Hillclimb (Kempsey) Mt Cooperabung 18/19 April

As the title says, Round 4 of the NSW hillclimb championship - Patterson Glass Works Hillclimb is being run of the weekend of 18th & 19th April.

Practice Sat 18/04/09

Race day Sun 19/04/09

Start time 9:30am (to 4:00pm)

For further information in relation to this event check out the NSW Hillclimb championship website on hte link below. Directions on how to get to the track as as below too:

http://hillclimbnsw.org.au/

Event is off Yarrabee Rd.
5 Min north of telegraph point bridge
5 min south of Kunderbung Motel

Happy hooning

cool, i'll head down and get some video........

That would be great if you could do that... and post it on here after. he he he.

oh yeah, too easy......... keen to see your new machine👍, want to let us in on this years specs yet????...........

Ha Ha.... not really.

Im still in the planning phase at the moment but there are some big changes. The shell is at the stage to be caged out. Engine will still be my original pobjoy steriods. No point changing something that works. Its just every thing else that is getting the work over.

Fingers crossed Im still on target to have ready by the end of the year. Specs, research and test and development you will read about in the coming months.

bat69 wrote:Ha Ha.... not really.

Engine will still be my original pobjoy steriods. No point changing something that works. Its just every thing else that is getting the work over.

Nathan, i thought your engine would be the first thing to change? Given the preformance of the Durie car and engine at Ringwood recently, i thought it would be a fait acompli that you see the lighter side.

Anyway, look forward to the contest at Kempsey.

bat69 wrote:As the title says, Round 4 of the NSW hillclimb championship - Patterson Glass Works Hillclimb is being run of the weekend of 17th & 18th April.

Practice Sat 17/04/08

Race day Sun 18/04/08

Start time 9:30am (to 4:00pm)

For further information in relation to this event check out the NSW Hillclimb championship website on hte link below. Directions on how to get to the track as as below too:

http://hillclimbnsw.org.au/

Event is off Yarrabee Rd.
5 Min north of telegraph point bridge
5 min south of Kunderbung Motel

Happy hooning

how about:
Practice Sat 18/04/09

Race day Sun 19/04/09

or are we still in 2008?

forry2000 wrote:

bat69 wrote:Ha Ha.... not really.

Engine will still be my original pobjoy steriods. No point changing something that works. Its just every thing else that is getting the work over.

Nathan, i thought your engine would be the first thing to change? Given the preformance of the Durie car and engine at Ringwood recently, i thought it would be a fait acompli that you see the lighter side.

Your funny but why would I want to do that. I still have 18000klm left my on warranty. What does "fait acompli" mean anyway. Im sorry but I dont speak Russian....

Sorry about the dates. Silly me..I was going off 2008 dates.. We all cant be perfect. Updated now.

Nathan

you obviously don't speak the French language either.

fait accompli = French for an accomplished fact

"Your funny but why would I want to do that. I still have 18000klm left my on warranty"

I'll be upfront and honest and say that you've probably got another 18000km of of misery remaining. Stan loves to torture you blokes eh?

forry2000 wrote:I'll be upfront and honest and say that you've probably got another 18000km of of misery remaining. Stan loves to torture you blokes eh?

If you call misery not having to pull my engine out to rebuild it or fix because it $hit itself over the next 18000klm then thats a misery I am very happy to live with. Having to fork out money to buy replacements bits after your engine $hit itself is what I call torture

Happy hooning

How many vee-dubs are racing at Kempsy ?

Hi Nathan,

The 18,000 warranty is great. The average hillclimb is about 1km. Say you get 2 practice runs and 4 competitive runs that's 6km per event. With 8 rounds that's 48 competitive kms.

If you change your oil at 5,000km then you shouldn't have to do it until the year 2114.

Your warranty should run out in the year 2384.

Sorry to be a smart arse, but I've got a new calculator and pocket protector which I wanted to try out.

Good luck with the racing this year.

I saw a picture of Greg Ward's car at Bathurst. It finally looks like the suspension is working. I bet you helped him withit. Am I right?

CYA CT

CT has anyone ever told you you are a nerd? Yes both glen and myself have been giving Greg a hand. There is still a little way to go before its right but it is certainly on the way. Just having the time is the only factor at the moment with Greg spending most of the year OS with work, Glen working flat out and me with my ever expanding family the car business seems takes a back step. I can't believe Greg drove that thing the way it was. I couldnt handle sitting in that thing going around the block let alone the carrot top driving it to S.A, Qld and race it. Im amazed he could even set anysort of a time in the thing. To put it in simple terms... It was $HIT. CT, whats the go with the new ID?

Captain. I dont know how many beetles are going. There will at least be Wardy if his gets his flight from the Asain country he is working in this week.

🤓

A good reason for one of those dumb smiles.

With suspension like Greg had, or lack of, he didn't deserve tyres.

They work together as you know.

I couldn't login with my old ID but I'm not nerdy enough to figure out why. I created a new one on about the 16th attempt.

I hope the work you're doing to your car is coming along well.

