 ·

#827675
Water Boy wrote:I hear there is a smoking quick white Mk1...
That thing was awesome!

rose doin it for d girls

2,036 posts · joined Dec 2004 ·

#827677
thanks and yes it was it's a ripper all we had to do was put it back together and sand off rust as it was sitting for a few years with no paint.
Turbo54 wrote:Very neat 54 rose, well done with the result.
Was it the straight when you got it?
Turbo54

rose doin it for d girls

2,036 posts · joined Dec 2004 ·

#827678
it was super fast
Lucky Phil wrote:
Water Boy wrote:I hear there is a smoking quick white Mk1...
That thing was awesome!

hypo-vw Australias 1st 10sec street beetle (Jan 2007) 10.49secs@132m

2,151 posts · joined May 2004 ·

#827682
in-car footage of Ben Ford in the WPVW supercharged drag bug with wheels in the air launch ... then a 7.6 second pass !!

Well done Ben , very proud of you mate for the effort you put into the bug to get it prepared for Portland after the crash at Warwick..... all your hard work and commitment is paying off . Now some wheelie bars to keep the front down .....

Team

FASTEST ET @ WARWICK 2010 & 2011
FASTEST SPEED @ WARWICK 2011
FASTEST ET & SPEED WSID 2012
PB - 6.33@113.07(1/8) & 9.88@135(1/4)

matt Insano Dub Head

743 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#827686
who took that picture of your car dean???

dangerous 23 Windows of Awesome

5,901 posts · joined Jan 2005 ·

#827689
hypo-vw wrote:in-car footage of Ben Ford in the WPVW supercharged drag bug with wheels in the air launch ... then a 7.6 second pass !!

Well done Ben , very proud of you mate for the effort you put into the bug to get it prepared for Portland after the crash at Warwick..... all your hard work and commitment is paying off . Now some wheelie bars to keep the front down .....

Awesome run!
Gee that seat flexes a long way on the launch!!
westi wrote:That's mad Alan.

hypo-vw Australias 1st 10sec street beetle (Jan 2007) 10.49secs@132m

2,151 posts · joined May 2004 ·

#827691
Ben Ford puts the WPVW supercharged drag bug down the 1/8 strip in 7.59secs .... great in-car footage.

Team

FASTEST ET @ WARWICK 2010 & 2011
FASTEST SPEED @ WARWICK 2011
FASTEST ET & SPEED WSID 2012
PB - 6.33@113.07(1/8) & 9.88@135(1/4)

motha Officially Full-On Dubber

215 posts · joined Nov 2004 ·

#827704
rose wrote:it was super fast
Lucky Phil wrote:
Water Boy wrote:I hear there is a smoking quick white Mk1...
That thing was awesome!
Thanks peoples!!!

That car is was my daily driver up until i brought a 500+hp ute to replace it just before xmas.

But it does still get alot of street use & does do several trips to melb on/off during the week.


Its weird, but I was put on the spot & was speechless during the presentations which is rare.

I know I got off on the wrong foot with Craig Huges, but I've really got to thank him for putting up with me!!!

But in all seriousness, we all wouldn't have had such a great event without him & his support.

This event has also changed my mind on the whole VW drag racing scene & I reckon I maybe abit more involved in the racing side of VW's in the future. Especially with some further upgrades planned for the old white rusty golf.

Also got to thank Southcoast raceway & all its volunteers who put on the show & also for allowing the VW's to race & some "oiling down" which most aircoolers do at times! haha

I was amped all weekend & had a blast. Even the red light in the final didn't upset me either! Cause the car had made 17-18 pass' throughout the weekend, PB'd straight away over the old setup & wound up running some really good times for a true watercooled street car!


Thanks again too all involved.

Cheers

Tim.
My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

dangerous 23 Windows of Awesome

5,901 posts · joined Jan 2005 ·

#827714
What times and speeds did you run Tim?
westi wrote:That's mad Alan.

motha Officially Full-On Dubber

215 posts · joined Nov 2004 ·

#827717
dangerous wrote:What times and speeds did you run Tim?
Best ET for the weekend was

8.153@86.04mph, 1.85 60ft

Best MPH was 88mph

All in full street trim & weight. Only adjustments made throughout the weekend were playing with tyre pressures & front suspension rebound, rear suspension compression & rear height.

Tune remained untouched.

But after the 8.15 pass, I was out voted by my mates to remove all the seats etc. to chase down the $500 put up for the first FWD into the 7's by Seb & Courtney of Euro-Automotive.

