Am running Herbie at Speed on Tweed next weekend- having not ran there before it should be interesting. I appear to be the only Beetle running this year and am classed with 3 Cooper S's a 64 GT Cortina and a Hillman Imp. and given the speed of the Mini's am not expecting any big results... but it will be fun.

If you are down for a lookie, pop past and say hi.

Peter

Best of luck Peter,

Give em a run for their money......

Matt.

Hi Pete...
I will be there...always go on the Friday night for a look when the cars are all on street display.
Will look out for you
Judy

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It's a great weekend on the Tweed.
Have fun and enjoy what looks like a pretty interesting track to drive.
cheers
Marcus

Give them heaps. Good luck.

Can you list the specs of your car?

Regards CT

CT,

Motorwise it is pretty stock - 1600tp with ported Scat heads and twin Kadrons, 009, dog house cooler. Motor is fairly healthy but have not had it apart (yet) Recently rebuilt standard 1500 box. Am happy with the engine for the category of events I compete in (naturally I would like more- but that will come).

Has just changed to a bj pan, with whiteline bars all round and cross drilled brakes etc. KYBs all round, extended shock towers - pan is fantastic and the car now handles great. Has a steel half cage all Cams approved with full harnesses etc. Am running Falkens 14/195/50's though cant recall the series - seem to be good tyres- have only done the recent Leyburn sprints with them and it rained for most, but they have to be better than my old radials I was running last year.

It has a horn speaker under a front guard with a CD player in the glovebox that plays the Herbie theme when competing. It is so loud you can hear it clearly for most of the lap, though with the helmet on I hardly hear it in the car, hence it is fairly popular with the spectators (even if they are under 5)

Cheers

Peter

I love that music!

Good luck and keep it shiney side up

Hi Peter,

I think your car looks excellent.

By the sound of the specs its probably a very capable package that should surprise a few people (Especially with the herbie music).

Do you have the big adjustable whiteline bars or the small ones. I think my front is 16mm and my rear is 18mm. My big adjustable ones work better off the car I found.

Have you got a good seat to hold you still?

Good luck. CT

CT,

The front bar is 16mm and rear 18- not sure on specifics as to what is big and what is small.

Have two race seats so its all nice and cosy.

I would like to upgrade the exhaust from the pea shooter extractor system it has now, but I dont want to lose the period look with the twin pipes.. do you know of a system that would suit. Most that I see are the Fatboy style with the single side pipe.

Will post some photos when I get back.

Peter

That's a tough one.

There are after market systems that exit in the standard cut outs.

I think you can either go with a cheap one that's compact and doesn't flow well or sound good. Or you can go with an expensive one that flows well, sounds good but uses about a kilometer of pipes and weighs a tonne.

I use a 1 5/8 berg/phoenix header which is great quality. It seals well and doesn't foul the apron at the number 2 header or at the flange. I cut it back and welded up my own bends to a 2 inch straight through muffler just so it would tuck up under the body as much as possible for ground clearance and so it didn't look too rude (aka fat boy style). Unfortunately it looks a bit tatty after having an altercation with the tramp bar I used to run, then it broke one of the flange bolts and I dragged it around oran park raceway for a lap and a half scraping along the ground. Ather all that it wasn't worth ceramic coating. Interestingly when the exhaust was dragging along 2/3 of the exhaust from the header was escaping without having to go through the muffler so there was no restriction at all. The result was that the car didn't want to rev over 4500 which shows how important the exhaust system is from the header back.

Col Mayman from Tammworth stumbled across a good exhaust guy who can make vw exhausts to suit your engine and application. Perhaps he could come up with something. But you'd have to be pretty settled on your engine spec and commit to it for the long term.

God I waffle on sometimes!

Hi Peter.

As CT suggested i have come across a guy in Tamworth who can custom make an exhaust system to suit your motor spesc and specific application.He is a genuine car lover and used to make systems for Formula Vee cars in Sydney.

Tamworth Muffler Man
02673939

Cheers Col

Well that was an interesting weekend- fantastic actually.

Didnt get off to the best of starts, backing the car off the trailer on the Friday I noticed the stereo didnt come on (and it always annoyingly does) so took the car down to the street parade along with the FJ and couldnt believe how popular the parade and the car was. There were people everywhere

Come Saturday - briezed through scrutineering though the officials have become so accustomed to the music they weren't going to pass it if the music wouldnt play. I then pulled the CD player out and pulled it to pieces, but couldn't find anything obvious so off to the local Auto store and purchased a new CD player and fitted it up without losing a run. Thankfully the new model was still compatable with the wiring plug and even the same remote works, so now I have a spare. (I wouldn't think many people have had that sort of drama)

As for performance the car lacked a lot of power and sounded off - which I found to be that bloody exhaust that I spoke of earlier. When I put the exhaust back on during the week, I didnt have the normal tin gaskets and used the paper style.. never again. I thought they were suspect so I bought a couple at a VW place at Burleigh on the way down. It took a few runs to get everything sorted as had some other niggling things but as you can imagine it started raining and I had a few runs in the wet.

Given the cars I was up against, I didnt have a chance of a place and my only opposition was my brother in the FJ (in a different class but that didnt matter- it was family pride) I was chasing him all weekend and he was ahead by .5 sec, but the results were just posted and I beat him by .9 sec on the last run... and now he is not answering when I want to skite.

Anyways the car went back on the trailer with nothing broken, dented or scratched (unlike many others) After the major work the car has had recently I am still ironing out some issues, but am getting closer and hopefully by the next event at the Noosa Hillclimb it will be fully sorted.

Overall I had a great weekend, the car was well received - just wish I had more power...

Will post some pictures later tonight when I get the camera back.

Thanks for the support

Peter

Congrats Peter, sounds like a great weekend.

When is the Noosa event?

I may fly up and watch.

Craig t

[size=4]Hey peter...went over to your car on friday night to say hello & you must have stepped away from it as no one was near it... ...so i missed you...theres always next time...Judy[/size]

Judy, sorry I missed you I wouldnt have been far - I had the FJ Holden racecar across the road so I was probably over with it. I didnt get to go anywhere else, hope you had a good time ...

Craig,

Have attached a promo for the Hillclimb, Noosa is the week after the Aust Championships at Mt Cotton so they are trying to entice some of the big guns to stay a bit longer and do Noosa - it is a great weekend, but I think Speed on Tweed is my new favourite (and closer to home)

Peter

Good on you for giving it a go Peter.
If you are going to be up at Warwick I wouldn't mind catching up to talk pan and handling setups.
cheers
Marcus

Pity I didnt get a video to hear the music, but it went ok.

more power needed? maybe put right foot down hard and fast brissdubba, you might be getting slow considering your age you look in the photo.

needs more neg camber on the front

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Originally posted by Craig Torrens needs more neg camber on the front

Yep the Neg Camber was on the list of things to do and will be done by the next event. I was thinking 2degrees - would that be a good starting point. The car gets trailered to events and only does limited street driving.

B.J (Caroneten) funny you should be giving advice, you would be the only bloke on the forum with a Tilt Tray powered baja.

Looking forward to seeing it at Noosa!!

Sorry VWCool but I dont know your first name -

I have changed the pan to a ball joint front/ swing rear.. so I shouldnt have any dramas getting the neg camber