I pulled my donk apart to fix the pushrod tube and decided to try a different cam. At least it will make it a mission impossible to get it all back together in time for the VW Nationals at Easter. I'm a goose.

CYA CT

change yor cam again, what this time ct....

Come on CT spill your guts.

Tell me your installing a k8 or maybe k10 to go with your new ratio rockers and shiny new big port heads you just purshased.

ps I like the sound of your warranty Nathan,LOL

Cheers Col

come on colin, get your car out there !! I will double enter it with you😂

I suppose you wont me to pay both entries? LOL.

Cheers Col

No second thought you would probably beat me in my own car.

How embarrasing.

Cheers Col

i will pay for both entries 👍........come on, get it out again !

Good things come to he who waits.

Thats what i tell myself anyway.

Gee that means i,m going to have some awesome things soon.

Seriously trying to get my car together for 2010.So much to do and so little time, not to mention money.

Cheers Col

I thought it WAS together ??

colin wrote:a k8 or maybe k10 l

Nnnnnnnoooooooooo!❗

Both K8 and K10 have less duration at .050" than your W130,
so if you want faster...FK87,
if you want nicer....V26(old grind not listed any more but still available).

Get genuine engle if you can.
ELC cams have smaller lobes, and so are ground a long way through the induction hardened lobe.

Get some better pushrods too dude.
Cromo set at zero or the best alum you can buy.

dangerous wrote:if you want nicer....V26

i'll vouch for that one........1500rpm to 7000 rpm.....great tourque, good HP.......day after day, everyday and even on the weekends....

V26......
"Especially nice for those of you who already have ratio rocker arms. Gives more lift without adverse strain to the rest of the valve train, good all around performance on small and mid size engines with small valve heads and 2-barrel or more carburetion. GB 273A springs required. The more head work the more all around performance you will get. 1000-6000 RPM. 297 duration, 0.335" lift at cam."



i've got pushrods for ya if you want to keep things moving

4 beetles entered at Kempsy hillclimb
👍👍👍

hope they all have good windscreen wiper rubbers 😁

okay so far Craig........... but southerly change stirring up now 🙁

Look forward to hearing some results and some footage

hellbugged wrote:okay so far Craig........... but southerly change stirring up now 🙁

Yeah Sydney is still dry at the moment as well...........maybe rain tomorrow?

Craig


I thought you'd be taking the EVO for a spin! Or are you completely retired now?
🤖

CP

EVO is a tad slow 😂............maybe after it gets the 270kw upgrade 😀

better get the driver up grade first craig cya Rudi

that voids the warranty 😉

Thanks for the pics Daimo!!

A few looking nice and loose coming out of what looks to be almost a hairpin? Good to see so many vw's all lined up.

Any results to show?

competition tight as usual..........rain on and off, and i left before the last runs, so who knows........

good to meet and see Greg Ward out again, Glenn was having a ball........Ben/Cookie & Christene/Heaths beetles were flying as usual!!!........

been a while since i've stood in the crowd and listened to peoples talk about "mad" beetles and their amazment at how fast they go and well sorted their handling is........unsuspecting onlookers are truely amazed........ it made me very proud of our little cars and the effort we all put into them.

for the record.......on one of the damp runs, a 4WD skyline was only 2 seconds ahead of the beetles that were banging off the rev limiters for lack of traction, EVERY time they were opened full throttle.......HOW GOOD IS THAT!!

spectating sucks!..........vids loading!

..yeah thanks for the pics..must get out of the shed more ..this was just down the road and i spent the day fiddling with door locks and rubbers !!!

yeah Ray, you'll have to come to Grafton in a couple of months........

Ben Durie through the hairpin..........



Christene Cambell pushing hard as usual.........




Cookie through the hairpin........



Glenn Torrens off the line.......



Greg Ward dusts off the hides at the start line........



Ben leaves the start .......



Heath off the start line........



MORE VIDS LOADING

Great sounding, fast looking cars.

Well done boys.

CT

yes CT, they are very very fast, smooth too.........mmmmmm EFI

How can you legally have Historic Rego when the car has EFI ??

I'm with you Damo..........I hate being a spectator !

picky picky Craig........probably only run the good motor on the weekends i'd expect........😏

and don't worry, i've got some footage of Gregs car in angry mode loading........was nice to finally meet him, nice bloke having a ball.

you must be mad to have stopped Craig🤪

I cant see the footage anyway 🥲.......I'm banned from youtube 😵‍💫 !!

Heath pushing hard to and through the hairpin.....



Greg has a loose on the wet patch.........



VWCOOL having fun in the budget racer.......



Cookie hammers away from the start line.......

Well done on the vids Daimo.

It makes the heart race to hear some very quick little beetles ... Very loose on the hairpin for most, looks like a difficult corner to push hard on without overdoing it.

Christene leaving the line hard.........



Ben and Heath enjoying the drying start line.........

Great footage Daimo

The vids certainly tell the story for the majority of the day.