But the car went slower!!! Go figure! haha

Car was running consistant 8.4 ET's, 1.9-2.0 60fts & 86-87mph.


Courtney was the eventual watercooled winner.
The car was also a stock Mk3 2L Auto Golf! Not the VR6 it was being called all weekend too!!!!


Oh the commentator was "Bruce Woodward"
My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

Dak-A-Tak Volksie Pete

1,381 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#827734
I told Lisa that Rose will be the first one to post Pics , Video's . I win , Thanks for posting Rose .👍
Good work Ben ! Engine sounded great But 1st gear burnouts are a big NO NO ( second video) . Second gear for a short skid and third for long power skid .
Wayne has to much work now to do .
New wheels too ? Need Pics .

hypo-vw Australias 1st 10sec street beetle (Jan 2007) 10.49secs@132m

2,151 posts · joined May 2004 ·

#827748
a few pics from our trip to portland

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Team

FASTEST ET @ WARWICK 2010 & 2011
FASTEST SPEED @ WARWICK 2011
FASTEST ET & SPEED WSID 2012
PB - 6.33@113.07(1/8) & 9.88@135(1/4)

hypo-vw Australias 1st 10sec street beetle (Jan 2007) 10.49secs@132m

2,151 posts · joined May 2004 ·

#827749
more pics

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FASTEST ET @ WARWICK 2010 & 2011
FASTEST SPEED @ WARWICK 2011
FASTEST ET & SPEED WSID 2012
PB - 6.33@113.07(1/8) & 9.88@135(1/4)

hypo-vw Australias 1st 10sec street beetle (Jan 2007) 10.49secs@132m

2,151 posts · joined May 2004 ·

#827750
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FASTEST ET @ WARWICK 2010 & 2011
FASTEST SPEED @ WARWICK 2011
FASTEST ET & SPEED WSID 2012
PB - 6.33@113.07(1/8) & 9.88@135(1/4)

hypo-vw Australias 1st 10sec street beetle (Jan 2007) 10.49secs@132m

2,151 posts · joined May 2004 ·

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FASTEST ET @ WARWICK 2010 & 2011
FASTEST SPEED @ WARWICK 2011
FASTEST ET & SPEED WSID 2012
PB - 6.33@113.07(1/8) & 9.88@135(1/4)

hypo-vw Australias 1st 10sec street beetle (Jan 2007) 10.49secs@132m

2,151 posts · joined May 2004 ·

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FASTEST ET @ WARWICK 2010 & 2011
FASTEST SPEED @ WARWICK 2011
FASTEST ET & SPEED WSID 2012
PB - 6.33@113.07(1/8) & 9.88@135(1/4)

hypo-vw Australias 1st 10sec street beetle (Jan 2007) 10.49secs@132m

2,151 posts · joined May 2004 ·

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FASTEST ET @ WARWICK 2010 & 2011
FASTEST SPEED @ WARWICK 2011
FASTEST ET & SPEED WSID 2012
PB - 6.33@113.07(1/8) & 9.88@135(1/4)

hypo-vw Australias 1st 10sec street beetle (Jan 2007) 10.49secs@132m

2,151 posts · joined May 2004 ·

#827776
Dak-A-Tak wrote:Good work Ben ! Engine sounded great But 1st gear burnouts are a big NO NO
Pete , it was under my instruction that Ben did all his burnouts in 1st gear when at Portland . The clutch assembly didnt need any excessive load placed on it (especially so far from home) and this allowed Ben the 8 passes he had on the weekend without clutch or transmission failure .
The transmission I built for him is a 002 bus unit 4.86 ring & pinion with 2.5 ratio 1st gear & 28" tyres (new very soft Hoosiers) . Along with this a solid diff centre , chromemoly axles & 930 turbo Porsche CV joints with chromemoly race cages .
I consider this set-up to be quite strong and with the large 1st gear ( almost the size of a standard 2nd gear ) on the mainshaft very capable of withstanding the small loads of a burnout from the water-trap .
After Ben spends a little more time in the car , he can then practice 2nd gear burnouts and get the tyres a little hotter .... but only after wheelie bars are fitted.
Team

