I have preped the car and will be heading out to Western Sydney this Friday for a run on a 1/4 mile with the nitrous oxide for the first time . I have completed 20 passes with the gas over the 1/8 mile so I am confident I have the tune-up correct . I will leave the 140 shot jets in the system to see if it will run a 9 second pass . I have been getting faster every run as I get used to the extra kick I have at my finger tips . I will be out there around 4.00pm with a 6.00pm start and would like to get at least 3 good runs in before a transmission swap and engine freshen up before Portland in 6 weeks time , ROD.

Hi Rod

I will try to get out there to cheer you on. What sort of meeting is it?

Steve

Cool. Hope all goes well mate.

ill be there rod, cutting it close with summernats but ill make the effort... lol, see u on friday, cheers adam

Another run ill miss! Diving in koh tao thailand!

Good luck Rod, hope all goes well - will look forward to hearing the news.
Al

http://wsid.com.au/event.asp?ID=1147 

Have good speed and great times on Friday Rod.
Good to hear you are coming down to Portland again this year. See you there

bloody drissle rain in sydney today

sun is out now might stay clear

Relax Dave; Latest Forecast:

UPDATED SYDNEY FORECAST
Issued at 9:35 am EDT on Friday 8 January 2010

UPDATED

Warning Summary at issue time:
Nil.

Forecast for Friday
Fine. Cloud decreasing and sunny periods in the afternoon. Light to
moderate east to northeast winds, freshening near the coast in the
afternoon.

Precis: Fine. Cloud decreasing.

City: Max: 26 Parramatta: Max: 29
Terrey Hills: Max: 26 Penrith: Max: 30
Liverpool Max: 29 Richmond: Max: 29

Still sunny and hot here at Liverpool.

[size=6]Who's going tonight ???[/size]

Kev

me, stopping at my fave kebab shop in penrith on the way, will be there about 530, flying beetle shirt

Dave you had better take photos to show me!!

I'll be there, probably about 6:30, wearing a red Beetle t-shirt

gwen / camo, you both have pm's cyas there, kebab time! (QLD just cant seem to do kebabs the same)

take a photo of the kebab dave....

Anything to report yet?

9.89@134 with 140 gas.
11.16 with no gas.
Good work Rod!

Was at the track tonight and Rod said, "I bet this is on AVD before I get home tonight". Well, I dont think Rod would have even left WSID when DB posted Rods times etc. Me thinks DB had an insider at the track also called Dave (STIDUB)

Good to meet other VW people at the track tonight.

Cheers, Kev

Well done Rod !!!



Nice to see the network of Dave's is ticking along...

yep, its the dave dub mafia lol, good night, other than i started with a headache, & the thing spewing fuel vapor out the open headers at full noise hurts, even after an hour, the video turned out shit too, there will be a few of rod's up shorly no doubt, shame vvds didnt have a very good night though, at least they got one run in

Hi All,

Good to meet those of you that were there tonight. Got some photos; some crap, some crappier. My weight saving decision to leave the tripod at home was incorrect, especially once it got darker. But you live and learn, and this was my first attempt at drag photography.

So without further excuses here are some photos.

I missed the one run VVDS did, so the only photo I got of them was this one:


Rod doing a burnout


Rod's second launch


Rod's third launch


Rod's fourth launch


The beast


Some of the other runners:




First time I've tried photobucket so if photos are too large or not working please let me know.

Cheers
Craig

Awesome Craig! more???

Great pics, all working well, thanks for sharing. Both dubs looking the part. Any times for Wayne (VVDS)?

apparently only 1 run for the vvds car.

dave said that camo said, that the engine sounded a bit sad afterwards...

Sorry I missed the VVDS run and the time. I saw them working on it, but refrained from taking photos as I figured I might (rightly) get the camera jammed up me.

Colonel I'll see if there are any other decent ones tomorrow.

Dave's right, the top fuel monster was just epic in terms of noise and vibration. I took the above photo of it whilst it was warming up its tyres, and was getting ready to take a photo of the launch, but then the noise it let out made me jump a mile, so the photo I took missed the car. You know it's noisy when the skin on your arms feels it.

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing

Oh, and video?

Good one Rod , Hope all is fine with car (motor) What Rev's did you cross finish line . Did you change your fuel pressure ! Did you hold the botton all the way ( 1/4 )
Like I said , Good -One Mate , Nice pic's above too . Anymore?
Yes , We do have a spy for all race meetings in Sydney !!

Rod actually rang me as he left the track.
He could not talk long since he had a sore throat, and sounded horrible.(I actually thought the phone call was a stalker).

He said that his first run was a 10.24(140 hp shot) with some missing,
with mixtures not quite right (bit rich due to warwick safe setting... cant remember?).
The same tune up at warwick was no better than the 100hp shot because the bottle had just about run out.
On the second run it ran with no nitrous,
The third run the car was on n2o intermittently,
which turned out to be the reason for no nitrous on the earlier run
with a screw falling out of the button on the wheel.

Once all that was fixed it ran the 9 sec pass, with what I think he said was a 6.35@111(?)
From what I can remember, that was using the n2o for the full run.

If my memory is correct rod had a 1.217 4th and 4.57 diff with 28" tyre,
so that equates to 8950 rpm,
but I am sure rod will let us know the details if I have anything wrong.