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 pompom
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| posted on May 25th, 2013 at 05:38 PM |
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Beetle 1300cc Historic Touring Car (onboard)
Horrendous tyre shake in the corners, but the old girl is getting quicker!...More races to follow so keep checking the (Just Kampers UK) YouTube
channel each month for more movies.
You'll be pleased to know I've now added kph to the speedo for you foreign blokes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP9NGNseacQ
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Craig Torrens
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| posted on May 25th, 2013 at 05:48 PM |
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Fantastic.....love how it revs 
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| posted on May 25th, 2013 at 06:51 PM |
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I've dropped them from 8000 to 7500rpm to save the motor and ran 5 seconds quicker!
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| posted on May 25th, 2013 at 07:54 PM |
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That is a 1300??????
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on May 25th, 2013 at 08:03 PM |
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Always loved this car.... What a rocket it is!
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| posted on May 25th, 2013 at 09:09 PM |
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Yeppy...1285cc. I'm looking to get a 60mm crank made so I can run 83mm pistons, this will give me a 1298cc motor (within the 1300cc class limit) The
extra bore will allow me to run much larger valves.
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| posted on May 25th, 2013 at 09:29 PM |
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Love your car Ian and it goes so hard, who would of thought a 1300cc can go like that, I think I remember you telling me then its quicker then the
strokers who run that beetle cup???
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| posted on May 26th, 2013 at 12:39 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by cnfabo
Love your car Ian and it goes so hard, who would of thought a 1300cc can go like that, I think I remember you telling me then its quicker then the
strokers who run that beetle cup???
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It's interesting...The BeetleChallenge cars here have anything from 1.6 to 2.4 litre type 1 engines, running Toyo semi-slicks, but the lap times are
no better than me...I'm stuck with skinny (120mm, 135mm wide) 1960's historic crossply tyres.
I'm hoping to run with them this season...see how my car runs on proper tyres.
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| posted on May 26th, 2013 at 12:49 AM |
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I've been told that removing the 2 rear body-to-floorpan rubber bushes (just infront of the rear dampers) and replacing them with metal spacers will
cure the rear tyre shake...Anyone heard of this?
The idea is that it wil stop the rear torsion tubes (that hold the torsion bars) from flexing.
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| posted on May 26th, 2013 at 11:42 AM |
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I would have thought instead of adding solid spacers that a truss-bar set-up between the frame horns and towers would be better?
Good to see you on the forum too Ian!
Cheers
Shaun
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| posted on May 26th, 2013 at 11:51 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by pompom
I've been told that removing the 2 rear body-to-floorpan rubber bushes (just infront of the rear dampers) and replacing them with metal spacers will
cure the rear tyre shake...Anyone heard of this? You mean shudder, like sander said do you have a later bar???
The idea is that it wil stop the rear torsion tubes (that hold the torsion bars) from flexing.
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| posted on May 30th, 2013 at 01:54 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by pompom
Yeppy...1285cc. I'm looking to get a 60mm crank made so I can run 83mm pistons, this will give me a 1298cc motor (within the 1300cc class limit) The
extra bore will allow me to run much larger valves.
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So is it running the standard Vw 1300 bore and stroke, and are the heads twin port 1300 ?
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| posted on May 30th, 2013 at 02:34 PM |
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Awesome!
What a fantastic circuit beetle 
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| posted on May 31st, 2013 at 04:41 AM |
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| Quote: | So is it running the
standard Vw 1300 bore and stroke, and are the heads twin port 1300 ?
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Yep!...currently it is a 1285cc Twinport. The racing rules only allow single port heads (as twinports were'nt available before 1966), but I gave them
an Okrasa history lesson and they let me run the (cheaper) VW twinport option.
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| posted on June 11th, 2013 at 09:23 PM |
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nice ride, envy..... 
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