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Lap of Brands Hatch in a 1300cc Beetle

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pompom Casual Dubber

45 posts · joined Jun 2012 ·

#995722
And it was ONLY one lap as the alternator belt departed taking the dipstick with it...Balls!!

HappyDaze Superannuated

2,887 posts · joined Jun 2009 ·

#995724
BUGGER !!!

Didn't see a BIG warning light - do you have really good 'broken belt' warning ? It's important.

Looking forward to seeing more from you later. 😎

Cheers, Greg
I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!

pompom Casual Dubber

45 posts · joined Jun 2012 ·

#995727
HappyDaze wrote:BUGGER !!!

Didn't see a BIG warning light - do you have really good 'broken belt' warning ? It's important.

Looking forward to seeing more from you later. 😎

Cheers, Greg
Hi Greg,

The car has a 12v fan rather than an engine driven fan so there is a blue warning light for the cooling fan, a red warning light for oil pressure and the yellow warning light is for the alternator...the alt warning light didn't come on!! but I heard the belt shredding and the oil temp gauge went off the scale so I knew the dipstick sender was buggered...then I saw the oil smoke and knew the dipstick tube was spitting oil and the game was up.

Fitting a 911 cooling fan/alternator for the next race.

modnrod Fahrvergnugen

978 posts · joined Mar 2011 ·

#995729
pompom wrote:Fitting a 911 cooling fan/alternator for the next race.
It will be interesting to see the effect the fan drag has on performance.

Clip is cool, thanks.

pompom Casual Dubber

45 posts · joined Jun 2012 ·

#995733
modnrod wrote:
pompom wrote:Fitting a 911 cooling fan/alternator for the next race.
It will be interesting to see the effect the fan drag has on performance.

Clip is cool, thanks.
I'll be under-driving the 911 fan quite a bit by running a very small bottom pulley, so fingers crossed it'll not sap too much power...It may even save some weight.

Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#995742
Always love your vids 👍


bat69 There is no status

791 posts · joined Apr 2005 ·

#995755
Man I love car. Awsome. I found with my hillclimb bug on the dyno there was about 6hp diff between running a 102mm lower pully and not running a fan belt on my 1916cc with 911 fan shroud. I was rather suprised. I guess it will depend on where and how your engine makes power.
White Knuckle Racing Team [/i]
"Drive it like dirt"

pompom Casual Dubber

45 posts · joined Jun 2012 ·

#995763
Craig Torrens wrote:Always love your vids 👍
Thanks Craig

In Friday testing it was wet and the front end had no grip at all so we disconnected the front anti-roll bar and the car came alive. The Sunday race was looking showery so we left the anti roll bar off...then the track dried, so we ended up racing in the dry with no front anti-roll bar and it handled better than ever, so my wet setup is now the same as my dry setup!!

These Vdubs make no sense!

cnfabo Custom Title Time!

1,353 posts · joined Apr 2008 ·

#995959
pompom wrote:And it was ONLY one lap as the alternator belt departed taking the dipstick with it...Balls!!

wICKED!!!!!! Do you have another engine still planned ian....

Fabo

pompom Casual Dubber

45 posts · joined Jun 2012 ·

#995968
[/quote]Do you have another engine still planned[/quote]

I've got my custom made 60mm SCAT crank and most of the bits to make a 1298cc (60x83) motor but we won't see that for a while as i'm taking a break from racing next year to gather up funds. Next year i'll also be stripping my current car down and rebuilding it in an effort to shed another 55kg and math the weight of the Minis

How's your build going?

cnfabo Custom Title Time!

1,353 posts · joined Apr 2008 ·

#995982
pompom wrote:
Do you have another engine still planned[/quote]

I've got my custom made 60mm SCAT crank and most of the bits to make a 1298cc (60x83) motor but we won't see that for a while as i'm taking a break from racing next year to gather up funds. Next year i'll also be stripping my current car down and rebuilding it in an effort to shed another 55kg and math the weight of the Minis

How's your build going? [/quote]

60mm jeezes.are we seing 9000+ rpm😎.....bloody Motorsport,soon much money!!!!lol...

Mine is so close but so far...I'm not doing as much as I should to get it finished but I do a bit here. And there..I have to put engine in and do all the car wiring also prep bonnet,bumper,tail light housings,kamei ,running boards and paint,fit oil lines etc...so still a wee bit but I'm not going hell for leather anymore...one day it will be punting around again...I'll email you some more pics...

Fabo...