Step right up contenders! Who's gunnin for the 10 sec barrier?

Wayne Penrose
Ian Swinkels
Mark?

Anyone else?nn[ Edited on 7-9-2005 by Craig Paton ]

Will be interesting to see

To run a 10.9 @ 121mph in a 1850lb beetle, one would need approx 260 wheel HP!

Iswinkles car would have to be gunning for it, also Debiasi4 is building a fairly serious balck oval drag/street car that should run 10's. Hoping my car will get close, be happy with mid to low 11's.
T54

What about posting some pics of your Turbo Monsters!

Maybe change the topic to "Post your turbo monsters here" or something like that?

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Good idea!

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Originally posted by Craig Paton To run a 10.9 @ 121mph in a 1850lb beetle, one would need approx 260 wheel HP!

One of the DRKC cars in the US just ran 10's N/A...and
would be legal for the Berg trophy.......oh sorry,
I have posted this in the wrong spot!nn[ Edited on 8-9-2005 by dangerous ]

Which one ran the 10 Dave? And what does DRKC stand for?nn[ Editedon 7-9-2005 by Craig Paton ]

They wont be " STREET VWs " if there going to run in the 10s....

Der Renn Kafer Cup.

Kris Lauffman (spelling ?) has run a 9 in a NA / NOS convertible (red one) over in the states, there is a video of it doing the rounds of the web (2.66MB mpeg), I can email it to anyone who is interested and can host it ?

While i'm not interested in a Berg trophy, I do hope to do a 10 second 1/4 mile pass one day. I'm not going to be trying that till I get a new gearbox though.

There is 1/8th mile drags coming up soon in Innisfail (1 hour south of Cairns) soon. So I fully intend to be there, and with any luck win the event outright. There are some quick XR6's, Skylines and a few quick v8's but they all need top end and none of them get any kind of traction over the 1/8th. I've seen the 60ft time for the skyline and it was over 2.1 seconds with slicks!

A vw on a bad day still does a 1.7 60ft.

Armed with my 1.48 3rd gear and tons of new turbo'd stroker torque I think i'm going to have me a very nice day!

Dont you mean Wayne Penrose ?

Except for the noise and poor fuel consumption my blown 1775 engine was very drivable.
But it is not, nor ever was a street car.
A turbo and EFI would make all the difference...I think only the radial tyres would stop a Ten...unless you have 140mph on board( which is possible)

I'm eager to see Ian Swinkels times down the strip.... he has both the technology and displacement to be making BIG ponies with his new 2332 turbo EFI, once he gets his big transmission in he should be able to hand it some punishment.....

And I'm sure that Wayne's oval has a bit more in it, mayber some more boost and tuning.... who knows ?

And personally I would have thought a 800kg beetle with a 2.3 or 2.9L turbo EFI motor would be plenty streetable.... probably more so than my 1835 with bad kam, kadrons and 009 flat spot...... at least the EFI motors would start first time

Yeah, so when you do make sure there is a camera around somewhere...... Getaway in Cairns, VW style

Yeah, but Rod seems to be more into drag cars and Wayne still mess' with streeters...And both build bloody fast cars!

Here's a challenge for you Hermann (Adolf)! You have that turbo 2ltr TIV sitting in the shed...just needs a car right?

yip,
just need the car
I think 325 Kw would do it.

I'd be keen one day....and yes, it's still a volksie, just an extremely modified one (don't want to get into the whole 'but it's gotta be an aircooled to be a volksie').

I look forward to the day Ian and I line up, man, that would be cool :thumb

Dam straight! It would be a blast alright. I'd love to see Reub's car over for the Mundoo drags. It would be awesome to see two VW's take out all the top race classes and compete on an even slate with the turbo six's and 8's.

As for streetable, even with a soft tune its still very drivable on the street. I can change to 4th and cruse around at 1200 RPM. The engine idles smooth at 950RPM.

When I crank more than 4-5lb boost into it it will become a problem though. I'm going to use an electronic boost control system to ramp the boost on slowly so as to be able to keep traction and help reduce the risk of transmission breakage. With just a bleed valve I'd hit full boost by 2500 RPM and immediatly be sideways.

The clutch took some getting used to as well. You can launch smoothly if you keep the revs up, but try and leave sedately and you end up hopping all over the place.

there are 3 10 second street beetles over here (regularily driven on the road) 2 of them have run 10.0!

and there's another on just run a 9.95!

Yeah I heard about them on the shoptalk forums. That twin turbo beast with the water jacketed autocraft heads, running something like 2.1 bar boost. Sure it might have a number plate but its not really a "street" car.

I'd like to see that drive to the local supermarket or through a drive through takeaway.

I drive my 2332 turbo to work every day and occasionally do the shopping in it.

took the oval for a cruise on the weekend , was going to drive it up to Boris' picnic day but the weather didn't look that great in Wollongong . I cruised down the freeway from work to home ( 15ks ) at 60 mph and no overheating problems . Only menaced 1 V8 holden ute as the passenger was taking video of me on his camera phone . They were very impressed by the display of acceleration in top gear , and applauded me as they passed by after I had backed off . Had no problems cruising with the traffic at 40mph in 4th gear along the highway . Wife Lisa wanted to go for a ride , so early Sunday morning took her for a slow cruise . She was very impressed until I stomped on the GO pedal ! Her instructions were clear and precise .... you f...ing idiot , dont ever drive that on the road again !! then in the next sentence she tells me how impressed she is with the performance of the oval . Just cant work her out sometimes !! Today young Michael . one of my staff members took the oval for a drive and could not believe how smooth it drove at 50mph and then how hard it pulled when he squeezed the throttle . A VERY STREETABLE BUG WITH POWER TO BURN !!