FASTEST ET @ WARWICK 2010 & 2011
FASTEST SPEED @ WARWICK 2011
FASTEST ET & SPEED WSID 2012
PB - 6.33@113.07(1/8) & 9.88@135(1/4)

dangerous 23 Windows of Awesome

5,901 posts · joined Jan 2005 ·

#827979
sauron wrote:The Gringos entered four Beetles this year (with lots of hanger ons) Andrew had a great weekend with a 7.6 pass straight off the trailer on Sat. on Sunday he got down to 7.4 blowing his dial in but who cares. Mine was running 8 dead all weekend but I broke first gear in the third round (same as I did at Warwick) I might post a thread on this to see if any of the elders can give me some advice). Steve in Beetle Juice had carby troubles on Sat. but we fixed it Sat. night and he ran in the mid nines all Sunday. Our newest Gringo Boris "the Russian" Senic entered his camo 1500 Beetle but was proberbly a little under prepaired with fuel pump and clutch problems but he'll be back.
Apart from the weather we had a great time and loved seeing all the interstate guys and girls make the trip down. The Portland track is one of the best in the country and Craig and the crew do a great job, thanks Craig.
Good to see you guys racing, and flying the flag for the victorians.
Portland IS one of the best tracks around,
so fingers crossed that it will still hold a VW event next year.

Your best option would be to spring for a better quality first gear(Albins or FTC),
**but first you must make sure your clutch is not over rated.**

For an 8.0 car that is not too heavy,
I would say you could get away with a stage 1 and 4 puck,
or stage 2 and organic disc.

If you need to keep using the VW gears,
then make sure that you use the lates L-bug first and main shaft,
use 40hp needle bearings
and minimise end float to the lowest factory spec, and add oil holes to the hub to improve the oil flow.
westi wrote:That's mad Alan.

motha Officially Full-On Dubber

215 posts · joined Nov 2004 ·

#828058
Heres a couple of vids I quickly put together of my mate driving my car "Preeny" & myself "Timmy"





Some pics from the weekend.

There are plenty more of all of the cars at Portland incl. the Super Street & Super Sedan cars, but can't really be stuffed uploading 200+ pics sorry
















LHR spring perch decided to pick something up in the threads & lock up severely!!! not good, so the last resort was to pull out the biggest multi-grips I had in my toolbox!

Sometimes you just have to get it done, no matter what happens. We'd already set the other side up, so I had to even up the ride height!





My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

VolksVair Officially Full-On Dubber

252 posts · joined Apr 2010 ·

#828135
Decided to grab some valve springs off the shelf this morning to compare vw to bigblock chev springs, then looked at your pic of your monster springs & collet. then realised that I got excited at your pic that is magnified which made me originaly think that the valve springs you were going to use were the biggest springs I had ever seen in any engine. hence my previous replys, It is a great close up pic . Just one question in regards to the pushrods you are machining up, is there going to be enough room in the pushrod tubes for the oil to return back to the crankcase quick enough cheers and hope you every success with this beast of a motor you are building, Frank
dangerous wrote:Sorry to say I wont be there this year.
It is a great week end and atmosphere.

There was a remote chance i would have had my valves by now,(springs arrived today),
but valves wont leave the USA till Friday.
With no dyno time, $, or testing it looks like only Warwick this year.
Adventure Before Dimentia

ian.mezz I never said, I could write or spell

3,913 posts · joined Sep 2004 ·

#828332
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car forums. where a lot of peoples good intentions end up taking a good old car off the road forever never ever to see the road again. 🥲

davidoconnor Commited Dubber

71 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#828443
Has anyone got some video footage of the aircooled catagories? We didn't get a chance to take any footage over the weekend and I'm keen to see how Shrapnel was launching?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks again to Craig for holding such a great event and also to the South Coast Raceway for fantastic track preparation, what a weekend!

rose doin it for d girls

2,036 posts · joined Dec 2004 ·

#828488
should be on one of my youtube videos check them out
AVWNUT
davidoconnor wrote:Has anyone got some video footage of the aircooled catagories? We didn't get a chance to take any footage over the weekend and I'm keen to see how Shrapnel was launching?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks again to Craig for holding such a great event and also to the South Coast Raceway for fantastic track preparation, what a weekend!

davidoconnor Commited Dubber

71 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#828499
Thanks Rose just caught a glimpse in one of your videos!

We had a fantastic weekend; my wife Rachel ran her Birch Green 66 Beetle for the first time after 6 years in the shed. She clocked her fastest time ever of 10.3 with a little 1776. She drove it from Adelaide, raced and drove home, we still can't wipe the smile off her face! Now to get the 2386 in there from Shrapnel and give Rose a run for her money!

