What a great vw weekend started early on friday helping John L finish of his car then drive down to wakefield ,chat with a great bunch of fellow vw nuts.got to road test new polo gti on run into town fo dinner outstanding car 7 speed dsg tranny, watch this car in the world rally champs,swapped car for golf gti on the way home also very impresive cant believe the owners of these cars dont run them at the sprints,as u could never drive them anywhere near their limits on the road, what a waste of an awsome car.
Anyway off tro sleep at about 11.00 Scruiteneering duties in the morning,started at 7.15 cars already lining up got Stuart to check my Lbug as not allowed to check my own car,many well presented cars in all catergories,all with smiling faces eager to test their cars on the track,8.45 of to the drivers briefing,then back to scruiteneering,then back to the marshaling area to take the new drivers for a veiw of the circuit with Rose in her red beetle two laps then back to the pits.
Time now to check my Lbug tyres wheel nuts engine oil set rear wing and yes in the first heat ran low on fuel,new brake caliper combination gave a firm pedal but not enough brake bias to the rear of the car making for some spectacular braking action at the end of the straights with front wheels locking with very little pedal effort best time of 1.07s in the morning sessions,During the lunch break changed back to the willwoods and vented discs very soft pedal but better weight transfer to the front of car[no more front wheel lockups, times down into the 1.06s,oil spill by vl commodore from the fish hook all the way till the exit into the pits time to pack the car back onto the trailer,then help pack up flags and other club itemsand head back to sydney .
sunday morn 6.30am off to eastern creek scruiteneering all still ok starting to think im a bit worse for wear decided to run two heats then head home.
First heat headed out onto track 1st gear 2nd gear starting to smile third gear feeling good again first lap was a1.48 second 1.46 third 1.44 car was feeling quite strong when i finished the heat was called into scruiteneering bay car was blowing a bit of smoke checked underneath looked like i popped a push rod tube so decided to call it a day and head of to the nationals to help out my fellow club members who had been there from the night before seting up everthing for the show on the sunday.
Any way that was my nationals weekend,Id also like to thank Raymond Steve Carter for helping me out on the day,as many hands do make it easier.well done to all those that competed on both days and thanks to the officials and all the volenteers that did such a great job,as without u we cannot run these events.
Cheers Rudi ps GO THE VOLKSY
bigrudi Wolfsburg Wizard
401 posts · joined Apr 2005 ·
