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| posted on April 27th, 2013 at 10:42 AM |
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yep, Josh vw still going well sort of 
His got to learn to stop doing burnouts in first gear
hills and on ramps so much fun . 
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| posted on April 27th, 2013 at 12:04 PM |
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I'm coming up again soon to get Michael to modify my dump.
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hey, what you do in your own time is your own business!
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| posted on April 27th, 2013 at 02:27 PM |
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it needs a good rogering
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| posted on April 27th, 2013 at 03:27 PM |
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Lol. Is the colour Guards Red ?
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| posted on April 27th, 2013 at 03:31 PM |
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Lol. Is the colour Guards Red ?
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what, of his dump?
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| posted on May 1st, 2013 at 12:49 PM |
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Hi
I was thinking that the wire on my Mazda in tank fuel pump may have been a bit puny to run the Bosch 044 pump.
I trawled the Internet to find a place that sold bulkhead fittings for in tank pump wiring.
Normal car electrical wiring is not fuel proof, I found these units on the HOERR site, not cheap but good insurance, there made by Fuel Safe.
Steve
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| posted on May 19th, 2013 at 11:01 AM |
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Hi
I still have a heat issues in the fuel system, I had to use the car in peak hour traffic last week and the pump started to make some funny noises
after about an hour of it, then when I had some clear road I booted it and it appeared to run rough.
After my meeting when everything was cool again it was back to normal.
I'm pulling the pump tomorrow to check on the pre filter as it may collected some crap from the recent tank up grades and to fit my heavy wiring.
Does anybody know of durable cover material that I can fit over my fuel tank?
Steve
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| posted on May 19th, 2013 at 12:12 PM |
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You've probably told me before but are your fuel lines through the tunnel or under the car?
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| posted on May 19th, 2013 at 12:28 PM |
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Hi Joel
There in the tunnel, I'm thinking of putting them outside would help. My boot area gets warm so insulating the tank would help I think, but fuel
hoses outside would cool the lines down.
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| posted on May 20th, 2013 at 09:24 PM |
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That;s what I was thinking, I'll be doing the same if I ever need to rerun mine.
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| posted on May 24th, 2013 at 09:50 AM |
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Hi
I'm going to change one thing at time with my fuel system, first is the upgraded wires to the 044 pump.
I'm leaving for Wakefield soon and will be cold down there so I don't think fuel tank heating will be an issue.
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| posted on May 24th, 2013 at 10:28 AM |
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As you know Steve, I love this.
If I'm ever in your neck of the woods, I'll be contacting you or Dave and you're taking me for a drive.
This bug is brilliant.
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| posted on May 27th, 2013 at 08:48 AM |
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Thanks Sebastian, your more than welcome to come over anytime.
At Wakefield I found the coolant temps got up a bit after 4 laps, around 105 c so I will do a bit more shrouding around the radiator air intake, air
intakes were 40 c.
Other than that the car ran well on low boost all day, the driver needs some work. My best time was 1:15.0680, the Quaife worked well, I think it
helped having no sway bars on the car, it had great traction out of corners, the front felt a bit slippery but after Rudi and Paul told me to harden
up, I got a bit more heat into the front tyres and it was much better.
I only did 4 heats, filled up at Marulan about 50-80 ks away on the way down and on the way home and I used 18 litres, very economical.
Steve
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| posted on May 27th, 2013 at 07:29 PM |
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nice video steve plenty left in it for you to improve will be a VERY fast car when you are done! nice nice nice!
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| posted on May 27th, 2013 at 07:35 PM |
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Thanks, I'm going in for another tune soon, but its not more power that I need, its more seat time
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| posted on May 29th, 2013 at 10:52 PM |
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Hi
Some photos from the Supersprint last weekend
Steve
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| posted on May 29th, 2013 at 10:53 PM |
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| posted on May 30th, 2013 at 02:11 PM |
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I think u should raise the back of it a bit
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| posted on May 30th, 2013 at 02:41 PM |
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Hi Jak
I did, but it really squats about 35 mm under acceleration, I will give it a bit more.
Steve
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| posted on May 31st, 2013 at 10:32 AM |
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awesome! I want one.
71 notchback,
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| posted on May 31st, 2013 at 12:15 PM |
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Thanks vlad
I made up this scoop to fill in the open part of my chassis and to direct air up to the radiator. I also filled gaps between the radiator and the
shroud so that any air coming through the grille has to go through the radiator.
My friend Neil at Rust Right did all the folding and guillotining for me, he made my A & B stiffeners for me, give him a call if you need any rust
repair panels made up (0414 478 052).
I assumed that all was working well as I had no issues driving on the street, driving at higher speeds showed up the weakness in my design.
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| posted on May 31st, 2013 at 12:55 PM |
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hope you don't knock the hoses off .......maybe worth making a guard for them 
Might be worthwhile uprating your torsion bars on the rear too, to get rid of the squat under acceleration.
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| posted on May 31st, 2013 at 07:20 PM |
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Hi
Craig I'm using 3/4 plastic garden sprinkler elbows. I'm trying to source some steel or aluminium ones, they are up pretty high so they haven't
been scraped yet but I get your concern.
I got some aluminium tubing to make my new fuel lines from Westy, another part turned up today a fluid cooler. Its very solidly made, I use it to cool
fuel on its return to the tank.
Steve
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| posted on May 31st, 2013 at 08:44 PM |
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i really like the grille, look like its always been there.
71 notchback,
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| posted on May 31st, 2013 at 08:55 PM |
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i really like the grille, look like its always been there.
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that's because its a vw factory grille 
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| posted on June 1st, 2013 at 07:13 AM |
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i really like the grille, look like its always been there.
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They were used on US spec Beetles just in case the owner wanted to fit air conditioning.
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| posted on June 1st, 2013 at 10:10 AM |
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really? I did not know that. I was going to say it looked too perfect for someone to have done it as a mod.
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| posted on June 1st, 2013 at 04:48 PM |
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Hi
I made a drawing for my friend to use to cut up and fold my radiator scoop, he still works in inches.
I've been driving the car around today, the weather was not all that hot today but I've noticed a difference, coolant temp always sat about 90
degrees, now its sitting around 82 which is just after the thermostat opens.
The thermo fan usually comes on if I've been sitting in traffic for a while, it didn't come on today at all.
Non 1302 or 1303 owners may not get what I'm saying about removing the deformation element from the front of the chassis.
The shaded are is where the deformation element usually sits, I had this section open so air would come into the grille and go back out bottom, not
actually doing any work.
Steve
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