Shrapnel ran faultlessly. My slowest time was 7.27 @ 79.65 MPH, hard on the brakes against Ben Ford in the supercharged Beetle. Quickest time was 7.064 @ 97.19 against Andrew Ermel (gringo 1). Reaction against Ermel in the last race before the final was .079. In the final I ran against Brad Young in the Junka with a .001 reaction and a 7.128 at 95.14MPH. Luck was certainly on my side in these last two races. We had a ball!!

rose doin it for d girls

2,036 posts · joined Dec 2004 ·

#828511
I just put up another one with more runs of all types enjoy

we need more girls racing its heaps of fun
off to Gunnedah in 3 weeks time for some more drag racing on the 1/8 mile

dangerous 23 Windows of Awesome

5,901 posts · joined Jan 2005 ·

#828516
Congratulations David,
You really have Shrapnel hauling arse now!
Can you share some specs of the current drive train,
and what you have done with the suspension?
When the car was first featured in VW Power magazine(was that the 80's?!),
it had no wheely bars and a weird front suspension.

Based on the 7.0 and 97mph, you must have dipped into the 1.4's(or close) with the sixty?
davidoconnor wrote:Thanks Rose just caught a glimpse in one of your videos!

We had a fantastic weekend; my wife Rachel ran her Birch Green 66 Beetle for the first time after 6 years in the shed. She clocked her fastest time ever of 10.3 with a little 1776. She drove it from Adelaide, raced and drove home, we still can't wipe the smile off her face! Now to get the 2386 in there from Shrapnel and give Rose a run for her money!

Shrapnel ran faultlessly. My slowest time was 7.27 @ 79.65 MPH, hard on the brakes against Ben Ford in the supercharged Beetle. Quickest time was 7.064 @ 97.19 against Andrew Ermel (gringo 1). Reaction against Ermel in the last race before the final was .079. In the final I ran against Brad Young in the Junka with a .001 reaction and a 7.128 at 95.14MPH. Luck was certainly on my side in these last two races. We had a ball!!
westi wrote:That's mad Alan.

Super1302 Officially Full-On Dubber

361 posts · joined Jul 2008 ·

#828537
motha wrote:Heres a couple of vids I quickly put together of my mate driving my car "Preeny" & myself "Timmy"





gee what did the silver golf do, that seemed to lay down some good times, got you off on the start. hmmm

motha Officially Full-On Dubber

215 posts · joined Nov 2004 ·

#828593
gee what did the silver golf do, that seemed to lay down some good times, got you off on the start. hmmm


From memory Tommie "the gun" from the Coabra division in the silver 81 GTI 20v ran 8.8 at approx low 80's mph.

The only run we had against each other was in eliminations which we dialed in.

I remember the run well, cause we we're all joking around at the track & at the hollday cabin/pub& he dialed in a 8.80 with a 8.89 which was awesome, as he didn't play around with anything on his car apart from front tyre pressures.

I dialed in a 8.25 & passed him with a 8.26. Can't remember the mph's sorry.

but I know we both ran very close to our dial in's & I had to chase him down.
That was only run we had against each other & it was also one of the best runs we both had.

Apart from my 2nd run on the Sunday of a 8.15@86mph
My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

davidoconnor Commited Dubber

71 posts · joined May 2005 ·

#828594
Dave,

Shrapnel was featured in the very first issue of Australian VW Power back in December 1988. The car was originally built by Mark Callus and Henry and was painted white running a 2110. At the time the best quarter run was a 12.4 @ 100MPH. The front end was a wishbone set up and a rack and pinion from a Honda. Nowdays there really is little left of the original except for the body and front fiberglass flip. We've cut and raised the rear torsion housing and forks and uprated the torsion bars. The original aluminium hoop has been raplaced with a full roll cage. The front end is now a narrowed aluminium beam from JT with oval shocks modified to give "no" resistance on lift. The rear of the car now has dual adjustable shocks.

Engine now is a 2386 running an fk89, comp elim heads 48x37.5 titanium, dry sump set up, pauter 1.5 roller rockers and Jaycee 51.5 webers. I've run this motor for a couple of years now in my 69 Beetle with injection both at Portland and Warwick previously. Each event it has run the cam flat so I'm stoked that it has finally survived!!

This year Shrapnel's best 60 foot was against Ben Ford with a 1.516. On this run I was hard on the brakes so as not to break out with a time of 7.270&79MPH (the 330was 4.544). Dave do you think this could have been a 6? In hindsight I think I should have risked the break out just to see what it could do, I could feel it was a good run!

It was great also to finally meet Mark Callus at Portland. With a bit of luck he'll dig up some info for the archives on Shrapnel!