Marcus you are right it hairpin is very slippery. Its also very difficult to gudge, when wet, what you'll get away with. Mid corner is hot mix and the entry and exit are a river gravel set in tar. The road surface when wet could be alikened to an exposed aggregate driveway.........Water seeps out of the surrounding tyres after rain.

Before the run where Ben, Greg and myself find some opposite lock we all convinced ourselves or each other that it was dry enough to have a good go.........mmmmmm a little optimistic.........nothing ventured nothing gained.

Its a great track.......much quicker than it looks on the vid........my data logging has peak speed before the hairpin at 148kms.......the track is a bypassed section of Pacific Highway and it still has all its caracter.........about a 100 bumps and nearly equal number of tar patches........everyone shakes there head at the insinity of the place for there first visit..........having said all that its a blast to hoon up

For the record the placings changed every run.......the final outcome was Cooky,Myself,Christine,Ben,Greg then Glen......... I don't have the final times in front of me but I think there was as little as seven 1/100's of a second between Ben,Christine and Myself.

Heath

After watching Christines start I know why Ben and I Bogged it......The girl left so much rubber....we must have had twice the grip available

Who said beetles won't lay rubber?????? 😀

yeah wow that was so much fun in the 'Wrecker Racer' - especially as I had less problems this time than I did at Bathurst. As Heath said, it is a tricky bastard of a track with mixtures all over the place and the rain flurries we suffered on Sunday made each run a lottery for all of us. Great camera work Damo - I look better on your vid than I thought I did(n't) on the day 🙂

no worries guys, thanx for the spectacle........oh and the waves to my bub on her first trip to a race meet, made the missus feel welcome too..........we all enjoyed the day out in our beetle very much.

Glenn and Greg off the line with another thrown in to show why the beetles had the crowd amped........



yeah Glenn, it surprised me too how well the wrecker ran.......heard a couple of kids saying here's my favourite when you were running down the hill to the start.........certainly made me think about what had to be done to mine to get it out of the carpark and into the starters line up

hellbugged wrote:good to meet and see Greg Ward out again

And its great to see he is still driving the VW to the events as well.............talk about great performance and reliability!

Come on Daimo you know you want to race the beast again.........and with the 5 speed gearbox it would be perfect in hillclimb 😎

Awesome vids.... thanks Damo! 👍

A lot of the crowd near me were very impressed with how hard the bugs ran, especially compared to a lot of the other vehicles. Several people who knew me reckoned it sounded like my bug comming - it does have a 1916 an extractors, but - I wish.

Well done to all.

I love Ben Duries Car, it's allways been one of my all time favourite Aussie Beetles. The stance, that red & white paint job & the old school bathurst globes look fantastic. Thank god he finally painted the fluro front bumper red!

Can someone that see's him regularly ask him to come to the Nationals sprint, it would be great to hear it in full flight down the back straight. Top sounding beetle!

regards
Jak

Jak Rizzo wrote:I love Ben Duries Car

Can someone that see's him regularly ask him to come to the Nationals sprint, it would be great to hear it in full flight down the back straight. Top sounding beetle!

regards
Jak

me too....

....yeah, i've been working on him and Heath to come out to the super sprint........

Craig

Under the eligibility criteria for an historic vehicle , as long as carburetion is as originally supplied OR available as an option, then there is no problem.

To my knowledge, EFI was provided as an alternative on some later beetles.

Craig Torrens wrote:How can you legally have Historic Rego when the car has EFI ??

I'm with you Damo..........I hate being a spectator !

forry2000 wrote:Craig

Under the eligibility criteria for an historic vehicle , as long as carburetion is as originally supplied OR available as an option, then there is no problem.

To my knowledge, EFI was provided as an alternative on some later beetles.

Craig Torrens wrote:How can you legally have Historic Rego when the car has EFI ??

I'm with you Damo..........I hate being a spectator !

LOL..........Cheers Forry2000, you nearly convinced (cough, cough) me with that one.......not !

I didn't realise the latest Haltech computer and twin throttle bodies were an option back in the late 60's early 70's 😂😂

Strangely enough Craig, I don't make the rules.

up to the individual how they perceive that information.

Craig Torrens wrote:How can you legally have Historic Rego when the car has EFI ??

I'm with you Damo..........I hate being a spectator !

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LOL..........Cheers Forry2000, you convinced (cough, cough) me with that one ! [/quote]

Talk about awesome footage there Daimo !!!

I didn't even know Kempsey was on, otherwise would have made the run down to take a look see - looks like a really interesting track. Unfortunately have had my head in the sand busy with work after a few weeks off...

Who is this "Greg Ward" bloke that you all speak of??

Is this him? (I grabbed this photo off of the "Wanted" wall at my local post office...😉)

Waasup Greg, Glenn, and Nathan!

--Eric
(taking the piss, all the way from Texas)

Who said Americans dont have a sense of humour....Gee wizz thats some bad sun burn
Alls good over here. Been busy building the new car and family. Whats doing with you Eric? Sent you an email the other day but it looks like it didnt get through. BTW When are we going to see that beast of yours out on the strip?