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nbturbo - February 21st, 2013 at 09:12 PM

Went up to the Lake today to see all the VW's run and when I arrived at 9.30,there was only 1 left doing his thing.Glenn Torrens and his team had run around 124MPH with his big Pobjoy engine,but the elusive 127MPH was their goal.As I was leaving this afternoon,they had put on some larger diameter wheels and tyres,and had to massage the rear guards for clearance.I hope they got what they were after.Also caught up with Mike Adi who Drag Races the Supercharged VW powered Gogomobile from Adelaide-he had just run 199MPH on a borrowed Suzuki road bike.You need a big set of nuts to do that stuff.

waltermitty - February 21st, 2013 at 10:28 PM

Steve Mullers Roo shooter splitscreen managed 117 MPH which is a new world record for a bus on the salt!
Mitchell

bajachris88 - February 21st, 2013 at 10:41 PM

We got a work collegue from AE Smith there with his land speed machine at the moment. The giant 'cock' looking car as some employees describe it haha. Trevor Slaughter, tell him the AE Smith team from Brisbane is rootin' for him lol.

http://www.slaughtermotorsport.com/index.html

68AutoBug - February 22nd, 2013 at 11:56 AM

My Son was there with His SUZUKI 250 cc bikes
one Production standard bike and a highly modified version.

Haven't heard yet how he went...

a long long way to go.... Terrible if You have problems..

Lee

motha - February 22nd, 2013 at 05:25 PM

Heres a few pics of the VW's up at the Lake.

First time out there & its definitely something every "revhead" has to see. Its an unbelievable place!!!!

Rest of the pics here (Not many bikes. They didn't really float my boat)

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200531598043258.187327.1557405402...

My personal favorite of the event. Best presented car there I reckon.

mactaylor - February 22nd, 2013 at 08:38 PM

thats waynes hk not a bad bit of kit he took it to the USA last year and ran well good dude wayne he is my preferd crane supplier in our region and a good bloke to boot!

farkengruven - February 23rd, 2013 at 10:03 AM

Great pics, thanks for sharing.

How fast did the Taxi and blue Beetle run? Looked like it had a big motor in it.

colin - February 23rd, 2013 at 11:38 AM

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Originally posted by nbturbo
Went up to the Lake today to see all the VW's run and when I arrived at 9.30,there was only 1 left doing his thing.Glenn Torrens and his team had run around 124MPH with his big Pobjoy engine,but the elusive 127MPH was their goal.As I was leaving this afternoon,they had put on some larger diameter wheels and tyres,and had to massage the rear guards for clearance.I hope they got what they were after.Also caught up with Mike Adi who Drag Races the Supercharged VW powered Gogomobile from Adelaide-he had just run 199MPH on a borrowed Suzuki road bike.You need a big set of nuts to do that stuff.

Good onya Glen.
124mph is awefully fast in a Beetle. :tu:

Cheers Col

DubbyFan - February 23rd, 2013 at 11:52 AM

Great pic's thanks for sharing, love the pic with the Spittie on the salt.

empi - February 23rd, 2013 at 12:01 PM

Congrats to Johnny W (not goona try to spell yr last name!!!)

motha - February 23rd, 2013 at 07:46 PM

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Originally posted by farkengruven
Great pics, thanks for sharing.

How fast did the Taxi and blue Beetle run? Looked like it had a big motor in it.

I seen Norms AU Taxi run 250mph on the long track.

Not sure what the bug ran. Only seen that take off on a run on the small GPS track.

The first or second day it melted a piston & the guys rebuilt it on the salt.
I think its best up to the week was 117mph with a type 1 engine. I think they were hoping for 120+mph with the 2.6L Type 4 setup.